I have attached the Della Porta article below.
In the Della Porta article this week, we learned that one of the major challenges of stemming the tide of political violence is when two groups — protestors and counter-protestors — continue to try to one-up each other in terms of how they respond to each other. As an example, at many neo-Nazi protests, there will be counter-protestors. When one side shouts, the other side shouts louder. When one side throws rocks, the other side sometimes throws bottles. When one side pushes, the other side punches. It’s not a hard-and-fast rule, and certainly, I amnot making a moral equivalence between the two sides. But is it possible to have a counter-protest in these instances that does not spiral out of control, as happened in Charlottesville in 2017?
What do you think would be the most appropriate responses from counter-protestors to get their point across without escalation? Is this even possible?
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