If you don’t mind me being blunt, isn’t this a little boring? That’s one thing I enjoy about not putting generally any restriction on people I come in contact with. Diversifying is never a bad thing.That said, I defined my borders relatively close to my own belief of what I think is acceptable to do and say myself and apply it to others. This way I actually surround myself with people that I like for what they are, what they do, what they say. Disagreement for sure still happens, but we at least know, that our basis is the same and the rest can be discussed. A person shunning someone for not being built like a bodybuilder, thinking slavery was a viable approach to labour, anti-vaxx (in the sense like being too dumb to make research on a topic and just be against something without any knowledge) and other stuff is definitely not someone I would surround myself with.
I’ve been friends with people who are arrogant, some humble, some poor (spoken to some with less than that), some with a good life, some of different religions, so on. Some of the best things I’ve learned came from people I never would’ve expected. Infact one of the people I’ve connected very deeply with, is possibly the most arrogant person I’ve ever known (and disliked by a lot of others). Reason why is we grew up in similar ways, and had matching interests. I actually learned a very valuable life lesson from him as well that I never did from anyone else. It’s helped me for well over 10 years.
I don’t know what Gerry exactly said about slavery so I won’t be quick to make a conclusion. But a strange thing I have noticed is that some of the best and most helpful people I have come across have had some history of online trolling. It’s like they need to use it as an outlet of sorts but IRL, they’re far too nice that it’s almost like I am meeting another person.