Ukraine is at war, minorities are being oppressed at home, an economic tidal wave is about to hit us vis-a-vis Chinese imports, the economy is on the ropes, and big brother is literally banning the government from saying words like "sex" and "gender" - but, oh boy, can you believe the price of these eggs???
Is every person in this country eating thousands of eggs a week and I had no idea?
As a minority (Asian) I feel the opposite of oppressed.
That's because strong acceptable use polices based on the "E" in "DEI" meant that organizations ranging in size from Meta to Hacker News deleted comments when they turned into "kill the dirty ch**ks" during COVID.
It is now acceptable on Meta to post comments calling trans people mentally ill sexual predators.
Why do you think that, given a crisis requiring a boogeyman-du-jour, it will not one day very soon be acceptable to call for the deaths of the "dirty bat-fucking ch**ks"?
It's already acceptable to use the n-word on twitter.
I'm an upper-middle class property-owning married straight white male with children. Also dogs. And a veteran. And a small business owner.
>>>I<<< am safe.
Everyone else is up for scapegoating, all it takes is for the current trans boogeyman to lose its effectiveness.
Sentiment in the media, all media, including social media, turns into dead bodies if the rhetoric is allowed to get extreme enough.
It's been this way since the invention of public speaking.