08/28/2026
"This mode of politics – where you seize on innocuous turns of phrase like ‘purity test’ and use them to openly accuse your peers of being misogynist, ableist, homophobic white supremacists, while completely ignoring the substantive content of any critiques – peaked around five years ago and is still popular in the more annoying circles of libworld, but is almost universally despised and mistrusted outside of quite small circles of progressive activist types with close ties to NGOs or academia.
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Mercifully its iron grip over left-wing scenes and movements has lessened considerably in the past couple years"
We didn't change the world.
We didn't stop global warming.
But maybe we played a tiny part in killing this trend that has been so devastating for the Left. Identity Politics, Wokeism, The Nexus, whatever you call it: knock on wood, it's finally dead.
On purity tests, wokeslop and the McPherson-Gazan struggle session
