• oo1@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    you right they’re not meaningless.
    In the hands of the right demagogue they can be powerful tools for creating and extending stimgatisation and division - and undermining society and weakening the grown-up methods of resolving social stresses.

    Daryl Davis arguably did try to get along with the kkk.
    There might not be many like him and it might be a drop in the ocean, but at least it isn’t no-one who wants to try to do the difficult thing.