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It's the perfect excuse to cut back on funding expenditures and increase cronyism, and that's all the justification that they need.
Have corpos ever needed an excuse for that? This seems more like thinking that Americans in general will reward them for being "anti-woke."
No, but having it be justified by a portion of the population with violent tendencies makes it easy to avoid getting in trouble with the law for doing. You say that you're getting rid of worker safety programs and bringing back child labor, and people start asking questions. You say that the children yearn for the mines but the woke won't let them, and half the country will start punching elementary teachers for not letting kids get Black Lung.
Basically, it's a combo of the two. They get to do the things that they want to do anyway, and they get support from a group of people trying to destroy regulations simply for doing it.
I think it may be silly to repeat their made up words. Let's just call them classist, racist, and sexist since that is what it really is.
"Americans in general will reward them for being classist, racist and sexist."
Yeah, I like that. It is a lot more visceral and accurate.
Less succinct, but indeed more clear. But you have to add things like transphobic and homophobic as well.
Oof, you're right, I forgot about those and they are definitely part of the issue.
Maybe we could use bigotry here.
"Americans in general will reward them for their bigotry"
Yeah, that's a good word for it.