*headdesk*

[serai]

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So I'm watching this documentary called Blood in the Face, about the Klan and other such Neo-Nazis, and...oh, the STUPID. It roasts me.

Hearing these people actually holding forth on their bigoted, moronic ideas is actually kind of enlightening. A couple of years ago I picked up a copy of Mein Kampf, which I wanted to read because I believe in finding things out for myself, and damn but I could not make it past about 15 pages. What a badly written book! I'm not talking about the substance, which is awful enough, but just shitty writing. Still haven't managed to pick it up again.

So actually listening to these people spewing is something of an eye-opener. I mean, what am I supposed to think about somebody who says stuff like, "We want people to know white people are intelligent, and we don't need no porch monkey telling us what to do!" and doesn't get why that's so grotesque? It's bizarre, like I've fallen into some weird-ass wormhole and ended up in an alternate universe. Not because I think humans don't have capacity for awfulness, but just because it's so brain-bendingly STUPID. STUPID STUPID STUPID. And all the shite about ZOG and the Protocols of Zion and miscegenation and "loving your own kind" and sweet Jesus, it goes on and on and on.

But like I said, I'm glad I'm watching it, if for no other reason than hearing their arguments from their own mouths. I'm a great believer in know thine enemy and seeing it yourself. Being informed and all that. And yo, you can never know too much about lunatics like this.

And you know, I sure wish I could be there when they meet up with Jesus. Have they got a surprise coming!!

Still though...ARGH. ARGHARGHARGHARGH. WHY must I share DNA with these yahoos???

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[britgirlsf.livejournal.com]

I actually got dragged to a white power rally once as a child. My family had just moved to Texas for work and my Dad's coworker invited us to a "barbeque", which turned out to be a festive little gathering complete with live music, bunting and neo-Nazis. It was the most terrifying thing I've ever witnessed, mostly because of the sheer banality of the whole thing. People took their kids, like it was a county fair. It was like the Two Minute Hate from 1984 with beer and brisket. Horrifying.

I grew up in the Middle East - Libya and Saudi Arabia - and never once, even during the era where Reagan and Gadafi were having a pissing contest, was I as frightened as I was on that day in Texas. America is not a terrorist state my ass.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Oh friggin' HELL. That must have been hair-raising. There's very little as frightening as this kind of deeply ingrained ignorance.

And most of them claim to be Christians. *sigh* Poor Jesus. What did he ever do to deserve fans like that?

[britgirlsf.livejournal.com]

It really was. By the time we got back to the car we were all shaking, even my macho Dad. It was how casual they all were about it that horrified me - the guy who invited my Dad just assumed that because we were white people we would agree with all that crap. What kind of upbringing does it take to make a person that confident that everyone shares their messed up way of looking at the world?

I'm not Christian, or religious at all, but I suspect that historical figure Jesus wouldn't like a lot of his followers very much. They do seem to have missed the point quite spectacularly.