@jk This perverse incentive wouldn't be nearly as strong if there were a way to electronically pay a website's operator an amount on the order of 0.25 EUR or USD. Instead, payment processors' fee per transaction incentivized a package deal: buy one article for $3 bundled with a month of access to all other articles on that site (and no other sites). Ad targeting tech promised a workaround for lack of micropayments, but its perverse incentives were even worse.

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Bigotry is a package deal.

It is rare that you run into someone who's merely one type of bigot.

When you run into a racist, you also run into a transphobe, a homophobe, a sexist, an ableist, etc.

When you run into a homophobe, you also run into a racist, a transphobe, a sexist, an ableist, etc.

When you run into a sexist, you also run into a racist, a transphobe, a homophobe, an ableist, etc.

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#bigotry #racism #transphobia #homophobia #sexism #ableism #discrimination #PackageDeal

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