That describes exactly what is happening. An individual's nuanced stance and well reasoned argument doesn't matter so much as their use of a hashtag does. Anyone on the fence is fraternizing with the enemy. The sides are ill-defined, but certainly delimited by what the self-ascribed gatekeepers at the top of the social jenga tower consider personally "deplorable", through blacklisting and social pressure.
This is exactly the problem that is happening on the big english speaking Mastodon instances and the reason I left mastodon.xyz
I went to a GNU Social instance that doesnt block any other servers and its like a whole different network. I prefer to have my beliefs challenged and not be punished for speaking with people the instance admin didnt agree with.
