In reply to Nick the Geek.

This is how this discussion goes. Anyone who raises a question is quickly branded “part of the problem” and an obstacle to a better world.

By implication, they should be cancelled. Why would any community want to give any voice to people who are “part of the problem” and campaigning for a worse world? This invokes Rod Dreher’s “law of merited impossibility”. At first, the response is “no, that’ll never happen, don’t be alarmist!” On the next step, it happens, and people are told “you deserved it because you were so evil!”.

I propose that the way to a better future culture lies in our past: the old culture of accepting that people can reasonably disagree with you and interacting with their viewpoints, without jumping immediately to polarising, personalising and punishing as is now the fashion.