I was thinking about that era of internet culture and the “how much can you take?” ethos, like it was about showing yourself unphased by the grotesque, the morally repugnant… showing yourself to be unphased by everything, able to laugh at everything, having nothing you held sacred except for holding nothing sacred and IDK I feel like we haven’t done as much of a 180 as we sometimes think… I think certain aspects of the more toxic parts of SJ culture are actually similar, the whole “how much can you take?” thing, how much almost Maoist self criticism, how many jokes about privileged aspects of your identity and while like I think criticizing the powerful is important and like it being different making jokes about the powerful rather than the margenalized, I feel like sometimes we don’t examine people as whole people so much as crystalized discreet identities… and so like IDK working class people get thrown under the bus for using the wrong language even though they don’t have the resources to have known the right language and get like mocked and pushed out of shit and what not when they don’t have the emotional resources to take people being hard on them.

IDK I see other feminists doing it and I don’t like it.