[fatbird]

So you're too scared to tell the truth with your real name attached, thus empowering the apparently stifling political correctness you complain about? Wouldn't actually speaking up, ready to accept the social consequences, be the defiant act?

It's actually your opinion that I find much more threatening. You don't want the freedom to talk shit about fat people, which, honestly, is still pretty easy to do, and getting easier. You want my response to be acceptance of your political incorrectness. You want to cap my free speech so that you don't feel the social consequences of yours. You want a captive audience. Who's more of a danger to freedom of speech than you, who would take the right to respond away from everyone else if you had your way?

[throwaway420]

You make a valid point about defiance. The Overton window and the timing of ideas is something that I've thought about a great deal and I'm not going to dispute that. The real answer is that like most people I don't have "fuck you" money and speaking my mind publically would be a risk in this politically correct environment. One of the best things I feel Trump has done is started taking the lid off of that culture of political correctness and it might be getting easier in the future to speak your mind unless this "everybody I don't like is a Nazi, and it's ok to punch nazis" Antifa type of guided movement takes off.

I have no idea where you're getting this idea that I want to stiffle anybody's right to speak. If you want to use Facebook or not, it's your call and I've never said otherwise so you're wrong about that.

[fatbird]

My point is that your remedy for the problem of political correctness stifling you is for everyone else to act differently. You have unpopular opinions but you're afraid to voice them, and what you'd like is for people not to crap all over you when you voice them. You want a safe space for political incorrectness. What's more threatening to freedom of speech than safe spaces?