It used to be called boycotting but it, as a thought-stopping cliche, couldn't be assigned to only one party and wouldn't be as catchy so they had to make one u

It used to be called boycotting but it, as a thought-stopping cliche, couldn't be assigned to only one party and wouldn't be as catchy so they had to make one up. Same with "political correctness" or "sjw". In the US if you said the wrong things, historically, that weren't politically correct, you'd be ostracized or if you were of the wrong class, race or religion, the social warriors at the time would want justice and seek to persecute you as you upset the order of what they saw as just. This has been going on all throughout history but if you assign them, these actions that you don't like and of a group you don't like, a new name and equate it with a certain political group, you can more effectively distinguish and dehumanize the other group as an out-group. Personally, Horseshoe Theory makes sense. The extremes of both, as Snowden was implying with China and the US, are more like each other than not. Should any get their way and you're in the out-group, you're on a scale of fucked. Even the "peaceful" religions or ideologies are guilty of persecuting those in the outgroup in sometimes very heinous ways. Incidentally, it's strange, but not surprising, that he didn't mention Russia, his own host, where censorship is even worse than the US.