That’s an interesting point. The demonisation of criticism, it’s either fullthroated ululating support or it’s trolling/bigotry, they have colluded with the media to make it impossible to actually debate or even converse about these topics.

It used to be that standing up to criticism was both a way to test your resolve but also to verify whether you were wrong or not about whatever it was you were arguing. They’ve eliminated a valuable tool and now we see monstrous levels of nonsense, on a daily basis, go unchecked and uncritically accepted as “true”, even the right wing papers like the Daily Mail are using preferred pronouns these days, it’s nuts.