I don't locate the problem with "pop culture," but with a certain kind of activist culture that's currently popular. Activism isn't a truth-seeking operation. A

I don't locate the problem with "pop culture," but with a certain kind of activist culture that's currently popular. Activism isn't a truth-seeking operation. Activists already know the truth; their job as they see it is to educate or cudgel everyone else. Activism isn't responsive to new information, for this very reason. It isn't interested in hearing new truths. It already knows all the truths that matter and, further, perceives itself to be engaged in a battle to convert these truths into policy. I don't mean this to sound trite. I think it's a fundamentally mistaken way to operate in the world and it makes it a lot harder to have honest conversations about complex issues like this one.