What are the go-to subjects for revealing the true, regressive beliefs of reactionaries who don't consider themselves reactionary? Off the top of my head:
-Trans people in sports: Major gateway to transphobia and misogyny. Complaints about trans athletes inevitably lead to sexism towards literally any woman with muscles. Pretty sure this is how Joe Rogan and a ton of his supporters became so unhinged.
-Affirmative action: So, so many liberals and "leftists" will complain about how they would've totally gotten into Harvard and Yale if not for The Blackstm. Love to bring up SAT scores even though they've been proven to be racist and classist and a shit metric for intellectual value.
-Shakespeare authorship question: A bit niche. Basically, Curtis Yarvin and other Dark Enlightenment dweebs don't think that Shakespeare was capable of penning such timeless plays because he wasn't rich, and according to them, not rich=dumb and uncreative mental husk.
its cringey and very likely to be reactionary when people have the red (cops trying to rope-in/attach themselves to the socially valuable 'responders') but it doesn't have anything to do with british imperialism. simple word replacement.
and it's not a formation, just a figure of speech or trope for british soldiers being spread thin and being perceived as heroic & outnumbered. it was sensationalized by the crimean war press from a time a regiment lined up incorrectly according to doctrine and very 'bravely' confronted some russian cavalry in a skirmish. lots of stupid tropes like this came out of the Crimean war, the 'charge of the light brigade' was another dumb mistake the british press fawned over for being so 'brave'