As I mindlessly read the Youtube or Facebook comments under some very serious and not so serious videos or posts, I started writing “paid troll” when someone was either:
-writing something to mock or ridicule the youtuber/blogger in a “bumper sticker” way using the same tactics that the mainstream media uses to discredit actual guests who have something controversial and valuable to say or,
-belittling another youtuber/blogger because they used an alternative way to do something, (using alternative medicine to ease a back pain instead of going to a doctor and taking pills for instance).
Ridicule and parody are the most efficient and thus used methods to shut people down. Look at Saturday Night Live, unprofessional comments by mainstream media's so called journalists etc. Their sketch or comments are indeed funny--at least most of the time--but when you don't have enough understanding of this tactic, it works like a charm to reinforce an idea into the public's mind, not allowing most of them to think for themselves and do their own research. The most revolting thing is when all these famous "paid trolls" label themselves as open-minded.
As most eloquently said Larken Rose: “there’s a form of censorship that is more effective and more insidious than old-fashioned state brutality. That is the censorship that comes from people censoring each other.”
We have arrived to a point where people are so indoctrinated that they don’t allow others opinions that clash with things that they were trained to think and assume and worship.
This phenomenon is partly due to the spread of the Frankfurt school “philosophy” and ideas, which intruded itself into the American education system decades ago and destroyed the American values among other things.
It is now fostered through the education system, which helps turn children into unthinking, unquestioning, acquiescent cogs to replace the previous generation. Now that they have somehow grown up and are fully brainwashed, they serve as free police.
But careful! I do not confuse this term with the regular trolls that are here to piss you off just for the sake of it! I believe in free speech and whether I agree with them or not is not important. I ONLY refer to those who have a clear agenda to undermine people who think out of the box—those who think for themselves.
Disagreeing with someone and showing a valid or even not valid but thoughtful argument is one thing but criticizing for the sake of it because what is presented is against the mainstream “way of thought”.
I use this “bumper Sticker” way too to shut them down, because it works, but this time, it works for the right folks!