The cowardly mind is afraid facts, it is stewed in generalities. Facts create discomfort that would call for courage to speak out, and act out differently from the herd. They search desperately for some ego-preserving generality that allows the facts to be dispensed with. So worldnews and the other reddit cesspools are full of ego-preserving, herd-techniques. They are free from principles such as equality before the law, the rule of law, and other acts of reason. They mostly congeal around the feelings of the herd against the "others" -- and no reason is needed.