Modern Tech (Social Media) combines with an aberrant COVID media-scape that greatly MAGNIFIES the activist LEFT who are motivated by their continuing successes. COVID’s home-bound idleness has provided a fertile field to generate these attacks but history provides no ability to measure true significance or depth of the same.
What is lacking is the perspective on these attacks. A generation ago, it was very hard work to organize a march for redress, you had to gather people in a single locality, they had to make time from jobs and school, banners and slogans had to be made. Contact phone lists to make sure people are where they need to be at the right time.
Now, you start a twitter-storm which auto-alerts a self-identified interest group. Effort needed is negligible to organize or participate. Participants need no supplies, no signs nor banners and can be heard from anywhere they have a connection. Outrage needs no backup documentation, no history of offense and, with modern technology, the ‘crime’ can be years, even decades earlier.
Today’s storms cannot and should not (automatically) be measured against past standards. This tech environment is a very different one and the tools to measure how strong and how deep a ‘movement’ is have not been well developed.
There is certainly some truth in what you say but it’s not the whole story or even the most important part of the story.
True technology makes it easier to mobilize “outrage”. But the left hasn’t relied solely on “keyboard outrage”. They’ve also done the hard work the old fashioned way by organizing, taking to the streets, smashing windows, burning businesses, beating and killing and otherwise terrorizing people that don’t toe their line. All this physical destruction is what makes the Twitter storms effective. It is an implied threat contained in the tweets that says this is just a warning in effect saying physical harm will come to you if you don’t do as we say.
But as I said that is not the most important part of the story. Those are just tactics that the left uses to get its way and they are just as available to us as them, but they are the only ones using them. Why is that?
The answer to that question is the important part of the story. And the answer is that the left is much more outraged by whatever “injustices” they see than we on the right are outraged by the real injustices perpetrated by the left and their useful idiots.
So In simple terms the important part of the story is that our side has a huge outrage deficit compared to the left. We are nowhere near as motivated to act or tweet as the left is and so we’re suffering the consequences.