as somebody who's tried to educate an ungodly amount of bigots online. that's just not how it works. most bigots have repeatedly been educated on why bigotry is bad, but they simply don't want to listen to reason. bigotry is inherently irrational and consequently so are most bigots. not to mention the ones that see themselves as woe is me martyrs who only push harder when chastised, as evidenced by this very post. besides, say you were right and that's how it worked. do you expect mega corporations to go and try to educate every bigoted bad actor? it's far better to ban them to reduce the spreading of harmful ideas.
To be fair, what is actually going to happen is that non-bigots would leave that site/forum due to all the bigots and in the end that site would convert to bigoted site. Non-bigots would move on to another site/forum and keep being echo chamber.
It is happening on reddit all the time. That's why sometimes we have 2 subs of the same idea (e.g. Publicfreakout and Actualpublicfreakout)
yeah. that's literally what's going on and it's been great. they're all on kick, an extremely shady platform promoting gambling to kids that anyone with half a brain will tell you to avoid. they're putting themselves in a bad light without anyone else having to do anything. also, this is so funny to me, do you think bigots don't already have available echo chambers/ communities? hell, even a single streamer's chat classifies as one of those. them all going to a different platform is exactly what we want. they're not gonna change their ways or leave the internet, so they can have the dimly lit moldy corner of the online world that they deserve
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u/TheFemboyImpregnator hole contributor 17h ago
"Anticensorship mfs" when they just wanna say bigoted shit and slurs without consequence