Impish4249<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://federate.social/@mattblaze" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mattblaze</span></a></span> </p><p>For those who honestly want to engage in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/conversation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conversation</span></a> and not be <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blocked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blocked</span></a>, and I hope there are a lot of you who do and who are reading this, look around at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civildiscourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civildiscourse</span></a> of conversations that are ongoing and model <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inquisitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inquisitive</span></a> non-accusatory language.</p><p>You will still get blocked sometimes but not as much.</p><p>We are all stressed and all make poor language choices sometimes. If you look back in my timeline you'll see places where I did. I'm trying to be better. </p><p>Please try too.</p>