Speaking Your Opinion In 2016
No matter what it is. No matter what the theme, discussion or point of view is. People want everyone to be open-minded... to THEIR point of view. They're closed-minded to yours. They accuse you of being intolerant and whatever-phobic. Then, they will make you feel bad for speaking out.
To them, the fact that you disagree with them is a threat, so their response is making you feel threatened because they disagree with you. They feel like they can't speak out if everyone's not on their side. They feel like, if people don't agree with them, their opinion is worthless. Consequently, they think that if they don't agree with other people, other people's opinions are worthless. So, appealing to you that you stop being so extremist and single-minded, they force you to let them speak out as if they couldn't before, and that's how they cut off your voice. They make you feel like your opinion is offensive, not worth the exposure or the thought, and they leave you thinking that maybe you're even wrong...
They don't care if it's an opinion, a belief, a thought, a comment, an idea, or even a bunch of facts. They will only stop arguing once you admit that what they're saying is what's right. To them, justice is what they want. They're not necessarily going to do the right thing, so they want you to believe that the right thing to do is exactly what they are going to do. They care about what you think, but they only respect it if it's what they think too. Because they will not accept a mere "agree to disagree", and a mere "I don't accept that but I will let you be because it's none of my business". No. They want you to accept what they do. That's how desperately unsure and insecure they are about themselves and their own beliefs. You might end up thinking that you need to agree with them. But the truth is, THEY need YOU to agree with them.
Once all of that has happened and, at last, you've come to agreeing with them, they'll be the nicest group of people towards you, and you'll join them in their "mono-opinion open-mindness".
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