Comment by NeutralCrane
6 days ago
> The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left. However, it still brought up again and again because it forms a useful image of what people are fighting against.
I agree that the number of proponents of something like "LatinX", or "biological males playing women's sports" are far, far outnumbered by the people who aren't supporters of those things. But the issue is that the people who are supporters tend to be extremely vocal and generally in positions of power or better able to influence those who are, whether thats in corporate or academic administration settings. As such the small number of "woke" individuals are having outsized effects on society and culture, and the backlash is in response to the magnitude of that influence, rather than the number of people pushing for it.
Who are these super woke people in power exactly? F500 CEOs? Politicians? Who are you talking about because I don’t see it.
Hollywood, mainstream media, academia, most big tech, ...
You know mainstream media is Foxnews (the largest viewership by far) and Joe Rogan, right? Those two command the largest share of mainstream viewership.
Or are you referring to 1990s definition of mainstream media that isn't mainstream and is irrelevant?
Professors, judges, lawyers, journalists, politicians, tech moderators, probably anything in the arts or education. On reddit and bluesky you can get banned for having the median voter's opinion on gender norms and immigration.