Yeah. For one thing, it's uncool to protest a religion, even a creepy cultlike religion. For another, Anonymous is 4chan, isn't that right? So it's "protest for the lulz"? I mean, the vibe I get is more "it's fun to torment Scientologists" than "we'll keep at this until Scientology mends its wicked ways".
I strongly disagree with the commenter who said that Mormonism was socially acceptable in the U.S. It so isn't. Jehovah's Witnesses are not socially acceptable either. Anyway I wager that the /b/tards would just as happily set upon on Witnesses, Mormons, or your frail old grandmother.
You're right that Mormons and JWs aren't seen as mainstream, but they are Christian heresies rather than new religions. They can "pass" most of the time, since hardly anyone who isn't either a serious Christian or interested in the subject knows more than a few things about them.
Scientology goes in the "cult" bucket along with Heaven's Gate and the Hare Krishnas, I think.
I'm less worried about the /b/ kids than about the effect of this thing if it gets more popular.
I think that it's pretty comforting, for a certain unreflective mindset, to find a "problem" to beat up on that they have nothing to do with. It lets them forget that there are bigger problems that need tackling that they themselves are complicit in.
As a friend of mine put it so elegantly, "This is 4chan versus Scientology. No matter who loses, the world will be a better place."
Of course /b/ will choose an easy, high profile, and inconsequential target for their brief campaign (that will lapse after a month or two when the next big LOLmeme occupies their consequence). They aren't equipped to handle real political thought.
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I strongly disagree with the commenter who said that Mormonism was socially acceptable in the U.S. It so isn't. Jehovah's Witnesses are not socially acceptable either. Anyway I wager that the /b/tards would just as happily set upon on Witnesses, Mormons, or your frail old grandmother.
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Scientology goes in the "cult" bucket along with Heaven's Gate and the Hare Krishnas, I think.
I'm less worried about the /b/ kids than about the effect of this thing if it gets more popular.
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Of course /b/ will choose an easy, high profile, and inconsequential target for their brief campaign (that will lapse after a month or two when the next big LOLmeme occupies their consequence). They aren't equipped to handle real political thought.
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