My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.