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I’m actually in that camp too. I’m just FAR from plugging my ears and calling anyone from an entire site a “tankie” and banning them outright.
Many of these people are quite intelligent and are willing to talk through their perspective. It’s not like it’s going to suddenly make you into one of them to read some of their writing. If your moral compass is well-calibrated, you’ll know that what they’re saying is wrong.
The only way that we can understand people we disagree with is to study them and analyze their perspective on their level.
I’ve seen calls for violence and rhetoric that I didn’t agree with. I didn’t join in. I just said to myself, “this is wrong.” and I went on to say my piece in defense of a different way.
Now if someone is openly calling for the deaths of entire ethnicities, that’s an obvious, “the only way to deal with a Nazi is bullying”.
Again, it is complicated and nuanced. I’m honestly glad to be talking about it here because I think that no one has the answer. I just think the answer is RARELY to plug your ears and dismiss people with labels in this and many other cases.
It’s not complicated nor nuanced. If you actually had a moral compass, you wouldn’t be turning a blind eye towards calls for violence. Being willing to gish gallop through some “effort posts” is not equivalent to intelligent discourse, and frankly that’s what I’m seeing from you here.