[quantified]

The thesis more or less works for any institution. It doesn't work outside of those bounds, like for MeToo and BLM. It's interesting how it's somehow a progressive issue. "Why have reports of “hate groups” risen during the same decades that racial prejudice has been plummeting?" Perhaps because expectations have risen, and perhaps because there was no one to report to earlier that would listen. Anyone who thinks racism isn't still widespread hasn't listened to raw thinking of many Americans, and didn't watch Charlottesville in 2017.

[mlyle]

> Perhaps because expectations have risen, and perhaps because there was no one to report to earlier that would listen.

There's also backlash, especially as the formerly-oppressed become much more visible.

[Aloha]

I mean its a conservative one too - look at the moving goalposts to the right on Abortion, the right keeps demanding more and more stringent controls, gun rights too.

Its an activist problem more than anything else.

[bradleyjg]

Even for religion. In one of the yeshivas in the upper west side of Manhattan, they painted longer sleeves on a photograph of the founding rabbi’s wife because it doesn’t comply with current modesty rules.

[lupire]

It's not the same problem, or any problem. The OP is a reactionary grasping at straws.

Anti racism activists want to end racism, not reduce it.

Anti abortion people want to end abortion, not reduce it.

It's different from March of Dimes people stuck looking for something new to do when no one has polio anymore.

The complaint that progressives move one to a new issue once they solve (or obsolete) one issue isn't some sort of weird disorder, it's reflecting the reality that one person can't solve every problem at the same time.

Also, "March of Dimes Syndrome" was invented by the Federalist, a zero credibility rag.

https://thefederalist.com/2016/09/21/social-justice-warriors...

This OP is reactionary regressive grossness, trying to smear people who are trying to solve problems.

[api]

Isn’t the right wing think tank and activism industry just as vulnerable to this self licking ice cream cone phenomenon as things on the left?

Also witness the alt-right edgelords who made a name for themselves in the mid 20-teens Pepe the frog era try to stay relevant.