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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The fuck your feelings people can get their feelings fucked. Get away with those crocodile tears.

[–] lemon@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

On an emotional level agree completely. But anyone who can admit they made a mistake, deserves a bridge back, even if the mistake was something they received ample warning about and even though their motivation for making the mistake stemmed from the worst of human nature… and even though their reason for regretting the mistake is because it’s now affecting them personally—

Okay, really need to force myself to believe these people deserve their bridge back

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

They might not deserve it, but so much can be gained by being more gentle than people deserve. The people who mistreated MLK didn't deserve his kindness, but he gave it anyway and that played a huge part in how influential he was

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

As painful as it is, this is both what the high road actually looks like, and how we win, longer term. We need to bleed off those we can from the echo chamber of insanity. The more 'moderates' we can strip off, the more obvious that insanity becomes.

Mockery feels good, but it drives them back into their group. Kindness and understanding gives us the cracks we need to start deconverting them.