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A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn't an isolated event — it's part of a national pattern

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[–] _sideffect 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me again why they aren't nazis

[–] butterflyattack 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, some of them are. Many of them are nazi-lite. They get upset if you point it out, though. A lot of them probably believe they are fine upstanding patriots. A few can be talked to, and some can even change, but most just dig in deeper, so the problem doesn't seem likely to go away; it seems to be getting worse.

[–] cley_faye 10 points 1 year ago

I'm ok for removing nazi-lite at the same time as nazi, though.

[–] UristMcHolland 5 points 1 year ago

“As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.”

I think when you tell me “I’m still friends with this racist because we need to know what they think.” You know what? We don’t. They haven’t thought anything “new” in 2,000 years. When you break bread with a Nazi, you tell them that they’re a member of society. They’re not. They don’t deserve to be. And they should know their hatreds make them unfit to be around decent people.

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