@HebrideanHecate @GrumpyOldNurse @BILLSan345 @ForBritain It's how purity spirals proliferate.
Back in the feudal days, the only way to be special was to be pious. We were all down at the bottom of life's pecking order, but you could show God and your fellow man how obedient you were.
This has replaced God. Now they can show everyone how devoted they are to social justice by elevating the oppressed and denouncing the oppressor (just with shouting and posting of course). There's no upper level, so eventually they run out of people to cancel and turn on each other for not being woke enough.
But it has to be public for it to matter, which is why we get the teddies and flowers from people who have no connection with an incident, the hashtags #standwithwhatever, and all the attendant nonsense. In an attention economy, if you're not speaking up in the approved way, how will anyone know how wonderful you are? And if you're not wonderful then you must be evil and it will serve you right if you get destroyed.