Does he mutely accept their disrespect by not responding (your point)?

Things don’t have to be false personal attacks to fall under Drew’s or your original statement

Your perspective is also uselessly narrow in that you don’t engage with enough people to make that kind of broad claim. Drew likely gets thousands of emails and comments and responses a day, and to claim that he’s mutely accepting the views of anyone he doesn’t respond to is a pointed accusation at someone that you…

You can tell yourself whatever you want about what you said.

Oh, agreed. I suspect my professor gave that example to explain his disdain for awareness campaigns and the like. I’m at the last years of Gen-X, and his statement about our generation was, “The best thing about you kids today is your tolerance. The worst thing about you kids today is your tolerance. And touching…

My prior post was showing the worthlessness of silent dissent. I gave an example of it. I then agreed with a poster on Danish resistance, but explained that active resistance isn’t silent dissent.

It’s only mute acceptance when you’re directly addressed, but if it’s widely broadcast, it’s totally fine to ignore bad and wrong ideas.The Danes (example from your other thread) were only responsible to resist Nazis when they were being individually addressed, right? Otherwise, your definition of “always” couldn’t…

That means that any time you don’t respond to people being wrong or terrible (including the thousands of wrong and terrible people on the internet every second), you’re accepting their views.

So instead of following that advice yourself, noticing that I in part disagree with Drew, or actually disagreeing with my point or flyingdiscs, you went with random insult.

So are you saying that society has embraced the need for active consent?

So are you saying that society has embraced the need for active consent?

Until society embraces the need for active consent, silence will always be seen as mute acceptance.

There is no way to deal with them other than to walk the fuck away, you know like teachers used to tell me when I was a kid.

Your absolutism has me all confused.

You respond to trolls with facts. I’m not sure what level of engagement that is to be honest. It’s probably an unfair burden, as the average troll is either a Gish galloper or making a bad faith argument, both of which require more work for the non-troll than the troll, but honestly that’s the responsibility of…

This is an interesting point. As a teacher, I can prove my professionalism and excellence, but likely none of those will prevent me from eventually getting fired, as that I work with at risk youth in an alternative school and eventually I will get caught in the numbers crunch of state testing.

Oh, agreed. But overt resistance isn’t silent dissent. Nor were mass protests, sabotage and physically helping Jews escape.

Silent dissent. Oh yeah, heroic and wonderfully effective throughout history.

You just ignore them. Silence is always the best insult.

Are you coming around on a point? Here’s the issue: Your claim of publically getting them on the record as bigots, racists, and homophobes is pointless because that record already exists. No one who voted for Trump didn’t know he was a racist bigot. No centrist is looking around saying, “Jeez, with this vote againts…