"You Deserve to Die" and Other Fun Conversation Starters

Note to Self | Dec 6, 2017

Dylan Marron is internet famous. He makes clever and (actually) funny little Facebook-friendly videos about light topics like Islamophobia, masculinity, privilege. Which attract a *lot* of comments. Many loving and laudatory. Many… not.

Like the message from a grandmother in North Dakota saying he deserved to die. The teenager saying he was the most pathetic human being he’d ever seen. A gay artist in Atlanta saying he was everything wrong with liberalism. At first Dylan was shaken. Then he was curious. So he started calling these people. And Conversations With People Who Hate Me was born.

This week, the lovely Dylan Marron on the benefits of talking to our haters, and why it’s good for the country as well as your soul.  

 

 

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