Anyway, it's very depressing to see a great theorist do a tongue in cheek provocation, and instead of asking ourselves 'how do we keep fit without recreating fascist ideals' everybody just had a kneejerk reaction and told her to shut up. Sure that's a good sign.

You can’t “do a provocation” and then act scandalized when discourse is provoked. An easy way to avoid this dynamic is to avoid saying ridiculous things for purely rhetorical reasons.

Of course the goal of provocation is to provoke discourse (or thinking). Whether the following discourse is a knee-jerk and reactionary or thoughtful is of relevance. Today it is the former by and large and this is not good.

It’s not “reactionary” to criticize someone else’s ideologically maximalist take. It’s being criticized because it was ridiculous.

"Ideologically maximalist" and it is just you taking a reactionary stance to a very reasonable take and not dealing with the substance.

My “reactionary stance” is that it’s ridiculous for a socialist to endorse “dysgenics.” There’s nothing “reactionary” about it.