Those are important conversations and they're respectful & productive. But unfortunately some influential people attached their identities and reputations to particular points of view early on & the reputational cost of walking back is too high now, resulting in increasingly bad rationalisations.2/n

These people are powerful and in protecting themselves they're causing harm to the people they should be protecting. They may not mean to, but that's the result. Satire has a role here in highlighting nonsense reasoning that non-experts won't always be able to unpick straight away. 3/n