I don’t think this is entirely wrong, but we’re coming off a long period of intolerant liberal groupthink, where if you strayed too far from the progressive Democrat orthodoxy, you risked excommunication from your liberal friends and family, getting fired from your job, etc. Where you’d be labeled evil or a fascist for daring to question progressive policies, which may have been well-intentioned but often had terrible second-order effects. Where the administration strictly restricted what could be said by news media and on social networks under threat of political and legal retribution. So this isn’t a new phenomenon, or a conservative phenomenon, and it hasn’t nearly reached the levels we’ve been living under from the left. The liberal tech cohort was just unbothered by these issues when it aligned with their ideology.