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Originally Posted by spanktehbadwookie
So the right was so weak that the left was able to shut them up? How did it go down?
Weakness had nothing to do with it. The left found a new weapon that the right hand no answer to.
The combination of social media, virtue signalling and public shaming all converged into calling someone a racist or a sexist or a bigot into the end of their lives. People became very cognizant of this fact. If you are called a racist, you risk losing everything. You can lose your job, your kids, your family, your ability to support yourself, your friends. It happened many times publicly and changed people's behavior.
It is actually dangerous for you profoessionally and socially to be labelled a racist. Virtue signalling made the issue worse because leftists thrive by denouncing people so they can make themselves look good. Like a sick Munchausen by proxy.
The left gained the upper hand and the right sat there and took it because they had no way to fight back. What the right should do is start calling the left communists or socialists, but that's not up to me.
We'll see how it all shakes out.