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Note: I'm being purposefully vague here because I refuse to give any of the following entities more exposure.
I've been following articles on an upcoming protest that seems to be completely wing-nutty crazy. In doing so, a few of the reports have pointed out that there's a serious amount of discussion about these protests on various white supremacist sites. Since I'm always amused by the batshit crazy of the world, I decided that I'd take a gander at what the hate crowd was saying.
Now keep in mind, I'm nowhere close to being politically correct. Though I've never been anything more than casually racist myself (think Avenue Q's "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" number), I grew up in Southwestern PA in an area where the Klan used to hold public rallies with their hoods off. I probably know more racist jokes that most of my friends put together, and I often shock people with my knowledge of slurs. Hell, I work in a restaurant as a waiter, a job that you do your best at when you clump people into groups based on first impressions. I'm not easily shocked.
Damn, these people scare me.
See, in my experience, racists fall into two categories; retarded redneck hillbillies who hate everyone who's not them with all their heart or upper-class who take generalizations at face value because such cultures are beneath them. The first group is so vitriolically insane that no one with half a brain really listens to the tirade of filth they spew while the second group is basically clueless that they're being offensive and aren't onboard with some bigoted agenda.
Problem is, I am apparently racist against racists, because at the site I visited, these people are motivated, intelligent, coherent and, most frighteningly, politically active. There's serious talk about organizing militias, protests, petitions, hell, even community action groups that will hold neighborhood barbeques. It scares the shit out of me because these people, unlike the normal black helicopter and Illuminati crowd I normally mock, aren't a bunch of morons flailing about in the night every time someone spooks them. These people want to either kick minorities out of the country or kill them, and they're willing to put in the work to do it.
That said, I can't help being amused at people self-censoring their swear words. Nine pages into a thread and I could post almost all of it in any public forum and not kick in any profanity filters.
I've been following articles on an upcoming protest that seems to be completely wing-nutty crazy. In doing so, a few of the reports have pointed out that there's a serious amount of discussion about these protests on various white supremacist sites. Since I'm always amused by the batshit crazy of the world, I decided that I'd take a gander at what the hate crowd was saying.
Now keep in mind, I'm nowhere close to being politically correct. Though I've never been anything more than casually racist myself (think Avenue Q's "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" number), I grew up in Southwestern PA in an area where the Klan used to hold public rallies with their hoods off. I probably know more racist jokes that most of my friends put together, and I often shock people with my knowledge of slurs. Hell, I work in a restaurant as a waiter, a job that you do your best at when you clump people into groups based on first impressions. I'm not easily shocked.
Damn, these people scare me.
See, in my experience, racists fall into two categories; retarded redneck hillbillies who hate everyone who's not them with all their heart or upper-class who take generalizations at face value because such cultures are beneath them. The first group is so vitriolically insane that no one with half a brain really listens to the tirade of filth they spew while the second group is basically clueless that they're being offensive and aren't onboard with some bigoted agenda.
Problem is, I am apparently racist against racists, because at the site I visited, these people are motivated, intelligent, coherent and, most frighteningly, politically active. There's serious talk about organizing militias, protests, petitions, hell, even community action groups that will hold neighborhood barbeques. It scares the shit out of me because these people, unlike the normal black helicopter and Illuminati crowd I normally mock, aren't a bunch of morons flailing about in the night every time someone spooks them. These people want to either kick minorities out of the country or kill them, and they're willing to put in the work to do it.
That said, I can't help being amused at people self-censoring their swear words. Nine pages into a thread and I could post almost all of it in any public forum and not kick in any profanity filters.