Recognizing an isolated demand for rigor isn't necessarily a demand for purity. It's specifically noticing when nobody cares at all about a topic in all contex

Recognizing an isolated demand for rigor isn't necessarily a demand for purity. It's specifically noticing when nobody cares at all about a topic in all contexts except when it gores a particular ox. In both this example and the emails thing, you never hear anybody talking about it except some very particular cases where they're clearly motivated to tar a particular target. "We all have to consider this topic to be very important, specifically and only when party X does it, and talking about anything else is whataboutism!"