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There’s a stark difference between the almost unbelievable TikTok videos that circulate online and what the left is actually teaching in schools, at conferences, and in activist trainings. TikTok thrives on the outlandish, designed to go viral and rake in views. But to understand what the left truly believes and what they’re training activists to enact, you have to look beyond the internet’s sensationalism to their more serious, unfiltered discussions.
These serious discussions don’t make for catchy content that’ll go viral. That’s precisely why most people who claim to oppose the left believe the left hates white people – because of unserious videos from unserious people that are shared by unserious clickbait accounts to generate serious cash while leaving a seriously misinformed audience. One of the main reasons we are losing to the left is because of this proclivity on the right to "owe the libs" at the cost of all other things.
Yes, you’ll find outliers like Robin DiAngelo declaring that all white people are racist, or the occasional viral rant about killing white people. But those are exceptions, not the doctrine that drives the movement. These outbursts don’t reflect the majority of what the left teaches or believes – it's the 5%, not the 95%. If you want to understand a movement, you must look at the norm, not the exception.
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