Making fun of people should be illegal?
It's essentially high grade stochastic terrorism. They hand you a gun and tell you where to aim, but then get upset when someone implies they encourage pulling the trigger.
Those affected also don't often talk about it, because it encourages even more harassment.
This sounds exactly like what the Twitter "good guys" do all the time to cancel people.
Narrative is a tricky thing. Neither side of the controversy would exist without their narratives.