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PG's essay that article is talking about: http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html (disclosure: I thought it was good).

The current affairs article was extremely tedious, whatever good point they might have made was hurt by its self-assured hostile tone and personal attacks (basically an example of the kind of thing PG's essay was talking about).

There are a few essays that get into the weeds and give more explicit examples of problems (something PG probably avoided because of the issues he talks about, but it seems he was also attacked for avoiding them anyway).

Some that give more direct examples/arguments:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres...

https://quillette.com/2020/07/30/think-cancel-culture-doesnt...

Also: https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-...

Some others recently: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-see-...



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