Sexist or, or wrong-headed or homophobic, that s been turned into hate speech, and then hate speech has become a slippery slope into whites supremacist discourse and violence and a threat to democracy. that s all been clapped intentionally so that people will be scared to have open robust, you know, american conversation where people who disagree with each other respectfully or disrespectfully disagree. if you want to see real open debate, all you need to do is go back to the way our founding fathers newspapers used to cover events or the way newspapers covered y haven t into the 1st half of the 19th century in our country. there was so much, you know, open debate, name-calling, um, kind of discourse that wouldn t even be allowed today. but jefferson and others understood that was vitally important order to keep our democracy safe. it s a very totalitarian thing