Here is how I ended up here.

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[–]Dragonerne 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It is about logic and reason. A great example of how this dynamic plays out is this very thread.
One side presents a reasonable position and the other responds with character attacks instead of the reasonable positions.
The high IQ audience detects that one side has all the arguments and the other is just ad hominem, which makes him reconsider his own positions. Maybe they are actually right.
The low IQ audience detects the ad hominems and either finds it funny (if they already agreed with the rude person) or not funny (if they already didn't agree with the rude person). It moves no one.
Over time this means that the high IQ audience starts regurgitating the reasonable positions themselves which converts even more to the side and so the story continues.

Which audience do you actually think you're convincing by writing this:

Forcing reasonable spaces to become extremism hives is how those neutral gray areas are destroyed. I imagine you upvoted yourself a few times with a few other accounts too.

Everyone with >100 IQ can see the bias and the lack of content. You're not actually presenting any arguments here. Just baseless ad hominems and character attacks.

[–]newguy 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

People can dress up hatred and racism using a lot of high-minded sounding language, but that doesn't change the basis of it as being hateful and racist. These are things I stand against.

[–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I actually agree wholeheartedly with that comment. I could've written it.

But I bet we don't agree on the definition of "hate" and "racism". Do you support affirmative action? A racist policy that discriminates against individuals that happen to have a white skin colour?