A popular belief system insists that people be treated as members of X group before all else, and all such groups must be ranked by their oppressive power. Tha

A popular belief system insists that people be treated as members of X group before all else, and all such groups must be ranked by their oppressive power. That ranking is effectively arbitrary, and so the system is used mainly as a bludgeon of mobs who wish to silence and abuse others. That’s why we’re seeing the kind of warped reasoning you’re alluding to.