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Erik Hoel argues that 2012 was a cultural inflection point. Just as 1968 signalled the peak of the 1960s cultural revolution that would set the stage for the next few decades of social change, 2012 represents the beginning of the (spoiler) smartphone era and a new round of social change.
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2012 was the year of Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
His team felt he might have trouble getting the same turnout because he hadn't delivered enough for his base. So leftwing activists started agitating various left wing causes online and off.
One big thing was the Trayvon Martin shooting, which was made into a national issue and kicked off BLM. The press went all in on the shooting, ignoring a lot of facts on the ground. ABC famously edited Zimmerman's 911 call.
Also SanFran tech workers started building in ways to censor and throttle conservatives on their platforms.
As a result random left of center people started having the attitude that "things are worse than ever but we're winning". Previously there was a perception that racism was on the decline.
The re-election of Obama was taking by many on the left as a signal of final victory, that the era of the white man was over. Social media throttling prevented them from hearing any opposition.
That lead to a great deal of shock when Trump won in 2016.
Also, the spectre of the first "black" president of the US ending up as a one-term failure was too horrific for them to even contemplate. Hence the deployment of really underhanded tactics against Romney as well, who was just a cuck trying to play by unwritten rules, and an open declaration of culture war by completely mainstream leftists.
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