> They don't deserve to be important, instead of ignoring them people need to be willing to say that this is unacceptable and their ideas are not welcome.
Which is a better way to show someone that they are not important:
* Ignoring them
* Giving their views countless press in order to discredit them
I agree that calling out racism is important, but when it's just people spouting nonsense in their own little corner of the Internet why give that any attention.
> They are promoting it themselves, loudly, and trying to inject their ideas into mainstream political discourse
Something they have been trying to do since basically forever. However they can only successfully inject themselves when other people allow it.
Have a look at this basic timeline:
Internet: Pepe the frog is fun
Racists: Pepe the frog now belongs to us
Internet: Nah, Pepe's not racist.
Clinton: Pepe the frog belongs to racists
Internet: Nah, Pepe's not racist.
Question: In this scenario, who gave racists control of Pepe the frog and who allowed racists to inject themselves in to this part of mainstream culture? (Hint: it was not the racists and it was not the Internet).
> I can give you links to explicitly racist sites
This is exactly what I was talking about. In your fervor to show how horrible these people are, you are willing to promote these sites yourself...
I don't care for those sites any more than I care for sites promoting flat-earth science and/or UFOs. I know they exist, but I ignore them completely, which is exactly the attention they deserve.