"purity spiral" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Used by sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning.",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Matthew Sheffield, Rise of the alt-right: How mainstream conservatives' obsession with purity fueled a new right-wing radicalism",
          "text": "[T]he American right has been caught in a purity spiral — a form of vicious circle in which successive elites compete among each other over who is the “true conservative.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2020, Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History",
          "text": "This institutional slant has become most pronounced in universities, which have for several years gone through a 'purity spiral' as conservatives left the field, culminating in a sort of collective meltdown in the mid-2010s.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Joseph P. Laycock, Speak of the Devil, page 74",
          "text": "Many of TST's critics did frame the issue in terms of purity and contamination. In a debate on Facebook, one critic responded to Greaves's essay on purity spirals, \"There's an old saying I like 'If there's a Nazi sitting at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 nazis.'\"",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The situation in which members of an ideological group become increasingly zealous and intolerant, eventually turning on other members."
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        [
          "zealous",
          "zealous"
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        [
          "intolerant",
          "intolerant"
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      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "eat one's own"
        },
        {
          "word": "infighting"
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      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Purity spiral"
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  "word": "purity spiral"
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{
  "etymology_text": "Used by sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning.",
  "forms": [
    {
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "eat one's own"
    },
    {
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Matthew Sheffield, Rise of the alt-right: How mainstream conservatives' obsession with purity fueled a new right-wing radicalism",
          "text": "[T]he American right has been caught in a purity spiral — a form of vicious circle in which successive elites compete among each other over who is the “true conservative.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History",
          "text": "This institutional slant has become most pronounced in universities, which have for several years gone through a 'purity spiral' as conservatives left the field, culminating in a sort of collective meltdown in the mid-2010s.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Joseph P. Laycock, Speak of the Devil, page 74",
          "text": "Many of TST's critics did frame the issue in terms of purity and contamination. In a debate on Facebook, one critic responded to Greaves's essay on purity spirals, \"There's an old saying I like 'If there's a Nazi sitting at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 nazis.'\"",
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        }
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        "The situation in which members of an ideological group become increasingly zealous and intolerant, eventually turning on other members."
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          "zealous",
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          "intolerant",
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      ],
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