A lot of people cannot differentiate having a cause from dehumanising people who don’t agree with them. As we’ve all learned by now, a person’s goodness cannot be measured by the amount of carnage they’re willing to unleash on people they categorise as other.

There’s a kind of activism that’s more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs of the Puritans. Puritanical in that the point becomes the demonstration of one’s own virtue rather than the realization of results. And puritanical because the somber pleasure of condemning things is the

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