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Where I grew up, that was called being polite and it didn’t automatically rule out anything other that conservatism.
>There’s a ton of room between disagreement and harassment.
There was a time where that may have been true, but we're far away from those times.
Not sure when things got all turned around in America. Liberalism = smaller government and a free market. Yet in the US a "liberal" dislikes capitalism and wants more government? It's odd.
Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty - Murray N. Rothbard
American liberals love capitalism; its one of the key things that differentiates the liberal (center-right) faction of the Democratic Party from the progressive (center-left) faction, which is (largely, quite mildly) critical of capitalism, and, in turn, from the actual left.
Where are the spaces anymore to be outlandishly an asshole and shut other people down?! :-|
There seems to be a shift towards, how someone perceives something, not how something actually is.
That can mean, that it is no longer possible to speak about something unpleasant, as someone might consider that an insult - and that is then the opposite of freedom of speech.
In other words, I don't enjoy the assholeness of 4chan - but I also do not enjoy overly polite spaces, avoiding all controversy. I am not clear yet, what this Oasis seems to aim for, but it might be the latter.
* Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Ricky Gervais to mention some of the most outspoken.