Jesse Singal: Why are so many very online leftists bullies?

I missed this when Jesse Singal published it a few weeks ago. The specific online fracas that was the impetus behind this column is now ancient news in internet time. Former Vox writer Matt Yglesias had decided to join Bluesky, one of the Twitter alternatives which progressives have been promoting as a safe space for their kind of people. And as soon as Yglesias joined he apparently got dog-piled by a whole bunch of people who hate him because he’s not longer an orthodox progressive on every issue. For instance, he’s argued at length that more police means less crime,Read More