I don’t understand the desire to make idiots whisper instead of shout.
I would rather know who the scum in our society is. I would think that for a person of color, quiet racists have to be a lot scarier than overt ones. With that said, I suspect a lot of people think we are all quiet racists even though a vast majority are not.
As a corollary to your point, I never understood the reason to give so much attention to the crackpots and idiots of society. Racism is vile, and it is vile in part because it is idiotic. So why give so much attention to idiocy?
If I am not mistaken, many of these idiots had to travel long distances to get to Charlottesville, meaning, they couldn’t even recruit a couple dozen people from one city to push their assembly of hate they had to literally drive in and fly in from hundreds and even thousands of miles away. This should tell us volumes about the real nature of their “movement”. From a pool of 350 million they got, what, 60 or 80 jackals to show up. It is smaller than the number of people who would benefit from unisex bathrooms, but is given the attention of a million man march.
What we are seeing across the board is a lot of political attention being given to very very small minority opinions. And that is because these crackpot ideas are being given attention through violence. This country has always had some idiot racists, but they are and have been a small group. Why is a tiny neo-nazi march given so much attention in 2017? 40 years after they marched on Skokie? That is lunacy. Of course we should stand against hatred and racism. But we shouldn’t make amountains out of a clump of dirt either. These people are crackpot idiots and deserving of ridicule. They should not be elevated by making them appear more important than they are. Let them march (which is their right) and then let them scatter back into the wind.