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"Let them expose themselves so we all know who to charge and prosecute with criminal behavior". Fixed that for you. There are laws regarding this, so either use them or might as well eliminate them if they have no teeth.

Ignoring them does not work, and only emboldens them. Ridiculing them online seems to act mostly like feeding a troll.

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First of all, you have no idea whether that's true anymore than I do.

Second, so freakin what?? So 0.01% of the population says mean and ugly things - so what? It's very, very easy to avoid and ignore it. Meanwhile, policing speech is not only going to obviously open Pandora's box in general, but it will probably cause more people to be racist.

>First of all, you have no idea whether that's true anymore than I do.

I don't know what is true?

That is not true. They were ignored for the longest time and their numbers were dwindling. They just got more support when people started policing hobbies, books, comedy. That will obviously lead to further opposition, which aren't racists but are declared as such.

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