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Comment on Conservatives go to red states and liberals go to blue as the USA grows more polarized in ~misc
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Comment on Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says Bud Light never reached out to her after backlash in ~lgbt
sasha Link ParentIt's worth remembering they suspended/likely fired two execs over the fallout. So her advocates within the company probably got wiped out of their jobs as scapegoats because they said the brand...It's worth remembering they suspended/likely fired two execs over the fallout. So her advocates within the company probably got wiped out of their jobs as scapegoats because they said the brand needed to be less fratty. I doubt the Annheiser-Busch leadership fesls very positively about trans people so it also comes with no surprise.
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Comment on Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney says Bud Light never reached out to her after backlash in ~lgbt
sasha Link ParentSeems like such a dumb response from a financial/business POV. Had they held firm they wouldn't of pissed off two large groups of people and just one. The right wing would've either moved to...Seems like such a dumb response from a financial/business POV. Had they held firm they wouldn't of pissed off two large groups of people and just one. The right wing would've either moved to another Annheiser-Busch brand or forgotten about the controversy. But then they pissed off the rest of us, and we're better at boycotts lol.
Which makes me think it was a knee jerk reaction to having their brand labeled the woke brand that grooms children. They did vote two execs quietly during the fallout, after all.
To a degree, it's not about if they're actually being harmed. They just need to perceive that they're being targeted and discriminated against.
I agree with everything you have to say for the record, but I do think it's important to understand that part of why it's impossible to avoid the "both sides" argument is because the right wing genuinely believes they are victims - they have been bombarded with very powerful propaganda to convince them of it. To dismiss their victimhood guarantees articles like this never reach across the political spectrum as they are a group that self-isolates at the sight of such accusations. That being said, I don't think that's the authors intention in this case, but I do understand opinions like the guy you replied to.
All-in-all, I don't have much more to add than that such as a proposed solution. I'm a far left Marxist and LGBT but also in the social work profession so while my politics are extremely polarizing myself I do have to interact with the entire political spectrum from a stance of empathy at times. The issue is I'm a far left Marxist and know that it's pretty hard to convince my comrades to just humor the racist, horrible people for a moment so we can try to deprogram them. But also, working with the public in a progressive city as someone raised closeted in a very red suburb makes me realize some of these people are truly scared and don't even know why.
In the red areas, they genuinely think an army of Antifa will come to their houses and kill them, but they buy guns and laugh about it, and feel comfort in protecting a community that all sees the same threat as them because they all watch Fox. It might even be a therapeutic experience to imagine such threats and address them with other people in your community.
Imagine believing that same bullshit in a blue area, though, where you're outnumbered and it's harder to get guns and people have literal communist flags outside their house. Unlike the red state friends who convince you of this bullshit in the first place, if "Antifa" actually attacked one day, you're fucked and you might even wonder why this is at all fair that you're treated like this because of your beliefs. In red areas, people even get to discuss these "issues" with strangers as the strangers either agree with them or pretend to because they're used to it. In a blue area, it's so rare to hear that stuff that of course they're going to get looked at like they're crazy.
Maybe this migration is a good thing. The blue state conservatives will inevitably end up complaining about shitty infrastructure and lack of social support in their new homes, while blue regions will gain enough supermajorities to start pushing the Overton window out of corner it's been backed into. If anyone is going to convince the rural conservatives that they're missing out on a lot, it's other conservatives who used to enjoy the "luxury" of the liberal cities and states.