Identity politics, a writer friend reminds me, is where liberalism goes to die. The oceans are boiling, freelance journalists¡¯ heads are getting lobbed off, and there¡¯s not the slightest sign of resistance to income inequality so out of control it would worry Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Yet the Internet¡¯s politically correct ¡°social justice warriors¡± are dedicating their formidable energies into attacking piss-ant trivialities.
Anyone who doubts that online slacktivists have their heads so far up their collective asses that they can¡¯t see daylight need only read up on the controversy over Undercover Colors, which is a nail polish that allows women (or men, but they¡¯re not the target audience) to discreetly discover whether their drink has been spiked by one of several common ¡°date rape¡± drugs.
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