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In reply to the discussion: This filmmaker spent months interviewing neo-Nazis and jihadists. Here's what she learned. [View all]Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Giving in to bigotry is both weak and bad. You yourself just proved what I was trying to say. You're dismissing any personal responsibility and implying it's all the result of "complexities of human interaction." I'm calling bullshit. Sorry, you're just not going to convince me that these people are Nazis and racists because they didn't get held enough when they were infants.
My father was an alcoholic Republican who listened to Rush Limbaugh and drank himself to death when I was 19 years old. He didn't hold me very much when I was a child and neither did my mother. I've had many other economic hardships as an adult due to the nature of our unequal and unjust system. I still never embraced racism or fascism.
When you imply that people have no other choice but to embrace hatred, you're actually insulting all the people that had similar trials and tribulations but CHOSE another path. And it is possible to CHOOSE another path.