Superb article. I've been irritated as hell by the identiarian, radical fringe in recent years, but I've been equally irritated by people who start off heterodox and then get audience captured into far right lunacy.
An example is a woman I know who is brilliant when writing about movies, but too many wokies yelling at her over the years broke her (which I sympathize with, don't get me wrong), and now she's writing rather deranged stuff here: https://sashastone.substack.com/
A counter-example is Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog of Blocked and Reported. I've listened to them since they first started their podcast, and they're not afraid to occasionally say something that goes against the grain of their audience. They've done a very good job of avoiding audience capture.
Superb article. I've been irritated as hell by the identiarian, radical fringe in recent years, but I've been equally irritated by people who start off heterodox and then get audience captured into far right lunacy.
An example is a woman I know who is brilliant when writing about movies, but too many wokies yelling at her over the years broke her (which I sympathize with, don't get me wrong), and now she's writing rather deranged stuff here: https://sashastone.substack.com/
A counter-example is Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog of Blocked and Reported. I've listened to them since they first started their podcast, and they're not afraid to occasionally say something that goes against the grain of their audience. They've done a very good job of avoiding audience capture.