Max,
You step on people's toes, they kick you in the shins.
You don't want to be Taylor Swift. Accept that those with power that don't have a logical counter argument are either going to just try to cut you off, or shout over you.
A large sorting process is going on here, between those on the side of the scab and those part of the underlaying flesh.
Looking at the necrotic political situation in Europe and the US, the impending collapse of Ukraine and Israel spiraling ever further into its own crazy pants echo chamber, that scab is slowly peeling away.
When it's millions and billions of people, it's not so much culture and politics, as biology and physics.
Be more compass than wind vane.