1. It's really frustrating to me that more people don't understand that racist/alt-right people have gamified their rhetoric; they're not interested in discussion, they're slapping down cards from a "Debate: The Gathering" stack, and the only goal is taking heads.
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5. I'm not going to tell people not to engage with these chuckleheads. But don't engage with them on their terms. Engage with them on your own. One, they hate that, and two, it exposes what they're doing as a pointless, hateful exercise, and them as awful people.
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6. In sum: Understand what these folks are doing. Refuse to play along. And if you choose, point out to others the hollowness of their game. Because their "game" is to hurt other people, and then go on to the next target. Their game is other people's lives. (/end)
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Yes! 1000 times yes.
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Some of us are actually reaching out, and the fact that discussion and debate is considered "diddling" is part of the problem, not the solution.
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Good for you, if you have the luxury of assuming that your ... uh ... debate partner? ... is arguing in good faith. Many people don't have that luxury. And others have been mistaken in that assumption enough times that they no longer consider it a safe assumption.
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I think it's time we admit to ourselves, it's not that those with power don't understand, it's that some in power are actually sympathetic to their cause. And that's why they apparently "play along"
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Too many of the people in power owe a great deal to financial backers so even if they did understand they are powerless. Maybe if every community sponsored its own independent in politics we would at least have politicians that fight for their constituents instead of for parties
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