You’d be correct — the blending of Marxist theory with identity politics and post structuralism has been an absolute clusterfuck from start to finish. The inability of liberal organisations to hold the line of reasonable debate against an increasingly batshit set of ideologies has been terrible for society and in the long run will be bad for vulnerable and marginalised groups.

I have no problem with activism in general and think it’s an integral part of how a society evolves — I have every problem imaginable with the people who have positioned themselves as the mouthpieces but who lack the intellectual heft to understand the implications of their actions. There are plenty of those people on Medium

You’ll probably see what I mean more clearly by reading this story. https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/whack-a-woke-james-finn-special-86d6cb79aa11