An approval approach to culture attempts to cancel people’s freedom to abstain from offering applause to other people’s choices. When kindly pointing out reality is considered to be hate speech a society is sinking into deep deception. It’s not unkind to disagree when people try to define reality by their desires.

Reality matters. People who disagree with you aren’t wrong just because you want them to be.

Reality matters. Desire doesn’t define reality, but it can stop us from seeing reality.

Reality matters. A child in the womb isn’t nonhuman because the mother wants it to be.

Reality matters. The cruel racial horror in American history isn’t erased because some people want it left out of textbooks.

Reality matters. A man isn’t a woman or a woman a man because he or she wants to be.