you can't earn an indulgence from this movement. It's a sort of thing that requires ongoing, active, everyday participation in just about every facet of life.

Now again, that's a mania, that's a sort of thing that you can't really sustain unless it is being

enforced and imposed upon you and that there are punishments for for offending

the particular pieties of the of the tribe whatever may be, they change from moment to moment,

which is another reason why this is becoming a source of so much resentment. If you drew a Venn diagram of listeners to this podcast and viewers of The Bachelor, I

I suspect there would be very little overlap.

So I'm going to take a moment to tell you about a controversy on The Bachelor that you probably never heard about.

Stay with me. Early last year was the

25th season of the hit reality series The Bachelor. One of the final contestants made

it to the last round only to be greeted by a revved up social media mob that had

crowdsourced a photo of her from 2018 when she was like 20 or 21 years old, showing that she had once attended an anti-bellum themed party.

A flurry of outrage lit up on social media and even in the mainstream press.

The long time host of the Bachelor, Chris Harrison, who had 19 seasons under his belt, called for calm.

He was quoted saying that everyone should have, and I quote here, a little grace, a little understanding, a little compassion

compassion towards this contestant.

Then almost on cue everyone turned on Harrison.

All of the contestants from that season even felt pressure to jointly sign a statement that they

they released publicly saying, quote,

that they denounce any defense of racism

and any defense of racist behavior. Was Harrison defending racism? Well according to the mob he was and

after 19 seasons he was pushed out of his job due to the quote racism controversy. That's what deadline Hollywood called it in its reporting.

Sound crazy or does it actually sound too familiar? Like the kind of

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