TBH, your post charged in at me and I didn't expect it, as it was part of a bigger ongoing discussion to me. I don't like to feel targeted, and so if I made you feel targeted, I apologise. I am not always tactful, and I don't have the inbuilt sensors to tell me when that happens.
By the same token, though, I don't want there to be this confusion that we're talking about anything other than people being careless and tactless with how they state strong opinions. We can do something about that because for the most part I'm pretty certain absolutely none of those comments are made intending to hurt anyone else.
It's not the same as being subjected to a targeted campaign of stalking and harassment on and off forum for a period of months together with the sole intention of removing someone from the community because of those different opinions.
One of those is something we can just improve by thinking more about how we post our opinions, although I think it important they're still posted and shared. The other is a serious serious thing that nobody should have to deal with. If that kind of thing is happening to anyone they need to talk to someone about it, asap, and something needs to be done.
In short, one is something we can regulate ourselves. The other requires the help of mods and the community as a whole to eradicate it, and that's the real crux of my point. Conflating them either increases the severity of the first, making it more difficult for us to just handle in a matter of fact way as a community, or risks trivialising the second, which, as someone who experienced it first hand, is hard for me to accept.