Many default liberals couldn't stomach the blow to their own sense of identity

I've also always considered the sorting process to be the way that they absolve themselves of the sin of going against the narrative. They're in a group that's under attack for being racist/sexist/whatever, which has nothing to do with what the group is about, but if they resist talking about some other more taboo subject that touches on those things and force it out of the group, they can point to the ones they expelled and say, "hey, those were the racists/sexists all along. I'm still one of the good guys."

Though they'll never be the "good guys" because there are no "good guys" according to the narrative. Only bad guys: ones who admit that they're bad guys ones that don't.

In my mind this is all still just one big journey that still revolves around video games

We thought we were just gathering some crystals for the good of the planet, but now we're on our way to the moon to fight Zemus.