Easy to see when there's a proxy argument or flamewar going on because few of the comments engage with what's actually been said 😅 A couple things I see:

1. There's a false dichotomy between saying "I don't want purity tests" and being 100% hell-bent on 'perfect purity' of some sort. For example, I came back after a break to see people in Linuxy communities fighting against 'purity testing' a blatant racist, among others. On one 'side' I see "Purity testing is bad!" and on the other 'side' it's "Okay but open bigotry maybe a little bad too???"

2. People seem to be seriously insisting that everyone sit down, shut up, and blindly support the US Democratic Party? Never call anything out, never seek 'better,' only accept what's offered from above 🐎🧟 (pretend that's a donkey, okay? 😅 ) Anyway, maybe I'm out of line and "lefty" is farther from "leftist" than I think buuuut... no. The left is about a better world, not quiet acceptance. Maybe try hanging out with other liberals and moderates? Could be they're less eager to argue their own ideas or against what they see as wrong.

tl;dr: True purity tests are for auth garbage but I think what's going on here is people crying "zomg ur the real nazis" when somebody calls out a bigot.

Purity tests are fine. Requiring Zero parts per trillion levels of purity is a problem. Those people don't exist.

Jesus Christ, a meme unironically supporting purity tests, what the actual fuck.

Can any of you that support purity tests actually pass all the purity tests?

When you demand perfection over progress you push people out of the learning zone into the panic zone where they double down on their comfort zone

Ask any of the "no purity test" people how they feel about AES and you'll quickly discover that "no purity tests" only means "don't criticize the Democrats"

I feel like the problem with purity tests is that it doesn't allow for progress in the correct direction. Instead they demand either total and complete victory on every issue at once, or else we let the Nazis keep winning.

Strengthening my opinion that mr crypto is a terminally online troll who gets his jollies fostering leftist infighting.

Doing the feds work for free during a government shutdown, no less

I don't want purity tests because we, on the left, are incapable of reaching a consensus on much of anything. If we can't agree to tolerate a limited amount of disagreement with each other, we can't work together on the things we do agree on, and those things tend to be kind of important.

My experience with purity tests is that they typically wielded from a place of privilege, often in such a way as to defend themselves from criticism. I've seen purity tests used to dismiss sexual assault and ignore the lived experiences of marginalized communities.

Reality doesn't fit neatly into boxes like the people who wield purity tests seem to want. Sometimes people don't have the same opportunities to learn and understand. Sometimes you have to work with people who support policies that would see you dead. Not only does perfect not exist, the pursuit of it is one of the biggest barriers to achieving actual meaningful progress.