> I take it you haven't spend much time on social media in the last decade or so? less of this please. > This is what the civil rights movement was built on.

> I take it you haven't spend much time on social media in the last decade or so? less of this please. > This is what the civil rights movement was built on. It just doesn't happen if there isn't an outside condition to allow activism and protesting in the first place. > >What you're describing is an activist culture that has writ large given up on convincing people of their correctness, and functions instead via social coercion. >No, not at all and I'm very confused as to how you managed to connect those dots. I'm describing If you take the "don't listen to other people because you don't know who to trust" knob and turn it way up, you get to "listen only to people who agree with me", turn it farther "anyone who disagrees with me is an enemy." I _don't_ think this was the dynamic in the mainstream civil rights movement, but even if it was it wasn't the rhetorical tactic outside of the black panther/WUG fringe. I _do_ think it's the dynamic/rhetorical strategy in the current activist milieu which has bled into the broader world.