Why are you calling it “censorship”? Am I supposed to be forced to listen to someone? Am I supposed to associate with everyone?

I grew up as a lonely cishet geek dude, so I get it — it sucks to be made not welcome.

But as much as it sucks to be excluded from spaces, it also sucks to be threatened so often by gendered violence that you can't be sure if someone of that demographic is decent or a danger.

Living on low-level or even high-level alert is exhausting. Wanting that space to breathe is understandable.

Oh and then there's that argument that being exposed to different viewpoints is good for you?

Which is... true to a degree, but not an absolute? Like, you know training, right? The growth occurs in response to strain, but it occurs during periods of rest.

You're not Majin Buu, bro. And some people don't get respite.

Also there's this perverse, and sometimes depraved line of thinking that thinks, “I don't care if people suffer, actually I *want* those people to suffer.”

Like, let's be real here, it's more universal than we'd like to think. I've felt genuine pleasure when I see someone who I thought was deserving get their comeuppance.

That's where schadenfreude comes from. Pleasure from someone else's misfortune. It's a dark emotion, it's sweet and bitter, and too much of it is bad for you.

Like, I think if you're feeling a dark joy when you see someone like Bill Cosby or Richard Spencer get their just desserts after a life of causing pain with no repercussions... I personally don't have issues with you?

But I've heard people who think others need to suffer for the crime of “having it too easy”.

Young people ought to be exploited because they're “spoiled”.

Fat folk abused because they didn't try hard enough.

That's... sick.