For me it was in high school. I was a typical indoctrinated lefty soy-cuck at the time. I know, I know. Anyways...
So this girl I was friends with and had a crush on, she got it in her head one day that she wanted to be a guy. Normally I would have just rolled with it, but since I liked her my ape brain refused to make that kind of concession. I just saw her as a girl no matter what. I asked her why I should call her a “he” and got the usual spiel you get, you know the one. Blah blah common decency, blah blah. At the time it worked, I felt guilty and tried to go along with it.
Some time later, she really upset me. I don’t recall why now, but I said to her, I said “What you said the other day really hurt my feelings.”
She said, “I don’t care.”
That’s when it hit me. These people never cared about being good to each other and getting along. They only want compliance. After that I started seeing it everywhere, and getting more and more disgusted. With that jenga block pulled out, the whole tower collapsed.
And that’s how I became the dangerous alt-right deplorable that I am today. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Iraqi WMDs was my introduction to the concept of fake news.