I'd wager that, for most of them, it boils down to getting to say whatever shit they want without consequence while feeling superior.
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How many of them have actually costed out what the edicts of white supremacy or Nazism *as government policies* actually look like?
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To pick the most obvious schadenfreude-laden example, consider the Nazi diet book, about which I've tweeted here:https://twitter.com/fozmeadows/status/897451798880854017 …
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Nazi eugenics is all about "fitness" in both senses of the word; how many of those marching ever considered that THEY might be "unfit"?
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All those upper- a& middle-class millennial alt-whiters who've never suffered a consequence in their lives beyond mild inconvenience -
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- but who nonetheless think they're oppressed because OTHER people get stuff that THEY WANT and must THEREFORE DESERVE TO HAVE -
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- we know damn well they don't think institutional biases are real except against them. So how the fuck do they know they're preaching them?
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Imagine the staggering cognitive dissonance of someone who thinks "white supremacy" isn't about actively disenfranchising POC. I just.
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I have SEEN these assholes argue that all they're doing is advocating against their own "oppression" by countering diversity initiatives.
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And yeah, a great many of them - the True Believers -are saying that as a deliberate, coded dogwhistle while denying that's what it is.
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But I guarantee there's bigots in that movement who are so ignorant, so brainwashed, that they honestly think the dogwhistle is sincere.
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Again: they're still fucking bigots. They're still reprehensible adults in charge of their own decisions. That doesn't exonerate them.
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I just really, really hate that, until or unless the alt-right start doing Big Nazi Shit at a government level, that penny will never drop.
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