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tla  ·  3409 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trying and failing vs listening and learning

If sitting quiet is fine and dandy for you, good for you, you're fortunate. It must be nice to be so comfortable by default.

If I had to sit around here on hubski merely lurking, I would have left. No joke. I'd have assumed that everyone was ok with the guy who gradually escalated to spewing racist anti-woman violent rhetoric that y'all are harboring here, since he's still here, still shared, still circledotted etc. I mean seriously, his cherry-picking even gets praised for 'fighting the fight'.

Instead, by participating, I bothered to stay around long enough that I learned that most people don't actually want him here. So I stayed.

I mean, if you want people to self select away because of the sleeper trolls, then by all means, aim for the sleeper trolls.

You'll never know what you're missing out on.