Insecurity and narcissism. It's an attempt to shame dissenters into silence because the author imagines dissent and condescension as some personal injury to her

Insecurity and narcissism. It's an attempt to shame dissenters into silence because the author imagines dissent and condescension as some personal injury to herself. People who disagree with you arent personally insulting you. And even, people who are condescending online arent personally insulting you. The self-esteem hack psychology of the 60s-80s has created a generation of people who haven't learnt how to tolerate insults and disagreement, ie., a sub-clinical narcissism.