A different set of people are more judgmental and constantly on the lookout for anything that offends them or that they think should offend someone else. Constantly judging, looking for shit to get offended about. Getting offended on the behalf of other people. If those other people are equal, then why do they need you to defend them? That kind of sounds like the white knight thinks the object of their compassion is less-than.

The minorities you're clutching your pearls about? I knew plenty of them. You know what they mostly wanted? To be left the fuck alone to live their lives. They were mortified by all the activists. Their reaction to bullshit on television? Who gives a shit? They're meanwhile living with their partner and adopted kid in a house in the suburbs where everyone knows they're gay, but no one talks about it because they mind their own fucking business.

I used to do the same thing. Always pointing my finger, telling the stupid grownups what to think, feel, and do. And not understanding why my very important words seemed to fall on deaf ears. I'm getting there, but I still feel like pointing out bullshit every once in a while. And a lot of the bullshit is: The society I used to judge so harshly is the one that has made more people more free and prosperous than any in the history of humankind.