When someone says something contrary to current cultural preferences, they are deemed worthy of being silenced. The practice of boycotting a person or business because of a contrary opinion is a popular tactic to win an argument or establish a viewpoint. Instead of engaging an idea and debating it with facts, shaming a person out of the public square is, unfortunately, the preferred method. It is easier to shame a person into silence and obscurity than to converse and debate ideological differences.

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