I get how people arrive at the conclusion but the idea that culture war news exists to 'distract' people from actual issues is just so plainly ridiculous to me
yesss the mars corporation made the m&ms less sexy to distract everyone from their labor abuses in the global south, an issue which the moral and upstanding American people would otherwise care about. Surely if not for the m&m controversy there would be mass boycotts -- why, even rioting in the streets
















