Is that a theoretical concern? Or do you actually know someone (personally, I mean) who has had such a change of heart?
One mark of a moral panic is the intensity of feelings people have about topics that are very distant from their actual experience. The kids say “touch grass,” but perhaps instead it should be “talk to someone actually involved.”
What is the goal of restricting examples to “personally”-known relatives?
Did people in 1943 personally knew people who got killed? Do I, as a gay person, personally knew the gay who was killed because he was crossing the main square of my city (France) which is under occupation by the muslims?
Do I care? Yes, absolutely. As a gay person, I have the electoral choice of either we become a muslim-majority country, either I vote for the French equivalent of trumpism.
Result: In my city, 35 out of the 35 core group of the extreme-right party are gay.
