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There's a difference between being conciliatory and letting them exist in the space. They should be called out whenever they do something wrong/stupid. They should also be allowed to exist here and we should try to correct them. We don't need to pretend they're correct or reasonable. We just need to expose them to different ideas that they wouldn't otherwise see.
I never said they should be immediately booted from the space, but talking to them - exposing them to ideas - is what got us to where we are now. "Oh, it's such an echo chamber, that's bad, everyone needs to be exposed to differing ideas". The majority do not care, they're willing to pretend to listen to ideas just so they can call you a slur and parrot their own talking points. They should be minimally engaged with and shunned unless they're willing to meet a minimum standard of decorum, because nothing else has worked