The Evolutionary Advantages of Playing Victim(quillette.com)
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The Evolutionary Advantages of Playing Victim
https://quillette.com/2021/02/27/the-evolutionary-advantages-of-playing-victim/
https://quillette.com/2021/02/27/the-evolutionary-advantages-of-playing-victim/
Yet, with this article they managed to shot themselves in the foot. Quillette sees itself as an intellectual post for intellectuals, yet the only intellectualism they manage to bring on is the one described by Steven Pinker: anti-progressive.
Before posting it here, I posted it on a facebook group and the reactions were instant: some making fun of the people waiting to get offended and a great majority getting offended only when seeing it was from Quillette or simply by reading the title.
Even though Quillette managed to self-describe itself without pointing obvious fingers but knowing their history, it was to be addressed to left wing media, the article is humorously accurately describing both extremes of the same narrow American spectrum of politics and social life. If you don't fit a box, you clearly fit the other and need to be attacked by it.