I stumbled upon this "essay" (actually, it's a chapter from a book by Nassim Taleb, best known for coining the phrase "black swan" to describe a highly improbably but extremely impactful event in his book of the same name), and I found it very thought provoking. Immediately, I thought of the woke community and their fanatic fight for trans rights as a compelling example for the theory laid out in this thesis.

If you have the time, I recommend reading the whole thing yourself, as it is highly fascinating and very well written and reasoned, but for those of you in a hurry, he basically lays out why and under what circumstances an "intolerant minority" of say, 3-5 percent of a population may be enough to force the entire population to accommodate their preferences.

If you've read Douglas Murray's "The Madness of Crowds", you'll remember him giving several examples of wokeism (feminism, LGBT, etc.) that seem to have grown from "niche" communities to basically all-encompassing cultural phenomena, but he never gets around to answering the question WHY these belief systems have taken such a strong foothold in in the Zeitgeist, despite making up only small, single digit percentages of the population at large.

Nassim seems to have the answer to that question, and I think it makes a lot of sense. Here's the link:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15