Blog #3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_QdRlT0Dg

This first video isn't so much aesthetically what we're going for but ideologically it resonates with messages we seek to convey. Idles seeks to raise awareness of issues of toxic masculinity and hate not by simply waving a finger at the problem but by taking it one step further with a loving and inclusive solution. This very much aligns with our idea of presenting universal love to a matter of the alt-right not to sympathize with it by any means but to break the cycle of fighting fire with fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJKzsSM6MBg

This next video is the antithesis of what our group has been talking about but is also something that we go back and forth on. This video depicts Richard Spencer, a real-life neo-nazi getting punched in the face by an anonymous man. This is something that is immediately very satisfying and almost justified to me. I struggle with the idea of violent protest because on one hand it is absolutely called for but on the other hand it just perpetuates a more extreme back and forth between two apparent sides. It gives the neo-nazis a way to consider themselves somehow oppressed and makes the other side look desperate and "in the wrong". I don't have a proper solution I just know that violence in some situations is not the answer.