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Caulctive.

I think sometimes when you're in those cultures and it's so suffocating,

sometimes you just want to say,

shut up, faggot, you know what I mean?

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Thanks. Hey and welcome to conversations with people who hate me the show where I take

negative online conversations and move them offline I'm your host Dylan Merrin and

today we're talking about the idea of civility.

If you've logged on to social media recently you may have seen some members of the left arguing

with each other about how we should treat and speak to the quote unquote

other side. Whether it's how to treat government officials at restaurants, what words we use to describe

the daughter of a president, or how we speak to and about the president himself.

The left is divided. Some feel that we should be polite and civil,

while others believe that we should say whatever expletives we want to say to the people in power.

Either way, witnessing these arguments play out in concise clapbacks on social media can be disheartening in my experience. So I wanted to host one of those

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