It’s not mushrooming threads, it’s a continuation of a chat that has been going on for some time, with the vast majority of posts and posters being entirely within talk guidelines
What is a shame is that the many posts expressing support for M’s BLM speech were lost because a thread (of which 7 pages were entirely unexceptional, indeed supportive) was thoroughly derailed with accusations that did not relate to anything on that thread
I think it is a great shame that the BLM thread has gone