I think one of the things conservatives are weaponizing is the way that social media has made it so it feels really normal to register your response to literally everything that happens all the time. In other words, there's kind of a direct line, though not necessarily causal, between something like
May 11, 2025 14:13AITA and how conservatives amplify any potential instance of a white person being victimized, or anything that might make people that much more racist or misogynist. We're trained to see a situation and formulate an official response, and that's at the core of the conservative media strategy too
