I'm rebellious, generally more right than left, and get annoyed by right-on lefty do-gooders telling everyone what they're allowed to think.
But I can appreciate that gollies are offensive and racist and always were. This isn't about free speech or any great persecution, it's just about not displaying insulting symbols. There is no good principle to defend, and there's a 99.99% chance that anyone somehow randomly deciding to display a golly is a racist and knows absolutely full well that it's offensive but they'll talk round in circles trying to deny the obvious. It's not big or clever, it's just scummy.