[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Intersectionality has become more mainstream and it has a lot to do with many of the formerly fringe voices (on both far-right and far-left) gaining more traction in popular media. There are voices that are automatically being put into the category of "the right" that are not being heard in favor of protected groups, for example with regards to the economy, etc, common sense solutions are not being focused on because they're not deemed "inclusive" enough... it leads to a lot of conclusions regarding the topic of media bias and censorship.

A lowering standard of education and the laziness of mainstream media can also be pointed to as factors. I'm sure there's outright bias on either side, but other times, I think it's just the media pandering to whatever dynamic gets the most views... TV media and online news is struggling massively to maintain a consistent narrative thanks to the likes of Facebook, Google and ad-blocks.

And of course money talks. If your business is heavily dependent on mass marketing and branding, and you're vying for celebrities to put on the covers of magazines or in front of your products, or your audience is considered to be young folk, then some catering is necessary in order to maintain a consistent bottom-line for your shareholders...

Funnily enough, a lot of cognitive dissonance has to occur for all these relationships to be made... meanwhile many companies are in support of things like the corporate tax cuts here in the US (all right-wing supposedly) while anything that is typically considered common sense policy is not "neutral enough" because it doesn't check enough pro-equality/pro-morality behaviors...

And actually, a lot of this pro-morality stuff is "baked in" already with regards to American mainstream... it used to be a woman couldn't share a bed on TV with a man, and there's still a lot of "dated" editing concepts in the US media.

For example, we highly censor our reality TV in comparison... whereas you guys have things like dicks, vaginas and other orifices making their way to the telly. We censor way more than they do in the UK (apparently)... I was shocked when I turned on C5 one time and found they were showing animal birth in it's full bloody gory. We are sheltered in comparison.

So yeah, some of it is narrative... some of it is the inconsistent relationships between media companies, big business and government regulations... and then there is definitely a push and sheltering of alternative perspectives in the education system for example for hard-left that is leading a lot of young people to think these ideas are mainstream.

It's a complex answer really. Great topic.