One would think, but again, the bar is now very, very low. Like I said, a purity spiral on a knitting forum.
I used to be on a once-popular forum which has slowly skewed to the left, and then farther, and farther. Now everything there is politicized because the Red Guard types remaining are on the continual hunt for anything at which they might take offense. These are people who go wild for the opportunity to talk about the racist origins of steampunk.
Sure, but that's about a community drifting to topics you're not interested in, not about your being attacked for maintaining a personal blog about a hobby. I'm not saying it can't or never has happened, but I'm skeptical that this problem is widespread enough that it should deter anyone from writing about their interests (again, provided their interests are something other than current-events trash).
I used to be on a once-popular forum which has slowly skewed to the left, and then farther, and farther. Now everything there is politicized because the Red Guard types remaining are on the continual hunt for anything at which they might take offense. These are people who go wild for the opportunity to talk about the racist origins of steampunk.