“Everybody speaks, not everybody listens. It is the way of the world, and it’s true whether the speakers or listeners are liberal or conservative or anywhere in between or something that doesn’t fall on that spectrum at all. Get over it.”
The Heterodox Academy, with its 1700 academics, seem to believe that this is worth fighting, at least in academia.
https://heterodoxacademy.org/ They seem to support a similar view to those in the George/West article above.
Allowing what has been called “incivility in discourse” to run free does have a heavy cost in a democratic society. Despite being the way of the world, democratic citizens have some duty to combat it. I ran into this talk by Mark Kingwell of U Toronto that discusses how returning civility to discourse is critical for our society’s survival:
https://www.stolaf.edu/multimedia/play/?e=1540
(I looked and couldn’t find a paper or article that concisely describes his view other than his talk here)
Personally, I’m not afraid of indoctrination, but I am afraid of the fallout of not adhering to orthodoxy.