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    You wrote three paragraphs to demonstrate how thoroughly you missed the point of this extremely blunt comic. Don’t get mad at me for pointing this out, I’m just exposing my own opinion the to purifying effect of public discourse.

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        No, I anticipated an angry response to providing the kind of discourse they portrayed as necessary.

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          Why would I be angry about what you said? You’re allowed to have a different opinion on how to react to bigots.

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            Because I’ve put forth no constructive criticism, I’ve not tried to explain why you’re wrong or justify my own position, nor would I accept any arguments that you put forth to try and explain your position. If I could shout over you, I would do that too. I’m arguing in bad faith. I’m not here to debate you. I’m here to make people think you’re stupid by publicly making fun of you with cheap crowd pleasing rhetoric and imply what you said is wrong because of it. This is the tactic I will use to take control of this country and you seem to think I have a right to use it.

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              This is the kind of discourse someone attempts when they don’t feel they can declare their fucked up beliefs overtly.

              I’d rather make them feel like they can declare their fucked up beliefs without hedging or room for doubt, then inform their employer, the businesses that deal with their employer, their family, their neighbors, etc with the receipts.

              Oh good, you shouted down a nazi on a street corner ranting about the inferior this and the inferior that. They’ll now temper their message, keep their job, and slowly convert the new office runner with terms like “urban” and “not real Americans.” congratulations, you’ve now got a stealth Nazi staying low insidiously making more. Thanks a ton.

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                What you guys aren’t understanding in this frictionless hypothetical sphere of argument is that a single Nazi, by itself, is not a threat. The problem comes when this Nazi connects with other Nazis. If Nazis can’t publicly be Nazis then finding the other ones to gang up with becomes a lot harder.

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                  What you seem to keep overlooking is that It’s considerably easier for white supremacists to, again, use mutually understood dog whistles to identify one another and recruit others, than the alternative and what they want because they don’t think it through: to say, their fucked up shit in it’s entirety so there’s no room to deny or wriggle out of it WITH PUBLIC SCRUTINY and social consequences.

                  Instead, they say “the south will rise again/the civil war was about state’s rights!” which = “Black people should still be slaves!” when decoded. And they’re allowed to say that all day with no social consequences, to have kids and infect them with their bile and tactics for discreetly propagating it further.

                  Tldr: instead of shouting down Nazis, calmly record their unrestrained discourse, let them go home feeling good, then use those recordings to tangibly destroy any social standing they may have, as was done in Charlottesville. Tell the businesses that work with their employer that they’re doing business with Nazi enablers until that person is terminated, as just one example.

                  Shouting them down in the square doesn’t make them rethink spreading their venom, only their tactics. Hitting them in their lives with tangible consequences might get them to shut up wholesale.

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                    The nature of a dog whistle is that it’s supposed to be subtle enough to escape public scrutiny. If you’re not already “in the know” about it it flies right over your head. They are only useful for identifying people who are already bought in. For bringing new people in, for growing the movement, you need to be visible to the uninitiated. You’re not getting new recruits with dog whistles unless the dog whistles are so well known that they aren’t dog whistles anymore and just whistles.