Question on how best to deal with some recent posts
There are a few people pushing hard to dismantle the movement that is finally addressing racism in our society. I am sure you've seen them. Now, even posting nearly four year old videos of horrific killing of a white man, without anything indicating how old it is or the public outcry at the time.
Every time a post goes up about or related to Black Lives Matter, something goes up to take away from it.
It negates the every day, constant struggle of people of color. It minimizes the facts that a black man in this country is 4x more likely to be shot by cops than a white man. It degrades the fact that to be 4x more likely, when black people are only approximately 12% of the population, that is an astronomically high percentage of abuse on black people and other people of color.
I don't know what is the best way to address this. I have not commented, but once, on those posts. I and others have posted to contradict them. Others have responded on the posts, trying to explain what this does, almost always without it making a difference. I don't believe ignoring completely does any good. It is ignoring this subtle racism that has been part of the problem. I don't believe responding on the post is good because it brings attention to the post.
It amazes me that people on a liberal, progressive site don't get it. Unlike the trolls on twitter and Facebook, who are so overt that they only help the cause, these are the kind of things that hurt.
How do you think this should be handled?
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They are very good trolls.
I hope not.
yet I feel that people who care really won't be distracted or influenced by the discounters, deniers and people throwing in obfuscatory BS to muddy the waters. People who really care, think. And it doesn't take much thinking to detect the agenda of people like you mentioned. I will answer them to let them know their game is known, but I never take their bullshit personally, they are only fooling themselves and others that are looking to be fooled. Just my opinion.
How to handle them? STICK TO YOUR PRINCIPLE AND THE TRUTH. It defeats them every time.
in people like myself, you and others JUST letting them know their BS is apparent. They don't have the ability to recognize BS because they have fooled themselves, long ago, into believing their 'cause' is right. Spew BS long enough, it will start being the truth to the BS spewer. Let them go to their grave believing what they may because you are right, they are incapable of admitting their ignorance. The truth is ALWAYS the winner and the truth AIN'T relative...........
Thank you
It means alot.
And I was absolutely thrilled by the epic ass whupping given to one of the main agitators who exhibits exactly the type of behavior that you referred to in your OP. Short of getting them to change their minds or even better, shut the hell up, large numbers of DUers letting them know that we see their shit and are tired of dealing with it was IMMENSELY satisfying. 
I'm following links tonight from an OP by Tobin: "I don't know what the hell is wrong with DU." Anyhow, one link leads to another, and I ended up here.
I also remember Ye Olde Days at DU, when troll-spotting was a sport, and ridding the site of them was a duty we all shared. Someone observed once that Internet trolling and its effects were an observable phenomenon, and that left unchecked, trolls ALWAYS degraded a site to their own level.
Wtf is wrong with DU, indeed. 
