btaf45@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 11 months ago‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipelinewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down122cross-posted to: news@kbin.socialcasualconversation@lemmy.worldeurope@feddit.de
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minus-squarePiers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months 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.
minus-squaretheneverfox@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoNot 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
minus-squarePiers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoThey are only “ever growing in number” because we allow them a platform to spread their nonsense.
Tolerating people like that is the best way to let them chip away at and destroy a decent tolerant society.
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
They are only “ever growing in number” because we allow them a platform to spread their nonsense.