What is it with the shitlib obsession with counterculture and everything needing to be "radical"?

It's this almost neurotic obsession with constantly trying to "push boundaries" and appearing edgy and transgressive in everything they do or say. From trying to normalize sexual taboos like incest to coming up with yet another gender letter on the alphabet. This obsession can be observed in how they do or interpret pop culture: Movies, music, books, and even video games. Everything needs a politically radical message or else its media not worth wasting time on. They'll also often project their politics onto older forms of media which is anachronistic or just partake in plain revisionism like how some movie nerds like to claim that Night of the Living Dead was about racism or how they like to claim how X-Men was always about the civil rights movement even though Stan Lee himself said that his idea for the X-Men was that he had no idea what the origin of their powers were going to be so he just decided to make them "born that way".

Like is there anything even genuinely counter culture or "punk" anymore to begin with? Racism is almost universally agreed upon to be bad yet they make it seem like making movies or TV shows about how racism is bad is "anti-system". It's like if everyone is punk then nobody is at the end of the day.