add to this the neopuritan “un-person them and all their works” reaction when it is remembered that people are people and that common features of our technology

add to this the neopuritan “un-person them and all their works” reaction when it is remembered that people are people and that common features of our technology and culture are due to people with occasionally pretty godawful other ideas. Like, what do you want me to do, refuse to have a COVID test because the guy who figured out how to make it work had some extremely bad ideas about HIV? I assert without proof that i could find someone making that claim somewhere deep in the depths of alternet or salon or tumblr, but i think it's specious. A worldview that admits of more complexity and tangled-up-ness is more robust against that kind of insanity.