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How do you reconcile your world view with the story of someone like Daryl Davis, who verifiably contradicts what you think?
by scruple 8y ago
How do you reconcile your world view with the story of someone like Daryl Davis, who verifiably contradicts what you think?
- notahacker 8y agoThe argument works better the other way. Do you believe the reason David Duke has 85k YouTube subscribers is because it's difficult to find any rational argument that the KKK is not an unalloyed good? DD spending a lot of time being personally nice to Klansmen might swing a few of them back the other way, but I suspect making their recruitment harder in the first place might be the more scalable and less risky approach.
- scruple 8y agoWell, I personally believe that the reason David Duke has 85k YouTube subscribers is because any dumb shit in the world with an internet connection and a browser can press a button completely detached from any sort of consequence whatsoever. I also think that Daryl Davis is one man on a mission. If others were perhaps similarly motivated maybe more progress could be made.
- fzeroracer 8y agoBecause while it might persuade a few, the onus is not and should not be on the minorities to convince people who literally want them dead that no, their lives are worth living.
- scruple 8y agoI didn't intend to give the impression that I think that minority groups ought to tackle this problem alone. I certainly don't believe that they should, or that this is their fight and theirs alone. At the same time, I believe that sunshine is the best disinfectant.