I always knew it was a religion
Dude it loving operates like a cult. People start getting into it's ideologies and then start adding people who think the same way, then those people start pressuring them to change things that their new friends don't like. Stuff like changing your vocabulary, your lifestyle, or removing friends they don't like. It's just like cult assimilation, cutting ties to people who your new friends don't agree with or necessarily like, making it so there's no way for you to be assaulted with horrible differing opinions.
You become isolated, and then the real stuff kicks in, your new social justice friends start pressuring you into being more concerned about things they're concerned about, making public statements and sometimes even so far as to donate to people's crowdfunding programs because they were wronged.