I know I've been saying this like forever, but I am going to say it again. People gotta wake up and realize that if they don't know both sides of an argument or the position that they hold, then they don't know their own side of an argument. Listening to other points of view is a form of love and service to humanity. Everyone’s VOICE being honored does not mean being subjugated and swallowed whole by their fervently defended beliefs. As Nietzsche is often quoted, what doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger, right?
Similarly, if you will suppress or censor one point of view, forcefully take away their freedom of speech or expression, then you kick open the door to YOUR freedom of speech and expression being censored as well.
Personally, I don't have any interest in legal redress if Facebook Twitter, or any other business chooses to wash down or censor my or anyone else's freedom to express opinions of any variety. The government already has way too much power, and if we try to use the government to protect us from Facebook, who is going to protect us from the government? If you take Facebook's freedom of expression away, you take away everyone's freedom of expression. Freedom of speech is only necessary when trying to restrict someone's speech that we really don't want to hear. Who passes laws against something that we like or are in support of? Laws are passed against things we don't like, object to, or pertaining to things that we are afraid of.
But freedom of speech is more than just a legal matter, it's an actual constitutional issue. No law should be made to restrict freedom of speech or freedom of expression, especially opinions that dissent from the majority opinion. My opinion almost everywhere I have ever gone has been what could be characterized as The Minority Opinion.
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
It seems to me that there is been times where I've been demonized for my point of view. It annoys me when I see somebody's point of view treated hostilely and without even giving it a chance of being argued about logically and with patience and compassion, which is not to be confused with agreeing with that point of view personally, I tend to subscribe to the idea of holding principles above personalities.
In chess, I played the board, not the man. But unfortunately, there are a lot of petty psychodrama queens out there who played a man and not the board and replace their lack of skill with moving the pieces and replacing it with psychological game playing. They tried to distract their opponent, rather than just play the game. Unfortunately, people do this in political arenas as well.
While on the one hand I respect every aspect of tribalism that one may be interested in, but to impose 'harmonic' tribalism on others is to engage in a cultlike behavior. Someone may try to paint the behavior as a friendly face as if they are imposing harmony for the greater good, or forcing solutions because they know better than anyone else what needs to be done in any given situation. But shutting down a conversation about belief systems where our common resources are coming into play, as in the case of political arenas, everyone has a right to say where their tax monies will be represented.
But instead, people are engaging in mindless gang warfare, and behaving like rabid animals. It seems like the seething resentments are boiling over the pot, but the people tending the fire are brainwashed, narcissistic megalomaniacs. But even they have a right to freedom of speech and expression, as long as it doesn't harm someone against their will on righteously. If someone wants to harm themselves, there should be no need to force them into self-care. But obviously, free and compassionate people will find a way to help that person. We don't have to govern-mentally administer an anti-suicide program geared only for saving the lives of those whom we deem politically correct.