Embed Notice

@garfieldairlines@fedi.garfieldairlines.net I follow a lot of people that most other fellow leftist people consider "awful" on here but I don't consider them "nothing of value". Not dehumanizing people goes both ways in my opinion.

Instead of blocking bigots on sight I'd rather just try to interact with them about normal stuff, show them I'm a actual person too. I think these kinds of things really help to reduce the extreme polarization we're facing at the moment.

Also another reason is that I'd like to keep an eye on them so I have some ideas about what other fucked ideologies are up to at the moment.

Also many other leftists don't like it when I say this, but I oppose the "nazi bar" argument.

If you kick them out they will make their own nazi bar anyway, and an even more exteme one, without you. If you keep them around you can still talk to them, convince them of different opinions, etc.

I know my approach doesn't work for everyone, especially people being actively targeted by hate.

As a leftist and as if you can do so without being targeted or harassed I actually would recommend following at least a small number of far right people for some actual spicy diversity in your timeline.