When attention is very scarce, and you have some discretionary ability to boost signals, any act of public curiosity becomes a political act.
Whatever the content of your opinion on X, simply being publicly curious about X (minimum=liking a tweet) sends a message.
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I suspect one reason drew fire for broaching sex redistribution is simply because as a signal booster he diverted scarce public attention to that topic.
The actual opinion matters less than the act of putting that topic in the public short-term magic 7±2 meme buffer
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Yeah a lot of people reacted on that, but I also saw a lot of meta anger for boosting the topic at all, a “don’t feed the incels” thing.
