The thing is, fascists endlessly called everyone slurs while promising to rape and murder us, and no one gave a shit, but anarchists propagated some sharp language to demand more moral responsibility from folks, and hundreds of millions promptly convulsed in outrage about "woke."
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The asymmetry is that most people do have a conscience, but in remission, and it is treated as a painful backdoor exploit you are exploiting.
So you must die.
It's obvious that this is one of the main reasons centrists hate the left. We won't allow them to forget the fundamental hollowness of their moral pretensions.
They know on some level that we're totally right to condemn them, but they can't stand it. Acting superior is their role!
You can attract a lot of hatred by being correct about something before most people are prepared to accept it.
Still, it surprised me, because I'd naively thought most progressives would agree with me on this.)