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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
... The internet... assuming we learn to talk to each other in ways that don't simply drive people away, or worse, we literally drive people away through censorship, pushing them into dark corners, bubbles of like-minded individuals who will never think to challenge their core premises.
Yeah, this is even a bigger problem IRL. Like I go to Bar A... and some noob wanders in, and starts explaining how black folk's culture is what's holding them back. Some reg calls the noob a r-word-er. Is that noob going to come back in? I think not.
Instead, we should strive to be more like Bar B. At Bar B, when some noob comes in explaining the defects of black culture, he isn't 'name called'. Instead his ideas are welcomed as reasonable debate in an open manner. He's made to feel welcome. Not only is that noob proly coming back to Bar B, he's quite likely to bring some of his like minded friends along with him.
That's the trick here... we need to learn to talk to each other in ways that don't simply drive people away.
We need to make it so that folks who wanna have reasoned debate, about such things like the defects in black culture, are welcomed everywhere... we need to strongly discourage the Bar As of the world, and strive to make the world more like the Bar Bs. Instead of literally driving people away through censorship, pushing them into dark corners, bubbles of like-minded individuals who will never think to challenge their core premises... we need to welcome these peeps with open arms into our bars, communities, workplaces, churches, public events, and even into our own families and homes !!!1!