I didn’t say we ignore them. I’m only suggesting we stop responding. There’s this endless cycle of “right wing pundit/YouTuber/politician/celebrity says terrible thing designed to provoke outrage on the left, the left responds with outrage, the right smirks and laughs at how clever they aren’t, and absolutely no one’s mind is changed.” I don’t know how to stop this. I just think responding with the outrage they clearly intended to provoke in the first place is maybe not the best approach.
We respond by calling out hate and intolerance where it exists in our culture when it is publicly expressed. To do otherwise is to allow it to be normalized.
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You’re right. I just . . . I just feel like what we’re doing isn’t helping.
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What would help?
How exactly does one counter all the mindless yet willful hatred and stupidity that some people seem to live for?
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I have no clue. I wish I did. The last few years have left me more than a little jaded. I mean … we’ve all seen the results of actually letting these kinds of people run things for four years, and 70+ million people want more of it. The prevailing attitude seems to be “I got mine, screw you” and that’s even among people who don’t have anything.
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