Paris and Marie-Louise, who both study mental health nursing at the University of Salford, said they felt that being respectful of others’ opinions is key.

Paris said she thought it was important to be able to “express your emotions and feelings without being disrespectful”, and allow others to do so too.

The problem is that, not coincidentally in our current age, the speech we’re expected to respect - all of the examples they gave - are conservative views on race, gender and the like, all of which are pretty much explicitly advocacy for disrespect for some subset of humanity. So the call for mutual respect has already been violated simply by the expression of those views. The exact point of them is that this or that group of people should NOT be accorded respect.

So the whole thing is self-defeating.

Quite simply - if their calls to deny respect and/or rights to some group of people must be treated as legitimate, then our calls to deny respect and/or rights to them must also be treated as legitimate. And if our calls to deny them respect and/or rights are to be disallowed, then their calls to deny others respect and/or rights must also be disallowed.