[istinetz]

Okay, humble suggestion - remove yourself from the public square, but don't destroy it for me.

That way, you get to not hear racist stuff, and I get to not have my morality chosen by random americans.

[naravara]

TBH the issue is not that I can't stand to hear racist stuff, it's that there's well understood incentives to fear monger that have tangibly eroded social trust across the board and degraded the actual real life public square in the process. That's not just the heightened threats of terrorism and acrimonious political systems either, those are just the tips of the iceberg and there's a whole host of social maladies, mental health disorders, depression and anxiety symptoms, etc. coming out of this.

[humanrebar]

Right. Maybe we're much, much worse without public fora. There are valid concerns about social bubbles, fake news, and alternative facts already.

[pjc50]

Not hearing the stuff does not prevent someone who does hear the stuff from breaking into your house with a hammer, as Paul Pelosi discovered.

[0x445442]

Abe Lincoln was assassinated well before the internet.

[goldenchrome]

Do you think if someone hit your 82 year old grandfather on the head with a steel hammer that he would “make a full recovery”?