GOP strategy wokeness & cancel culture vs Equality focus
Jul 28, 2021 17:04:41 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Jul 28, 2021 17:04:41 GMT
The other thread was derailed, I apologize for my part in that. I do think the subject is worth discussing. I posted this in the other thread, but thought it might be better to just start again with a clean slate and try again.
I thought this was an interesting podcast on the parallels between cancel culture & politcal correctness.
www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1012696671/co-opted-and-weaponized-cancel-culture-is-just-todays-politically-correct
Conservatives pick up a term that liberals use among themselves and weaponize it against them by framing it to their base as an attack on their values.
5 reasons why the GOP is focusing on wokeness and cancel culture. I thought these were really great points.
In many ways, we are just watching an old GOP strategy with new language and different issues.
Second, this strategy unifies the GOP while dividing the Democrats, a very useful function in a two-party system in which the parties are in a zero-sum competition. As we wrote about this week, many ideas that are newly ascendant on the left, such as reducing funding for police, divide Democrats (more on that in a bit) but unify Republicans. Moreover, many of these ideas are opposed by a majority of the public.
fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-attacking-cancel-culture-and-woke-people-is-becoming-the-gops-new-political-strategy/
And this poll about issues that many Democrats feel very passionate about is a little worrisome.
Republicans unite in opposing equality-focused positions
Share of people, by party and overall, who support each position according to polling
POSITION DEMS REPS ALL
Significant obstacles for women compared to men 79% 26% 55%
There are more than two gender identities 52 24 40
A negative view of capitalism 44 20 33
Agree that “every billionaire is a policy failure” 29 20 11
It is “a lot more difficult” to be a Black person 74 9 44
Police funding should be reduced 41 8 25
Cash reparations for Black Americans 49 5 29
White people benefit “a great deal” from advantages Black people don’t have 59 5 34
SOURCES: PEW RESEARCH CENTER, PRRI, GALLUP, YOUGOV
sorry, that didn’t copy well, but you can see it in the link. I’m not suggesting Democrats abandon these ideals, we just need to try harder to talk to Republicans about why they’re important. I don’t think we’ll ever reach the misogynistic, racist, xenophobic Trump supporting base. But we need to work harder to reach the true conservatives, more moderate Republicans and Independents.
Something Democrats and liberals need to do better is to push back against Republicans and not allow them to label us or define us. They use the terms wokeness, cancel culture, critical race theory, socialism, Marxism, communism etc as an attack because it’s effective. Defining the left as socialists instills fear of change and fear of the unknown in their base. And the GOP defines cancel culture as an attack on the values of their base. Republican politicians also count on their base not fully understanding what socialism, Marxism, critical race theory etc really are. I think Democrats need to work harder to get our message out there and define in clear, not elitist terms, exactly what we stand for.
I thought this was an interesting podcast on the parallels between cancel culture & politcal correctness.
www.npr.org/2021/07/02/1012696671/co-opted-and-weaponized-cancel-culture-is-just-todays-politically-correct
Conservatives pick up a term that liberals use among themselves and weaponize it against them by framing it to their base as an attack on their values.
5 reasons why the GOP is focusing on wokeness and cancel culture. I thought these were really great points.
In many ways, we are just watching an old GOP strategy with new language and different issues.
Second, this strategy unifies the GOP while dividing the Democrats, a very useful function in a two-party system in which the parties are in a zero-sum competition. As we wrote about this week, many ideas that are newly ascendant on the left, such as reducing funding for police, divide Democrats (more on that in a bit) but unify Republicans. Moreover, many of these ideas are opposed by a majority of the public.
fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-attacking-cancel-culture-and-woke-people-is-becoming-the-gops-new-political-strategy/
And this poll about issues that many Democrats feel very passionate about is a little worrisome.
Republicans unite in opposing equality-focused positions
Share of people, by party and overall, who support each position according to polling
POSITION DEMS REPS ALL
Significant obstacles for women compared to men 79% 26% 55%
There are more than two gender identities 52 24 40
A negative view of capitalism 44 20 33
Agree that “every billionaire is a policy failure” 29 20 11
It is “a lot more difficult” to be a Black person 74 9 44
Police funding should be reduced 41 8 25
Cash reparations for Black Americans 49 5 29
White people benefit “a great deal” from advantages Black people don’t have 59 5 34
SOURCES: PEW RESEARCH CENTER, PRRI, GALLUP, YOUGOV
sorry, that didn’t copy well, but you can see it in the link. I’m not suggesting Democrats abandon these ideals, we just need to try harder to talk to Republicans about why they’re important. I don’t think we’ll ever reach the misogynistic, racist, xenophobic Trump supporting base. But we need to work harder to reach the true conservatives, more moderate Republicans and Independents.
Something Democrats and liberals need to do better is to push back against Republicans and not allow them to label us or define us. They use the terms wokeness, cancel culture, critical race theory, socialism, Marxism, communism etc as an attack because it’s effective. Defining the left as socialists instills fear of change and fear of the unknown in their base. And the GOP defines cancel culture as an attack on the values of their base. Republican politicians also count on their base not fully understanding what socialism, Marxism, critical race theory etc really are. I think Democrats need to work harder to get our message out there and define in clear, not elitist terms, exactly what we stand for.