Well yeah, but you know how people here are, they'll always say everyone to ever use social justice cultural signifiers to justify something bad in any context was totally cynical because it protects their ability to believe that actually what makes someone a "good" person is sincere attachment to the cultural norms of the Democratic-voting contingent of American society. I do think this is the crux of why they're so upset with Greenwald over this, because he's critical of what they see as "good" people, so it's always good to remind them that that's not actually how the world works.
I'm not sure they even believe it. They're so scared of being labeled "bad" that they just see an article like "You are this kind of bad if you don't support (obviously evil thing)" and they decide to support said evil thing.
The difference is that today nobody really believes them.
I suppose that's true. It doesn't stop people from saying it though.
Well yeah, but you know how people here are, they'll always say everyone to ever use social justice cultural signifiers to justify something bad in any context was totally cynical because it protects their ability to believe that actually what makes someone a "good" person is sincere attachment to the cultural norms of the Democratic-voting contingent of American society. I do think this is the crux of why they're so upset with Greenwald over this, because he's critical of what they see as "good" people, so it's always good to remind them that that's not actually how the world works.
I'm not sure they even believe it. They're so scared of being labeled "bad" that they just see an article like "You are this kind of bad if you don't support (obviously evil thing)" and they decide to support said evil thing.
Totally.