Given that the privileged groups you mention are those who control the narrative, it's an unfortunate but entirely predictable outcome that the narrative pushed

Given that the privileged groups you mention are those who control the narrative, it's an unfortunate but entirely predictable outcome that the narrative pushed from above is absorbed by the bottom and then also pushed upwards akin to osmosis. What's humorously ironic is that the criticism of speculation is the criticism of exactly what 'the people' have chosen to do. As someone else said 'don't hate the sin, hate the sinners'.