Comment by manigandham

> "Only that it is natural to be insulted if certain opinions in said topics are expressed."

Again, so what? It happens and is entirely subjective, and whether it's shared by millions of people or specific to an individual is an irrelevant detail.

> "Who is this helping?"

Who cares? Discussion happens. There is no imperative that it must be helpful, whatever that means. That's yet another subjective judgement.

> "We don’t stop these humanitarian disaster by allowing bigoted views to persist."

Discussion is what determined they were wrong views in the first place. Speech from the opposing side that, at the time, was considered rebellious and wrong eventually won and created change.

> "the normal thing to do is to insult back"

Yes. Counter speech and ideas with better speech and ideas. That is the opposite of (self-) censorship and limiting expression because of potential offense.