I was talking with my step-brother (far-left tech IPO in NYC) the other day about cooking and something he mentioned caught me by surprise. He was talking about cooking and how this new channel had picked up a bunch of chefs who were racially discriminated against by Delish? and we’re getting paid far less than their peers. So they switched over and made their own program that had been doing well. The baseline of this is of course that is good because if they can do better elsewhere they should. However what struck me as odd is that the accused channel is far left, in fact it would be hard to find any large cooking channel that isn’t pro whatever wokeness is currently on display.
This discussion triggered a realization in the mentality of the far-left, their projection on who they view as lessers (conservatives) is not directed by the actions of conservatives but by the actions of who they consider similar. So if a far left supporting business is caught having rampant racism or sexism their immediate reaction is how much worse conservatives must be. This is amplified by the fact that liberals often do not understand why conservatives value what they value, they only understand what they are told they value by other liberals.
Camps.
Unfortunately that's how it is going to end. We live in two separate realities and people don't take well to the whole, "your entire worldview is fundamentally flawed" truth. If they come to it on their own, sometimes they can come to terms with the fact that they've been lied to their entire life. But they will vehemently oppose anyone from the outgroup trying to lead them to that realization.
Again, it's tribal nature. My tribe good no matter what. Education, which ideally teaches thinking skills should let people overcome this, but education doesn't teach people to think anymore. It's been subverted into "repeat the lines you've been told," which only further fuels tribalism.