The first issue is that arguments around free speech have been weaponised by bad-faith actors seeking to Trojan-horse lunatic ideas into mainstream consciousness. For example, "Why are you censoring me? What are you hiding? I am just trying to open debate on the evidence that 5G towers cause coronavirus." (Or some similar nonsense.)
Where the intention is to promote mayhem or to encourage violence against minorities, we should oppose it. This includes the work of troll farms, or even the algorithm of Facebook that is intended to promote as much divisive material as possible.
However, non-mainstream ideas or individual perspectives that do not conform to the groupthink consensus are very important and must be protected if we are to evolve our very primitive society out of the dark ages. Those of us (all of us?) with progressive views on voluntary euthanasia, for example, know well the frustration of being demonised without our perspectives being given fair consideration.
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I understand why you would feel this way, and I acknowledge the intellectual merit in your posts. However, it is important to distinguish perspectives from which a powerless individual is venting following extreme trauma, versus a legitimate intellectual contribution.
The 'f' word is one that I avoid using because it is emotionally-charged, divisive and yet lacks a simple definition. Some would conflate it with misandry, others with universal equality. By avoiding trigger words, we are able to instead focus on the nuanced substance of quality discussion.
As a man who has not experienced sexual assault, my instinct is not to judge the rantings of such victims on their intellectual integrity, but to hurt at seeing a fellow human crying out in severe distress.
I have said before, and will say it again, I would have no problem going to jail if it meant just once I could protect a woman from being attacked by a man like that. I feel sad to be a part of a society in which such things happen and are even perpetuated. Especially in the context of this forum, I would want to do whatever I can to heal such people and help them to restore any sense of connection with the opposite gender before this revolting battle of the sexes spreads its cancer any further.
