The New Inquisitors

Doug Mann
4 min readSep 6, 2019

By Doug Mann

An Old School Witch Trial — Salem, Massachusetts, 1690s

Back in 2010, nobody expected the identitarian inquisition. Their chief weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to identity politics.

They have come to dominate universities, centrist and leftist political parties, much of the mass media, and the most powerful corporate tech giants.

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