All Hail the ideological purging of the Virus list!
All Hail the forsaking of the Virion ideals in order to preserve and
protect a partisan e-kaffeclatch!
All Hail the coming Johnny-One-Note totalitarian putsch!
All Hail the e-war pursuits of the militant peace-at-any-price-niks!
All Hail the emerging Islamofascist-FarLeftist dhimmitude of a once-
great forum!

/Sad sarcasm

I have not changed; I still critique these things with a sceptical and
jaundiced eye.  Rather, it is a significant proportion of this list which has
become infected with a particular and extremist/absolutist memeplex to
the point that they are willing to abandon objective consideration of
memeplexes in general in order to superglue themselves to a particular
(and particularly odious) memeset.  It is the beginning of the death of
the dream of reason on the Virus list.

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Simul, you have perhaps not heard of the tyranny of the majority?  (BTW, the vocal majoirty on this list are in the distinct minority IRL).  It goes this way: is it fair for there to be ten people on an island, nine of whom are sadists, to hold a plebescite on whether or not to torture a member of their community?  Would it have been okay to allow the Deep South to vote on whether or not to perpetuate jim Crow?  It was to prevent such majoritarian abuses that the Bill of Rights was added to the US constitution.

And a critique of the Islamofascist memeplex and why a significant proportion of the Far Left has seemed to adopt it as their Stalin-substitute is indeed an eminently theoretical discussion, although with pragmatic implications and possessing concrete referents - as do any theories worth discussion.