I'm not trolling. Trolling is against forum rules.
I actually applaud AOC for her defense in the face of that kind of criticism. She's one of few, I would think, that could actually pull that off. I think you misinterpreted my point though. I was speaking to the fact that it is becoming prevalent in our society to publicly shame people for thoughts and deeds of no real consequence. As a hypothetical example, I could post on FB that I hate oranges. Someone from an orange juice grower's association can read that and attack me. They may also try to have me fired from my job. My employer can get alarmed about the amount of tweets and posts saying that "Lemon is prejudiced against oranges! Boycott Lemon's employer!" and they could fire me. This is obviously hyperbole, but this sort of thing happens all the time lately. People get into a snit over all sorts of inconsequential things that are not important and are often said innocently or are simply misconstrued.
The problem is that everyone is trying to "out-woke" each other and are attempting to be the most righteous. "Look at me, I'm a better person than you are. I got Lemon fired." There is a war on free speech, and we have already lost the first battle. When we have people speaking at a college campus interrupted and prevented from speaking by SJW protestors because they have heard a fraction of the message and disagree with part of it, there is something wrong. It seems these days that everyone has something to be upset about, and now, thanks to social media, everyone has a platform. It seems that everyone has a low threshold for what offends them, and it would seem to be getting lower all of the time. I know for a fact that this post is pissing some people off and I really don't care.
I despise prejudice and hate speech. The problem is that everything today is hate speech, and that just isn't so.