All of this raises the question of what the relationship is between the diagonalists and the other major movements of our time. Are they running on non-intersecting tracks? Do we see, as many diagonalists claim, evidence of rampant double standards, with anti-lockdown protests condemned by liberal elites while racial justice uprisings were celebrated? Or is the dynamic more complex, with one movement engaged in some kind of warped-mirror dialectic with the other?

QUESTION: The author poses this as an open question — worth pursuing whether the mirror-dialectic framing holds up empirically.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 830