My answer would be: Because people have lost all traces of discernment and have been Kardashian-Konditioned. There is no sense of rectitude nor morality because all such behavior has been officially classified as racist if you even think about criticizing it. They cannot help themselves but gawk at this and the next and the next-next shiny object. Thus the shiny object gets the attention, and it is the attention itself that becomes the news. All the way from Fox News to that protestor who stormed Trump and hundreds of other examples.
understood
i see young people all the time....
who know nothing at all about any version of Judeo- Christian morals or ethical teachings (I am not saying that they would not agree with at least some aspects of these teachings, only that they have no idea what Biblical moral teachings ARE in the first place, they appear never to have ever even heard of them!)
and
who know nothing at all about the American revolution, the reasons that war was fought, what our founders hoped to achieve, our Constitution, our constitutionally-recognized liberties, or our (intended) representational system of governance. Again, not saying they would necessarily disagree with much of it... just that they don’t know WHOOT about the subject matter AT ALL
The sheer lack of knowledge among the public nowadays is STARTLING and obviously very very dangerous for our society, for us all