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> The racists on the right know they're racists. They admit it. Not necessarily. Even Richard Spencer, proud Hitler-saluting Neo-Nazi, essentially the founder
by Sohcahtoa82 6y ago
> The racists on the right know they're racists. They admit it.
Not necessarily.
Even Richard Spencer, proud Hitler-saluting Neo-Nazi, essentially the founder of the "alt-right", denies being racist.
People know that racism is bad, but a lot of racists will deny being racist while very explicitly saying they don't want to live next to a black person or will call the police just because they saw a black man walking through the neighborhood.
- kodah 6y agoThat's not really true. He's definitely claimed to be some flavor of racist on that documentary on Netflix.
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoI don't remember where I saw it, and I'm struggling to find it now, but there was some interview where he explicitly claims to not be racist and claims to not hate black people, and even claims to not be a white supremacist, but that he merely believes that the races shouldn't mix and that America should be a white ethno-state. He knows that racism is not socially acceptable, so he makes bad faith claims of not being racist while expressing obviously racist views. And the problem is, it works. It doesn't take much searching to find racists that don't think they're racist. The fact that people don't think Donald Trump is racist, despite a long list of racist remarks and actions [0], is proof of that. And of course, later, Milo Yiannopoulos later released an audio recording of an explicitly racist rant. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump [1] https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/11/4/20947833/richard-spencer-white-nationalism-audio-milo-alt-right https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/11/4/20947833/richard-sp...
- bena 6y agoI've heard it said that the two things the alt-right hates the most: 1. Being called a racist. 2. Black people.