This.
No law can cure our cultural rot.
Laws can create criminals, but they cannot fix our broken American psyche. We live in a culture where people see each other as allies or enemies in some absurd philosophical/ideological war. In this war, if you aren't an ally or totally anonymous, then you are an enemy.
A guy makes a video complaining about no grocery stores in the food desert of Manhattan, and within a few hours, some Twitter troll doxxes the guy, finds his employer, pings the employer's Twitter account about their horrible employee, and the guy is fired. That Twitter troll didn't like the video, so their "reply" to the disagreeable content - destroy the creator of the content. Don't simply post a comment...no, no...get the guy fired and that'll show him!!
How many people on both sides of the political aisle attempt personal/financial/reputation destruction of the other side using guilt by association, appeals to ridicule/emotion, blatant lies, etc? In our current culture, if you aren't actively praising someone, then you are considered their mortal enemy and you must be slain/destroyed!!
OK, in such a culture you have some folks with skulls filled with busted wiring. They too see enemies everywhere, but unlike the lesser hysterics who simply ruin your life, these busted creatures actually figure it's a real war, on a real battlefield, and they have to really kill the enemy.
Our entire culture narrative is that enemies are everywhere. Everyone is out to oppress you.
- Wrong pronouns? ENEMY!
- Wrong political opinion? ENEMY!
- Wrong anything? ENEMY!
Is it really a shock that in such a culture, the folks at the far edge of the sanity distribution curve go places with the "enemy" the rest of us won't?
broken...culture...
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