kenblogic

The picture [Twitter] reveals is ugly, vulgar, shrill, and intolerant, with souls exhibiting an incapacity to deliberate, weigh evidence, and judge judiciously. 

More.  This is exactly the point. More important than the bile and the resentment the “punch a child” frenzy reveals is the the thoughtlessness. No-one who jumped on this applied any independent thought, or felt the need for more evidence. Stimulus, response. We are seeing Richard Hofstadter's “paranoid style” and “100% mentality” combine, and take over a large fraction of the culture.