Unacceptable views

 

On the trail, this girl I just met and I talked about the state of the world, and shared views that we were afraid to express in this era when your opinions can make you be labelled as a bigot, racist or transphobe. She jokingly said that for a gay immigrant, I sure have Trumpian views. 

 I laughed, as I think it's more a matter that the left has swung so deliriously to the extreme that anyone who had left of centre is now seen has being right wing, or extremist. Perhaps I am lost in my own echo chamber, or just convinced of my own world view. But as someone who has grown up and lived across four continents, I think I know a thing or two about what common sense and decency means. 

Is it wrong to say that unchecked immigration is plunging the country into an affordability crisis? (...yes, the irony being that I have been an immigrant pretty much all my life in different countries that have embraced me, and I have embraced as my adoptive homes). 

Is it wrong to feel that children or teens who are still yet to mature should not be encourage to transition? Or that we are seeing a blurring of sexuality with gender identities that threaten to undo the progress that biological women have fought for centuries? How can it make sense that institutions and people are so terrified of using "women" (and yet, no controversy when it comes to defining man/men).

I don't think I've changed much in my beliefs, but more that minority, fringe voices are so vocal and militant that they dominate the narrative. And that is dangerous, for anyone who calls for reason and common sense is now labelled and dismissed quickly as having "unacceptable views" that must be stamped out.