[SiVal]

"Socially unacceptable" is the litmus test? So, regardless of what the majority of your coworkers think, if you express a contrary opinion that they don't agree is acceptable, you have created a hostile environment.

"If you don't want to be shunned from society, don't be identified as someone who does socially unacceptable things," warned the Holy Inquisition and every Puritan minister.

[ithkuil]

Now with tables turned, not few people gloat when people complain getting a taste of their own medicine.

While I understand the short term gratification, I find this dangerous long term.

For all the failures of the old norms and methods, at least there was a way to formally abjure your antisocial beliefs and get accepted back into society.

Today not only we didn't yet develop such a code, but we also leave a permanent trace of our past blunders and misplaced allegeances which are now permanently associated with our identity.

Precedents of this scenario create anxiety in a lot of moderate people, most who are even agreeing with the majority of the zeitgeist.

Regular people may not be vocal about it, so we get a perception that now only KKK folks are whining about freedom of speech.

[ayyy]

If there's a Holy Inquisition coming, it's not bad advice to become notionally Catholic for however long it lasts.