Exactly. Reactionary movement always phrase their concerns in the most sympathetic light. "I'm not against school desegregation, I just want local parents to have a say in education!"

The idea that all of this was necessary is absurd and only serves to coddle power.

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Second, the ‘threat’ of wokeness was a media fiction. Conservative and centrist publications spent years promoting ‘free speech on campus’ and ‘cancel culture’ as threats equivalent to the right’s assaults on democracy and minority rights.

First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college.

The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.

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the bad things our government is about to do are downstream of the bad things our government has done. don't give the Nazis credit for our unique history of harming vulnerable people in creative ways