Someone is always going to be alienated by some topic, so this notion that the community should as a rule never alienate anyone is unworkable. The best you can do is create a community that alienates as many of the acceptable targets as possible (nazis, transphobes, etc), and as few others as possible, but that's still going to be a non-zero number. Especially when there are disagreements about topics held in good faith.
Someone is always going to be alienated by some topic, so this notion that the community should as a rule never alienate anyone is unworkable. The best you can do is create a community that alienates as many of the acceptable targets as possible (nazis, transphobes, etc), and as few others as possible, but that's still going to be a non-zero number. Especially when there are disagreements about topics held in good faith.
This is such a good take
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