First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.
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1. the backlash could be mobilized faster than the inevitable demographic shift.
2. that some folks in the Latino, Black, and Asian communities would vote increasingly conservative in alignment with *perceived* faith and economic interests.
It was not a threat in 2024.
See also: COVID-era school closures and vaccine mandates.
Children who learn to manipulate by lies quickly figure out that equating their lies to lies told by others is a great dodge.
What would be helpful is a long, well written, well sourced blog post or similar piece discussing the facts
Pathetic
She wasn't running on this. Trump incessantly claimed she was running on this.
But we live in the age of the shameless "double down".
The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.
https://bsky.app/profile/missingjigsaw.bsky.social/post/3lhw4b35xmk26
No one less than Hannah Arendt wrote basically this.
https://www.normfriesen.info/forgotten/little_rock1.pdf
The media would do better to report the actions and outcomes rather than the disingenuous bloviating.
Follow the student.... to a religious institution?
Will: "Trump is liberal's fault"
YApplebaum: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Brooks: "Trump is liberal's fault"
Bedbug: "Trump is liberal's fault"
It's almost as if a memo went out at Bari's University of Bullshit.
Was it an orchestrated cointelpro-like initiative by online RW operatives disguised as progressives?
It will eventually snap and hit them in the face.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism
Climate change and general entry into anthropocene era means we have to do things differently. Some highly greedy, selfish individuals are trying to hang on to the existing system for their own benefit.
'wokeness' is a propaganda project that's been used over & over again to simply put down and oppress any deviance from a white Christian nationalist (fascist douchebag) point of view. It's just an updated shorthand of referring to SJWs, radical leftists, liberals, progressives, etc etc.
Reactionaries: "THEY WANT TO BAN HORTON HEARS A WHO!!!"
Schools: "We're going to stock kitty litter for emergency latrines in the event of a lockdown."
Reactionaries: "KIDS ARE IDENTIFYING AS CATS!!!"
You are not only FULLY and SOLELY responsible for your own actions/reactions, but those of your abuser as well.
Listen to how aggrieved these men are.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/upshot/voters-trump-bernie-sanders.html
Quintessential examples: a two-second gay kiss in Buzz Lightyear to show that a co-star was a lesbian. By-the-numbers "very special episodes" of kids' TV cartoons >
The astroturfed campaigns against these things were ridiculous to normal people, but radicalized huge numbers of impressionable boys through sheer anger. It's easy for 500 popular YouTubers to paint >
Do I have any great solution? No... but most refused to believe anyone was >
The right's culture war was/is a *real* war—fought on ridiculous grounds so we wouldn't take it seriously. Disastrously, we mostly didn't.
They were afraid we'd go further.
LMAO, even
OK, sure, I'll tell all the Black people in South Carolina that.
Still, I'd have thought that maybe TCW would feel some shame and realize that he's the one perpetuating the moral panic Trump rode to victory.
*imo, ymmv, etc