The problem is when people confuse the “taint” of something they don’t like or disapprove of with something that’s really real. Most people have “ugh” reactions to particular political movements or particular examples of particular populations of people, especially when those are new things. But everyone has the choice to either accept that the story’s much bigger than their initial sniff test of the outlander homeless or differently gendered or those with an incompatible perspective. Too many just try to justify, not just the bad reaction they had to something, but they want to rewrite the whole story so that it is only about the ever-shrinking cluster of their personal neuroses. That’s also known as “The John Birch Society”.
