Email him and say "Hi Phil"?

My personal opinion is that Phil is a busy guy and doesn't have time to carefully analyze your request with any nuance.

Here's an example of the difficulty.

"Phil, can you review the article [link to blog] where you banned us from? We are critically analyzing a very socially sensitive topic and while we are disagreeing with the majority of people, we actually encouraging unity and are not encouraging any hate. You can clearly see if you read our entire article."

Sounds like you might be better off acquiring an audience via newsletter.

> I've heard of Twitter accounts getting banned because they mentioned some of these subjects in context of criticizing them. (which is the opposite result that would be expected)

My comment above is the very reason for this discussion. Not using the site is the same as suggesting not commenting here, which is nearly nonsensical.

Don't use the site?