> Second, and with respect, I would suggest that your rhetoric, which is quite common (and, by the way, represents vested interests in status quo intelligensia)

> Second, and with respect, I would suggest that your rhetoric, which is quite common (and, by the way, represents vested interests in status quo intelligensia), is doing a lot of silencing. It's quite pervasive. > I'd argue that contemporary liberal group norms are much more silencing than, say, the oil industry. Do you not see the hypocrisy in this statement? You're attempting to discredit my entire viewpoint by painting it as "liberal intelligensia rhetoric" - whatever that means. And as to your second point, the oil industry has a long record of covering up evidence of climate change, silencing victims of pollution/fracking, manipulating political process in order to continue destroying the planet, and so on. I'm not saying Harvey Weinstein should have lost his job, but the oil industry is certainly responsible for more silencing than "liberal norms" by an order of some magnitude.