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White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day. (thelemmy.club)
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White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.

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[–] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sure, but how do you stop a moron from perpetuating their destructive stupidity?

It's about their capacity to understand and behave reasonably. We got a long way to go.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    You start with education. It's not enough to just negate something ("racism bad") you gotta replace it with a different idea. Otherwise it just sprouts back up. You would not believe the number of well meaning teenagers who've told me eugenics is actually a good idea if we could just do selective breeding programmes without the racism.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago*

    I do agree it starts with education, but I think we need to tackle more of a fundamental element of teaching people how to be a reasonable human that isn't so easily jerked around by their base emotions. Otherwise stupid ideas will still reach and resonate with stupid people and the danger of creating a moron is still high.

    It seems like, in a way, you're suggesting that I'm over-simplifying the issue but I think you've misunderstood me, and it's ironic that I'm suggesting that your idea is the one that doesn't go far enough.

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