countess-talks-politics: africanaquarian: anybody paying attention saw the rise in conservatism among the youth over the last few years. the return of the r slur, modesty/ tradwife content, rampant fatphobia, misogynistic twitch streamers…the writing was on the wall I hate to break your bubble, but these things have been rampant for YEARS. It’s just now that short form content makes it easy to spread these ideas and late-stage, post-covid capitalism is making people feel frustrated and stressed. Frustrated people are easy to influence. Especially if they do not understand where their problems really originate. Especially for USians, whose national identity is tightly entangled with the system of capitalism, it is easier to blame certain groups of already marginalized people, than to admit a part of what they thought was integral to their identity is flawed and problematic.

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