The real story here isn’t that feminist writer Amanda Marcotte is both-sidesing woke extremism. The story here is that Marcotte is acknowledging woke extremism at all. After years of the left shrugging off this entire topic as some kind of right-wing nonsense, it’s quite a change to hear people of Marcotte’s ilk suddenly just admit there’s a real problem there. Still, there’s a certain tone deafness to her sudden interest in nuance.

To put it plainly, Marcotte hasn’t made her name synonymous with nuance. So what’s going on here? Has she suddenly become a more reasonable person as she gets older? Maybe but it seems more likely that it’s dawning on people on the left that smug, angry, judgmental progressives (the woke) have increasingly become an embarrassment to all progressives. As one of the people on the right who has been saying as much for the past 6-7 years, I’ll take the win.