> religion, anyone, conviction, enemy, must, silenced
> most, pitiful, cowardice, all, should, every last one of us, ever, surrendered, tyranny, fighting, capitulate, cower, fear
> my own country, America; disgusts, good men, put down their lives, secure, blessings, liberty, lack, confidence, courage, even, a word, defense
A few of these would be fine.
On the surface, I was the angry stampede, and he was the voice of reason. Except he didn't seem to notice that my "strong words" tended to cancel each other (some of the words he cited actually restricted the scope of the others).
It's like the tone is more important than the message. Can't people read, before they take offence to surface details? I hope this is a loud minority problem.
Lesson learned: thou shalt not use strong words, even to express a fair and balanced position. What a mess.
If your generation targets something that's actually harmful, you're ahead of the game.
Consider a space that becasue all speech is allowed, is dominated by speech that marginalizes some subset of the population. Is that 'free'?
I think that if you want a place of intellectual exploration, excluding people is as dangerous as excluding certain ideas. And there seems to be a trade-off.