mosew
This thesis is the real "throwing the baby out with the bathwater". I can respect that it applies truthfully to many would-be SJWs, and the labels are indeed used to end conversations. However, meaningfully calling something racist, sexist, etc. is a start of a process, not an end. This meaningful discussion (and, much more frequently, reflection) is too often precluded when one party is too defensive to look honestly, openly, and beyond themselves, at their own biases.
I don't generally trust people to think critically. The last ten years have showed us all how easy it is for people to be manipulated and misled at scale if the belief is accepted by their respective communities. This was shown scientifically decades ago[1]. And we all know some anti-vaxxers and/or cult followers.
Of course, most attempts to repress misinformation inevitably cause bigger problems than any alternative, including doing nothing. Attempts to repress opinions based on misinformation sow divisions which are even worse.
There is a tension between efforts towards a weak form of "prior restraint" and a belief that people are smart enough to discern truth from fiction. But don't fool yourself -- no matter your feelings here, everyone including you is subject to in-group favoritism.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments