Most of you probably don't know this because I don't talk about my family much, but my middle sister has what is most often referred to as a "severe developmental disorder." She is almost entirely non-verbal and requires full-time support. She is a person who is visibly disabled. I frequently had people call her the r-slur to my face, or in her presence. I witnessed grown adults point and laugh at her, call her slurs, recoil from her. As kids, my youngest sister and I regularly had to deal with other children viciously mocking our "r*****ed sister"

I’ve said it many times before and I will say it again—in the politics-adjacent “content creation” sphere, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that reactionary and/or adversarial content is where the money is at. There is a massive financial incentive to cater to a reactionary audience, particularly if you can curate both a negative and positive parasocial relationship with an audience. One benefits from hate engagement as much as from genuine supporters.