02-17-2022, 11:01 AM
(02-16-2022, 08:21 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: the unironically white supremacists haven't started really reemerging until just a few years ago, and like 2/3 of them say some variation of "I was liberal until like 3 years ago".
Maybe in some places this may be true, but not in the parts of smalltown and rural America I've known since birth. The most aggressive White-Nationalists live in areas that were typically lily white until recently, with the less aggressive types living in areas that remain that way. In short, they are either afraid of 'others' or manifestly distrust them at the very least. More to the point, they assume life is a zero-sum game, so these interlopers are threats to their lifestyles.
None of this has to be rational' it's all emotion. Oh, and on another point, they've been there forever. It's a tribal thing that dates back far into prehistory.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.