Be polite in public. What a hard thing to grasp. Seriously, everyone was taught this shit as a kid, and now it's a big deal.
You don't want to be jumped on for your opinion or your joke or whatever? Then have some general awareness of your surroundings and audience. To butcher Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: "Everyone was so busy with the idea that they could share their thoughts, no one stopped to ask if they should."
This is a non-issue to anyone with a functioning sense of how to act in the public sphere.
You don't want to be jumped on for your opinion or your joke or whatever? Then have some general awareness of your surroundings and audience. To butcher Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: "Everyone was so busy with the idea that they could share their thoughts, no one stopped to ask if they should."
This is a non-issue to anyone with a functioning sense of how to act in the public sphere.
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