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Gaslit Courage

When the impulse to virtue becomes an attack vector

Venkatesh Rao
Sep 20, 2025
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Is it okay to sit out the culture war? The question nags like a guilty conscience. We live in an age where silence is read as cowardice and every hesitation is counted against you in the ledger of loyalty. To step aside, to resist joining battle in the name of values, feels like a moral failure. Yet here, in the tension between action and restraint, the…

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