1. stop calling it right wing extremism. These guys are mad nationalists, not Ayn Rand (not that I am a fan of Ayn Rand either.)
By calling it by its real name it won't come across as just a variant of conservative or liberal. Because we absolutely detest them and I guess I speak for most of us when I say we don't even want them to vote for us.
2. Encourage serious debate. Dare to meet people.
I wrote about this the other day in the context of climate change:
Climate change believers are awfully fast to reach for the branding iron whenever someone asks an innocent questions.
Meanwhile climate change deniers will patiently smooth talk people and dig out "study" after "study" carefully picked to prove their point.
Same goes for this: the only place you can safely discuss immigration without risking someone sneaking up on you with a red hot "racist" iron is - you probably guessed it - with the racists.
Now why don't we fix this?
Probably because we'd have to admit that there are some serious problems with the way immigration has been practiced.
1. stop calling it right wing extremism. These guys are mad nationalists, not Ayn Rand (not that I am a fan of Ayn Rand either.)
By calling it by its real name it won't come across as just a variant of conservative or liberal. Because we absolutely detest them and I guess I speak for most of us when I say we don't even want them to vote for us.
2. Encourage serious debate. Dare to meet people.
I wrote about this the other day in the context of climate change:
Climate change believers are awfully fast to reach for the branding iron whenever someone asks an innocent questions.
Meanwhile climate change deniers will patiently smooth talk people and dig out "study" after "study" carefully picked to prove their point.
Same goes for this: the only place you can safely discuss immigration without risking someone sneaking up on you with a red hot "racist" iron is - you probably guessed it - with the racists.
Now why don't we fix this?
Probably because we'd have to admit that there are some serious problems with the way immigration has been practiced.