In basically every case of entitlement within our culture, you’re going to see right-wing reactionary behaviour. The thing that a conservative basically wants to conserve is their own entitlement. I’m seeing it time and again, in basically every topic I’m following lately. It seems like we should be pointing this out, because that entitlement is actually a very right-wing mindset, and it seems as though all our intellectual opponents on progressive topics — the slimepit, the MRAs, the 4chan and Reddit trolls, the antifeminists, the racists, the pure reactionaries — are overlapping to such a degree in these topics that it’s very helpful to identify the ways in which their Venn diagrams intersect. They are of a piece. They share more than just a xenophobia against inclusion and a hatred of progressivism generally. They share a reactionary mindset and streaks of right-wing authoritarianism. They look for heroes to worship, and they look for “heroes” on the other side (even when there are none such) to cut down.