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Conservatives freak out & call for boycott of Listerine over Pride packaging
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But like, how many conservatives are actually "freaking out" about this? I get the sense that articles like this do more to stir up outrage than any actual boycotting and freaking out that's really happening.
I see considerably more conservative outrage online (by conservatives themselves, not just reportedly by them) directed at frankly breathtakingly stupid things than I see eg. leftist outrage, so I'd say the chances are pretty good that this isn't just a reaction of one or two randos being amplified by media.
Interestingly, more often than not it feels like when the media reports on "leftist outrage" it really does seem to be like half a dozen people at most being made to seem like it's half the population.
My parents and family are conservative, and yeah, they get fucking outraged and/or scared of everything. Thinking the government is going to kill then with the covid vaccine or whatever, queer people corrupting kids, and all the common stuff you hear conservatives freak out about, and so on. And this is in Norway. It's honestly frightening just how closely they follow the general conservative narratives and talking points. I see them repeat the same falsehoods I read on the internet word for word.
They really are just scared of anyone and anything, especially what other people tell them to be scared of. I don't get how it isn't extremely exhausting being like this all the time.