The basic comparison I was mulling over this morning was thinking about how from my perspective in the 80s and 90s pop culture became heavily influenced by black culture and the influence of things like gangster rap spawned a type of person which was derogatively referred to as a "wigger". This was basically a white person who adopted all the cultural aspects of a gangster rapper aesthetic.
These people were generally made fun of from all sides perhaps unfairly. Many of them were actually from the same neighborhoods as the black kids doing the exact same things and trying to fit in. Many others were just suburban kids with no connection to that life and just basically just cosplaying.
Democrats and Republicans alike were all pushing "tough on crime" policy and just generally against poor and working class people. There was no mainstream support of this group of people who were seemingly presenting as the boogyman of the times. Politicians were virtue signaling by attacking the counterculture.
Fast forward and it seemed like pop culture started to be dominated by more LGBT icons. Gay rights had just peaked with marriage equality laws and pop stars like Rickey Martin were comfortable to come out. Kids also perceived gay culture as the new transgressive fad. There is now no real mainstream pushback because the fad aligns with mainstream performative virtue signaling.
I think this sort of created a feedback loop and the worst aspects of the fad have become hyper amplified and moving beyond ridiculous. The loop creates an increasingly vapid ideology which is also increasingly dangerous as it becomes more integrated into the mainstream push. The mainstream now bows down to the counterculture but also the counterculture is becoming highly authoritarian. They basically beg authority figures to crack down on anything which might break the feedback loop.
I'm not sure i can remember any time in the past where this was the case. Curious if anyone has any ideas of flushing out this line of thought.
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