I’m not sure which is worse: having a bologna sandwich for thanksgiving dinner or stalking someone who has a bologna sandwich for thanksgiving dinner.
Yeah QAnon really drags you down a big spiral, found this in a Vice article.
moonz does love him some Doritos
Are they "bad" people? Yes, probably. Is the idea of Nazi-ism bad? Fuck yes. Absolutely. Are all self-identified Nazi's bad people? Probably not.
Yeah QAnon really drags you down a big spiral, found this in a Vice article.
Woof.
https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240
Arnold makes the point for me. Nazis came home from the war traumatized, just like many of our soldiers did. My point in those earlier posts, as it continues to be is this: when we dehumanize a person or group of people, that is not to our collective benefit. Yes, Nazi beliefs are bad. And there are Nazis who are wholly beyond redemption.
To directly combat your "woof" - take the hypothetical angsty teen. He's forsaken by his family, but a local group takes him in and provides him with validation and direction. For the period of one year, he takes up the mantle of Blood/Crips/Nazi. During that year, he strongly identifies himself with that ideology.
After that year, he starts to recognize inconsistency and negativity in his beloved ideology. He's exposed to other people who have beliefs that are not his own, and he admires what they do without hate in their hearts. He realizes that it wasn't the ideology that he loved, but the fulfillment of the companionship that he craved as a young man. He stops being a Blood/Crips/Nazi. Ten years later, he's no longer involved in that story. He goes on to write meaningful literature regarding treatment of leather furniture.
From what I can understand, by your (and smoosh's) definition, he is forever tainted as a bad person, because of the year that he identified as a Blood/Crips/Nazi. Further, that we should wholly disregard his understanding of leather furniture because of that bad past.
I said it before, and I'll say it again: that's fucking bananas.
Anybody can change. But it’s a mistake to assume they will without encouraging them to do so. We don’t want a society in which Nazi behavior is approved at the highest levels of government.
Agreed. Part of someone changing is realizing that they have, in fact, made a terrible mistake. Rarely does that realization come without significant negative reinforcement of some sort.
My argument is that the soil to plant this seed in almost certainly does not become fertile as long as the BBD's of the world continue to view people and the world in black and white terms.
You've got to come at that capital stormer and say, "hey man, America is the greatest nation on earth. Without a doubt, our founding fathers agreed that freedom was worth risking everything for. Let's look at the people/events going on around you right now - do you think those founding fathers would follow the lady hiding behind a megaphone screaming, "GO PATRIOTS! GO NOW!" to encourage people to jump the downed fence to storm the capital lawn while she sits safely on the plaza with her bullhorn?" "Naw, bro. And what's more, there are real ways to satisfy that deep seated need for change that's in you.Just go kill all the politicians.Volunteer with your local campaign office. Learn about the policies of the people that you're voting for. Let's go together and do that."