03-03-2021, 12:57 PM
(03-03-2021, 12:45 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The Right invented culture. Song lyrics. Unewed mothers in TV series (Murphy Brown). Violent video games. Gay couples on TV. Kneeling during national anthem. They were offended by everything.
Bunch of crybaby snowflakes.
That really is the irony right? We just had a President who would tell his cult to "cancel" anyone or business that stood against him. He just spoke at an event that covered "cancel culture" and actually "cancelled" one of the speakers because they didn't like some past comments. They literally are trying to cancel anyone in their party who thought differently at all in terms of the former President's role in the insurrection!
Conservatism today is tightly intertwined with hyper-masculinity. They feel like because they are "old school" they are tougher and they like to push that narrative by framing change as "cancelling", however, when they do it it's "exercising rights" or "voicing displeasure". When you see democrats described with anti-masculine terms like "whiney", "snowflakes" and "weak" it is about a desire to exert some sort of dominance. They like to talk about the changes taking away "what made America great", but in the 1960s there was someone just like them telling people that everything going on then was robbing America of everything that made it great. This is nothing new, it's just that the hypermasculinity piece is being played a bit stronger right now.
