Arguing with and calling out people online is counterproductive for any social purpose, pushing people further away, while also making them feel more relatively confortable with unscrupulous bigots that will tend to accept them.
And its just bad for your mental health in general.
Bullying doesn't work. Despite what we're all used to saying, it backfires more often than not. We just selectively remember when it does, like an abusive parent.
Well-calibrated peer pressure, that meets someone's moral compass in the right way, works.
Arguing with and calling out people online is counterproductive for any social purpose, pushing people further away, while also making them feel more relatively confortable with unscrupulous bigots that will tend to accept them. And its just bad for your mental health in general.
To add to this,
Bullying doesn't work. Despite what we're all used to saying, it backfires more often than not. We just selectively remember when it does, like an abusive parent.
Well-calibrated peer pressure, that meets someone's moral compass in the right way, works.