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> So it’s a purity test?

Deliberately? No, of course not. But it's a good way to tell where people stand, nonetheless. And I can tell right now that you personally feel much more strongly about opposing woke excesses than you do about opposing genuine racial injustice. So the performative nonsense has done its job.




Your conclusion is not sound.

To you, it is a "genuine racial injustice".

To others, it is simply nothing of the sort.

Said another way, I also feel much more strongly about opposing woke excesses than I do about opposing genuine racial injustice--expressly since I very much support opposing racial injustices and do not find the master/main debate as a genuine racial injustice.


> But it's a good way to tell where people stand, nonetheless.

That's exactly what a purity test is.


What do you mean "Deliberately, no"? It is intentionally so, just as you had no trouble describing and then eagerly applying with exactly the kind of wrong-headed witch-hunting logic these exercises predictably inspire. Make no mistake - the problem and criticism here isn't with a cause that's bigger than you and noble.




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