It is certainly one of several topics which really demand some caution to raise, such as religion, abortion, women's reproductive rights and the sexuality/gende

It is certainly one of several topics which really demand some caution to raise, such as religion, abortion, women's reproductive rights and the sexuality/gender debate, not to mention trigger warnings, campus DEI politics and academic freedom. I am always abashed when I walk into this space and frequently resent it when I am led into it by others. I like to imagine during the late 18th and early 19th century it was equally hard to have dispassionate discussions about slavery. In the 1920s alcoholism, and feminism. Since many years in many cultures homosexuality and according to Pierre telhard de Chardin almost always since we have looked back in time incest. I think he argued for a genetic component but perhaps not in as many words. Consider the Rosenbergs, or David Irvine, or Sir Anthony Blunt, and how rancorous debate got. Or, F.R. Leavis and the academic career paths for professors of English at that time. I knew academics whose careers were ruined by being in the wrong department at the wrong time by that. Or eugenics which until the Nazi rise to power was a tolerably normalised debate. Personally, I am glad we cast that into a different tone of voice but in context it might be indicative of like cases in times past.