Protest the hatemongers

Some people say to ignore them, or try to reach out to them and reason with them.

I don’t agree.

Silence means consent. When the jackbooted, brown shirts showed up in German cities in the 1920s, the German people were mostly silent. A few years later, it was too late to protest, and war was the only way to stop it.

There can be no common ground with the KKK or neo-Nazis, or white supremacists, white nationalists, whatever they call themselves.

People should show up whenever they appear to proselytize. I do not advocate violence, but what about singing? If enough people showed up and sang loud enough to drown out their speeches, they might give up. Patriotic songs, hymns, and songs from the Civil Rights Movement would work.

If the people of Estonia could use songs to free themselves from the Soviets, we could use song, too.

It’s up to us to counter their threat to democracy. We certainly can’t get any moral support from that mad tweety-bird in the White House.

Dorothy Carter

Spokane