I saw recently that a bunch of people who weren’t really in fandoms did know what Anti meant. They did think these people were anti-ship or had anything to do with the fandom. They thought people were just proudly antisemitic. They said it took a while to find out, as most posts they saw were of Antis burning books. Talking about how they need to “clean” out the library or the post of Antis wanting to burn down libraries. Plus all the posts on Twitter of Antis being openly racist to Asians. Antis say Nonfandom people agree with them, and that they would support what they are doing, but most Nonfandom people I see who have had encounters with Antis are worried about them. The others who do agree with them are Anti-LGBTQ and thought Ratburns wedding would turn kids gay.
Our experience has been largely the same as your in this sphere.
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