The Left has gone so far extreme and disenfranchised so many -- that to weed people back to the Left they have to poke fun at the extremes almost everyone can universally agree on as being "too woke".
It's to say, "See, look how ridiculous this is? But see this other thing over here? It's much less egregious". It gets the normies to go, "Yes, you're right -- X is very extreme, but Y is definitely acceptable".
Expect to see this doled out to soften people's perceptions on "lighter" positions the Left want to push by criticising the hotter button issues that are a step too far, all in order to gently nudge the Overton window even further Left.
It's the soft target bias.
The Left has gone so far extreme and disenfranchised so many -- that to weed people back to the Left they have to poke fun at the extremes almost everyone can universally agree on as being "too woke".
It's to say, "See, look how ridiculous this is? But see this other thing over here? It's much less egregious". It gets the normies to go, "Yes, you're right -- X is very extreme, but Y is definitely acceptable".
Expect to see this doled out to soften people's perceptions on "lighter" positions the Left want to push by criticising the hotter button issues that are a step too far, all in order to gently nudge the Overton window even further Left.