[laHiesh1]

Given today's culture anonymity is even more important than it ever was. Someone across the world can boycott your place of work and get you sacked for voicing unfashionable opinions. Who will provide for your family then? Don't expect to lean on your partner either, they'll probably push to get her/him sacked too for associating with you.

[renholder]

True. Look at the blowback from Beto's writing from his childhood and how he had to apologise for it[0], some twenty or thirty years later.

[0] - https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/03/16/beto-orourke-poems-ch...