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Imagine if every bar in town had swastika flags and racist epithets on the walls, and patrons who uttered slurs and intimidated women and gays. And when the bou
by Zigurd 6y ago
Imagine if every bar in town had swastika flags and racist epithets on the walls, and patrons who uttered slurs and intimidated women and gays. And when the bouncer shows up they kvetch about free speech.
No amount of good patrons in those bars makes the bad patrons tolerable.
There will always be shitholes dominated by meth-cookers and Nazi bikers. But most bars choose to be enjoyable places.
Social media are privately run spaces. The lowest level of discourse sets the tone. Clean it up.