I've been appreciative of -- grateful for -- @mtaibbi's writing well before I began writing myself, and am as still as appreciative of it as ever. Here he is on The Letter, its fallout and, most importantly, the historical trajectory of the cultural left: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/if-its-not-cancel-culture-what-kind?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzc5NjUsInBvc3RfaWQiOjY3NzEwMywiXyI6IndsTHh1IiwiaWF0IjoxNTk0NDAxMzM5LCJleHAiOjE1OTQ0MDQ5MzksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xMDQyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.wKh7yJClimovltQ3rBDNebp5y3BAQha5j6XKSU7400c

Taibbi's concluding paragraphs highlight an oft-overlooked point: a consensus arose in the 1990s that private consensual conduct between adults is nobody's business, rejecting the sexual busybody puritanism of the Moral Majority Right. Some sectors of the Left want to revive it:

One more point: people keep assuming that those critiquing the prevailing climate are doing so because they're personally afraid of its effects on them.

There's this thing called empathy that allows people to object to injustices even if they're not personally endangered by them