And thus we have the rise of iMcCarthyism: a horde of unemployed, nebbish dilettantes in the throes of religious hysteria. The detritus of the world economy, not even fit to scrub dishes at Applebee’s. Frauds who are more upset by satirical articles about rape than by women getting violently gang raped. Every Tumblrette Tweeting about the outrage of the day is nothing more than Carrie Nation with a lip ring.

If these people weren’t so ineffectual in real life, they might actually be dangerous. In his 1859 work On Liberty, John Stuart Mill warned that decentralized harassment of the kind that social justice warriors engage in would destroy freedom of speech. Fortunately for us, the pinkshirts of social media can’t even organize a convention without getting scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars.