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How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral - UnHerd

"Lindsay pointed to the atheist movement of the mid-2000s, from which he’d come: a community that once had the wind in its sails, but had imploded into infighting by 2011, as half of its members jagged off in an social justice direction. Soon enough, the likes of the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins were being problematised as stale, male and pale."

https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a-purity-spiral/