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What does culture war / identity politics have to do with environmental protections, pollution, and cancer prevention?

Seeing the world through a bit of a reductionist lens, no? All policy questions come down to "woke" and "anti-woke"?

> Seeing the world through a bit of a reductionist lens, no? All policy questions come down to "woke" and "anti-woke"?

That's sadly the path the world is heading to. The (far-)right has managed to tie virtually every major policy debate into "culture war" questions.

give yourself turbocancer to own the libs, I guess.

People who would like there to be less poison in the ecosystem have been getting very flattering labels ever since they started. the woke/unwoke thing is just the newest incremental.

Careful, believe it or not "turbo cancer" is actually a thing in the crackpot anti-vax community.[0] Well, it's not really a thing but they're convinced it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_cancer

Oh no, I need to find a new modifier :(

Careful, believe it or not, "turbo cancer" is actually a thing in the anti-vax community.[0] Well, it's not really a thing but they're convinced it is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_cancer

What?

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