Which is why most people here opposed AOC when she said that Amazon should not get special treatment and a privileged tax deal to come to New York, even though she was 100% right.
Indeed it does. The conservative media sphere is heavily invested in cultivating that type of brainless contrarianism. A lot of people on the right also have a huge ideological blind spot for problems stemming from corporations. They've spent their political lives believing that government attacks on private sector market freedom are the defining political conflict. They have a lot of cognitive dissonance to work through before they can see that "woke" shit comes from wealthy private sector actors as much as anything and understand the implications of that.
Was that here or the subreddit?
It was the subreddit.
But still, negative partisanship is very powerful.
Indeed it does. The conservative media sphere is heavily invested in cultivating that type of brainless contrarianism. A lot of people on the right also have a huge ideological blind spot for problems stemming from corporations. They've spent their political lives believing that government attacks on private sector market freedom are the defining political conflict. They have a lot of cognitive dissonance to work through before they can see that "woke" shit comes from wealthy private sector actors as much as anything and understand the implications of that.