It's mostly jumping on the "social good" bandwagon. Aside from things like racism/police brutality just taken as fact in a lot of liberal circles. Which I think to be the most common, at least here. It just turns into a literal virtue signal type deal.
I've seen it with a lot of things, at least considering YouTube, that most people here probably don't mind. Mainly because they aren't things that most of us oppose, myself included. But think about it, mental health was a big thing back in 2018. Moving aside the shady nature of the sponsorship deals with BetterHelp, it became the trending things to talk about. All of a sudden, you start hearing about content creators having burn out. Talking about fears of taking a break, or having depression. Pretty much near the same time.
Or last year with the #teamtrees thing. All of a sudden, people are talking about climate change, or "global warming" or whatever it called in the mainstream these days. Did people actually care about the environment outside of planting a ton of trees? It's hard to say, but it doesn't look like a lot of people took steps to changes aspects in their lives to use less energy or products.
This year, it's BLM. Next year, it'll probably be something else that liberals decide they care about then. It could be innocent, like what the ice bucket challenge turned out to be. Or it could be the shit we're seeing right now. This is just a pattern that I can't help but notice. And it's just too manufactured (and against my principles) for me to care to support.
Everything the media AstroTurfs into existence is just a cudgel too beat down conservatives. The moment a tool no longer works against conservatives, the left discard it almost immediately.
Environmentalists have been pro-tree-planting since forever, though. It's just that it's not a bad idea to remind the herd that trees suck up carbon, so, just do what the Arbor Day Foundation has been saying since Saturday morning cartoons were a thing and the ghosts in Scooby Doo were still fake.
It's mostly jumping on the "social good" bandwagon. Aside from things like racism/police brutality just taken as fact in a lot of liberal circles. Which I think to be the most common, at least here. It just turns into a literal virtue signal type deal.
I've seen it with a lot of things, at least considering YouTube, that most people here probably don't mind. Mainly because they aren't things that most of us oppose, myself included. But think about it, mental health was a big thing back in 2018. Moving aside the shady nature of the sponsorship deals with BetterHelp, it became the trending things to talk about. All of a sudden, you start hearing about content creators having burn out. Talking about fears of taking a break, or having depression. Pretty much near the same time.
Or last year with the #teamtrees thing. All of a sudden, people are talking about climate change, or "global warming" or whatever it called in the mainstream these days. Did people actually care about the environment outside of planting a ton of trees? It's hard to say, but it doesn't look like a lot of people took steps to changes aspects in their lives to use less energy or products.
This year, it's BLM. Next year, it'll probably be something else that liberals decide they care about then. It could be innocent, like what the ice bucket challenge turned out to be. Or it could be the shit we're seeing right now. This is just a pattern that I can't help but notice. And it's just too manufactured (and against my principles) for me to care to support.
Everything the media AstroTurfs into existence is just a cudgel too beat down conservatives. The moment a tool no longer works against conservatives, the left discard it almost immediately.
Environmentalists have been pro-tree-planting since forever, though. It's just that it's not a bad idea to remind the herd that trees suck up carbon, so, just do what the Arbor Day Foundation has been saying since Saturday morning cartoons were a thing and the ghosts in Scooby Doo were still fake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOh3Vz6rd9A
Anyway, for anyone interested, the History Guy has a video about the relationship between the Passenger Pigeon and North American forests on youtube.