Conspiracy theories are moving from taboo issue to hot button issue.

Taboo issues are ones you can’t talk about.

Hot button issues are ones people heatedly debate.

Taboo issue: female sexual abusers

Hot button issue: abortion

People lose friends over hot button issues.

For example, some people can't be friends with someone if they support “murdering a baby” or “controlling women’s bodies.”

But they do talk about those issues.

Prior to #COVID19, people reacted to conspiracy theories the way you do a taboo - uncomfortably changing the topic.

Now they heatedly debate the evidence.

Big shift.

This thread is now a blog post. https://brendonmarotta.com/6563/conspiracy-theories-are-no-longer-taboo/