I'm sorry, I just don't get it. Why protest someone else's rally?

[Rebkeh]

16. Silence will not protect you

If you see something, say something, otherwise you help the wrong people. There is no neutral in some things, there just isn't. Silence is compliance when dealing with bigots.

On the contrary, you don't reinforce anything, the only people you may lose were already lost anyway. This stuff is personal for some of us, not some abstract idea. You have to find a way to get in the way, that's the whole point. You have to disrupt the comfortable, or you will be ignored, overlooked, cast aside and forgotten. Change never comes from asking politely for justice. I do believe in non-violence, but I also believe in confrontation. Conflict, done right, can be constructive. Done wrong, destructive. But avoiding it helps no one.

You may not see it that way, I'm just answering your question.

Not sure how it gives him a better chance at winning. "They," people like me, are already "them," otherized anyway. It makes no difference. People on the fence are not going to dictate my life, they are not going to silence us. I am not going to parse my words, deny myself full expression so they feel comfortable about doing the right thing. You see how that empowers them? See how that disempowers us? Not gonna happen.