one of the most important takeaways from the culture wars of the 2010s is that in any reactive social movement, antisocial cynics will infiltrate it in order to direct harassment, derive sadistic pleasure, and advance their own power projects, seeing good-faith participants as useful marks
so what's the takeaway as far as how ppl should respond?
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