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Where, pray tell, is the proper place to engage with these people as fellow human beings then in your opinion? Is it loosely defined as a place that the rhetor
by Endy 8y ago
Where, pray tell, is the proper place to engage with these people as fellow human beings then in your opinion? Is it loosely defined as a place that the rhetoric and world-view you prefer (and which I probably prefer as well) rules with an iron fist, with people who are actively censoring what someone says and forcing them into changing the way they address you? Over time, lines have been drawn, and many people have become disenfranchised based on the unwritten rules of certain Web communities. I'm not suggesting for a moment that you'll change your mind suddenly and agree with their views - or that I would. The people who feel strongly about certain issues have formed communities, and they supposedly defend the right and virtue of free speech. So, speak to them! Freely. Don't seek to control, but to understand. And then when you do understand, if you can find common ground, work from it. If not, sit back and consider where your morality differs so distinctly from another member of the human race that you can find no core values in common. I've found doing that makes for a much better result in my dealings with both left-wing and right-wing radicals - because I can usually find at least something we both see as positive.
- s73v3r_ 8y ago"Where, pray tell, is the proper place to engage with these people as fellow human beings then in your opinion?" Somewhere not blocked by the anonymity of the internet. When online, especially at a place like Gab, or even Twitter, people are predisposed to behaving in more of a trollish, uncharitable way. In person, many of those behaviors don't happen. "with people who are actively censoring what someone says" I'm sorry, but I can't continue after this. You set up this sob story about not treating those on the alt-right as people, yet decry others telling the alt-right that they have to treat others as people, and not, for example, say that Jews should be treated as livestock. Its part of this really shitty mindset that people must tolerate the alt-right, but they don't have to tolerate anyone else, and should be encouraged, even, to shit on others. If they want respect, they need to show it to others. If they're not willing to do that, then it's no surprise that they feel they get no respect in turn.