Bad psychological strategies look like:🧵
“If you don’t agree with us you’re a racist”- distorted thinking used as intimidation to create compliance.

“We’ll enter your place of work to tell you how racist you are- if you don’t agree you might lose your job”- encroachment
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on individual rights & autonomy with the threat of loss of employment.

“Vote for us or we’ll burn your city down”- open threat of violence.

*People protest vote out of fear- not bc they like Trump*
“This is proof that you’re all racist homophobic anti human rights right wing bigoted brainless nazis who want to uphold white supremacy”- psychological attack that further alienates the protest voters (many of whom will stay silent), widens the divide, worsens race relations.
These are psychologically manipulative & abusive tactics which threaten people into either compliance or silence.

The silenced are now voting for Trump.

Clearly, this isn’t a tenable solution to racism.
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