That's one reason the sites I run tend to allow both heated rhetoric and argument with it - e.g. Inkbunny doesn't have that "call-out" rule in terms of expressing disagreement with an individual's ideas, while still forbidding requests to others to harass them generally, and allowing members to ban each other. But it's a hard line to police, and rarely a popular policy, so I can see why other sites choose differently.
The thing I'd caution against is coming in out of the blue to, say, shout "you're a [racist/Commie/Sonic-hater/pervert], you shouldn't be here", without any immediate cause. That's different, in my mind, to arguing against a position expressed in a journal, or embodied in a submission, because that's responding to a bad action, rather than treating them as a one-dimensional bad person (which is no better than what many of the more objectionable philosophies do to groups of people).
[Submissions can be problematic where people take a mere symbol of a group as promotion of philosophies associated with the group. But this is not unusual, nor restricted to political symbols. Diapers have been hugely contentious; I saw people getting stressed over latex on ArtSpots, etc.]
That's one reason the sites I run tend to allow both heated rhetoric and argument with it - e.g. Inkbunny doesn't have that "call-out" rule in terms of expressing disagreement with an individual's ideas, while still forbidding requests to others to harass them generally, and allowing members to ban each other. But it's a hard line to police, and rarely a popular policy, so I can see why other sites choose differently.
The thing I'd caution against is coming in out of the blue to, say, shout "you're a [racist/Commie/Sonic-hater/pervert], you shouldn't be here", without any immediate cause. That's different, in my mind, to arguing against a position expressed in a journal, or embodied in a submission, because that's responding to a bad action, rather than treating them as a one-dimensional bad person (which is no better than what many of the more objectionable philosophies do to groups of people).
[Submissions can be problematic where people take a mere symbol of a group as promotion of philosophies associated with the group. But this is not unusual, nor restricted to political symbols. Diapers have been hugely contentious; I saw people getting stressed over latex on ArtSpots, etc.]