It’s absolutely happening again (if it ever stopped). Did you notice how “Critical Race Theory” was all conservatives ever talked about, for weeks/months on end, and then they all suddenly stopped, and then they couldn’t stop talking about Trans/Drag things? It’s all contrived panic. It’s well coordinated to drive engagement and a sense of impending doom. They require an Us vs Them mentality to survive.
When I was growing up, it had to spread at the speed of chain emails through AOL dial-up (remember the Proctor-Gamble thing? 🙄 ). Now it’s a 24-hour news cycle spouting constant hate and fear. :sigh:
It’s absolutely happening again (if it ever stopped). Did you notice how “Critical Race Theory” was all conservatives ever talked about, for weeks/months on end, and then they all suddenly stopped, and then they couldn’t stop talking about Trans/Drag things? It’s all contrived panic. It’s well coordinated to drive engagement and a sense of impending doom. They require an Us vs Them mentality to survive.
Yep.
When I was growing up, it had to spread at the speed of chain emails through AOL dial-up (remember the Proctor-Gamble thing? 🙄 ). Now it’s a 24-hour news cycle spouting constant hate and fear. :sigh:
The easiest way to make an ignorant person feel special is to identify an “other” for the ignorant person to look down on/blame for their problems.
Oldest trick in the oldest of books.