Nobody asked that the listeners remain silent, merely that they: * Respect the right of the speaker to speak * Take responsibility for their own prejudices an

Nobody asked that the listeners remain silent, merely that they: * Respect the right of the speaker to speak * Take responsibility for their own prejudices and mental state If someone on the internet is saying things you (the collective "you") don't like on a social network of any note, you're a button click or two away from never, ever seeing anything that person has to say ever again. The problem is thus solved. ..unless the problem was not that someone was saying things you don't like and wished you didn't have to see that, but that they said something you didn't like and you want to retaliate in some way against the speaker.