"The hardest part of talking about malignant trends on the broad left is that, well, you’re not allowed to talk about them. It’s no exaggeration to say that cri

"The hardest part of talking about malignant trends on the broad left is that, well, you’re not allowed to talk about them. It’s no exaggeration to say that criticism has become fully conflated with violence. If you attempt to engage critically with a left-liberal writer–regardless of how thorough and respectful you may be, and regardless of how powerful, public, or insulated the subject of the criticism–you will be accused of dismissing and erasing the writer, of inciting violence against the writer, and of committing some form of genocide against whichever identity groups the writer belongs to." ITT: a bunch of people talking about malignant trends on the left and somehow not being accused of genocide!