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southerncrone

(5,506 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:41 PM Aug 2017

A 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.

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A different way to deal with Alt-Right, Nazi & White Supremacists (Original Post) southerncrone Aug 2017 OP
We should encourage expansive media coverage lapfog_1 Aug 2017 #1
Seems this is already happening. :) southerncrone Aug 2017 #2
Sounds excellent bdamomma Aug 2017 #3
Exactly. Let them show their ignorance in the streets. southerncrone Aug 2017 #4
that is all they have bdamomma Aug 2017 #6
Aim to deprive them of what they desire! southerncrone Aug 2017 #7
Don't confront them. Take good high quality pictures of their faces, Blue_true Aug 2017 #5
Ridicule works. Laugh in their faces and make them look as stupid as they actually are. shanny Aug 2017 #8
Maybe we should demand that the good news channels do not cover or Doreen Aug 2017 #9
that won't happen bdamomma Aug 2017 #10
That is my point. If they don't have an opponent to "fight" with, they become insignificant & southerncrone Aug 2017 #11
I believe they want POWER. WinkyDink Aug 2017 #12

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
1. We should encourage expansive media coverage
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:46 PM
Aug 2017

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.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. Don't confront them. Take good high quality pictures of their faces,
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:58 PM
Aug 2017

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.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
9. Maybe we should demand that the good news channels do not cover or
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 12:00 AM
Aug 2017

mention them at all. That there would piss them off even if it is channels they do not like.

bdamomma

(63,836 posts)
10. that won't happen
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 09:14 AM
Aug 2017

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)
11. That is my point. If they don't have an opponent to "fight" with, they become insignificant &
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 07:57 PM
Aug 2017

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.

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