03-25-2017, 01:57 PM
FireIceTalon ' Wrote: ...we would be much better served to show up to and break up their rallies and disrupt their organization that gives them a platform for their abhorrent ideas.Or, in a nice way, reveal their flawed logic, until they realize the inconsistency of their beliefs. Breaking up rallies does not root out aberrant ideologies like white supremacy, or other hate. It only galvanizes, defers and distracts from winning the real battles of ideas.
I don't think attitudes have changed too much in the past thirty years. The Internet just has had an effect on access to broadcast these ideas. It is good, and bad. Good in the democratization and opening freedom of communication, but bad in the rapidity, and false perceived equal value of every thought posted. We are unprepared for the level of discernment needed to judge the value of the torrents of information hurtling at us.