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Originally Posted by microbet
Says who?
I'm inclined to disagree. I don't think either of us have any studies to cite, but if you look at something like the collapse of the KKK I think it was more the result of ridicule and humiliation than positive encouragement.
And generally shrinking white supremacy depends more on young people seeing that it's shameful when they are forming their ideology than on convincing Archie Bunker to vote differently.
Social exposure killed the Klan, not illegalization of their symbols.
How would social exposure occur if forced into darkness?
Of course the old ass racists are too deeply entrenched to reach. Contain the group by exposing its idiocy and police its criminal activities. No need to shatter our fundamental values, the ones they would be happy to see gone if they had the power.