Please give your neighbour a hug, and assure him that there are untold millions of people who will stand between him and the nazis. They just haven’t made much noise - yet.

I know!

“Discredit white supremacists”? That seems like that would be a challenging task.

 It’s Spring Time for Hitler in Ger... fuck

My neighbor is a 91 year old Hungarian Holocaust survivor. Despite the absolute intentional horror that was inflicted on him and his murdered family, he is kind, funny, smart and will hold your hand with tenderness when he speaks to you. The next words out of his mouth were something along the lines of “it’s…

I’ve e heard from some fellow Jews I follow that the memorial keeps backup panes in case this kind of thing happens. Which, I mean, smart. So in that case I guess the kid and family should pay for the new backup panes?

He and his parents should have to pay for the entire installation to be replaced - and issue an apology. What scum are among us.

They were carrying swastikas; I really feel like no one has any business silencing a Jewish person on this one.

Maybe she can roll you off the couch and have you join her.

And if you do insist you are “one of the good ones” feel free to speak with your money. Refinery21 has a good list that includes the Charlottesville NAACP and the Charlottesville Solidarity Legal Fund.

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Hey, so who do I talk to about getting my Good Ally button? I donated to NAACP last month and have yet to receive it. The only way that people know is I have to tell each person, and it’s getting exhausting. /s

tl;dr - The harm done to white feelings is not equal to the harm done to black bodies. Help or get out of the way.

You’ve got to cut Jezzies some slack. They are just frustrated because racism is so underground, yet everyone is cool with misogyny. /s

You wanna help? Okay cool. Listen. By listening over time you will learn discernment and real empathy. The kind that makes you recognize that it could happen to you. It also enables you to stop looking at blacks thru certain conditioned filters.

Update: I went over to that thread on Jezebel, and holy fucking shit, we’re actively trying to be the worst.

Speaking for myself and my white friends that I’ve talked to about this: We’re ashamed, embarrassed, and looking for ways to help. We aren’t surprised by it, and have been speaking out against it... but, fuck. This is awful, and as long as the worst of us aren’t shamed into silence, we’re awful too.

Ugh, horrible flashback. I went out with a guy once that was an amateur magician. I knew him through work, we met at his place (which was horrifying) before going to what turned out to be a really pretty good amateur theater production his friend was in.

“I never said let’s go on a date, I always say let’s meet for drinks” — I never shoplifted, I merely transported a skirt to my car without exchanging currency for it.