If the framework of this website is so oppressive, then why waste your time hanging around? It's a relatively free world ssnead, but investing valuable time in a forum that you don't believe offers true freedom of expression seems like the absolute worst way to flush valuable free time down the toilet.
I find this place totally open to ALL opinions. You state what you believe, then take the heat and/or applause in accordance with the opinions of others. If your opinion is constantly opposed to the majority of LPSG members, then you'll have a fight on your hands most nights. Expecting others to sit on their asses and remain mute while you post opinions that assault their belief system is a little much to ask. I've had plenty of disagreements here in LPSG, and I respected the other posters opinions as much as my own.
I didn't say I found it oppressive. I just said that this was a typical knee-jerk response, which it is. And that there is an approach that is most likely to avoid bringing about that response, which there is. Personally, I love it when someone says something slightly less than PC and the mob comes down on them like the sanctimonious blowhards they are. I have a low opinion of mankind, and everyone likes to have their opinions validated. LPSG does this for me on a daily basis. I love it here.
As to how you find the place, well, your paragraph pretty well sums up my position. To paraphrase, you find the place totally open to ALL opinions, unless someone posts opinions that assault someone's belief system, at which point toleration is a little much to ask. Like I've said before - there's all kinds of good and proper openness until someone says something that offends the favored sensibilities, and then it's only right that they should shut the fuck up. Again, typical for LPSG. And again - not saying I don't like it - I think it's just wonderful.