There are a lot of “safe space” Freepers who do not understand that argument is a process the refines ideas by forcing others to back up their claims and fostering thought and reason. The testing of ideas openly, even when it gets a little bitter, it’s still has real value.
If there are delicate Freepers want to be in a hive mind forum there is always DU. You can read a 100 comment thread there and they basically all say the same trite thoughts and slogans repetitively.
Very true.
There's been a lot of emotionalism. Dissidents and questioners have been denounced as traitors. There've even been requests to Jim for censorship.
We saw this with the Vaccine discussions, and I dare say we'll see it again with the next big story.
The end result is (hopefully) that FR gets better and tougher, because FReepers get better and tougher.