I appreciate the links to thoughtful essays others have posted in this thread. Here are two more, making arguments which, if we simplify the continuum of opinion into two sides, oppose each other:
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle
"The real problem with 'cancel culture'"
McArdle links to essays she agrees with, and to
Osita Nwanevu in
The New Republic
"The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism"