I agree your belief is admirable, but it is extremely naive if you think it will make a difference on a large scale even if there are millions who believe what you do.

We already had a movement about peace, love, and understanding that was very popular with a huge chunk of the population doing the acts you described in the 1960s.

You have also clearly not spent any amount of time with the kind of people you think you can emphasize with. I lived in rural Idaho for Obama’s years. I couldn’t count the amount of times people joked about hanging or shooting him.

You want to empathize with a racist who wants a man dead just because he is black? I did plenty of this and guess the positive change it made. Yeah, it didn’t matter at all.

The only way is to stop the propaganda. This is the source. Hate radio, Faux News, and now Xshitter feed people with lies using psychological manipulation to twist their minds and hearts.

It takes years, sometimes decades, to deprogram people from this if they are willing to change. They are creating new racist losers at a pace you cannot keep up with. This is the reality we face.

You can spend years turning the heart of a racist and certainly some people have done this successfully.

Meanwhile propaganda has turned out another ten thousand racists in the time it took you to change a couple minds.

To be frank your belief is not completely wrong but it will not solve our current problems.

You hint on the reality that it is our social constructs such as social media that is driving this resurgence of hate.

As a social worker by trade I can say I know a lot about this topic. There is a classic story of people getting swept into the river.

While it is admirable that you want to jump in to save people the real solution is going upstream and stopping people from falling in.

Understanding racist losers will not accomplish what you want. Changing their minds will not either. You have to stop it at the source.

You just got to get to know the Nazi to understand them?

Oh wait it is more nuanced than that. You gotta get to know the racist to emphasize with them?

Dang it, we got to dig deeper. You have to get to know the misogynist to get them?

Sometimes getting to know someone is not the magical solution people think it is.

We have reached a great filter for society. If you are a woman and care about your rights you just need to know how a man voted to determine their value. You gotta dump if they voted for Trump.

My daughters have to live in this shit hole now. I am both angry and sad that it appears we are moving backwards.

I will fucking end someone if I hear them say this or anything like it to my daughter.

This is the same stupid arguments big tobacco used to say smoking didn’t cause cancer.

You are fucking stupid about this and the sooner you admit the sooner you can grow a brain cell and move on.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-ownership-associated-with-much-higher-suicide-risk.html

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/

As I alluded to if Japan had more available guns in the home their suicides would go up. This is backed up by science not your “feels”.

Please provide the proof behind your opinion. Oh wait, don’t even bother. We both know you are full of shit.

Listen, the evidence that having a gun in the home increasing the risk of suicide is well established. The burden of proof is on you. Your opinion is shit.

The point you’re missing is if Japan had lax gun laws they would have more suicides. Not sure if you’re slow to catch on or just obstinate.

Having watched him decades ago and really liking him I can say he most definitely changed. He leans far more conservative and does not ride the fence like he used to. Granted times have changed and his schtick has gotten old. Playing a good devil’s advocate can be entertaining even if I personally am over it.

FYI Green Day plays and sounds like other bands. I went to a concert of theirs where they played like six different bands and sounded just like them. They are very skilled musicians.

Looks like a butthole in his neck…

There are some politicians in Texas who deny the Holocaust. It is a pretty low bar down there.

He is a rapist. It would not matter to the GOP if he had been criminally convicted so your point is pretty moot.

Simply put propaganda works. If you allow people to spread hate then it grows. I don’t think you have ever been a person on the receiving side of hate where a group of people want you to cease to exist, to take your rights away, or to torture you.

In our modern world if you spread intolerance you are shunned and deplatformed. That is a big improvement compared to the past. It is not perfect either.

You mentioned people get silenced unfairly or cut short because of pushing boundaries. This weighs heavy on your thought process imagining bogey men taking away people’s freedoms.

It is ultimately a naive and impractical viewpoint though borne out of privilege and lack of experience. This whole freedom of speech movement is a red hearing for hate speech and you bought into it trying to be reasonable. There is no reasoning with them and you are simply wrong.

No, Fuck YOU traitors!

Did they have to make it looks so ugly?

Ding ding ding. If it comes out of their mouth it is because they did it already or are planning to do it. It is like that employee at work who accuses someone of stealing so no one will notice that they are the thief.

People should be mindful not everyone wants your dog up in their face. My wife developed a severe allergy to dogs but her coworkers love to parade their doggies into her work area all the time. Welcome to Alaska I guess.

America’s mayor to America’s election denier payer!