Salt, without a doubt I concur with EVERYTHING you said. This is a psyop designed to distract, inflame, confuse and exaggerate public division and attention.
Race, religion, gun control, sexual orientation, abortion. The big Five.

All of these are presented by the media (exaggerrated, distorted) to inflame. Note media is choosing to do this also at the HOTTEST time of year when people are more likely to succumb to violence and mobbing.

There will always be and always has been the bottom 25% (that the media appeals to) most susceptible to suggestion and manipulation.
THIS SOCIETAL GROUP IS THE SAME AS IT ALWAYS WAS.

So the media ups the image and presence of this less intelligent, usually more impulsive group as being THE LARGEST LOUDEST reality when it is not.
This is the group to use while twisting the actual size of any "controversy" into WAY DISPROPORTIONATE IMPORTANCE.

Last few days I stayed away from the dismal page 1 of GLP which race baiting was so bad and disproportionate it was like a window into hell.