@velartrill I think this is largely due to two factors, the popularity of post-modernism (the ideology, not the alias for "stuff i don't like") and the cult/group mentality enabled by social media.
Post-modernism as an epistemological relativistic ideology (i.e. subjective idealism) states that all interpretations of reality are equally valid and that empirical evidence has little to no value. When this is put together with the ability of social media to dehumanize others and create mobs we have the quick and strong rise of the "narrative" that manages to acquire enough acceptance first. From there anyone that deviates from this line of though is quickly cut off, or "cancelled", by the mob.
Of course the fact that the fact that people in general have poor critical capacity, due to the deficient education system in most countries, doesn't help much either.
Why and how post-modernism managed to gain so much acceptance is still a puzzle to me.
The fact that dumb 13 year old kids from /b/ "warned" me about this as early as 2012 makes me feel weird.
gamers rise up i guess?
@velartrill This "social media model" could be the fact that on the internet everyone has a voice, but not everyone has something to say. So we have people screaming in the void. In the case of the queer community they were screaming about a valid cause, but by virtue of being ignorant and uninteresting they were ignored.
In other times this would never happen, they would never get so much voice on large news papers and magazines. You could always blame the "evil capitalist editors of news papers" for perpetuating your oppressed state.
Now this argument is not so easily made. This leaves people in conflict, "is it my fault that I'm oppressed?".
Post-modernism offers a solution to that conflict, any "narrative" is equally valid, so normies didn't need to break their heads trying to explain that conflict. The fact that is so easy to form mobs online is the cherry on the top of the cake.
it occurs to me one factor could be that a lot of the people driving this were and are college students, who could have picked up post-modernist ideas from their professors, tho from my own abortive college education i can certainly attest that postmodernism isn't (or at least wasn't) something you'd find in all universities. it's possible that my impression was skewed because i didn't take any bullshit classes like Womens' Studies or w/e tho