You seem to be narrowing the issue and abstracting it away from the local problems until you can easily dismiss it as a mere tool everyone has employed historically. But I don't think any recent history has had to have a perfectly "acceptable" political ideology and personal history (sometimes going back 40+ years) - that hasn't "offended" multiple extreme ends of various political camps.
...absent the Victorian age and some time after, which we all moved beyond culturally because it was backwards to force one top-down rigid "proper" way to live and speak.
Not to mention the definition of "acceptable" to these special interest camps is forever a moving goal post where anyone who isn't the perfect caricature of mainstream "acceptableness" can't have a say in any economic, cultural, political, etc discourse without being tarred, feather, and demanded to apologize for even thinking they could engage in the process.
This is a very different development than just employing moral outrage. A critical part of a healthy democratic society is accepting people have different worldviews. We're moving to a world where there is one alleged correct worldview and anything else is a showstopper.
...absent the Victorian age and some time after, which we all moved beyond culturally because it was backwards to force one top-down rigid "proper" way to live and speak.
Not to mention the definition of "acceptable" to these special interest camps is forever a moving goal post where anyone who isn't the perfect caricature of mainstream "acceptableness" can't have a say in any economic, cultural, political, etc discourse without being tarred, feather, and demanded to apologize for even thinking they could engage in the process.
This is a very different development than just employing moral outrage. A critical part of a healthy democratic society is accepting people have different worldviews. We're moving to a world where there is one alleged correct worldview and anything else is a showstopper.