It may not be the knowing intention of all of the “normal” people, but it is (one of) the intentions of the politicians, pundits, talking heads, etc. that those people listen to and parrot.

It’s kind of hard to believe that all people trying to censor LGBTQ+ […]

See, that’s the thing, these are humans just existing.

We have a word for “censoring” groups of humans for simply existing. That’s called genocide.

So what you’re doing (not necessarily you, people in general), excusing the “garden variety” bigot, is reminiscent of what was seen with the Nazis after ww2. Did every German nationalist, and member of the Nazi party, personally commit acts of genocide? Or were they just part of a bigger machine, and their “garden variety” hatred for Jews was unrelated to what was actually happening to them (and other marginalized groups)?

Turns out, when it comes to genocide, you don’t get off scot free just because you didn’t personally pull the lever to start up the gas chamber.