There are a variety of ways we combat white supremacy at the activism level. This includes counter-recruitment, de-radicalization, protest opposition, disempowerment, estrangement, and so forth. Different strategies are more or less effective based on the specific groups.
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I could spend the next 30 tweets talking about just some of the many and varied efforts that are out there being done by brilliant, committed activists. Work you may not even know needs to be done.
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But I won't do that. Because the specifics don't matter. What does matter is there are people doing this work. And the discourse bulldozer apparently has no space for that right now. But I'm here to tell you that that bulldozer is an instrument of white supremacy.
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The fact that black bloc, pre-emptive violence is *sometimes necessary* and should be recognized as such is not the same as saying "the first and only thing to do is punch every nazi."
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Note: this thread is about tactics, not outcomes. The tactics of handling Nazis are many and varied. The outcome must always be the same.
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Isn't the best way to get rid of bad ideas to let them speak? Let then debate? Since the ideas are such shit they will lose, and badly. When you shut then down without letting them talk then more people will flock to it because it seems forbidden. Unless you aren't talking about
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Doing that when you say shutting down. If so I didn't mean to misunderstand and pls correct me
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I don’t necessarily disagree with this, though I think the reality is that there is something appealing about some fascist ideas, and by giving them a platform you’re just giving them a greater audience.
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