I was like wtf but then I remembered the soy state of society.
Regarding the OP, my personal take is that most people outright despise thinking. I have the ability to talk to my mom for however long I wish, and there are topics that just make her unhinged (critiquing my slave owner Zelensky, for example). It's really hard for me to internalise such a sentiment, but normies just don't value an honest conversation for its own sake, or for exploring reality, or for mutual understanding, or for challenging oneself.
If one wants to see a typical censorship-inducing normie, look no further than Asmongold - although in his case, he at least gets hefty monetary compensation for being a cuck.
That said, I have started getting an impression that liberals and normies are not tautological. There are plenty of otherwise intelligent people holding liberal views, and they don't challenge themselves because alternative views aren't conducive to their existence - either monetary or are just outside the scope of their expertise. For example, remember the Blitzchung incident? Normies in America are forbidden to hate Negroes, Mexicans or Jews, but they go rabid with hatred against Chinese, so Blitzchung is a hero to them. But when I said in Grubby's Discord that praising Blitzchung is effectively referencing the Century of Humiliation which killed hundreds of billions of Chinese people, he didn't ban me. A flimsy example, I know, but it's not like I have extensive experience.