relentlessly binary......................

 We live in culture-war hell.  The internet ensures that many of us spend all day, every day surrounded by the opinions of people we can't stand.  In the scrum of the day-to-day turf war for the American soul, even minor skirmishes can seem to take on world-historical purpose.  And in a relentlessly binary political culture, people frequently feel that to give any ground to "the other side" at all is to admit defeat.  Which means that progressive culture warriors will often go to the wall for positions they see as broadly on their side, even if they're so extreme as to be ridiculous.  They'll throw their full weight behind ideas and statements and arguments that they secretly feel to be stupid, so as not to tacitly lend support to the right.

     I promise: you don't have to do that.

Fredrik DeBoer, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement