Conspiracy theorists project their own genocidal history onto imagined victims

Evidence

As though the Black, Brown and Indigenous downtrodden are just as hateful as they are and are going to turn around and do to them what they did to us. … Is that part of what we are seeing? Are increasingly violent conspiracy theorists in the Mirror World afraid of being rounded up, treated as second-class, occupied, and culled because on some level they know that these are the genocidal behaviors that created and sustain their relative but increasingly precarious privileges? Are they terrified that if the truths of the Shadow Lands—past, present, and future—are ever fully revealed and reckoned with, then it can only result in a dramatic role reversal, with the victims becoming the victimizers? — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 907

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The psychological mechanism is dense: paranoia as unconscious guilt — the Mirror World’s violence driven by fear of role reversal grounded in knowledge of what was actually done to others.
• XREF: Builds directly on the QAnon/Freudian parallels NoiseCat surfaces: the fear that it will happen to them stems from admission that they did it to others. — connects to: Belief in a transnational Tutsi extermination conspiracy was manufactured to justify Hutu massacres — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 76; the MOC “The Viral Refinery: How Preexisting Fringe Fears Get Smelted Into Mainstream Reality”
• ADDENDUM: Relates to ‘On Sacrifice’ in that projected guilt and the drive to reverse victim/victimizer roles echo the sacrificial logic of the scapegoat mechanism.