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Ask Soylent - How to Treat Intolerance in a Tolerant Society?

posted by n1 on Sunday April 13 2014, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the anyone-who-disagrees-will-be-shot dept.

Fluffeh writes:

It has been a little while now that this fledgling community has been around and it remains one of my favorite stories about communities. A splinter of a much larger community took it upon themselves to challenge the rest and make a move to a new home. Shedding the shackles that were being placed on them was a bold move, but one that has been fantastic.

The community here is great, but here is my question. Overall, we are amazingly tolerant of others, of the choices they make, and of their beliefs. I would then be curious, if we are such a tolerant group, how do we address intolerance in our ranks? I recently came across what I can only say filled me with pity and sadness. I find it saddening that in this day and age, and especially in this group, there are still such hate-filled people.

But this poses a question: how does a group that is tolerant deal with intolerance within it's ranks? Does our acceptance of others extend to accepting someone that has thoughts and beliefs which are far from the norm within this community, or is there a limit placed on how far from our own values a member of the community may be?

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by cmdrk on Sunday April 13 2014, @07:38PM

    by cmdrk (3711) on Sunday April 13 2014, @07:38PM (#30869)

    Outing and ostracizing someone, no matter their beliefs, is pretty shitty. I can't believe we're already seeing this crap posted here.

    I really don't want to abandon this site, I like the technical news posted. That said, if it turns into yet another news aggregator that claims to be a bastion of free speech, yet actively moderates or removes those with views that conflict with the majority, I'm out.

    Just my 2c

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Sunday April 13 2014, @08:02PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Sunday April 13 2014, @08:02PM (#30893) Homepage Journal

    I posted my position on this here: http://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=1261&cid=30 886 [soylentnews.org]

    I'm not sure what you mean by "moderate" in this context; people will likely downmod bigotted comments and such even with the reworked system. Staff get mod points the same as regular users, but we don't have unlimited mod points like the other site.

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