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I used to believe also this but then I found out who Daryl Davis was and now I understand the best way to beat hatred is the way he beat it. Even thought there might be psychopaths who are devoided of empathy but the percentage of people who have it is really low and knowing psychology you can also deal with them in a functional manner by teaching them that if they commit malice it will have a direct consequence. Violence always generate more violence and we as humanity have evolved and we can deal with these type of people please don't think this is the best way to deal with it.
What Daryl Davis does might work if you are talking about a very small group, but by the time it reaches percentage points of the population that method no longer works as the societal support structure grows from these vial ideologies, the weaker an approach based on societal influence. Eventually the only option left is violence as you have two opposing societies and can no longer pull "radicals" out of their hatred.
Just like with the Fascists of the early 20th century, the only option left was to expunge these hateful societies.
Yes but you have to always do it individually. You are seeing the world in very a bad light the majority is not like this remember there also a lot of people who didn't vote. Please don't be violent even thought it seems like it is the last resource
You're not wrong, but right now fascists are effectively in control of all the nuclear weapons and future tech. If things ever do spiral into a "hot" conflict, they have all the tools at their disposal to come after liberals. Which they are very desperately trying to instigate right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dk3hUNOMVk Peaceful revolution is always better and remember when you attack them it confirms there biases and as leftists we know peace is always better. I take as an example my family who were really dysfunctional. I grew up in a family where there was domestic violence my father said a lot of racist stuff and I would always rebel against him. One time I socked him. My entire family ostracized me since that day and what I did was even become more violent. My father threatened calling the police even thought when I was little I saw him punching my mom. So it just was violence for a long time. I got a therapist that told me that maybe I needed to show even more love when violence was bound to happen and to this day my father realized what he was doing wrong and I tell you I feared for my life giving him love, because of all the terrible shit he did, but nowadays my family and me are kin to eye and we understand each other and they are literally changing and not saying or doing all of that bigot shit and what I realized is that when you fear someone is say the unexpected that you like him as a person even thought there is that thing in between you too right now and remember that most of them act in this ways because of fear and not pure hatred. People are too polarized so it's always best to find common ground, make them feel like people it is still possible the revolution, but remember if we start more violence it will become even worse to get to the goal of making a fair society for everyone, because when you are fighting nobody cares what you are fighting for in the middle of the fight, people will just try to survive and kill, so it's not feasible at all.
I think you have good points and I think its important that we have people doing the things you suggest. That said, Jesus fuck does it get exhausting doing that to strangers, and there are a fair number who will feign openness so that they can waste your time and trip you up. What happens is a lot of people who do it as amateur activism get burnt out and bitter.
Exactly! What we have to do is treat them just like a normal person and we will win them back. Tell them jokes, talk about the news, weather, whatever. They probably will start saying some not so good things but don't make a big fuss about just keep talking with them over time and then start showing them you're real personality without being aggressive and have a neutral conversation and with time they will understand how wrong they were all along it's a lengthy process and we sometimes might feel like we are not winning the fight but human personality is a thing that takes some time and effort to change.