Somehow I went all of the aughts and half of the 2010s without noticing

That makes me feel a lot better about the viability of any of this

Can I ignore it if I stop noticing and caring about politics and modern inclusitivity pushes?

I have my doubts but I’m willing to try! Its just other people shoving it in my face that I don't get to inherit American dreams because I’m not a cis white male and keep reminding me, not that I would want to be. Any accomplishment I have must be broadcast! Any setback must be broadcast as well! Doesn't feel like privilege. I dont want to be a role model I just want to blend in and make money and enjoy the same vices as everyone else.

It started even before, I remember most of these discussion being around in the mid nineties.

They're not at all ineffective, they took hold in school and accademia and produced a generation of person deeply sensible to the topic of equity and social issues, which outrage quite easily and can be brought to bear to a wide range of causes from truly important battles to cancelling people for a shirt a friend gifted them.

The delay you see is not because of the technique not being viable, it is because in culture wars you need quite literally to grow your army, as people get entrenched in their ways after a while.

I have to point out that your second source is a conservative think tank, and if you're conservative it generally means that the status quo is in your favor ("you like/are happy with the status quo") and any challenge to it looks like the start of a revolution.

Interesting article, though.

Hoover Institute is about as high quality intellectual conservatism as it gets. They're part of Stanford University. The institute has been around for more than 100 years.

Not my concern really, but if you need to comment that someone else used a conservative website as a source for something and that’s “an issue”... you might need more conservative sources in your own reading.

> Not my concern really, but if you need to comment that someone else used a conservative website as a source for something and that’s “an issue”... you might need more conservative sources in your own reading.

The reason I would raise an issue with most conservative “think tanks” as sources for fact claims is that I read, and have for years read, their output extensively. The same is true with center-right (liberal) and progressive think tanks in general (there arr a very few exceptions in each category.)

If you are using them as fact sources, you might need more outlets that aren’t ideological propaganda mills in your own reading.

Your assertion isn't true, as was explained to me on HN recently. Conservatism in the US has nothing to do with conservation, it's more synonymous with economic liberalism in Europe: small government, low regulation, wealth makes right.

On a personal note, this war on words has turned me off from most debates because hollow sophistry is deemed a virtue by the loudest voices. Excluded middle, and all that.

> small government, low regulation, wealth makes right

How does this explain their stance on issues like gay marriage, trans rights, abortion, and criminal justice? We really have to stop saying that American conservatives are primarily motivated by small government.

>Conservatism in the US has nothing to do with conservation, it's more synonymous with economic liberalism in Europe

This is a very popular cliché, and while the conclusion might hold, the logic doesn't, in my opinion.

If the US did have true conservatives, then they would be conserving what is in the US, not Europe.

And I think it's widely considered that the existing order in the US has more elements of economic liberalism.

On the other hand, the Republicans who like that sort of thing seem increasingly marginalized anyway, so as I said, the conclusion may still be correct.

Yep, via Entryism:

"Entryism (also spelled entrism or enterism or called infiltration) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism