Here's How to Win Civil Rights Social Justice War

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Netroots Nation 2018 was a chance to meet a lot of good people, eat a lot of good food—but also to get a lot of work done, following up directly on my last Sunday essay arguing that we are still in the midst of an ongoing Civil Rights Social Justice War with the powers of White Male Nationalist Neo-Christian/Corporate Supremacy that has waxed and waned since nearly 100 years before the pen met paper on the Declaration of Independence

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Here's How to Win the Civil Rights Social Justice War We need to be better prepared, and better ready to deal with the challenges ahead of us. By Frank Vyan Walton / Daily Kos August 12, 2018, 8:24 AM GMT Print 85 COMMENTS Alt-right members preparing to enter Charlottesville's Emancipation Park holding Nazi, Confederate Battle flags. (Anthony Crider/Flickr) Netroots Nation 2018 was a chance to meet a lot of good people, eat a lot of good food—but also to get a lot of work done, following up directly on my last Sunday essay arguing that we are still in the midst of an ongoing Civil Rights Social Justice War with the powers of White Male Nationalist Neo-Christian/Corporate Supremacy that has waxed and waned since nearly 100 years before the pen met paper on the Declaration of Independence. The push toward greater equality, greater safety and greater rights for the worker, the consumer and the socially marginalized remains a perceived threat to the powers-that-be and their eager army of cyber bullyboy lackeys. And when someone perceives a threat, they attack. I went to Netroots to learn from some of those on the front line of this war, to hear their stories and most importantly, to see what resources and strategies exist to fight back. SPONSORED For the most part, the primary battlefield for the Social Justice War is online. During and after the panel discussion on Fighting Nazis Online I met K

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But K wasn’t at this panel because of her group, she was there because she’s been repeated targeted troll and bullied by Nazis, alt-Right and “Mommy” thugs online which quickly metastasized into in-person harassment and stalking.

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I have lost count of how many times I have been told I should kill myself. How many times I’ve been told that I deserve to be raped. How many lies have been made up about me. How many times my pictures have been altered or memes made with my face on them. How many fake profiles with sexually explicit messaging using my name and face there are. There is even an entire coded language surrounding me because my name and identifying info has been banned legally in certain forums. I’ve sent wives private messages about their husbands threatening to rape me

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