How Prescient!

The Tyranny of Fragility: How Alexis De Tocqueville Foretold the Rise of Victimhood Culture:

I know of no country in which, for the most part, independence of thought and true freedom of expression are so diminished as in America … In America, the majority traces a tremendous circle around thought. Within its limits, the writer is free, but a great misfortune will befall those who depart from it. [The dissenter] will face disgusts of all kinds and everyday forms of persecution. [Those who condemn the dissenter] will speak loudly, and those who think like him, without possessing his courage, will stay silent and away. [The dissenter] yields and folds under the pressure of everyday life; he grows silent, as though taken with remorse for having voiced the truth … In Spain, the Inquisition never succeeded in preventing the spread of books that went against the religion of the masses. The Empire of the Majority fared better in America: it suppressed in the masses the very idea of publishing dissent.—Alexis de Tocqueville, translation by Samuel Veissière .

https://areomagazine.com/2020/09/21/the-tyranny-of-fragility-how-alexis-de-tocqueville-foretold-the-rise-of-victimhood-culture/ .