People forget that the first publication to go woke -- importing the esoteric language and identitarian obsessions of the activist and academic Left -- into mainstream online journalism was http://Salon.Com
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We forget how bizarre it was and how remote was the thought that its unprovable and unfalsifiable assertions would wrest control of the media and have people who would have -- and did -- ignore or scoff at it just a few years prior repeating its mantras as revealed truth
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Maybe we should have been a little less dismissive about "basilisks" considering we're now firmly in the grasp of a monstrous hypothetical future
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That said, after I saw this start cannibalizing the online left, very little about its power surprised me
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