Gets progressives fighting about stupid shit. Divide and conquer is too successful.

Often the more stupid the take the better, as long as it gets people thinking x/y group is stupid.

Im still convinced the atheism/feminism war was completely manufactured.

not much energy to prevent the heritage foundation from taking away women's rights and putting religion into schools If atheists have to defend against the claim that they hate women for trying to get circumcision generally banned in the USA. Etc.

Not a reasonable claim, but within a couple years it was just blanket public opinion that associating with atheism or men's rights meant you hate women.

Similarly, academic social studies got reframed and poluted with the notion that its all gobbledygook that isn't respectable or important, because it won't make you money, and then because SJW became the aesthetic.

I'm not arguing that there weren't unreasonable incel and sjw types, but the idea that these groups can only be these things ensured that the original motivations and goals of the group no longer mattered in the greater social lens. Just the extremes of the binary drama, and if you associate with either movement, you are these things.

Also gets into progressives conceding spaces because society already decided those spaces can only be the bad people, and any progressives around those spaces must also be bad people.

At this point is becoming more clear how blatant it is that every progressive movement falls apart due to things entirely unrelated to the movement.

Anyone heard about hassans dog lately? Not a fan of him leaning into tankie shit sometimes, but he's actually involved in social movements around important stuff like the Palestine genocide.

But now the majority of people learning about hassan are only learning about a rumourmill smear campaign.

Also not a Hillary fan, but same shit with the Hillary emails.

Also the general media on "BLM violence."

All you need is someone starting fires and pointing at progressives. Tribal warring takes care of the rest, and it works every single time.

We need more robust communication and cooperation between progressive groups, allowing them to heal over the bad takes rather than spend all their energy on a poorly defined culture war. A good grounding for people to share would be surviving the global push for authoritarianism and fascism.

The social narrative is always conveniently the worst possible thing it could be for fighting the oligarchs.