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Christopher Dummitt: Manosphere influencers learned tactics from progressives

Documentary reveals progressive tactics of taboo-breaking and speaking truth to power are now aimed at progressive establishments

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The hardest thing for contemporary progressives to come to grips with is that they wield cultural and institutional power.

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For so long, progressive ideology has pitched itself — and often genuinely has been — an attack on established privilege on behalf of the marginalized and the oppressed. It’s about speaking truth to power. About taking on the system, or thoroughly unmasking power so it can be made to work for everyday people.

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But what happens when progressive ideology becomes the power? When it becomes the system?

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I found myself thinking about this, as I watched the new Louis Theroux documentary Inside the Manosphere on Netflix. Theroux takes on a........

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