It always feels silly to even discuss, because on some level it’s like, how could fandom impact the way people react in their real life to that extent?

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But then you remember the purity cult crowd have a hard time differentiating fictional morality and their real life ethics, and it does start to make a concerning amount of sense 😞 All of that is to say, yes, a lot of the erosion in nuance and critical thinking and intellectualism over the past, say, decade when applied to activism, advocacy, and political ideology has so often been WAY too similar to watching people fall down the purity culture “your fave is problematic” pipeline.