1. theres a politics thread for conversations like these.
2. if you want to express your views then you need to be able to handle having those views challenged by people who don't agree with you, because that's life.
To be honest, I don't think it really fits with politics. While I said the issue has been politicized, it would be like if someone mentioned someone else was gay and we were like "take it to the politics thread." It really makes no sense. We could make a gender thread for these sorts of discussions, like we had on MTG, but would anyone really use it? That one over there died out pretty quick.
Also, I would appreciate it if everyone would leave the forum moderation to the moderation staff, please.