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Ah, yes. The famously debate-welcoming leftists.
Marvel: Hey, folx! Iron Man is now a little black girl who is better than Tony Stark at everything and lectures people about their privilege!
Fans: This sucks.
Marvel: YOU RACIST SEXIST NAZIS!!
That's only because the comic book industry was yet another domain being overrun by "Social Justice Warriors" intent on pushing traditional American values to the margins.
They are using the famously hackneyed "Republicans pounce" trick that the media uses all the time. It goes like this:
Republicans do something bad. Democrats criticize. Media reports "Republicans do bad thing."
Democrats do something bad. Republicans criticize. Media reports "Republicans pounce on Democrat thing."
So it's either Republicans doing the bad thing directly, or Republicans cynically criticizing Democrats for political gain. The media always frames the Republican actions as negative, and avoids talking about the Democrat thing.
Once you notice this trick, you can't unsee it. It's used all the time, and in fact "Republicans seize" is a variation I've seen many times.
Exact same thing here. Don't talk about the blatant ideological takeover of the comics industry, frame it like "the alt-right" is opportunistically pushing their agenda by noticing it.
A couple more points about framing.
This makes it sound like they were a disinterested party, and not the active aggressors in the "Culture Wars."
Not only is this the "pounce" framing I mentioned early, it also frames it as though only the dreaded "alt-right" were the ones with complaints about comics being turned into Woke propaganda.
Because only evil racist misogynist Nazis would complain about that!
"What could have been a peaceful regime was instantly sucked into America's polarized "War on Terror".
Why would the Iraqis/Afghanis do such a thing?