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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Ha ha ha. You realize that it makes absolutely no sense to act hatefully against bigotry. You don't end racism with more racism; you end it by being loving and compassionate to the other side, respectfully trying to help un-skew their perspective because you care about them. Your stance of cutting them out of your life and calling them a-holes is in essence bigotry. In a lot of ways people like you scare me just as much as the bigots as your high level of intolerance paints you as an extremist.
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This is nonsense. Bigotry involves irrational hatred of someone on the basis of an inherent quality, like race. His response has to do with disliking their perspectives, ideas, philosophies - none of which are inherent or unchangeable. Being intolerant of intolerance is not hypocrisy.
That being said, I do agree that the better way is to listen to why they hold the views they hold and explain rationally why those views are wrong. If they still won't listen, at least you tried, and it's on Facebook, so other people can read it and perhaps be swayed. However, it's hard to fault people who just don't have the patience to want to morally improve people who are being dicks.