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Should the alt-right be allowed on this platform? Will centrists debate any members of the alt-right? Is it in their interests to confront them or are they a non-issue. Should they be ignored?

ReallyGoodOptics 6 Feb 17
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Based on my personal experience on Gab, I would not advise you to allow primitive antisemitism and racism on your platform. It will help much more to your enemies than will encourage any intellectual discussion.
In absolute majority of cases the alt-right is the same stupid as far-left, there is no common ground to discuss anything.

does being close minded encourage discussion?

@ReallyGoodOptics , exactly! they are very close minded, they believe they have all the answers, but they even don't know facts.
you could have a discussion with anyone, except the true-believer, and so called alt-right consists of those true-believers

@IvanYu it sounds like you are generalizing though. shouldnt we treat alt right people as individuals?

@ReallyGoodOptics , all people should be treated as individuals, but when we are talking on schoolchildren we could say that most of them are between 6 and 18 years old and an average schoolchild knows less than an average adult.

@IvanYu the alt right arent school children. where did you get that?

@IvanYu, I have the same concern. Thanks for pointing it out.

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I don't know any alt-right. I have the opposite problem of having to deal with the far left all the time. This is IDW community and as far as I know and correct me if I'm wrong, the majority of the IDW members condemn alt-righters. I'm not sure if having too many alt-right voices here would represent IDW well, but as long as they keep things civil and don't dehumanize anybody, I'm fine with it.

Isnt "dehumanizing" through speech something the left complains about?

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I would actually like to re-claim the label 'alt-right' from its negative associations and install it once again to mean all those ideas for freedom and sanity that it had in the beginning. The nut-jobs can have extreme right as that describes their ideas the best.

I don't think thats happening

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Why do you want to ban them? you sound like a leftist lmao I thought this group banned SJW's.

I am an sjw

@ReallyGoodOptics While the forcing of ideals into silence is deeply authoritarian and only serves to hide bad ideas rather than defeat them, I do not believe either SJW's or Alt right people should be banned.

Foul language should be condemned and in an intellectual discourse be dismissed. However opposition to bad ideas or crude language should be made though rhetoric and genuine ideological change. You cannot force someone to respect you.

@ProgenitorGnosis i have a feeling this site will be an authoritarian echo chamber.

@ReallyGoodOptics Well, how can we work to make sure that isn't the case? I'm very open to suggestions, and am curious how you think it will turn that way.

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I would enjoy debating the alt-right ideas.

you are more than free to do it on Gab.com
it's not an interesting experience, from my viewpoint

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I’m not at all that interested in the far left or the alt-right. I’m much more interested in truth that’s backed by facts. When the far left or alt-right have great innovative ideas they will naturally move up into possible solutions.

The alt right has facts for days

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Yes. In fact only leftists, social democrats, paleocons, alt-righters, fascists, absolutists and communists should be allowed on here. I think we can do away with the libertarians, centrists, conservatives and classical liberals. They don’t add much to the conversation at all.

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Of course the alt-right should be allowed on here, but I'm not so sure about the degenerate left.

Why not them?

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I've had way too many encounters with them on FB where they descend to all sorts of lame tactics that get the discussion no-where.

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I might agree with the alt right on some things but disagree on other things. It’s important that we be able to able to have the conversation.

Agreed

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My overall politics lean conservative, but my overall views however could be considered centrist (Libertarian). I imagine some alt-right folks will eventually make their way to this site, and as long as they stay civil in their debates they should get a voice on here, same is true with the far left. The blocking function works pretty good for those who get nasty in their debating.

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