Why Does Silence Put People on the Other Side?

Joe Rogan says making every opinion into a political identity is new. He is older than Cody Tucker, and when he was a kid some people stayed tied to a political party, but not to the extent people are today.

A political flavor now runs through every view, from paper straws to electric cars to vaccines and healthcare. Leave a topic unsaid and people place the quiet person on the opposite side. Joe Rogan repeats the line silence is violence to Cody Tucker. A person can stay quiet and still share the same side, but the belief is the opposite. People got mad at anyone who skipped a black square on Instagram, as if the square would have stopped the violence. Joe Rogan and Cody Tucker call the performance virtue signaling and joke that a black square from the whole country would have ended the violence and moved everyone into a new timeline.