Ms. Myers-Keggan, when Jeremy Joseph Christian was abusing and threatening the two young women on the Max in Portland, should Ricky John Best, Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, and Micah Fletcher have just "ignored" him? They could have. Maybe they'd be alive and it would be the two young Black girls who are dead. Is this what you propose? Many Americans are "ignoring" neo-Nazi activity because, thanks to their skin color, it's not an immediate threat to them. It's somebody else's problem. But not theirs.
When thousands of Jews every day were being rounded up and loaded onto trains, leaving their possessions behind, lots of Germans just "ignored" those Nazis too. But when the death camps were liberated by American troops, everyone thought differently of Germans because of their support for mass murderers. Now there are museums devoted to showing the deeds of the German "volk" and their Nazi leaders. 
Ignoring white supremacy doesn't make it go away.

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