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At racism. Easy call for me.

• beokop 8y ago
  Racism is pretty common across the world. Sure, we could just decide to not talk to anyone that posts racist thoughts, but would the world really be better off?
  • krapp 8y ago
    >Sure, we could just decide to not talk to anyone that posts racist thoughts, but would the world really be better off? ... yes? I can't imagine the world would be better off by engaging even more with racists.
    • beokop 8y ago
      The cure to racism isn’t isolation.
      • CamperBob2 8y ago
        Historically, no, but things might be different this time.
    • PavlovsCat 8y ago
      So in your mind, there's a "world", and then there's racists it can chose to "engage with" or not? You don't consider racists as part of the world? How many of the 7 billion people on this planet are racist in some way, do you think? And when "the world" stops "engaging with them", do you think they will just magically vanish or something? The internet is regressing by the month now. We're not at the level of little kids covering their eyes, thinking that makes them invisible, and makes the world disappear.
• ralusek 8y ago
  Yes, but please examine how the case becomes muddied with literally any level of nuance. Sargon of Akkad was deplatformed for using the n-word in a conversation criticizing a group of white-supremacists for behaving exactly like the people that they constantly classify as "n-words." He was literally using the term ironically, against white-supremacists, to show them how their own behaviors were exactly the sorts of behaviors they were attempting to classify as inferior and "black." The man has hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of footage of his opinions online. He is not racist...at all. And yet here you are confidently and smugly declaring your comfort with his livelihood being taken away on the basis of his racism because the issue could not be simpler in your mind.