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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
I'm as guilty as anyone of rationalizing/white-washing a grotesque element of US society, but bigotry is huge in the US and needs to be addressed.
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But at the same time, let's not write all of those people off as irredeemable neo-nazis. There aren't that many neo-nazis. The south isn't some bastion of the KKK where everyone goes home after work and dons a white sheet while lighting up a torch. Someone made this comparison pretty aptly yesterday by posting this protest next to the Atlanta edition of the women's march.
If you think about it like a sort of venn graph, there's a big circle of "right wing", and a smaller circle within that that are anti-immigration, and a smaller circle within that that think racial differences are important in determining what type of person someone is, and a smaller circle within that think certain races are in some way more or less capable than others, and a smaller circle within that who think Hitler had some good ideas, and a smaller circle within that who are wiling to undertake violence in support of their perceived racial superiority.