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xiphias ([personal profile] xiphias) wrote2008-11-03 08:05 pm

Um. This is beyond weird.



Esquire Magazine did an article interviewing several leaders of White Supremacist movements in the United States about who they were voting for for President.

I'm using the same pull-quote that [livejournal.com profile] swan_tower used.
White people are faced with either a negro or a total nutter who happens to have a pale face. Personally I’d prefer the negro.
-- Rocky Suhayda, Chairman, American Nazi Party

[identity profile] papersky.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
That's exactly how the Nazis, the individual people who were Nazis, were about the Jews in the Third Reich. Goebbels complains about it in his diary. When they passed the Nuremberg Laws, everyone came to him with their exception -- they hated the Jews as much as anyone, they said, but what about their neighbour that very nice Mr X, he was a Jew but he was different. Didn't stop him ending up in a camp, but that's how they felt.

This is why it's important not to go along with being accepted as an exception but to identify clearly as what you are and that there are lots of others too.

[identity profile] jehanna.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope I don't have to point out here that I in no way meant to imply that bigotry should ever be ignored or treated with complacency.

Just sharing a data point about how hard it can be to predict voter behavior based on this sort of thing.

[identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com 2008-11-04 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
This is why it's important not to go along with being accepted as an exception but to identify clearly as what you are and that there are lots of others too.

Next time I get tired I'm going to remind myself of what you've said here.