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        Changing their minds like that one guy is the best way. Violence is far quicker, more effective, and scales better. I’m not celebrating any of that mind you, but it’s like that - and that’s the way it is.

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        I hope so too, but they’re also wrong and their mom’s a hoe.

        We can prefer a reasoned, philosophical discourse on acceptance and tolerance, and underline it with the threat of the natural consequence befitting intolerant hate mongering assholes.

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        I hope those people don’t think violence is the best way to defeat the KKK, but instead think this kind of violence is too nice for a member of the KKK

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          “As an apolitical centrist, I think punching a member of the KKK is just as bad as the KKK lynching innocent people. Violence is always bad.

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            Which itself is a valid philosophy. I might not believe in it, I personally think you cannot afford to be pacifist in a world that is willing to use violence against you. But I’d much rather sit with a pacifist (or someone else who has a philosophy I don’t believe in, yet can understand) than a racist.

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              Thankfully you don’t have to choose! You could instead sit with the people eager to actively fight against racism instead of making up excuses to let thrive

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              No we don’t. A blanket “violence bad” philosophy is protecting those who do violence to others. Sometimes violence is necessary and this fact needs to be understood by everyone. Especially with the way things are. Some people can’t be reasoned with.

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                This needs to be written across the sky in flaming letters. (Along with “Be excellent to each other”.)

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      Possibly, but my grandpa used one I like called Liberator.

      It’s full name was “Consolidated B-24 Liberator”, and he was the pilot.

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    Bear in mind, this poem is likely in response to the fact that President Woodrow Wilson used the power of the presidency to re-found the KKK. He also did a bunch of other heinous shit, like segregation of the federal government for the first time in US history. Wilson was president from 1912-1920.

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    When You Meet a Member of the Ku Klux Klan Robert L. Poston (1921) When you meet a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Walk right up and hit him like a natural man; Take no thought of babies he may have at home, Sympathy’s defamed when used upon his dome. Hit him in the mouth and push his face right in, Knock him down a flight of stairs and pick him up again. Get your distance from him and then take a running start, Hit him, brother, hit him, and please hit the scroundrel hard. Pour some water on him, bring him back to life once more Think of how he did your folks in the days of long ago; Make a prayer to heaven for the strength to do the job, Kick him in the stomach, he, a low, unworthy snob. Call your wife and baby out to see you have some fun, Sic your bulldog on him for to see the rascal run. Head him off before he gets ten paces from your door, Take a bat of sturdy oak and knock him down once more. This time you may leave him where he wallows in the sand, A spent and humble member of the Ku Klux Klan.

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    You could throw a twenty in a vat o’ hot oil

    When he jump in after it watch him boil

    Toss a dollar in the river and when he jump in

    If you can find he can swim

    Put lead boots on him and do it again! You and a friend

    Videotape and the party don’t end

    Tell that boogers be sellin’ like crack

    He gon’ put the little baggies in his nose and suffocate like that

    Put a fifty in the barrel of a gun

    When he try to suck it out, a-ha, well you know this one