You are right. Human beings are tribal. People like to insist it isn't true or that its a bad thing, but it is how humanity survived. In groups, depending upon one another. Humans want to be with others like themselves, socially and economically, because it is most comfortable to do so. If outsiders, by color or socio-economic status, come around any established tribe/demographic group, they will at least until somehow absorbed into a group, suffer from one "ism" or another.
Their whole game plan does nothing but jerk peple around. Double triple quadruple messages, the exact method used in mind control experiments, to make people doubt their own ability to discern what is logical or recognize gaslighting.
You have to be a fool to think you should do that to your children