I had not seen that, thanks for sharing; what a simultaneously interesting, unsurprising, and depressing read that was. I wonder if one could build an anti-purity community that would subsequently succumb to a purity spiral, providing a nice meta-demonstration of things ;)
I was also think about the concept of purity towards the end of your writeup. Did you see this article https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a-purity-spiral/ ?
I had not seen that, thanks for sharing; what a simultaneously interesting, unsurprising, and depressing read that was. I wonder if one could build an anti-purity community that would subsequently succumb to a purity spiral, providing a nice meta-demonstration of things ;)
Sigh. I'm sure it's possible. It's people we're talking about.