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Frankly I think those are invented problems, invented to defend the status quo. You are also equating someone somewhere saying something is racist with broader

Frankly I think those are invented problems, invented to defend the status quo. You are also equating someone somewhere saying something is racist with broader censure - nobody us going to be ostracised for saying Lincoln high is a good school name. I didn't say 'an abstract defense of free thought is racist', I said I knew the article would be defending a racist because of the excessive abstraction in the title to dance around the actual problem, which is not interesting views but racist views, something quite distinct.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
It's not an invented problem. Multiple college acquaintances of mine have specifically announced they're ostracizing people for a similar naming dispute at my alma mater. I'm not saying you'll be instantly expelled from polite society for disagreeing with the consensus, but there's an increasing range of topics where you have to seriously weigh whether the benefit of thinking critically about them is worth the risk of losing friends.