When you see hate online, do you respond? If so, why and how, exactly?

People around the world are spending thousands of hours doing it, in very different, innovative ways. Come hear from two experts: Dylan Marron, host of the award-winning podcast Conversations with People who Hate Me, and Logan Smith, who runs the notorious Twitter account @YesYoureRacist, as they discuss and debate their favorite methods for responding online.

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Dylan Marron is a Webby Award winning digital creator. He's also an IFP Gotham Award & Drama Desk-nominated writer, performer, and video maker. He is the voice of Carlos on the hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale, an alum of the New York Neo Futurists theater collective, and the creator of Every Single Word (Tumblr's "Most Viral Blog" of 2015; Shorty Award Nominee), a video series that edits down popular films to only feature the words spoken by people of color. As a writer & correspondent at Seriously.tv Dylan created, hosted, and produced Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Shutting Down Bullsh*t, and the Unboxing series which have amassed over 100 million views across social platforms. Dylan currently makes Conversations with People Who Hate Me, the Webby-winning podcast where he calls up the people behind negative comments on the internet. It was selected as a Podcast Pick by USA Today & The Guardian, named "the timeliest podcast" by FastCompany, and earned him the title "prince of patience" by The New York Times. In 2018 he gave a TED Talk on why he makes the show.

Logan Smith runs the popular Twitter account @YesYoureRacist, which has grown from a lighthearted way to poke fun at people who say “I’m not racist but…” when it was created in 2012, to a major online presence in today’s fight against hate speech. In 2017, Logan was instrumental in identifying several of the white supremacists who participated in the Charlottesville riots, which received international news coverage and has been called a turning point in the fight against the so-called “alt-right.” By day, Logan is the communications director for Progress NC Action, a progressive nonprofit in Raleigh, North Carolina working to turn back the extremist right-wing agenda in state politics. In 2016, he helped lead the fight against the notorious anti-LGBT law known as House Bill 2, organizing weekly air horn protests outside the governor’s mansion for nearly six months.