I do remember that moment, that was quite a thing to see unfold in real time.

FWIW, I personally don’t see a reason that there would ever be such an urgency to participate in fox news’ low information at best, misinformation at worst, entertainment programming (glancing past the type of person who’s entertained by that). There’s just no angle you could consider where the producers arranging that interaction had anything but the worst intentions, and for a person with any humility, you would also have to know that as ignorant and unprepared as many of these people seem on the surface, it’s often an “every man” people’s populist act to try to get folks in red states on welfare to accept you and aspire to not be ashamed to live loud and proud as the temporarily embarrassed millionaires they always knew they were in their quiet moments. Sure, they can be humiliated and exposed by competent peers, but these are uniformly media trained, prep school and ivy league educated hate machines.

IMO, the majority of folks would have fallen in that moment, but what actually happened there was especially hard to witness. And fox was obviously the most egregious example, but I’d think about the same of any media request coming in from about any news network today. Outside of any type of previously discussed, organized and clearly shared goal that required media exposure for some reason, I don’t see why you’d want to engage with one of these organizations, especially on a taped video interview. If the community did want a statement made, at best I’d see it being something written and run by folks in the community, with a clearly stated deadline for feedback to consider.

Thanks for the comment.

Can you please elaborate on the “strong policy” (as you describe) that you may be using in these other communities?

If someone isn’t blatantly violating stated rules for the server/community by directly advocating for specific violence against a specific person, then I’m not sure where the line would/should be - the conversation around Luigi and healthcare that is tied to employment in countries like the US, does seem somewhat relevant to this community in my personal opinion (but this is a community and maybe we don’t all feel that way?). I’d say that in my experience, CEOs make decisions, increasingly bold and not supported by data, like the RTO mandates. The result being office workers being forced to sit in traffic, be exposed to serious illness, etc, all so they can conduct zoom meetings from a cubical inside that company’s commercial real estate holdings, rather than from the comfort of their homes, near their families.

A response to that increasing and fairly unchecked hostility directly against employees in the workplace feels valid here, don’t you think?