This, by Tressie McMillan Cottom, is infinitely more intelligent than anything the Editorial Board of the @nytimes.com has ever published about public life and public speech
Adding that, as many people have also noted, living in a society means there are plenty of instances when one *should* stfu. As a teacher friend of mine is fond of saying: "I never default to telling kids to be themselves, because what if they're an asshole? Our goal is to be better than we are."