“what point do we acknowledge that they’re going to find an excuse to push their agenda anyway, so why should we do all of the self-censoring in hopes they’ll be fair?”
Sure, but that’s sort of like a solider saying “they’re going to shoot at me anyway, so what does it matter where I stand.”
If you want to win, don’t stand where it is easiest to hit you.
My concern is that trying not to make ourselves easy targets, has had many on the right playing defense for 30 years. At this point, I’d like to see a general lessening of hostilities, but as something agreed to and enforced by all sides to a single standard.