It just takes one person to take offense to something for your life to be ruined. It is not worth the risk talking to anyone about anything remotely "honest" u

It just takes one person to take offense to something for your life to be ruined. It is not worth the risk talking to anyone about anything remotely "honest" unless you have known them for years and know how they will react. This is a catch-22 because to really trust someone you have to be willing to talk to them (which kind of makes it moot to begin with, right?) Even now I find myself curbing my opinion strongly based on which words have been weaponized with malicious connotation, lets not discuss which 'truth-telling business' could be seen as responsible for this. Lets not discuss the other points which are too numerous to start on, and too political for the likes of this conversation. We could touch on the destruction of Western Academia as a point of origin for all this, we could muse on the comparable style of current social interaction to how things are depicted in 1984, or Communist Russia, but based on the keywords I already dropped, there is surely a large enough group of bots available to run this into the ground. These are all my opinions, none of it is considered some unchangable, unalterable worldview, and I don't believe you can engage critically with anyone if you are not willing to compromise. That being said, compromise comes from both sides, and one side is way better at yelling racist, sexist, misogynist, whenever the bargaining starts.