White supremacist and fascist trolls have lately become emboldened (I wonder why) to take their garbage from the Internet to meatspace.
Whether it’s a conference like HOPE or a site like this one*, a dedication to open discourse has to be balanced by an understanding of Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance and clear policies reflecting the fact that advocates of thoroughly discredited ideas like white supremacism and misogyny and anti-LGBTQ bigotry and fascism are not welcome to use the platform.
[* where just yesterday a white supremacist tried – and failed – to take racist dumps all over the threads]
