Now we are often shown videos of large amounts of people marching for this or that agenda. It doesn't really matter what the agenda is. We simply know that popularity and quantity of people are used to try to sway opinions.
Logic: The truth doesn't change based upon quantity of people.
This is known as an Appeal to Popularity Fallacy. It is common. It is basically because X people believe Y then Y must be true. Quantity does not make things true or false. Quantity has nothing to do with the truthfulness/facts of anything.
If you have a person with an ignorant, stupid, naive, or misinformed idea that is stating their information as fact and as truth we naturally know that it may not be the truth.
The problem is that as more and more people join this person and repeat the idea suddenly we doubt ourselves. Perhaps there is something to this... look how many people believe it to be true.
This is the Appeal to Popularity fallacy. It did not become true. All that happened is more and more people chose to follow and believe the false thing. Perhaps the first person was very charismatic. Perhaps the idea attacks a person or idea we don't like so we support the idea without researching it simply because it attacks something else we dislike.
It is still not the truth. We become part of the problem and also hypocritical when we are willing to support something as true without any thought or research simply due to quantity of people, because it says something that FEELS NICE to believe in, or because it attacks an idea or person we perceive as an enemy.
This is kind of like the idea of saying. "It's okay if that person was raped. They were my enemy."
You can see this at work when if there is any encounter by someone challenging a GROUP they are not met with thought, consideration, and willingness to listen to challenge but instead perhaps they all mindlessly chant the same phrase over and over again. It is almost like they are at a sporting event rather than making important decisions about life. They are content to be part of the group and chanting much like cheerleaders and rally leaders at a high school event trying to chant about winning, and trying to intimidate the other team. That is a game. It should not be how people deal with critical information and activities that actually are important to the lives of themselves and other people. Those subjects that matter to life should be treated with the utmost care and vigilance.
Disliking someone does not make them immediately wrong in everything they say.
Liking someone does not make them immediately right in everything they say.
Are you an individual, or are you part of some collective and there is some other mind in the collective that you let do your thinking for you?
If you find yourself watching a lot of people doing something and instinctively you think "Wow, there is something really OFF here" then perhaps there is. The quantity of people should not have you questioning yourself or doubting yourself. The quantity of people though might be a good reason to go INVESTIGATE something. If you think it is OFF then go investigate it. You'll either confirm why it is off or you'll find out what makes it make sense and you might start to agree.
If a million people suddenly believe all a person need do is flap their arms and they will be able to fly, they won't suddenly start flying. Truth and facts do not care about consensus or quantity of people.
So do you care about the truth?
Or perhaps do you instead care more about fitting in?