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CMV: Ostracization of bigots is better than giving bigots a platform

So I would like to think that most sensible and reasonable people find discrimination to be abhorrent, so I'm open to having my view changed if we agree on the goal but just differ on how to get there. For me, I feel like, just like bullies, the best thing that we can do as a society is to not engage with racists / people who are anti-LGBTQ / misogynists etc. Ignore their attempts to get a rise out of you. Unfriend them. Don't give their inflammatory opinions any oxygen. And yes, I think we should deplatform them. The alternative of giving them a platform just allows them to find like-minded people to grow their twisted ideologies and recruit others. If they're given a platform, they will think their views have validity. But if confronted with ostracization, they'll learn that there are consequences to their beliefs, and that's the first step to questioning them. I don't think we should give them the same privileges that they themselves wouldn't give to marginalized groups. We should stop tolerating extremism.
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The problem with ostracizing them is that it doesn't address the problem, it just hides it. Forcing someone into the shadows won't force them to question their beliefs, it makes them feel like they are correct to feel persecuted. 

We should engage with abhorrent views. Wherever they come up, they should be addressed. We cannot prevent people from forming likeminded groups, but we can make sure that anyone who sees their messages also sees the rational, reasoned arguments against them. That way we can prevent as many people as possible from being radicalized.

For an example, look at the flat earth movement. They are ostracized and ridiculed now. That has not stopped the movement. It pushed them onto the fringes. Now, people are introduced to it in indirect ways to shift their perception of the world until they come to question everything that disagrees with their new beliefs. The solution is not to hide their arguments, it is to continue to debunk them so more people don't fall down the rabbit hole.