Its not that Millgram is completely off the mark, its that in a purely neutral "authority" only experiment most people will resist it heavily.
Once you introduce politics, class schisms, and other hierarchies its almost unnecessary to study because we already know what will happen. Dehumanization, tribalism, and all that jazz makes the "authority" part irrelevant.
Which is what the Coof did. You saw how instantly it was made into a political divide. Because that allowed them to not only make it extremely more brutal than it would otherwise in enforcement, but also "its different when my side does it." Because simply saying "Fauci said X" wouldn't have done much, he was a fucking legendary monster for the Gays who lived through AIDs. They had to say "anyone who resists this is Right wing, hates science and probably is racist" to get the desired result.
Its not that Millgram is completely off the mark, its that in a purely neutral "authority" only experiment most people will resist it heavily.
Once you introduce politics, class schisms, and other hierarchies its almost unnecessary to study because we already know what will happen. Dehumanization, tribalism, and all that jazz makes the "authority" part irrelevant.
Which is what the Coof did. You saw how instantly it was made into a political divide. Because that allowed them to not only make it extremely more brutal than it would otherwise in enforcement, but also "its different when my side does it." Because simply saying "Fauci said X" wouldn't have done much, he was a fucking legendary monster for the Gays who lived through AIDs. They had to say "anyone who resists this is Right wing, hates science and probably is racist" to get the desired result.