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The discussion there makes me sad. On a practical level defederation is a reasonable inevitability, but the level of vitriol in there is neither productive nor healthy, for anyone.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
I find it amusing how often these groups say "No bigotry" in their rules, but make the exception whenever it fits their beliefs. Almost like it's virtue signalling or something.
Not to mention the predictable "No *phobia". Which in of itself is intolerance of other views.
That's an incredibly stupid point, my dude, ot to be a dick or anything.
Edit: i figured i might look like a dick if i leave it there so; no one cares about being intolerant, intolerance is a virtue. People care about what you are intolerant about.
I think their point is that it's hypocritical how people often mean that ('people should be intolerant of things I think are bad') when saying the opposite ('intolerance is bad'). For those who do care about intolerance and do think it's bad - certainly not no one - it's confusing and frustrating and sad.
Couldn't agree more. What I see there is knee-jerk reactions and a lot of, well just like you put it, vitriol, which I think is the perfect way to describe it.