• Piers@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Engaging people like that is the only way to make them less extreme.

    Tolerating people like that is the best way to let them chip away at and destroy a decent tolerant society.

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      1 year ago

      Not tolerate - engage.

      You challenge them, maybe just tell them what they’re saying is wrong, ideally you gently prod them to acknowledge conflicts in their ideology.

      We have to offer them a path back to acceptance or they’ll always be on the other side, ever growing in number

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        1 year ago

        They are only “ever growing in number” because we allow them a platform to spread their nonsense.