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In reply to the discussion: Holy crap, he took it down today [View all]calimary
(85,153 posts)You say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to. There should be a response EVERY TIME. I don't think our side has fought back hard enough. EVERY TIME somebody asserts "War of Northern Aggression," that should be the immediate response. Cover their slogan with OURS. Correct the record every time they speak up to try to distort it. Check the bad behavior EVERY TIME it happens. Immediate response. EVERY time. It has to be attached. It has to be open and somewhat blatant. They can't just be allowed to say "War of Northern Aggression" and just have it lay there in every ear with no answer, no counter-response, no fact-checking, no correction, no rebuttal. There should ALWAYS be a retort. There should ALWAYS be an answer back. There should ALWAYS be a counter-response.
Just like when somebody sprays graffiti on a wall. If you don't want that graffiti to stay up and establish and become a permanent thing - or somehow, by default, an ACCEPTED thing, then you paint over it. As soon as possible! THIS is one way we can "paint over" the stupid, wrong, and in this case racist, erase it, make it gone, help it disappear, override it, overrun it, overrule it.
Seems to me that's why it's been able to linger and fester and establish. Because there has been no counter. There has never been anything to counter it. It's just been stated and left there - just like when there are two opposing sides on one of the many panel discussions, and the bad guy (the CON) is allowed to get the last word. THAT is what remains in the air, and in people's ears, and in people's memory. Whatever is the last word becomes the takeaway. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT LAST WORD IS OURS.
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