The knee-jerk reaction is to look at "hate speech" with fear and disgust. But the right way is to see an opportunity to have public conversations you can't have anywhere else online. We have to remember other users are real people, and what they say reflects a real sentiment in the world. You can either try to sweep it under the rug or embrace it.

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so we shouldn’t ignore it?

This is a lovely point of view if you’re not from the ruling class