How best to contribute to anti-facist efforts as an engineer?

Good morning.

As an American burdened by an over-abundance of empathy, I find myself engulfed in a myriad of anxieties that I am having trouble dealing with. I have a layman’s understanding of world history, and I can’t stop thinking about one of the later scenes from Schindler’s List, wherein the German citizens downwind of a concentration camp were forced to help clean-up rubble because they had committed the crime of indifference and inaction while adjacent to horrific crimes against humanity.

I feel a strong urge to turn my head for my own sanity, which of course is one of the desired outcomes of this ‘flood the zone’ strategy that these New Nazis have deployed. I will not turn my head.

The problem is that I have things to lose and I’m in a class that will mostly be unaffected by most of their actions, other than inflation and instability, so I’m kind of just constantly checking the news and hoping that those with more to lose actually do something to stop this madness. I have a feeling that many of us, as engineers or otherwise, are in the same boat.

So my question is, what can I do to be civilly disobedient and inflict harm on this insane movement without imperiling myself, or those that I love? I personally don’t know where my line is for imperiling myself, or those that I love and I would rather not find out.

Is anyone else struggling with this?

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