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cheshireinthemiddle: mchaccino: mister-christmas: friendly-neighborhood-patriarch: soulwind42: cheshireinthemiddle: quiteliterallyhotsauce: This is a nice tweet. Daryll Davis. A black activist who was kind to and had discussions with KKK members, getting dozens to leave the group singlehandedly. It was that very kindness that got many of them to change their minds about race. You can absolutely be nice to anyone. Being nice doesnt mean encouraging them or supporting their bad behavior and i think you know that. You just want your own bad actions validated. How you insult, dismiss and/or block people for daring to disagree with you even a little. You want to feel like youre in the right. But you arent. He went to event in the Philly area where people from all over the political spectrum came to talk ams share. This event was threatened by ANTIFA types. As they gathered outside shouting threats, Darryl Davis went out to talk to the crowd. They called him a white supremacist and a Nazi, and didn’t stop until he gave up and walked away. He said he had never in his life encountered such hatred and anger. The above tweet sounds suspiciously like an excuse or rationalization Honestly, if you think I’m being cruel to you because I’m being civil with somebody else that’s a you problem. LMAOO imagine being shocked that ppl dont like u when ur nice to people who want to murder them. anyway, yeah this is stupid. u cant preach civility while protecting an uncivil ideology. darryl davis can do what he wants, but no one is obligated to be nice to people who condones murdering them or others. if davis can walk away from antifa i can walk away from the KKK and nazis The argument wad that “you can’t”. A counterargument has been given that you absolutely can. You just dont want to. Again, being nice to someone is not the same as condoning their actions. And the KKK and American neo nazis are 99.999% talk. All they do us merely say they dont like certain groups. Which puts them in the same category as #killallmen feminists. Are they annoying? Of course. Bigotted? Sure. But theyre just words. And their bigotry is an opinion. And like Daryl Davis did, you can absolutely change opinions with peaceful talks. I know it goes against your desire to assault people for words so you can feel important, but that is how it is. No I’m saying “you can’t” because it’s hyprocrotical and illogical. If you’re against violence and want civility it doesn’t make sense to coddle people who’s entire ideology or one or both of those things. I don’t want to be nice to people who condone violence, and you shouldn’t expect other people to either. They aren’t just “annoying”, a few minutes weeks ago a black girl got set on fire by a racist. People don’t have to like or be nice to these people. Even if you’re not the one doing the harm you’re still standing behind people who do if you’re apart of that group, and that’s morally condemnable.No they don’t merely say they don’t like certain groups lol. Clearly you haven’t done much talking to white supremacists for someone who advocates talking to white supremacists. Most at the very least advocate for some type of violently forced segregation. Neo Nazis especially, Nazism is an *inheriantly* violent ideology. Saying Nazis don’t condone violence is like saying bakers don’t like ovens. They go hand and hand. “their bigotry is an opinion” and? I can still morally condone an opinion. In my opinion thinking someone is lesser than you due to their race is at the very least mean. And if you’re a mean person you don’t deserve niceness. Assault people?? I thought you were supposed to be civil, but now you’re accusing me of wanting to assault people because I don’t agree with you? That’s kind of hyprocrotical (but not surprising). You’re assuming I’ve never talked to these types but I have, and I haven’t assaulted any of them. I just don’t expect others to be nice to them(not being nice to someone isnt synonymous with assault btw). -- source link