I consider myself an ally on most social justice issues. The kind of abuse heaped on women online is unconscionable to me. Not to mention Black Lives Matter w

I consider myself an ally on most social justice issues. The kind of abuse heaped on women online is unconscionable to me. Not to mention Black Lives Matter where people are actually dying because of systemic prejudice. So you have those issues on one side, there are a lot of them and we need to work on them as a society. A step down from that big stuff, you have crass offensive behavior like sexual innuendo in conference talks and other things that can pretty readily be identified as going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. It makes sense for professional conferences to have policies against those things. Then you have this long tail of ways that a person can be offended by subtle interpretations that are impossible to wholly avoid by premeditation except through sheer paranoid blandness. This is the bucket where it seems like this Crockford nonsense falls, and this is also where the movement loses my support. They've crossed the line from helping people to just reaching for the torches and pitchforks, and completely lost the thread that liberalism was once about tolerance.