I have been keeping tabs on the culture war since 2012. Its a whole can of worms but essentially its Cultural Marxism, otherwise known as identity politics or woke. Marxism creates an oppressor oppressed dichotomy and assigns collective guilt to the oppressor class. Classical Marxism used this dichotomy to drum up class conflict and instigated a revolution on the so called bourgeois hegemony. Modern critical theory extends this class conflict to other identity groups like race, sex, sexual orientation etc. Straight white men are considered the oppressor class and women, people of color and LGBTQ people are the victim class. This creates what is otherwise known as the victim perception fallacy. It propagandizes a group of people into perceiving none existent discrimination. Which creates a skewed perception of themselves and the world. Classical feminism promotes equality of opportunity. Radical feminism influenced by Marxism preaches equity. You see a lot of the woke types commit what is known as the equity fallacy. This occupation is 80% comprised of men therefore it must be evidence of discrimination. The Jordan Peterson Cathy Newman interview is an excellent example of this fallacy taking place
Intersectional theory promotes the idea that intersecting identities create unique forms of oppression. A black woman is considered more oppressed compared to a black man. A black, disabled, trans woman is even more oppressed. Post Modernism teaches the idea that objective truth does not exist with the social constructionists attempting to deconstruct societal norms like gender, monogamy or the nuclear family. There are many more splinter ideologies.
In 2012 the activists infiltrated the New Age Atheist movement and Elevator Gate happened. In 2014-2015, they infiltrated the Gaming Community and GamerGate happened. You also had the Politically Correct movement in the universities.
The anime community is a bit more difficult to infiltrate because the industry itself resides in the east. Japan is a high trust first world society with a successful free market. The culture is very different and anime is largely successful because of that unique expression and free market. Communists usually propagandize the lower class. Its very difficult to influence a conservative homogeneous society that has a high standard of living.
But there has been significant attempts. International censorship is a constant threat. Which is why most otaku a
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