Emotionally charged topics shouldn’t be avoided, but we should all strive to have rational and compassionate conversations about such things.

I always like to introduce people to this rules of civil conversation during such exchanges.

https://therulesofcivilconversation.org/

Equally helpful to maintain conversations that are positive is to check out own biases and fallacies:

https://yourbias.is/

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/