No, I do think it's weaponized. Not exclusively… but for the very reason that you mention, that this is a behavior easy to elicit, I think smart malefactors do

No, I do think it's weaponized. Not exclusively… but for the very reason that you mention, that this is a behavior easy to elicit, I think smart malefactors do exactly this 'strategic deployment of purity language', especially on very low inertia platforms like Twitter, using armies of bots for amplification, to crank up this reaction way beyond its natural presence. It would be a cop-out to say it is ONLY the bad actors imposing this on an otherwise content populace. You're right that 'it's us' who provide the amplified response, especially when we're terminally online and plugged-in. But it's not at all hard to observe this and weaponize it. This is well established by this point. I feel it's almost the new battleground for WWIII: attempts to really-truly demolish and cripple an enemy power by intelligently exploiting this in ALL possible directions. Not towards a unified response, but toward 'the Zone' and chaos and mistrust of everything.