Reply #189: But shouldn't we be better...

[FromTheLeft]

I understand that often when groups like those at UT hold these displays it is less about pride in themselves then it is about putting others down, but why can't we rise above. By protesting these things we give them validity. If we were just to ignore them and continually show pride in ourselves they would lose their power. When white supremacists gather and not one but white supremacists show up their message doesn't expand and no one hears them. It becomes a tree falls in the forest question, and in this case there won't be a tree on the ground to prove it happened. Let them hate, but don't give in to hate yourself.