06-03-2020, 09:12 AMLeoben Wrote: Credit to @Baelor Swift for actually trying.

While I'm pretty sure this is an attention grab post at this point, I don't think people dismissing him and telling him to fuck off and leave are right either.  It's still marginalizing.  I'm not saying he should be provided a platform either.  Site admin can decide what to do there.  There are other forums for that.

I live in an area where the majority of the population believe what Jruutu is saying.  It's wrong and kind of fucked up.  But, if you dismiss them, tell them they're stupid and ignorant, fuck off and die, whatever, then everyone just retreats back into their beliefs and nothing changes.  Everyone has their own beliefs and experiences which helped form those beliefs.  Not saying they're right but you can't eradicate a group of people, but maybe eradicate the idea and belief over time.

It's just funny because this thread has emulated so many conversations I have been a part of and witnessed in my daily life.

Telling him to fuck off is completely justified. At the end of the day, he was expressing overtly racist views and pushing whitewashed narratives of what is going on right now. It does take a lot of energy to read such hateful views and respond calmly with an intention to create a productive dialogue. Especially because, in many cases, it just leads nowhere. So if many people weren't feeling up to it, it's not their responsibility to sit and take time and energy to explain why these opinions in the OP are hateful and to try to explain what is going on from the perspective of the protestors and rioters. Today, I just felt like doing it and I'm glad I did.