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They came into politics after the "skeptical/free inquiry left" had been replaced by the "public safety" left I agree (as a person who didn't use to feel embar

They came into politics after the "skeptical/free inquiry left" had been replaced by the "public safety" left I agree (as a person who didn't use to feel embarrassed to describe himself as a man of the left), though I think there was a similar move from class to identity politics during the same period. Much of the moral decline of the left of the recent period can probably be traced to (white) middle class dominance through academia and social media, which has been scaled by the web and led by the young who dominate the demographic in both cases.

cubefox 3y ago
Here is another interesting theory why the free speech was pushed back so much: https://www.richardhanania.com/p/womens-tears-win-in-the-marketplace https://www.richardhanania.com/p/womens-tears-win-in-the-mar... In short, women gained much more influence in academia and other positions, and they are significantly less supportive of free speech than men. The theory is that this resulted in a feminization of political discourse.