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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Totally understood, and totally fair, but if you choose to, I think there is value in still interacting with those people.
As social interactions have become less physical and more online, we get to pick who we surround ourselves with, and naturally it's more likeminded people. It makes it easy to ignore and hate those that don't think like us.
Physical community is a vital way to change hearts/minds. As a person of colour, you may have a racist neighbour. People are generally less forthcoming in their views of hate in person. You may chat with your neighbour here and there as you're out mowing the lawn or whatever. Those interactions let your neighbour see you as a person, and may be the first step to changing their views.
That said, it could also just be a source of negative interactions for you, so you may say #### that neighbour and just have nothing to do with them, and that's totally reasonable too.
This guy, for example, is incredible:
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The issue with online/social and the segregation of opinions is that it's easy to pick the most ridiculous takes of the other side and create a demon caricature in your group/own head.
Libs of Tik Tok is the biggest one. Has anyone seen those videos and think, "ive never met anyone like that in my life"
But many followers seem to think that person is a personification of the "left" "democrats" etc.