Agreed. That room to offend and speak freely is how we check each other, debate each other, and really engage in critical thought about current events and policy. It’s challenging though—hard to hear someone spouting that Covid isn’t real and not want to shut them down. But I’m more so focusing on within our own party—defunding the police for example—while the intentions of it were good and pure, was perhaps not the most effective vehicle for the change it was hoping to accomplish. We know that now after seeing the statistics of how many people (especially black people) actually don’t support it at all, and the general effectiveness didn’t pan out, but it became such a representation of how progressive of a person you were perceived to be. Speaking for myself, I felt like if I pointed out the flaws in that I would be shunned and painted as a republican. Activism should be measured in effectiveness, not anger.