Censorship tactics boomerang against progressives who deploy them

Evidence

This reality lies at the root of my own discomfort with those progressive tendencies that cheer the censoring of our political opponents, or that offer blank deference to people claiming victim status: I have seen too often how both can go terribly wrong. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1002

Categorization

  • XREF: Klein’s discomfort with progressive cancel culture echoes the left-abandoned-territory thesis from the Mirror World chapters, and connects to the reader’s interest in whether the doubling device carries the political weight.