How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral

An important difference from the comparison to the Maoist movement and the like (besides degree), is that historically these spirals had at their heart, at least at the beginning, a premeditated ploy for power. The posturing was conscious and malicious. It's really important to point out that that's not usually the case with the internet version. People aren't setting out to build an instagram moral empire; in fact they may set out with genuine, legitimate concern for the real moral…

After reading the comments in the previous thread, I thought about what has changed in the two years since. My impression is that kind of escalating purity ratchet peaked in the fall and early part of this year, or at least it hit a ratchet point where the next lift is going to be exponentially harder than the previous ones because there is real popular reaction and revolt against it. Personally I have become much less agreeable, and as a…