There's lots of flavours of the process and mindsets. Just add power and money. I would love to find a map of the world I once saw and the borders all had the text of who hated who and why. Politically global and socially local. Could even go deeper to sports teams.
Not throwing in the towel. is there a difference between pampering to the woke (which shouldn't happen) or shutting down the press. Two faces of the same thing. It's not exclusive to America either.