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    In 'Conversations With People Who Hate Me' An Activist Calls Up His Worst Critics

    Dylan Marron decided to reach out to commenters who left nasty messages on his online videos. He asks a simple question: "Do you want to move this online conversation offline?"
    by Audie Cornish May 04, 2018 2 minutes
    Dylan Marron reaches out to people who leave angry messages on his videos and talks with them about what made them so mad. "Empathy is the crucial tool to getting these conversations off the ground," he says.

    Dylan Marron has a lot of haters. The actor and activist makes online videos about social justice — and the comments that appear on those videos can be harsh, to say the least.

    Plenty of people would just ignore all that negativity, but not Marron. He decided to, featured Skype calls between Marron and his detractors.

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