"There are ways we can call people into conversations about White supremacy with compassion for the fact that we all are in this together. We’ve all been trained away from this conversation."
– Rhonda Magee
It's tempting to scream and yell and use foul language and be sarcastic and disparage and hurdle insults and publicly shame and threaten harm and intimidate and harass and mock people who persist with their blatant White supremacist views.
And, I suspect that the percentage of people who cling tightly to White supremacist views that has been persuaded to change their views using any of those techniques hovers somewhere between 0% and 0.000001%.
I have no data for that; just an educated guess.
I have tried some of those techniques before. My success rate is 0/infinity.
I've never once won an argument with someone who was trying to win an argument. On any subject, let alone White supremacy.
I'm not interested in winning arguments.
I'm not interested in talking with people who are not interested in talking.
I'm not interested in educating people who are not interested in being educated.
I'm interested in helping people who want to end racism advance on their journey to help end racism.
I'm interested in calling people in. Not calling people out.