Donald Trump woke up tens of millions of Americans.
He showed them that the press is simply an extension of the Democratic Party.
And The Washington Post tried to bully companies with one enraging tactic.
Many reporters for corporate press outlets are not journalists, but activists.
They believe their goal is to bring about social change, i.e. promote left-wing causes.
The New York Times essentially said as much after the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
That naked partisanship in the media has only intensified.
And it was taken up another notch after the Supreme Court leak of a draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito that signaled the reversal of the horribly decided Roe V. Wade case.
Democrats have been screeching and wailing about abortion, and they have deployed their foot soldiers in the media to get active.
Now, video game reporters for The Washington Post are pressuring gaming companies to comment publicly on the abortion debate.
Post video game beat reporters Nathan Grayson and Shannon Liao wrote a piece entitled: “As Roe v. Wade repeal looms, video game industry stays mostly silent.”
The reporters essentially called up video game companies in hopes of coercing them to give rhetorical or financial support to the Democrats’ pro-abortion cause.
When Grayson was called out on Twitter for his absurd column, he responded that “game companies were extremely vocal following george floyd’s murder, covid-born anti-asian hate, etc. silence here is telling; it suggests broader disingenuousness.”
Grayson is just now learning that major corporations often virtue-signal when it’s easy for them to do so.
But that isn’t the case with the abortion issue.
Abortion is incredibly divisive with national support split roughly right down the middle.
Also, the pro-life side gains majority support after the first trimester.
According to polling data, 65% of Americans are against second-trimester abortions, and 81% are against third-trimester abortions.
The current position of the Democrats is government-funded abortions on-demand up until the point of birth.
That is wildly outside of the mainstream.
Video game companies are not in a rush to jump on that grenade, especially in light of Disney getting smacked by Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans for jumping into politics.
Even if the companies were completely sincere, as Grayson has perhaps imagined, there is zero reason to believe they would always side with the Left.
The CEO of a video game company can donate to causes related to George Floyd while also being against abortion.
This is why it never pays for companies to pander to the Left.
The demands will never stop.
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