White Nationalist Richard Spencer — Coming to a Campus Near You:
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kyraneko:
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icebrigadedoesthings:
thebrayton:
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I think it’s time we start spreading the word about what it mans to No-Platform racists and fascists
Time to arm up on Vuvuzelas
IGNORE HIM.
DON’T SHOW UP. DO NOT GIVE THIS MAN A PLATFORM BY SHOWING UP TO PROTEST.
The easiest way to demoralize, defang and remove an extremist’s position from any conversation is to ignore. You do not ‘challenge’ an extremist to change their views when you butt heads with them. You create a battle line, you create a clearly defined line in the sand that only furthers his cause by giving him a clear ‘us vs them’ to use for his own followers.
Defanging requires care, patience and most of all humility. We had one of the bloodiest wars in History over nazies and they’re still a thing. The hell makes you think vuvuzelas and chanting will fix that?
I don’t wanna post too much about these politics ‘cause I myself have been trying to avoid some of the bad news.
But this really is the best way to handle this. If he shows up at your school, and you want to organize a protest, organize an ignorance. Organize your friends and those who care to just plain not go to the event. Get as many people as you can to quietly boycott it without a word.
Along with what was just said, it’s also like, a huge, subtle, passive-aggressive fuck you. And that’s great.
If any college ‘books’ him, IMO students should protest the hell out of the administration until the engagement is cancelled. Letters, phone calls, getting alumni involved (that’s a big one) etc. The best is to have him not come at all.
If he does, and you can’t get the event cancelled, see if you can get people to sign up for seats and not go. If it’s an RSVP event, fill it up with empty seats.
Keep an eye on this.
Fill it up with empty seats and host a campus protest elsewhere instead.
“Ignore him”
Y’all must be white and sure as fuck not Jewish.
I could not disagree with @thebrayton and @icebrigadedoesthings more, and my life might ACTUALLY depend on it. Opposition must be loud, present, and constant. IGNORING Nazis and their ilk got us in this position in the first place! When you ignore someone quietly IT KEEPS ON GOING. Yeah, we had a war and it was violent and we had it because guess what??? NO ONE WANTED TO DEAL WITH HITLER. The world was economically depressed, exhausted, and had lost most of a generation to The Great War.
So people ignored the nazis, they ignored fascism, and MILLIONS DIED. But then we DID go to war, because after we ignored them and quietly stood by, shit got real and we realized we didn’t have a fucking choice. Maybe a war could have been prevented with some screaming and vuvuzelas.
And then, after the bloody war you mentioned, being a nazi, being fascist of any kind, became so anethema that they didn’t dare show their faces without enduring violence. They were the ultimate evil, the bad guy in every movie.
But then, like the one ring (see I used a fantasy reference because that’s the only shit you people understand) Nazis went into hiding and so people forgot about them. They came back with a new face and called themselves alt-right, and they JUST TOOK OVER A WORLD SUPER POWER. Yeah that’s right, on the fcking Holocaust day of Remembrance a fascist proto-dictator just signed an executive order to turn away millions from safety and succor. One stroke of a pen to deny people who ALREADY LIVED HERE the right to get in.
You legit think just fucking ignoring this dude and people like him is gonna work? Because I promise you that will just make him stronger as people realize he faces no opposition. What’s ACTUALLY worked so far punching him in his smug Nazi face, repeatedly. We need to make nazis FUCKING SCARED and that doesn’t happen by some bullshit, milquetoast, white moderate fucking NONSENSE like ignoring people into submission. Seriously what the actual fuck are you even TALKING about?????
With the day we’ve had today, for you to say some shit like this is just… fuck you. FUUUUUUUUUCK YOU
PROTEST NAZIS
PUNCH NAZIS
SCARE NAZIS
DO NOT IGNORE NAZIS IF YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE.
IGNORING BULLIES FLAT-OUT
DOES
NOT
WORK
IT DOES NOT WORK
IT HAS NEVER WORKED
IT WILL NEVER WORK
AND IF IT DOESN’T WORK FOR THE MOUTHY LITTLE SHIT ON THE PLAYGROUND IN 4TH GRADE
WHAT IN THE FRESHLY-SHAVEN
F U C K
MAKES YOU THINK IT WILL WORK
ON
GODDAMNED
NAZIS?
WE MUST BE VOCAL
WE MUST BE PRESENT
WE MUST BE SEEN TO STAND IN OPPOSITION
IGNORING NAZIS
DOES
NOT
WORK
They’ll find enough supporters and enough curious impressionable potential converts to build their own echo chamber.
Ignoring nazis does not isolate them. Not from their supporters, and not from their victims.
Show up and protest. Share information about how fascism works, how radicalism gains converts, how bigoted ideology preys upon insecurities and fears to make itself sound attractive, how totalitarianism normalizes itself, and what sort of things the nazis did the last time they were in power.
And, if you feel safe doing so, have a good escape route, and are willing to risk the consequences, punch one of them.
The concept of “just ignore them, they do it for attention” is bullshit. Sure, they want attention—but they don’t do it for attention, they do it to drum up support for killing people.
No-platforming does not work when they already have a platform. The schools booking a nazi is giving them a platform. And cutting them a check for the luxury. I don’t know how to explain it any more clearly than that–you can’t no-platform someone by ignoring them while they take the platform. That’s also known as ‘stood by and did nothing while it went down’.
Protest, do what you can to pressure the school into dropping it, do what you can to keep students who are visibly clearly part of marginalized groups safe, organize to intimidate white supremacists to where they know it’s social suicide to attend. Publicize who does go.
The audacity to add your ‘Do Nothing In Style’ politics to a Jewish person’s post!