It’s funny how I use this guy as an example of what’s actually effective rather than just making noise, and the usual response is a LOT of noise. I just ask them, how many people have you convinced to stop being racist and leave the KKK with your current “efforts”. Kindness is not weakness, it’s effective.
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Tedesche@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Daryl Davis has done more to dismantle the KKK than all the antifa folks combined ever will, and he does it through empathy, reasonable conversation, and kindness.
I’m as guilty as the next liberal of feeling so angry with Neo-Nazis that I have moments where I want them all instantly slain, but the world would be a much better place if we could all just remember that even people like that are human beings too and even if reaching out to them has a 0.01% of de-radicalizing them, attacking them always has a 0% chance.
I think Daryl Davis is just a better person than most of us.
TwystedKynd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
So the only question is what is the most rhetorically effective way to convince leftists that being rhetorical effective is actually really important 🤔
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Because this isn’t rhetorically effecive, it’s just one dude whose tactics in a very big-picture way are actually very dangerous.
TwystedKynd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s the thing about partisan politics being intertwined with social issues. Everyone’s so fixated on arguing with “them” that they aren’t open to anything that is less than hostile.
zaph@lemmy.world 10 months ago
all the antifa folks combined
The kkk are a group. Antifa is a movement.
thefloweracidic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Treating other humans as less-than will cause more problems than it solves. I’m no Daryl Davis, but I’ve changed the perspective of 3 racists in my lifetime, just by talking with them and proving that racist stereotypes are wrong through my actions.
If I had treated these people with disgust and hostility, there would be 3 more racists in the world.
ArugulaZ@kbin.social 10 months ago
I don't have the patience to be a "better man," and I don't particularly care to delve into the mind of a kill-billy to understand them. I'd rather flatten out their pointy hats with a sledgehammer.
Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Daryl Davis has done more to dismantle the KKK than all the antifa folks combined ever will
Homie what do you think “antifa” is? Working to dismantle the KKK is one of the most antifa things there is.
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Antifa’s objective isn’t to dismantle the KKK, it’s to fight fascists, so you’re very blatantly using fallacious reasoning and putting an irrelevant group of people on your sacrificial altar to make yourself feel better about something.
Superman actually did more to stop the KKK than this clown and Superman is not even real. And Superman punches bad guys. So you fail again.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Is the klan not fascist?