That thinking might work for a crazy guy on a street. Unfortunately, that is not what this is even remotely. It is harder to be “outright uninterested” when you are dealing with a large, organized and financed movement spreading this rhetoric and in many cases coordinating to enforce their vile stances to be exclusively taught in schools.
Taking that into account, being uninterested makes you part of the problem. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I’m not advocating for being uninterested in the shit they are doing. I’m advocating for being uninterested in taking their stupid claims seriously.
To literally, actually be offended like an adult and seriously treating them like the lunatics they are.
If you are on a stage or a room with them and they spill this bullshit, demand they be removed. Be absolutely adamant, in a calm but still incredibly angry fashion. Like how the entire room reacts in “12 angry men” when the racist finally says what he dog whistled all the time. The kind of outrage that doesn’t require shouting or screaming because you are simply right and they are simply wrong and despicable.
It is a special kind of behavior that indicates everybody involved, on an emotional level, that they have crossed a border which will designate them as unsocial, as not part of a civilized group.
You must demand civility or outcast them. You must establish bounds that you will not compromise. It’s the only language they understand, short of violence.
I agree to an extent, but this is quite difficult in practice. They’re usually quite good at sugar coating their nonsense, and to get them to clearly enunciate the “quiet part” is very difficult.
But it needs to be done. So good on you if you have the skill set to illuminate the hate behind the flowery language, especially when they often don’t know the root of it.
That thinking might work for a crazy guy on a street. Unfortunately, that is not what this is even remotely. It is harder to be “outright uninterested” when you are dealing with a large, organized and financed movement spreading this rhetoric and in many cases coordinating to enforce their vile stances to be exclusively taught in schools.
Taking that into account, being uninterested makes you part of the problem. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I’m not advocating for being uninterested in the shit they are doing. I’m advocating for being uninterested in taking their stupid claims seriously.
To literally, actually be offended like an adult and seriously treating them like the lunatics they are.
If you are on a stage or a room with them and they spill this bullshit, demand they be removed. Be absolutely adamant, in a calm but still incredibly angry fashion. Like how the entire room reacts in “12 angry men” when the racist finally says what he dog whistled all the time. The kind of outrage that doesn’t require shouting or screaming because you are simply right and they are simply wrong and despicable.
It is a special kind of behavior that indicates everybody involved, on an emotional level, that they have crossed a border which will designate them as unsocial, as not part of a civilized group.
You must demand civility or outcast them. You must establish bounds that you will not compromise. It’s the only language they understand, short of violence.
I agree to an extent, but this is quite difficult in practice. They’re usually quite good at sugar coating their nonsense, and to get them to clearly enunciate the “quiet part” is very difficult.
But it needs to be done. So good on you if you have the skill set to illuminate the hate behind the flowery language, especially when they often don’t know the root of it.