one of the reasons we’re in such a discursive break right now is because a big rhetorical move of the 2010s — “if you don’t talk about [bad thing] in the exact way i just specified, you’re complicit if not responsible for [bad thing]” — has lost its ability to persuade.
never mind whether it was a good move, or effective, or correct in this instance — i’m saying that people have seen it enough that it doesn’t really move anyone any more. you have to make the argument if you want to persuade along those lines now; the move isn’t enough
