Title IX is the best example. After a great deal of on-the-ground activism and establishing people into positions of influence, they pushed the campus rape argument and eventually got it to the Dept. of Ed. Obama threatened federal funding to any college that didn't further institutionalize the argument and "solve the problem."

DeVos eliminates the mandate (which based on all previous complaining would mean the Universities would go back to the situation before the original Title IX guidance).

The activists are still entrenched, and now hey hold positions of power in the administration. So they fight tooth and nail and attack the Dept. of Ed savagely. They march around telling people not to dare disturb them.

Not a single university changes it's policies.

Now DeVos is issuing new guidance. But at most they're going to open up room for lawsuits. They're not going for the jugular like Obama did. I doubt much will really change. The Unis have vast resources and strong legal teams. They'll just pay the odd legal fee than deal with the activists.

Despite all the complaining online There will not be an organized push to attack the universities for their decision to continue with the sexual assault tribunals. Everyone will just get used to the new normal.

The asymmetries are obvious.

One thing I think is actually a driver: the right rallies around the flag and tries to keep the institutions strong. The left segments itself into interest groups and plays the "you give us what we deserve or we burn the whole place down" game. They have no real loyalties except to each other.

The other big driver is that the left compulsively studies organization and tactics. After Jacobin launched and met success, they immediately launched a journal by the name of:

Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy

I still have yet to find anything on the right that is dedicated to serious discussion of organization for change or power.

Or calls for factional unity.

A common complaint among the left (and what intersectionality is designed to address) was the bad habit of their groups to factionalize upon finding success and tear apart their organizations. Or socialist organizations to stop promoting change and get caught up in purity spirals after they were able to drive out immediate challengers.

Compare to the bad habit of libertarians to get engaged in pointless "ancap versus left-leaning libertarian versus conservatarian versus socialist libertarian" purity spirals that go nowhere. Or the bad habit of the libertarian party to engage in increasingly pointless displays to show how transgressive they can be with each other (like walking on stage in the nude).

The broad not-left alliance needs to learn to put a boundary on what it wants and then organize *en masse* to assert power in the cultural institutions. Or everyone loses piece-by-piece.

@King Canuck where the fuck in Canada do you live? No one calls it an ice "pad"

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Tim doesnt like mint choc chip ice cream... Im not sure we can trust this man anymore

hes clearly an alt right nazi...

only an alt right nazi could dislike a flavour of ice cream I like...

I too dislike mint chip

heretic

Support the Cookie Dough Regime or suffer our wrath

Strawberry

Because its number one.

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@wacka tim doesnt drink also except once a year

@Timcast The big thing going on now in the culture war is the lie of online hashtags. This is the core of "Get Woke, Go Broke." Companies are being told that in order to makes sales, they have to go with Hashtag calls on Tumbler and Twitter. The truth is, the Hashtagers are not buyers, and as such the companies aren't buying. The Consumers base wants good games, good movies, good stories. Instead they are being given a bunch of garbage made to cater to Hashtag calls.

exactly ^

@Timcast The big divide is the differance between people voting with hashtags vs people voting with their credit cards. The companies are being told to count the votes of the hashtags, and the people with credit cards have too often been left to foot the bill. And the Consumers are now sick and tired of this trend. Marvel publishing is bleeding out. Lucasfilms is bleeding out.

faceless corporations with shareholder who know shit about the product and target audiences caring more about PR (because best PR means biggest buck yeh ?) than anything else

also to blame

Well

What WOULD help more with PR is to give out complimentory bell curves and national crime stats

Thats what studies show anyways.

https://steemit.com/marketing/@reversehitler88/how-can-a-company-manage-the-impact-of-consumer-perception-of-bigotry

I don't really think the company understands why you are voting with your wallet all they see are dropping sales

Apparently using air conditioning is now sexist? Maybe it is time to declare the feminist leaders as mentally unsound.

Theres been an unfortunate shift in corporations as of late

The theory goes that your die hard users will always use your products and you should do what you can to court new markets

I joked a long time ago, I joked that women want everything sexists so they can control our lives. Now it seems to be coming true...

I should stop joking. Sadly my jokes are ending up becoming true.

If you look at the SJW influence in gaming this explains a lot

EA thinks that people will always buy Battlefield Games and sees a potential market in a large amount of people who want more progressive games

Logically If you make a product that people ask for they should want to buy it

They view the SJWs as customers not as a negative PR protection racket