[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I think that's a common mistake really, that "people being called stuff" is shutting down or stopping criticism... when that's entirely down to the critic. You can address it, counter it, or flat out ignore it and continue... it doesn't shut anything down. Really the only people who can be guilty of shutting down a debate are those in a position of literal power to do so; on here that would be mods and admin who can close threads/delete posts/implement bans.

I do think that "mob rule" has unfortunate scope for shutting down good debate as well, by simply swamping the debate to the point where it can't continue, but that doesn't apply on a platform as small as this one.

This is exactly what she is advocating...shutting down debate. How is that healthy?
There are historical events that are catalysts for movements and as mentioned even a collective resolution borne of a shared experience. As with the Jewish and their suffering during the early 20th century as is the black communities and their shared history of enslavement.

In my opinion if you withold or negate the right to directly link attitudes to historical events you are attempting to re write the historical narrative and take away or reduce the impact the events have even generations later.

That is of course down to culpability and guilt, if you deny the theory did it ever exist?...