You’re good Miisha. I see your stuff enough that I have some idea of where you’re coming from.

It’s just that Twitter-style equivocation in the OP image, where it’s like “I’m gonna say the transgressive thing you reaaaally wanna hear, but don’t worry — I’m gonna just barely couch it so you don’t have that on your conscience.”

There’s no functional difference between “the justice system is working correctly when a rapist is raped” and “the justice system is working correctly when a rapist is afraid they’re about to be raped because they have a justified true belief that there is a significant chance they are moments from getting raped”, aside from the fact that they’ve made a very small gap where they’re able to squeeze in the phrase “I don’t wish rape on anyone”, which grants moral license to the rest.

It’s the same trick that Trump pulls all the time, where he says the transgressive thing but stacks provisos on it so he’s got plenty of room to retreat. It’s just how social media (and reality TV, and soundbite journalism, and so on) trains people to phrase things.

And with that understanding of the way social media selects for a particular encoding for the idea of “cheering for rape”… yeah, I hate to break it to you, that post is absolutely cheering for rape. It’s just the conventional way to couch it so they can pretend they’re not.

And look, you’re not a bad person for liking it or sharing it. This stuff works because it’s only partially visible, right? It evades our reflexive filters for decency, kinda like how neologisms like “unalive” evade technological filters. But seriously, once you start looking for this stuff, you’ll see it everywhere.