I'm less upset about staunchly anti-censorship and anti-purity people reblogging those posts than I am of the way the OP who put all those dogwhistles there in the first place getting notes and feeling validated. We talk about deplatforming as a way to protect people from bad rhetoric and potential abusers but I think an underrated aspect to it is the way it denies awful people validation. Social cornering does work on those who are doing bad things out of a genuine sense of responsibility towards others, and their actions having the opposite effect might just work to make them reconsider their positions.
It's the whole... "when being tolerant gets you friends, being tolerant becomes more desireable and easier". I just don't like belligerent people being popular b/c that both lets them spread and normalise their belligerence and because I don't think rewarding being an asshole should be acceptable in any sitation.
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I'm less upset about staunchly anti-censorship and anti-purity people reblogging those posts than I am of the way the OP who put all those dogwhistles there in the first place getting notes and feeling validated. We talk about deplatforming as a way to protect people from bad rhetoric and potential abusers but I think an underrated aspect to it is the way it denies awful people validation. Social cornering does work on those who are doing bad things out of a genuine sense of responsibility towards others, and their actions having the opposite effect might just work to make them reconsider their positions.
It's the whole... "when being tolerant gets you friends, being tolerant becomes more desireable and easier". I just don't like belligerent people being popular b/c that both lets them spread and normalise their belligerence and because I don't think rewarding being an asshole should be acceptable in any sitation.