I didn't want to, but I felt I had to in order to protect myself. I've had many debates on FB about the "protests" and the lies pushed by the mainstream media about police brutality in general especially towards the black community. I never lost my temper, never insulted anyone (other than calling the occasional person a "sheep" but this was rare), and I backed all my claims with evidence. These all ended the same way. If they occurred on my facebook, they ended with me being insulted or cussed out, and if it was someone else's FB, they ended with my posts being deleted. Despite none of my posts being vulgar or containing anything graphic, not a single person wanted to leave up the evidence I posted or the back and forth showing them clearly losing an argument they were not as prepared as I was for going in

Today a co-worker mentioned watching the Netflix propaganda documentary called "13th" or something about Prison labor. I tried to have a calm discussion with him, first by asking him if the documentary showed arguments for the prison labor systems, to which he incredulously asked me why there would be arguments that were "pro slavery". I mentioned the fact that in most states the inmates volunteer for the labor as a way to get out of their cells, that it teaches job skills to many who have never had prior gainful employment, that it allows prisons to partially fund themselves and thus saves taxpayers from having to support the costs via taxes, and that research shows them drastically lowering incidents of prison violence after they were implemented, by giving inmates structure and something else to do.

His comeback was to cite how many black people are in prison compared to other races, as evidence of systemic racial bias in our prison system. I mentioned to him that many times more men than women are incarcerated, and asked if this is a sign of a "sexism bias" in the justice system or if there might be other factors at play when we have different outcomes between 2 populations other than always being "systemic biases". As I attempted to make these points, he grew furious, and it appeared he was going to punch me, then he asked if I had posted these same "pro slavery" arguments on co-worker's facebooks he knew. He said that managers at our work are friends with these co-workers, and it is only a matter of time before I get fired for being "pro slavery"

Then and there I told him I never want to discuss politics at work with him again, including hearing him mention liberal news which I always humored him and listened to in the past. Then I got on my facebook and rather than scrub all my posts, I removed every single person who could possibly try to get me fired for being a conservative

Protect yourselves out there in this cancel culture!