I don't really blame them, and I think any group would feel the same to hear one of their personal attributes referred to as intrinsically 'toxic'. If we simply described the personality traits that we meant, we might actually get somewhere (but, from everything I've seen, getting somewhere is not the objective).
The progressive definition of a toxic person is someone who doesn't profess progressive principles at every opportunity. It's sort of like how Muslims think Jews are toxic.
These days, any argument featuring the word "toxic" is very likely flawed and should be ignored. There's far too much moralizing and far too little understanding going around.
Intellectual impoverishment is but one side-effect.
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