Part of having a speaking role in politics of any sort is having to deal with public criticism of what you say or write. As soon as you step onto the stage, someone in the audience winds up to throw a rotten vegetable at you. This is to be expected. Unique to dissident politics is that everyone will eventually be denounced. If you get a big audience, someone with a big audience is going to denounce you eventually.
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