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[@Violet Rose in The Rain](/forums/generals/topics/tartarus?post_id=5168481#post_5168481)
> > This reminds me of a trans friend of mine. While on a college campus they heard someone express transphobic views and were scared. They feared being assaulted. And they told me how they felt scared to attend events or be visibly queer on campus.
> When you allow hate speech you don’t get neutrality. People are afraid of being in a space where people who want to hurt them are allowed to openly talk about that. Soon all you are left with is the bigots.
I often find that the solution to that often is to be friendly with that person from my experience. A lot or the hate comes from an ignorance of an other and if you want to dismantle the hate you must remove the ignorance. that and once you do become friends with them it becomes incredibly difficult for them that when they say those things they know they're attacking a friend of theirs.
[@HorsesandMuchMOAR](/forums/generals/topics/tartarus?post_id=5168515#post_5168515)
personally I think the rounding up of people and "re-educating them" sounds absolutely horrifying. not only because it ges against the American ideals of free expression but because historically, that method was used against the innocent as well such as under McCarthyism.
> > This reminds me of a trans friend of mine. While on a college campus they heard someone express transphobic views and were scared. They feared being assaulted. And they told me how they felt scared to attend events or be visibly queer on campus.
> When you allow hate speech you don’t get neutrality. People are afraid of being in a space where people who want to hurt them are allowed to openly talk about that. Soon all you are left with is the bigots.
I often find that the solution to that often is to be friendly with that person from my experience. A lot or the hate comes from an ignorance of an other and if you want to dismantle the hate you must remove the ignorance. that and once you do become friends with them it becomes incredibly difficult for them that when they say those things they know they're attacking a friend of theirs.
[@HorsesandMuchMOAR](/forums/generals/topics/tartarus?post_id=5168515#post_5168515)
personally I think the rounding up of people and "re-educating them" sounds absolutely horrifying. not only because it ges against the American ideals of free expression but because historically, that method was used against the innocent as well such as under McCarthyism.