I might agree with the core thing that was driving me to say that, but I was a little too intense about it. Commonly referred to as Balloon Guy, Michael uses mylar balloons to spell out pithy phrases he then posts on the internet and people both love and hate. That’s especially true for Michael James Schneider, an artist whose work you’ve probably seen online. As a writer and video maker who focuses on social justice issues, Dylan Marron receives a lot of negative messages on the internet. On the internet, nobody seems to remember you’re a real person. Listen to Conversations With People Who Hate Me wherever pods are casted. Conversations with People Who Hate Me takes hateful conversations online and turns them into productive conversations offline. For five years he hosted and produced Conversations with People Who Hate Me, a podcast where he called up the people behind negative comments on the internet. Get your copy of Dylan’s book, Conversations With People Who Hate Me wherever books are sold. Almost invariably my guests will say: Listen, I shouldn't have said that. In this episode, Dylan talks about what the comments and conversations have meant to his mental health and his view of the world. And there's something so humanizing about that and disarming. You hear their "ums" and "uhs," you hear their hesitation - and that goes for all of us on the call, including me. It's not in person so we're still apart, but it's that real time conversation, you hear someone's voice. The simple line I give is: Do you want to move this online conversation offline? I think there's something about a phone that is a happy medium. On how he reaches out to people who are angry with him I also want to make a safe space for the person who wrote me or my guest something negative. that is starting the conversation at a deficit, you know what I mean? I want to make sure we are in as safe a place as possible - and I know that's a very zeitgeisty term right now.
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