We live in an age of ideological quarantine. To associate with the wrong person is to risk moral infection.
When Tucker Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes, an open antisemite, Ben Shapiro, a devout Jew, condemned him harshly. His outrage was understandable. Yet it exposed a deeper fracture: can a man even speak with someone like Fuentes without being accused of sharing his disease?
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Likewise, Bill Maher is castigated by his own tribe for inviting conservatives on his show and taking their ideas seriously. He hasn’t abandoned liberalism; he’s simply refused to live inside the ideological ghetto his peers built.
Purity tests like these are ritual, not reason. Once someone is branded “unclean,” proximity itself becomes
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