Great observation.
One thing that I’ve noticed with a lot of liberals, not just the millennial liberals, is that they are hugely invested in being indignant on behalf of someone else. They are indignant about how they perceive this group or that group is being treated. But it’s all second hand and they rarely know what the real facts are. They are like a pack of drama queens looking for drama. Because their own lives are so secure and boring and coddled, they need to rebel on behalf of someone else. And then to top it off they get to feel morally superior about it.
Wow, that is an excellent thought piece. May I use it in other posts?
It’s a combination of virtue signalling and a psychological expression of Munchausen by proxy. What I find horrifying are the adults who should know better, parents and teachers, terrifying children by spinning all this fear and woe in front of them, and then taking to social media to angst about how scared their little kids are that the sky is falling, and how terrible any dissent is because it makes their kids cry, and so forth. I grew up in the 70’s, the golden age of extended hijacking and hostage-taking dramas. This is the psychological equivalent - “Do as I say or this tender little psyche gets hurt!” It still gets my back up, years later.