renard_ruse
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Has the struggle for equal treatment for the white community advanced at all in the past few years? Its a good question.
With the media accounts of last weekend's events in Charlottesville, in which a group of pro-historical preservationists was joined by a much smaller group of whites with swastika flags and KKK outfits and was then attacked by the usual mobs of intolerant extreme leftists resulting in one misguided person lashing back in an inappropriate and violent way causing the media and establishment politicians to freak out and blame white equality advocates for all the trouble when they were actually the ones being attacked, one would think the movement for white equality is at its lowest point ever.
However, what the white equality movement should really take away from Charlottesville is that it continues to have an image or branding problem. While swastikas and silly outfits appeal to a certain number of young people who don't know how else to express their powerlessness toward the hatred they suffer in the schools and in society for not hating their own people, they are obviously as poisonous as ever in winning over the mainstream public.
The white equality movement should look to the early gay rights movement for examples.
In the 50s and 60s, public hatred for homosexuality and homosexual rights was probably where support is today for white equality. The gays were viewed as the "bad guys" (and gals). They were physically attacked regularly, and few if any mainstream politicians would show any support (sound familiar???). At this time, gay leaders adopted the strategy of presenting their community as just normal people, anytime transvestites, weird acting gays, etc, showed up to rallies they were told to leave. You can read about this in gay history. Fast forward 60 years and now any pretext of that is long gone at gay parades, but it worked.
The public may agree with many points white equality advocates make, but they don't like swastikas or Klan outfits or anything like that. White equality advocates need to make clear to anyone who shows up with anything like that, they are not welcome at any rallies or protests.
With the media accounts of last weekend's events in Charlottesville, in which a group of pro-historical preservationists was joined by a much smaller group of whites with swastika flags and KKK outfits and was then attacked by the usual mobs of intolerant extreme leftists resulting in one misguided person lashing back in an inappropriate and violent way causing the media and establishment politicians to freak out and blame white equality advocates for all the trouble when they were actually the ones being attacked, one would think the movement for white equality is at its lowest point ever.
However, what the white equality movement should really take away from Charlottesville is that it continues to have an image or branding problem. While swastikas and silly outfits appeal to a certain number of young people who don't know how else to express their powerlessness toward the hatred they suffer in the schools and in society for not hating their own people, they are obviously as poisonous as ever in winning over the mainstream public.
The white equality movement should look to the early gay rights movement for examples.
In the 50s and 60s, public hatred for homosexuality and homosexual rights was probably where support is today for white equality. The gays were viewed as the "bad guys" (and gals). They were physically attacked regularly, and few if any mainstream politicians would show any support (sound familiar???). At this time, gay leaders adopted the strategy of presenting their community as just normal people, anytime transvestites, weird acting gays, etc, showed up to rallies they were told to leave. You can read about this in gay history. Fast forward 60 years and now any pretext of that is long gone at gay parades, but it worked.
The public may agree with many points white equality advocates make, but they don't like swastikas or Klan outfits or anything like that. White equality advocates need to make clear to anyone who shows up with anything like that, they are not welcome at any rallies or protests.
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