At this point I barely even have a damn left to give. If it's not them, it's somebody else. It's only a matter of time.
For the last ten years we've been in this constant cycle of throwing other people into the path of the mob. Not directly in many cases, not intentionally, but by silence and by inactivity. Be outspoken, but less than the other guy, so he gets targeted first. Be subversive, but only so much, so they go after bigger targets. Stay quiet. Say different words instead of the ones you really want to say, so the people who say the real words get targeted first.
I'm fucking sick of it. I'm sick and tired of it. These people will not stop. They will not be satisfied. They can only be given new targets. Time and time again both individuals and companies have taken the same stance; appeasement. They apologize, they kowtow, they suck the feminine penis. It's never enough, because these people hate you. They want to destroy you utterly and leave you insane and suicidal, because you dared at one time say 'no' to them in one way or another. They will never be happy, not even after they've torn you to pieces and then jumped on said pieces.
If there's one idea I'd like to violently crowbar into the heads of every talent out there, it's that you can't treat these people like equals. They don't view you as human. You're not one of the Anointed, the Chosen, the Gnostics, the Enlightened. You are intrinsically, fundamentally evil to them, and you can never be anything else, ever, for any reason. When they come after you, it's not because they've found something they object to. They hate you already. They hate you for being popular and successful, positive and upbeat. All 'evidence' of wrongdoing they bring up is nothing but a public shield, to try and delude the unaligned into thinking they have a point.
Shut them out. Keep them away. Don't give them an inch. Don't give them a millimetre. Don't give them a nano-angstrom. The moment you see a rainbow flag, a personal pronoun, any hint of infiltration, get rid of it. Never compromise, because there can never be any compromise, just slow incremental steps to them taking over and destroying you.