- Ultimately, it was always a fight about normalization and de-normalization. What "woke" represents to the type of folks who signed that Harper's letter (and are in the Epstein files) is an effort to normalize disrespecting bigoted nonsense, and de-normalize debate-as-elite-sport.
- One of the most depressing things about trying to sound the alarm on the "Gender Critical" movement back when it was gaining traction, was that one of the main transphobic activists of the 2010s was a woman who had groomed a minor under her care, and everyone just stuffed their fingers in their ears
