> I hope you're fine with the same thing happening to you when someone finds your views repugnant.

This doesn't randomly happen to everyone.

What is your proposal for moving the ball forward? How would you deal with groups of racists trying to influence society?

Base society on strong foundational principles like liberty and justice. Give everyone the tools to properly evaluate ideas. Attempts to extinguish bad ideas should focus on arguing the point. Gradually the bad ideas will die out.

Every possible alternative relies on whoever is in power exercising condescending 'parent knows best' authority. And the rest of us just have to hope the whims of whoever is in power happen to align with ours. That's a bad way to run anything from the get-go, doubly so when the next generation takes over and is expected to know what the hell they're doing.

In the article we have a portion of society acting in their view of "justice".

I'm genuinely not sure at this point, other than killing off social media but I doubt we're going to stuff that back in Pandora's Box anytime soon.

Regardless, vigilantism isn't going to help and will only further worsen.

There's plenty of room for consequences that don't rise anywhere near the level of a harassment campaign.

> There's plenty of room for consequences that don't rise anywhere near the level of a harassment campaign.

Care to give some examples?

Things like social disengagement stemming from personal observations.

I.e., that person said something incredibly repugnant and clearly meant it, I'm not going to have lunch with them anymore.

And so on.

That's entirely fair.