You do have me mistaken for someone else - some of my personal background is shared on my pinned Penguin story but I do not share any of my protected characteristics. My declared culture is British. English in fact. The language of the English is English. The British have multiple cultural languages including Welsh, Gaelic, Manx, and Cornish - as well as small languages within the channel islands. However, identifying as British does not determine any characteristics - in the same way that defining as an 'American citizen' doesn't define yours.

I suggest you read any back and forth between myself and Jeannette C Espinoza or Estacious White. Here's a story about disagreement.https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/the-penguin-vs-jeanette-c-espinoza-935fca9a7c5 - what you're noticing is getting what you give. If you come in hard and personal with your attacks, you'll get pushback in the same general vein. I am a big fan of Steve QJ, he doesn't say horrible things about Black people, he takes an anti-identity politics stance. His pieces are generally neutral, informative but quite opinionated.

As for fascist males, they aren't my favourite people.... HOWEVER, I suspect you are referring to an exchange with a new right wing writer on the site. I am ideologically opposed to Conservatism because I am a liberal but this place is lacking those voices. Far too much of this site is people spending their time agreeing with each other about how everyone is right. The left-wing liberal position is being gently infused with right-wing minority group thinking and it hasn't noticed its own intolerance, this place is rife with echo chambers. You won't find me attacking people. You will find me debating ideas. I am far more polite and respectful than you give me credit for - but I give back as good as I get when others come in hard.

I don't have a problem with people wanting to preserve their cultures - as I said, the lens in which this is discussed and talked about is too simplistic. The OP demanded we respect her individual culture and languages but didn't differentiate between the Spanish and British. In her mind, a homogenous group of 'white folks' came over and destroyed her culture by forcing everyone to speak English. This objectively isn't true because history is more complicated than this. Pointing this out isn't 'toxic' - it's introducing nuance where it was previously lacking.

I am also an atheist. So here's a question for you... if your Dad's Episcopal faith means he begins attacking the LGBTQ+ community, do you have to never challenge his views? Can he demand respect because Episcopal priests need to be valued? Or can you input into that discussion without attacking him as a person? Can you instead offer your opinion, offer some nuance or gentle pushback? If not, why not?

As I've explained many times, I think the leveraging of power via identity politics (which includes some of the concepts of cultural appropriation) is damaging to the groups of people who use it. I have no problems with cultural safeguarding, I am a liberal and so unless it's illegal, I don't really care. So people can and should celebrate their own cultural events and heritage, but it shouldn't become a weapon with which to enact a political agenda. That's going to spectacularly backfire - instead an understanding of how to respectfully share cultures would be better. And a broader understanding of 'culture' and what it means in practice.