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"i'm going to do <normal, common, thing> to own the <group which prefers not to do that thing> ha ha owned <prejorative for group>" is an incredibly lazy way to and, being the right's culture-war modus operandi overall, contributes to why the left is broadly winning
@pee_zombie I saw someone do that just the other day "I don't think it's a big deal but I am renaming all my blacklist to denylist because it angers all the right people"
I replied "haha we are canceling each other out then"
I replied "haha we are canceling each other out then"
@pee_zombie I suspect this because such behavior is not intended to debase an outgroup, but to boost ingroup social currency as a sort of costly status signal.
I believe the term for this is echo chamber. It drives polarization more than it servers to dethrone a perceived outgroup threat https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-020-00084-7