Now that Trump has called DeSantis a groomer, I feel like this meme is on the way out. Classic "Robespierre denounces Danton" spiral.
Every movement that awards people points for opportunistic denunciation eventually goes into a death spiral. Every new denunciation makes it clearer that the incentive is to denounce everyone else before they denounce you. So it just accelerates.
Anecdotally, every lefty prof in humanities academia got denounced by their grad students as racist and ableist etc. in the late 2010s, and then the students all denounced each other...
Here's a good anecdote. Heard lots of little stories like this from friends in grad school at the time!
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