I have to deal with a similar situation, and it weighs on me constantly, to the point I’m about to walk out of my job. I’m a white, straight-acting, cis-gendered, married man, and into cars, guns, UTVs, etc. I live in a mostly conservative area, and on top of that, work in the car sales industry(before that, the…

Yeah I stopped watching CNN when they lost their integrity about 20 years ago.

While Fox has been the traditional home of conservative outrage, white supremacy and general fuckery, I’d suggest Chris Licht is positioning CNN as a lite contender and marking down its both sides-ism bullshit.

Yeah, I also look redneck-ish.  It's funny how they always complain about 'liberal propaganda' and how they always have to hear it, but I've never once brought up politics or anything remotely close.  It's always the right wing chuds who start off with some snide remark.  I'd love to tell them to fuck off but I value…

I’m on your side TheWalrus. Even with the screenshot, without being told I should be looking at his tattoos, I wouldn’t have noticed. Yes, if you look at his tattoos, they are clearly and obviously nazi tattoos, but you have to look at his tattoos. Beyond noticing that someone has tattoos, I almost never make it a…

Holy shit - do you people even read what you’re responding to before hitting ‘publish’? Or do you just rage comment in some sort of unthinking Pavlovian response?

To accuse someone of sympathizing with nazi because they don't check other people's tattoos is idiotic. I normally don't pay much attention to anyones tattoos that I meet, just not that interesting to me. 

That’s part of why I specified rural America. Racism exists everywhere, but there are more dog whistles in suburbia & cities, while that county of 3000 will have someone just say “we don’t like your kind around here” without any liquid courage.

No shit. In fact, it’s not even just America, if you care to be so pedantic about it.  

I have a similar problem. I sort of look like a redneck. And as such if I am at an event or participating in one of my hobbies some of these assholes will assume I am one of them and start spewing that shit. It is VERY hard for me not to them to go fuck themselves. I just tell them excuse me and walk away. Maybe that…

I’m not Jewish but right there with you. These people are both evil and awful. My theory is that its been almost 80 years since the end of WW2. Almost anyone alive who went through that hell are now dead. It was so horrific that none of the males in my family who came back wanted to ever even breathe a word about it…

Reddit’s moderation policy actually makes it one of the most enjoyable browsing experiences. I don’t plan to post there ever or make an account but they do a good job of both community policing and also moderators directly handling problematic content. There are gross places and people all over Reddit but outside of…

I suspect that Motor Trend kinda kept this on the down low and didn’t make a big statement about it because they know that a not-insignificant amount of their viewership is comprised of trashy backwoods types who would start screeching about “cancel culture” and “woke nonsense” immediately. That’s not to excuse their…

Hell, I didn’t even remember the guy had tattoos. Did I even notice it when I was watching? I guess the people putting these episodes together should be paying attention to this kind of thing, but it surprises me none that a number of people would have missed it. Especially if they’re young and haven’t experienced any…

I have stopped going to car shows/meets here in NC because of this. The scene is toxic. And, sadly, it affects all age groups.

People have grown with the mentality that rights are zero-sum games -- that you lose rights by giving other people rights -- and mostly its white people, likely because they fear being treated like they normally treat other people. 

I mean, I dunno, the SS logo is pretty easy to spot and if someone wants to advertise their beliefs like that, you owe it to them to at least give them a glance. IMO.

I wouldn’t call you a sympathizer, but maybe this isn’t a hill to die on. That said, thanks for reading the story. I genuinely appreciate you taking the…

It’s more like “rural America” than just the South. The South gets a lot of credit for their racism, but confederate flags are flown proudly everywhere in the country. 

Fuck nazis, and fuck nazi sympathizers.

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