I am not of this generation. Obviously.
I suppose thinking bad thoughts about someone can now be considered "assault". But only if you have the power.... like Hillary can call over half of the US population "deplorables" while "calling all immigrants" the hope of America. If a settled US citizen objects, it's racism, pure and simple. "Off with his Head", as Hillary's mentor, the Queen of Wonderland, would say.
Back in the day, "spitballs", made of chewed, spittle-soaked paper, were a joke only a Hall Monitor could frown at.
In China today.... which clearly has no tradition of Freedom of Speech.... your social media offerings are subject to scrutiny by State authority, which cannot be challenged for docking you of your social credits and relegating you.... for mere comments online….not just "to the back of the bus" but deny you access to any sit on public transit..
And, of course, this is "social progress" we should emulate here in the savage, uncivilized backwaters and boondocks of America.
Nobody can, in politically-correct terms, call out ethnic Chinese here in the US who in all seriousness call themselves "The Master Race".
"Racism" is a privileged term that only Progressives can use, of course.
People who say "bad stuff" like Alex Jones, have no place today in "Polite Society"..... well "Politically Correct Society".
But no matter what a "privileged" person may say or do, you cannot comment against it unless you have the power elites smiling and encouraging you to pop off with it.
In my philosophy classes at the great "University" of the bygone era, we studied something called "The Arrogance of Power"..... the stuff that tyrants live and breathe.
If you have the power, and use it, you have the right to dispose of whoever is not compliant.
The Progressive Crusade has now claimed full authority over mankind... if you keep on dreaming about the culmination of the campaign in social justice, you are cheering for a brave new world equivalent to the Dark Ages of medieval Europe/West Asia, where subjugation to state authority of one kind or another was essential to survival, to life itself.