You could set this quote on a critical thinking course to illustrate petitio principii and tautology. It's almost genius - or its opposite.https://twitter.com/ZackFord/status/1025893698763206656 …
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Americans really do seem peculiarly keen on labelling things, putting them into categories. I mean really, who gives a fuck whether your own set of political beliefs meet some arbitrary criteria for progressiveness? D'you think you're going to get a merit badge or something?
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Or maybe it's just you want to belong to a special club where all the progressive people hang out? It'd be full of the virtuous, a bit like heaven, only with fewer hymns, and more purity policing.
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The strict exclusion criteria do sound quite religious.
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I see this kind of thing happening within the animal movement as wellhttp://veganstrategist.org/2015/03/11/vegans-the-worlds-smallest-club/ …
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Perhaps more likely people just don’t want to get mobbed / bullied / blacklisted / slandered / etc., and thus strive to prove themselves.
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