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If you dislike Big Pharma e.g. because you think it promotes drugs that aid kids being trans, you are not going to find left allies. If you dislike Disney because you think it will make kids trans through acculturation, you're not going to find left allies.
So superficially the right is running away right now with a lot of the left's historical whipping boys, but if you dig deeper there's a throughline, a continuity.
This puts the left in awkward position, yes, feeling the need to defend some of these institutions by default but having to squeeze in, "but..but here's the real reason you should dislike X corporation!", trying to steal back that thunder.
Of course if you are very young leftist you're not particularly interested in stealing back that thunder. It was never your thunder to begin with. You care about different things. A lot of it seemingly representational and media-oriented.
As a leftist, I want pharma companies to be nationalized, so that trans kids can have easier access to medicine they may have financial issues getting at the moment. Same thing w/ the vaccine - the doctors who made the vaccine are not the issue, it's the assholes who want to charge for it. Same thing w/ Disney - the problem with Disney is it's power through copyright and buying up other companies, not it's social views.
It's not really an argumentative problem for leftists, since most "leftists" were always fine with vaccines and also fine with minority representation in culture. It's some uneasy allies, but hey, we've team up with worse before to beat reactionaries.
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