Thread by @gauravsabnis

Most successful #QTbait of the the day. Dude knows it's a ridiculous tweet. Tempting half volley there to point out the ridiculousness of suggesting that NOT covering hair is a Muslim influence. And garner QTs and resulting cheerleading followers.

Don't QT. Do it like this.

If you must call out obviously incendiary sanghi and/or MRA #QTbait, at least don't use the QT button ffs.

How hard is it to screenshot and crop out the user ID? You call out or refute filth without giving said filth exactly what it wants - more Twitter engagement & followers.

You can tell sleeper sanghis saying liberal stuff just to create chaos & secretly help sanghis, by how often they just keep QTing stuff like this from random account. Even after being told about #QTbait & why SS is better, their TLs are full of QTs supposedly "calling out".

Every time it happens, the account they QT goes from a couple of hundred followers to a couple of thousand. Because a wider audience for hate attracts others who practice hate as a matter of ideology. And actual liberals become their useful "influencers" with the QTs.

One more QTbait, from an account that even puts "team ram mandir" in his bio. But over a thousand QTs just to reply to questions that he obviously will not listen to the answers to. He'll just get lots of new fellow woman hater followers.

It's become like WWE wrestling almost.

Willful ignorance is by definition ignorant. By fact checking Willful ignorance, we just amplify willful ignorance. Because no amount of fact checking is enough when the sole goal is to provoke, shame, divide.

This is not a debate!

https://twitter.com/soham_pablo/status/1514911186218733570?t=8vj182scEl1ggc8CBHPqng&s=19

They want to create a thousand new fissures, all built on orthodoxy, patriarchy, and religion. You can't debate them into silence with dazzling historic facts. They'll just ask another new question. Open up another new fissure.

You keep taking #QTbait, they keep throwing it.

The engine of Hindutva runs on the fuel of collective self-pity and the resulting neverending grievances. Because when you're in a state of weaponized self-pity, you see grievances everywhere. Historically accurate or not. Facts are irrelevant. Self-pity is the only point.