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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA different way to deal with Alt-Right, Nazi & White Supremacists
These hateful fringe groups simply want attention and to stir up trouble.
Instead of holding counter-rallies during their rallies, I contend we should not place ourselves, & innocent bystanders, in danger by showing up physically in their space. Instead, we should take to the Internet & phones contacting as many news organizations, state congress people, US congress people, local council members & religious leaders denouncing them & their actions. In other words, we should blitz the powerful of our nation letting them know that their ideas are no longer accepted in this nation. We have the numbers; they don't. We have the power; we need to use it. They won't get the press & attention they crave so badly, if they don't have a foil to ramp up the drama, thus attracting lots of media coverage.
We simply don't play the game by their rules, but ours. By not engaging them at their level, we take away their power & make them look more foolish. We make the story about our resistance, which gets the big attention, peacefully.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)so we can post all of their racist identities on the internet and get them fired from their jobs and make their parents evict them from the basements where most of them live.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)We should do this, too, after the fact.
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)let's use our brains instead of confrontation.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)bdamomma
(63,836 posts)stupidity and ignorance. Civil unrest is what they are craving for.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)find out their names, where they live and who they work for and make that public worldwide. They want to put fear into people, make them fearful, not of violence, but of exposure.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)mention them at all. That there would piss them off even if it is channels they do not like.
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)these "alt right" or whatever they would like to called are making money for the stations.
They are no better than ISIS, taking car and driving into a car, that is ISIS mentality.
southerncrone
(5,506 posts)don't garner the media attention they so deeply crave. Without press, they become the dirt in the corner that eventually is swept up & relegated to the dustbin of history.