Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any stupider or weirder: for over a month now, a battle has raged in some corners of the internet over the question of whether “2+2=4” is always true.
The combatants, broadly speaking, are “woke” progressives (a.k.a. “social justice warriors,” a hackneyed but somewhat useful label) vs. “anti-SJWs,” sometimes linked to the Intellectual Dark Web. Neither side has covered itself in glory. But while some “anti-SJWs” have acted childishly and obnoxiously, I believe this absurd dust-up shows more serious problems on the progressive side.