The subject is important.

I am a little confused by some arguments and with politicizing the issue.

I see one political aspect that the author missed: individualism.

My mother, who was a country girl with no college education, understood it much better.

When other children verbally bullied us on the playground, she told us that their names were what they called us. It nicely rhymes in Polish. This way, we saw abusive language as a weakness of the abuser.

We felt stronger and better knowing that and instinctively avoiding doing the same to others.

So the key is to raise children in a way that makes them strong individuals with good self-confidence and self-awareness. For example, I have a petty physical disability, and I would be rich just by getting a penny for every instance when someone tried to hurt me by commenting on it. But none of these less or more malicious comments ever hurt me.

With this approach, I welcome critique, and in every hostile statement toward me, I first look at the merit. Did I say something stupid? Did I offend anyone? Is there any justified wrath in the hostility? Or, is it an intellectual weakness of someone helpless when facing my reasoning?

What is wrong with that approach? At least no politics are involved. It supports my observations that misinformed people of poor character are on both sides of the current political divide in America.