What the president of Y Combinator learned from interviewing 100 Trump supporters

But it’s just wrong. Are we to ignore other forms of bigotry? Is it okay to be antisemitic, sexist, and racist, too? These are dangerous world views that will eventually lead down the road to violence, because they are violent ideologies. [quote=“tlwest, post:278, topic:95529”]
you provide the sympathizers (who nonetheless find the tactics repugnant) with sufficient room to disengage.
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If people can’t see that “let’s kill all the ________” is a bad world view, and to be willing to forgive it, how is that something we can productively engage with? At what point does the acceptance of dehumanization end?

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