Chinese people who show sympathy for HK protests risk getting doxxed by friends

Your post proves the OP's point. They implied that they have a different point of view on _something_, & you've attacked them for it

Do you believe all views you consider acceptable today will be correct in a decade? You can instead make the argument that our views are monotonically converging towards "the right view" but that's acting like something can never reemerge from being out of fashion

& consider this: acceptable is within your subculture. How are you going to interact with a different subculture that doesn't hold your views? Cultures need to avoid shouting down anyone who votes differently at the ballot box

- Called racist and sexist if you disapprove of affirmative action in schools or the workplace (which by the way, polls consistently have shown the majority of Americans disapprove of AA)

- Called transphobic if you don't want transgender women competing in sports with biological women, because of the unfair advantage

- Called homophobic if you think gay pride parades are not a good idea (even if you're not anti-gay, you just think parades in general are disruptive to cities and streets, and also don't want almost-naked leathered men walking around your neighborhood)

- Called sexist if you suggest that rape victims should go to the police as soon as possible after, rather than wait months or years later. Or that perhaps universities shouldn't be acting like courts without due process, and cases should go to the police instead.

- And do you remember when Firefox's CEO was forced to resign because he donated to an anti-gay marriage prop (that actually won with >50% of the vote?) I mean, maybe the guy was just for civil unions instead, who knows what his reasoning was.

None of these views would make someone actually racist or sexist but they are unacceptable to say publicly in left-leaning places like Silicon Valley.

The above would be a good example itself.

What's quite often branded "racism, sexism, and homophobia" could be nothing like a racist/sexist/homophobe bigot from 10-20 years ago, and just what most would consider totally normal then.

E.g. two guys making a "dongle" joke (when a dongle was shown on screen) among themselves at a conference, and being fired for it.

Or somebody believing a 6 or 10 year old child is not old enough to decide and be helped on things like "sexual transition" (and that in many cases it's the parents using it for their 15 minutes of fame and "you're so brave" kudos).

Or somebody calling out trans men who simultaneously identify as lesbians and want lesbians to have sex with them else they deem them TERFs, or want to compete in women's sports events

Or people who don't think asking to perform a sexual act, getting the OK, and then doing it (like Louis CK) is horrible sexism (or it is because you're more famous than the person who consented).

In fact even daring to question such cases (which wouldn't be considered bigotry or sexism or whatever 10 or 20 years ago, even among progressives), is enough to brand someone as a bigot. Heck, even someone like Camille Paglia gets the same slack...

People are not getting their views strawmanned leading to their characters and careers being destroyed and being inundated with death threats unless they deserve it, clearly.