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Ppl are treating this as “the left eating itself” but that’s not true. Contra is a liberal, not a leftist. Those are two different things. It’s also not cancel culture to criticize someone for bad behavior and statements that are dangerous because of her influence #contrapoints 
A lot of cis people unfortunately see her as like a spokeswoman for the trans community, and when she says this kind of stuff, it’s very bad for the rest of us.
When you have the level of influence she has, that’s something that comes with responsibility.
The left-wing politicisation pipeline still seems to be doing its thing (#contrapoints). Each new crop of radicals think they've had the eternal truth of <the current year> revealed to them, and then confuse politics with interpersonal struggles of affirmation and denunciation.
Unfortunately, by the time people have learned not to dissociate from their past, ignorant selves by fervently criticising anyone they associate with that ignorance, and more generally *chill the fuck down*, there's another batch driving the same dynamics.
Worse, it's now possible to remain in one's political adolescence forever, never moving past the stage of identity formation through overcompensation, because there's a now an endless pipeline of political adolescents from which to spin a distributed network of peers.
