An artifact of supremacy cultures and systems:

Any presence of dissidence or nonconformity to the supremacist norm...any protest or counter-movement...the existence of an alternative that indicates the supremacist norm is not self-evident, or not good, or needs correction...

Any of that becomes 'evidence' that 'our way of life is under threat' and 'violence and anti-democratic means must (as a moral necessity) be employed.’

Some iterations this takes:

1. Protest of injustice *becomes* THE INJUSTICE ITSELF that warrants unjust reprisals.

2. Antifa/BLM are the real fascists.

3. Queer people- seeking to find gender identity under repressive Patriarchy- are the real threat to gender and sexuality in society.

4. Government agencies who seek to hold law breaking, policy violating corporations accountable for environmental or financial wrongdoing are the ones who are the real wrongdoers.

5. Abuse survivors seeking rectification or accountability are the ones 'destroying unity and community'.

This is a hallmark of supremacist movements, by that i mean: authoritarian, often fascist, often supported by elite (i.e. wealthy) corporatist interests allied with military/police/judicial force.

Keep watch for this out in the wild today.
One of the most effective tools of authoritarian supremacists is to cast protest of injustice as the real injustice.

The battle is usually waged via propaganda and weaponized myths masquerading as principled ideology and the moral high ground.

Take heart: your opposition to injustice- even in its imperfect and inadequate expression- is not the problem.

You are not the problem.
Naming the problem is not the problem.
The problem is the problem.