Right so, this is definitely related to what “purity politics” means, but not what I was referencing. I’m talking about the (liberal) tendency on this site for people to supposedly challenge purity-based political systems and ideologies like fascism, white supremacy, and settler-colonialism one minute, and then accept “piece of technology corrupts the human soul,” as an explanation for something better explained through systemic analysis or cultural critique.

The idea that “people’s brains don’t work because of AI,” is deepy puritanical in nature, and attributes the harmful quality to the technology itself and not the socioeconomic conditions where what that AI produces is made subject to liberal capitalist imperatives and logics. Conveniently, it then takes those values for granted in favour of a narrative that is also markedly ableist in its message. Oh, do people who are disabled and require AI use to access ableist education institutions or information on the increasingly oblique and inaccessible internet “wreck their brains?” I wonder if a fascist would even disagree with that narrative.