The reason for the confusion that can be found online is that the people who have taken the extremes they assess in this way have already taken them themselves without realising it. So anyone who does not realise that they are pursuing extreme thoughts and intentions, while at the same time demanding that anyone who happens to be the focus of an unrelated mob be excluded, censored and otherwise persecuted, is hopelessly bogged down. I mean "extreme" in the sense of "without alternative", a circumstance that hardly ever exists in purity.

Since something like "thought" basically never reigns fixed in any mind, it always reigns only as a temporary whim, as a fleeting element constantly contradicting itself in the further course of such thoughts, on the constant hunt for a fixed identification.

The reason you don't know why you get downvotes is not surprising, since the only rule by which the sphere runs here is the sentiments of individuals who, whenever they feel like it, choose sometimes this way and sometimes that. Too much "social", too little expertise.

This is how one comes under the strict tribal rulebook, which, as we believe we know from times gone by, promoted an extremely strong group dynamic, while on the other hand the individual could not express irritating, different and new thoughts and ideas, because otherwise he would be beaten to death or chased away. This is not as blatant today, but it still exists, even in modern environments. There they are less deadly, but a reason to feel very lonely at times, when one despairs of the fact that everything works and at the same time nothing works, precisely because everything is talked to pieces and thought to death and, on the other hand, an all-round superficiality steadily breaks through.

The only way to escape this is to go offline. A possibility that you can no longer fully rely on.

To answer your strategic suggestions: there is no general strategy, except not to have one and to evaluate each situation for itself. Since hardly anyone does that and nothing and no one is treated as a blank slate, one concludes that there is a certain mindset that one must either adhere to or throw something at. LOL