this is your brain on fascist "radical centrist" brainworms

like, more power to the guy if he enjoys what he does and makes a difference, but to expect this level of emotional and mental labor from all people targeted by hatred is fucking deranged and white supremacist.

  • Jeff_Benzos [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    One of the racists he "converted" was arrested at the Charlottesville nazi rally. Since the story broke, emails from the klansman that he talked to showed that they were just pretending to leave to get a "you actually need to talk to nazis about racism, definitely dont punch them" story in the media.

    Nazis only know hate, and they only respond to fear.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Since the story broke, emails from the klansman that he talked to showed that they were just pretending to leave to get a “you actually need to talk to nazis about racism, definitely dont punch them” story in the media.

      Amazing how a bunch of Klansmen could just get stories injected into mainstream media. Seems... sus.

      :cia:

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    This is the guy who got played by those same klan members. They'd say all kinds of racist shit behind his back and use him during court to give them a more favorable sentence.

  • sandinista209 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The same people who share this guys story say that racism can be solved if we just stop talking about it. Amazing logic.

  • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    We can end racism by making black people talk to white supremacists who want them dead. If racism persists, it's because of the black people who didn't do enough to stop it

  • Lucas [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I'm not going to be a prop so that they can use me as a character witness when they commit a hate crime.

    I'm not going to sit down and talk with people who are an existential threat to me and mine. Why speak civilly with these people?

    I'm not going to do this level of work when these people have family members that won't ruin brunch by calling out their use of the n-word. That change needs to come from within and only when allies actually act like allies will we see those changes.

    Like those people who disowned family who were marching and chanting 'blood and soil.'

  • ultraviolet [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    If the bigots don't want to stop that means I also get to do this to them :meow-knife-trans:

  • MarshallZhukov [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    A reactionary cannot change. Their mind is deeply poisoned by their criminal ideology.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      People change all the time. But it's a mistake to simply assume you're the one who is going to change them.

  • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I like the implicit admission of LibLeft being marginalized people with immutable traits compared to AuthLeft being people who chose the trait of “walking scum”.

  • ToastGhost [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    ive heard daryl davis got conned into paying the legal expenses of some "former" neo nazis who kept on being nazis after. anyone have more details on that?