I don't get a lot out of Quillette most of the time, but this is a good framing of the macro-scale situation. As if building an extensive system of what one might call 'institutional moral support' induced a phase change in how people relate to authority.https://quillette.com/2018/11/14/the-free-speech-crisis-on-campus-is-worse-than-people-think/ …
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Replying to @St_Rev
Maybe concedes too much in accepting the movement’s self-framing as moral and political? Whereas its main method, of inventing taboos and purification rituals and ensnaring rulers in them, is more analogous to priestly conversion drives (as you’ve pointed out often yourself).
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Replying to @Meaningness
I read it as being about what such a tendency feels like from the inside, which provides a context for interpreting the behavior of the infected.
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