• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Genuinely uninformed people are difficult to distinguish from concern trolls, and indulging the latter poisons the well and lets the propagandists win. That’s why it’s so important to aggressively root them out, but also why doing so in and of itself can be dangerous when you get it wrong.

    Anyway, @givesomefucks’ tone was wrong, but his facts were not. So anyone participating in good faith ought to forgive/ignore the former and focus on the facts instead of making a tone argument, because that keeps the discussion on track while scolding the guy does not.