The Alex Morse smear only sort of worked because it intersected with a completely sincere (and insane) ideology of trauma. https://twitter.com/AsheeshKSi/status/1292675565674205189">https://twitter.com/AsheeshKS...

We need to reassert the importance of evidence and objective standards of conduct. "You were banned from meetings" is not an accusation. "I felt uncomfortable" isn& #39;t an accusation either. You need, at minimum, to start with someone saying specifically what wrongful act was done.

The hacking of a ludicrous evidentiary standard by bad actors has been institutionalized, too. See this Title IX nightmare story from the NYT. As you see, eventually being cleared doesn’t make it no-harm-no-foul. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/magazine/title-ix-sexual-harassment-accusations.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1...

I have seen people assert the existence of “rumors” about Morse, or an anonymous person’s discomfort, as prima facie evidence that he is a bad actor. This standard lets anyone be presumed guilty of anything if an accuser can claim a marginalized identity (even “college student”)

The reason the advocates of this ideology need to constantly invent new language that makes them sound like woke HR reps from outer space is that if they described their ideas in English they would sound obviously insane.

This stuff seems to have a lot of purchase among college-educated Zoomers. It does not bode well.