I feel like we are rapidly moving towards a world where if we don't think exactly the way we are taught to think, then we will be subjected to extreme criticism and judgement from the mob. Just a couple of years ago, Brees opinion was like a 50-50 opinion. Some people thought you should stand, some people thought the kneeling protests were good for civil rights. Now if you disagree with the flag kneeling protests it's a headliner on all news websites, your entire team criticizes you, past players you played with criticize you, and the whole world just jumps and pulverizes you into dust. I get that the George Floyd incident was horrible, I just don't see how that changes the entire world's opinion on something in the blink of an eye.

Nah I don't think people's opinions are actually changing, I think people are becoming more afraid to speak their minds. We are actually moving away from solving this issue, regardless of what this celebtards think. The only way you unify is to actually voice your opinions and actually have discussions between opposing sides. If they think they are going to crush police brutality through violence and trying to shut people up with differing opinions they are completely out of touch with how reality works and this shows they don't even understand the issue they are dealing with.

Who exactly is "they"? Just wondering.

The people that think they are going to crush police brutality, stop racism, and create a happy communist utopian society where everyone is equal and happy and has rainbow farts. This group is mainly being led by the media and the celebtards. You don't solve internal conflict by creating more internal conflict. You solve conflict by bringing people together, discussing things, and creating compromise or changing opinions. You don't solve things by throwing bricks through people's windows.

I think you may be melding more than one group into one. There are multiple factors involved. The well meaning, the self promoting, and the self fulfilling. "They" are getting lumped together unfairly.

I think there are a bunch of different groups with different ideas that are all involved in this. This is the central thesis of my point. The media/celebrities create this us v.s. them mentality in which it kind of forces people with slightly different (or even widely different views) to all conform to and participate in the same type of social lynching.

If you have followed me over the years you would know I am very anti-media. I was media. I left media for the very reasons you mention.