Many of the left seek to win culture wars not on the merits of arguments and ideas but simply by punishing and silencing any who disagree. As though that's a u

Many of the left seek to win culture wars not on the merits of arguments and ideas but simply by punishing and silencing any who disagree. As though that's a unique aspect of "the political left". Folks in the GOP, for example, definitely don't have litmus tests that distinguish a "true" conservative from a RINO. His team is clearly better than your team! Honestly, it's pretty clear this op-ed is every bit the polemic as any other writing on this topic, and it's about as reliable an analysis as a result. It does nothing to move the conversation forward in any constructive way. Again: As a Rorschach test for your sociopolitical affiliation, the memo is a smashing success. It manages this by, from the very start, couching the discussion in terms of left-right political affiliation, immediately putting the "left" on the defensive and the "right" cheering him on. After that it's just a lesson in confirmation bias. Edit: As a random aside, am I the only one who feels like this thing is packed with MRA dogwhistles? "males are biologically disposable", "when a man complains about a gender issue affecting men, he is labelled as a mysogynist and a whiner", "humans are generally biased towards protecting females", etc. This guy would've done himself a huge favour by having someone read and critique this thing before sending it out. Even a straightforward rewrite to remove some of these unsupported, content-free statements would've clarified his thesis and cut out some of the obvious flamebait.