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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2019-04-29

"The next incident of white supremacist murder and mass violence remains weeks away. The reality is that these acts are having precisely the effect their perpetrators intend.

"The only way to stop them is a swift snapback on white supremacist extremism. From all angles. The best thing that you can do, as individuals, is set a firm boundary in your lives about your tolerance for bigotry. Not silence, not civility, not polite disagreement."

-- Emily G (@EmilyGorcenski), 2019-04-27 (thread starts one tweet earlier)

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dewline: Text - "On the DEWLine" (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] dewline at 11:47am on 2019-04-29
Nazis are toxic. Never a topic for debate. Karl Popper is still correct on this point and will never stop being correct.
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posted by [personal profile] flwyd at 02:36am on 2019-04-30
White supremacists seem to be a self-reinforcing group. Folks who aren't part of that group saying "I'm not going to put up with your BS" only works insofar as the the supremacist values the connection with the speaker more than affinity with the group. If all of someone's non-bigoted friends cut off contact with them, there's a big community of bigots ready and willing to fill that void and amp up the hatred.

I'm not aware of a time when yelling at a group of bigots got the group to be less bigoted.

Recommended viewing: Metan Phelps-Roper: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left.
Edited (added TED link) Date: 2019-04-30 02:38 am (UTC)
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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 03:24am on 2019-04-30
I'm not aware of a time when yelling at a group of bigots got the group to be less bigoted.


Maybe our goal shouldn't be to get them to be less bigoted but to limit their power and 'coolness factor' .

I guess I'm tired of being responsible for saving the souls of those who hate me. I spent most of my life trying to be an ambassador for my race, as it were, and when Trump won I realized I'd failed, we'd all failed. But if we can't have peace then maybe we need victory. We definitely need survival.
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