SKARDAVNELNATE posted...
I've been saying for years that if you aren't allowed to express one side of a discussion then discussion is not actually allowed.
Generally speaking, the discussions in which one "side" isn't permitted are discussions no decent person should ever
want
to have. Nine times out of ten, "I'm being persecuted for having an unpopular opinion" means something along the lines of "people didn't like me suggesting that the world would be improved if all the gay people died," which just isn't an opinion that has enough value to justify how clearly inflammatory it is. I've seen the line tossed around that "calling bigotry an opinion is like calling arsenic a flavour," and putting aside the technicality that arsenic is flavourless, I think it makes a good point: It is, technically, an opinion/flavour, but it does significantly more harm than good and there's therefore no reason to think that way or bring it up unless you're trying to hurt people.