mekka okereke Nov 9, 2024

Part of my joy comes from blocking angry dudes that feel entitled to engagement. Highly recommend it! 👍🏿

I don't have to talk with everybody. There are so many people that are genuinely curious and open minded, that I just don't have to deal with these dudes.

There's an effectively infinite supply of "dudes on the internet." There is absolutely no shortage. The marginal cost of blocking one, is close to zero.

"Well, what about the marketplace of ideas huh? Not very inclusive of you!"

OK! 🤣

Show threadmekka okereke Nov 9, 2024

Paradox of tolerance and all that.

I don't see it as a paradox at all. You cannot include all ideas, because one of the loudest ideas, is "We should silence the ideas of Black people!" 🙂🙃

You cannot include this idea without excluding other ideas. So absolute inclusion shouldn't even be anyone's goal. It's certainly not mine.

And dealing with annoying people online can be exhausting. Even if they're not malicious! Me doing "racism 101" individually for millions of people, just doesn't work.

Show threadDan Neuman 🇨🇦Nov 10, 2024
@mekkaokereke That's my perspective as well. You get more free speech if you exclude hate speech. If you include hate speech, then you lose *all* the speech from the victims. It's a loss for society because minorities have the unique perspectives you don't have in the dominant culture. Edit: I mean, from a market of ideas perspective. It is just wrong from a societal perspective.
Show threadראַף  Nov 10, 2024

@dan613 @mekkaokereke

The funny thing about the marketplace of ideas phrase is actual markets are often regulated so they don't get flooded by unsafe and poor quality knockoffs of trusted goods. So if anything banning hate speech is totally a thing we should expect in a thriving "marketplace"

Show threadDan Neuman 🇨🇦
@raf @mekkaokereke Those are good markets. The guys who use the phrase are almost always free (unregulated) market types. They wrongly assume that a free market benefits them over others.
Nov 10, 2024 at 6:46pmWeb