It’s just funny. A tiny cohort of edgy progressives used that word for about 5 minutes circa 2016. Ever since, that word has been entirely a fixation and obsession of reactionaries.
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo it’s not a parasitic mind virus, it was a tiny fringe idea from 2016!!
That’d be the convenient way to view it. It’s bizarre and concerning to me. It’s probably virtually impossible to narrow down a definitive reason for how pervasive it’s become
Wrong.
Don't hurt yourself with those mental gymnastics.