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It's easy to call out racists like Richard Spencer, Senator. What about someone like Roy Moore?

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Only thing that would make this better is threading instead of this inception style quote tweeting.

yeah agreed. but at least he's bae

It would also be great if he went just as hard at Roy Moore. Just to pick one example from within your own house.

You don't get credit for going after the low-hanging fruit Senator.

The "low hanging fruit" went after him first, and Ben just proved his own point. This whole "that doesn't count" nonsense is why we're here.

On Twitter?

Nice to see Nazi KKKlansmen are allowing racial diversity into their shlock with a brotha' in the white clown suit.

What in the world makes you think that's a black man?

As a constituent, may I remind you to please not feed the racist trolls.

The problem is that Spencer is far more influential and financed than a troll, and ignoring him won't solve the problem.

Respectfully, I disagree. He'll now be the racist well-funded troll who got in a tweet fight with a sitting US Senator. Ups his credentials.

With whom? Either way he's going to play the martyr and work his propaganda to the same end.

Not responding against open expressions of racism has never worked historically.

Disagree. Sometimes engaging is elevating the position to a "both sides" argument. "Wrestling with a pig" and whatnot.

What really doesn't work is downplaying white supremacists and fascists and whitewashing them in media profiles.

If you look for coverage of Nazis in Germany in the late 1920s-30s, there was a lot of that going on.