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The Left created a monster who has now escaped its cage, and they have no contingency plan or capability of wrangling it back into captivity.
originally posted by: ManFromEurope
"The" left is not a thing. Really. It is not a single hivemind with everyone having the same opinion.
Just like "the" right. They aren't all Trump-fans, right?
originally posted by: SlapMonkey
a reply to: JoshuaCox
Nah, I've been in marketing for quite a few years now, and the left has it way more figured out than the right does.
That said, your points are correct as to the specific 'movements' that you mention, but what you're talking about are "progressive" movements, not Liberal movements, and these really seem to have started ordinary folk and spread like wildfire via social media.
And that's the problem--once something is out there and people latch on to it, you can't discount what it's called or end the debate over something like "white privilege," because there is a total lack of control by the "left" or "right" as to who shares what and says what and promotes what and creates memes about what.
Marketing is not what it used to be, and you can't blame "marketing" when it is social media that is spreading and perpetuating and fueling these types of things.
Yes, the media is complicit in promoting or continuing this type of nonsense, but this stuff isn't the grand scheme of the left like you seem to think--I think it is the progressive millennials and their ilk who are doing the bad marketing, and "the left" can't really do anything to stop it.
The Left created a monster who has now escaped its cage, and they have no contingency plan or capability of wrangling it back into captivity.