Via @emptywheel:
How did we decide to call the targeting of vulnerable people by the far right "the Culture Wars"?
No one is calling up Target and making physical threats bc they sell shirts with crosses on them.
How did the #media come to give sustained attention to a bunch of far right wingers yelling "woke! woke! woke!" rather than the fact that their only policy proposals are to beat up Disney and undermine sound health guidelines? #fascism #Republicans
The left-wing equivalent is that people are no longer allowed to use the "N-word" or physically attack gays.
You can actually tell what the left wing "aggression" is by what is being attacked by Republicans: the existence of gays, the removal of racial discrimination, literacy, women not being second class citizens (in some cases being allowed to live at all), refusal to follow the religious beliefs of 3rd parties, cleaning up the environment (attacking ESG), and providing services to everyone (DEI).
The media has learned helplessness from always being attacked as being "leftist." They bend over backwards to give right wing pundits unfiltered microphone access with no fact checking.
