Um. This is beyond weird.

[xiphias]

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 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

Comments

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that I'm not surprised the "We're voting for the nigger" thing happened in PA? Cause I'm not. Thanks.

People are weird about their racism. My father likes to tell the story about his mother...she had this habit of taking in strays. One of them was a black lady whose husband was abusing her who ISTR was somebody in the family's maid at some point. Anyway, my grandmother moved her into the house with the family, where she lived for the rest of her life. However, she was quite prone to spouting off about black people at any given time, so my father used to say to her, "Well, what about her, she's black", and she would get all annoyed and say, "Not her. She's DIFFERENT".

And then he would bring up about a billion other black people she knew, and she'd say the same thing every time.

So basically anyone she knew PERSONALLY was exempt from her bad opinion of black people, and she was fine with getting to know any individual black person and having them become exempt. It was just the Strangers Out There.

Bigotry and fear are weird, weird things.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

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.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

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.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

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.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*laughs sadly* I have been told to my face "no, *you're* different!" You can guess in response to what protestations from me.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

That's incredibly weak. I guess you can never underestimate the power of stupidity, huh? :P