It is a literal switch. An evolutionary one. We're all dumb fucking apes, barely more evolved than niggers, pajeets and negra forma de lejia (slavs), we're still operating on monkey tribal mechanics. It's all Us vs Them, and saying things that your own group agrees with has always correlated with staying alive longer because they won't be beating your skull in with a rock for calling the Abrams a loud brap monster that can handle sand about as well as Anakin Skywalker. Unless you're autistic, deranged, or have nothing to lose, you don't ever say anything that disagrees with your own peoples' narrative, even if it's the actual truth, because then you'll get ostracized and your life'll be worse. Without that Us vs Them switch, we'd have no Q-niggers, NFTrannies or flat fucks. Politics rides on it entirely.