Not Everything Is Simple. (Except Me—I’m Perfect.)
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The entire "movement" simply prides itself on saying the "approved" thing without thought. You saw a very powerful example of this just recently with the gas stoves. In addition to "believing" X, Y, Z, now you ALSO must be pro banning gas stoves.
And lots and lots of people simply adopted this new talking point -- because they know that if they buck the cult ON ANYTHING AT ALL, they get canceled. Look what happened to Elon Musk!