yet with the exception of AMAs, few public figures use Reddit as a venue for major exchanges of ideas.

are you smarter than all of them, or is it possible that they understand something that you don’t?

Since responding is apparently a strawman

Would we really be better off with every lunatic or troll who disrespects a politician getting a personalized government-sanctioned public response, no matter how dismissive?

Dodge dodge dodge. You’re always content to nitpick about words and context from your post, yet you’re happy to pull a word out of context from my posts to summarily dismiss them.

Ooh, this pulling old contradictory quotes thing is fun. I should have started it earlier.

an actively moderated thread on Kinja would look passive on some (but not all) subreddits.

I get the difference between passive and active moderation, though any definition would be pretty arbitrary and be solely based on proving your previous point.

What’s a site where moderators actively respond to every bad post and don’t do any deletion, banning, or flagging?

Flagging, banning, and other moderating works better.

You’re still afraid to answer the question, and still have to grasp at straws to avoid it.

I can’t tell if that’s another dodge or another failure at reading comprehension.

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.