The guy at Google was fired for saying that the reason there are more male engineers is men on average are better at math. He is correct of course but that didn't stop him from being fired.

The people who are forcing this down everyone's throats are the media and the universities. Being branded a racist/sexist/homophobe has real world consequences and being a white male who doesn't agree with the agenda is all it takes to earn that label. If you are not white or a male you can say pretty much anything you like.

It is disingenuous to dismiss this targeted censorship as simply calling people names. The facts that the majority of whites in this country feel left out of the conversation is a major factor in the growth of the alt right. The fact that whites still dominate fields like the media is meaningless when only whites who conform are given a seat at the table. Why is Fox News so hated? It gives an alternative narrative to the one the left is peddling. The majority of whites in this country are not represented by those hand picked to agree with far left liberal ideals and the level of butt hurt over that is growing at a right the echo chamber set is ignorant to.

Does it really make sense to try and end racial conflict by just changing who is being marginalized? Statistics about which race is doing better on average are meaningless in this regard. The fact that most white people are doing OK does nothing for the many whites who are not. Telling them that their problems need to take a back seat to a more deserving group is helping things. Telling them that they can't have opinion about really is stupid beyond explanation.

If you care about these issues and want your opinion to carry weight then it is vital. If the opinion of the majority is controlled by the minority then all those issues are affected.

In a democracy the right to be heard and have your positions given weight in the public debate is more important than any single issue. Right now we have a situation where a few people with influence well outside what they should be allowed have taken control of what can be discussed and anyone who challenges them is attacked and publicly destroyed. That is why even republicans had trouble pointing at the violence was a two sided issues in Charleston, they are not willing be branded a supporter of Nazies by simply pointing out the actual facts. If you have sponsors you have to worry about having boycotts of them by radical left wing activist who want to control the conversation by social censorship.

Stop thinking about as a "can I say this without people being mad" issues and think of more along the lines of book burning. A small and often violent group (either literally or through personal attacks) with a narrow political agenda is successfully censoring the views and positions of the majority and that is important. Why did people listen to Donald Trump? Because no one else was listening to them.

The reality is the left is stupid to think identity politics can be limited to just the people who agree with them and making it evil for others groups to use their favorite tactic is not only short sighted but at it's core it is intellectually dishonest and the most device practice in modern American politics.