[intended]

Daryl Davis does not scale.

Pithy, but I say it after being a big fan of using him as an example.

Persuasion has moved from the cottage industry of human interaction to industrialized consent manufacturing.

Fox and cable television were the steam engine, social media is the industrial revolution. Human scale approaches such as Daryl’s are akin to using buckets to drain a sea.

[lliamander]

The KKK, once one of the most powerful political forces in the United States, now can't even volunteer to clean up trash off a highway in Georgia.

They numbers are tiny and politically they are impotent.

And none of that change required hate speech laws.

[strgcmc]

You are talking about squeezing one side of a balloon without noticing that the other end is getting bigger.

The KKK is effectively a non-entity today in modern society, sure. That's partly because "they" became Proud Boys, Patriot Front, etc. etc. As with the broader societal trends of transitioning away from traditional pre-digital power structures and groups, a rich ecosystem of new white nationalist groups have sprung up in the digital age to feed off the same hate that the KKK used to organize around.

[intended]

We don’t live in that era. Yes Recruiting for extremist causes has never been easier.

There’s a list of extremist groups now that never existed before.

And At no point in the recent past has there been a breach of security in the capitol like in Jan this year.