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 @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado I will interact with anyone if they're friendly and respectful. I conceptualize it as though we're all in a house party socializing. It's not a major concern of mine if you've said something offensive before somewhere else. If we're at a party together and you're being friendly and respectful and able to carry on a constructive, enjoyable conversation then you're good by me. Now, if I see you walk to another room and start throwing slurs around and being hateful, I might not want to associate with you further. But, I'm not going into any conversation or engagement with prejudice. Furthermore, how are we supposed to change or grow as people if we're unwilling to communicate? Alienation and censorship only fuels radicalization because it quarantines individuals from exposure to different ideas or points of view or experiences, and only ferments them within an ever-more-dogmatic group-think which necessitates allegiance and unanimity. 
 Unfortunately, that doesn't matter for the list-makers. It's not enough that my posts are hidden from their sight, nobody else they talk to must be able to see my posts either. 
 We really should get like this ourselves.

I don’t want someone around who is around the company of NIGGERS and FAGGOTS. 
 Sorry Owl, I'm not defederating clubcyberia. 
 @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado @owl. @b17a3b4f tell owl that eientei and clubcyberia are very friendly between each other :ryukoD: 
 Solid slam. 
 @b17a3b4f @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado 

>  Alienation and censorship only fuels radicalization

This has an inherent bias against reactions from exposure, which ironically account for most racism. 
 @89a8406c I don't understand what you mean? @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado 
 @b17a3b4f @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado 

e.g.  White people of Baltimore and Detroit are going to be more racist than White people living in Rhode Island or Vermont.

This is not due to isolation, but from "exposure to different ideas or points of view or experiences" explicitly. 
 @89a8406c Rhode Island and Vermont are more affluent with less criminality; Doesn't much have anything to do with race. The homeless and drug-addicted petty criminals I've run across in the PNW were all white. If you're only exposure is to a tiny microcosm then your biased will be limited to that vacuum. The solution isn't greater limitations of exposure, but more exposure to a larger sample. @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado 
 @b17a3b4f @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado 

I strongly disagree with a few of the assertions here, one must be willfully blind to believe such things. 
 @89a8406c That's okay. You're welcome to disagree. @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado 
 @b17a3b4f @Hoss “Cyber Jester” Delgado 

That's true, but here I am not the one leaning on a priori assertions, and the onus for such things isn't on me.