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Originally Posted by Kelhus999
So, they are just crazy? They aren't racist, homophobic, or sexist?
I guess the tiki torch marchers are just crazy too?
It is literally insane the complete absurd inconsistency of our reality as far as what is just "crazy" and what is "morally reprehensible," and how we decide what should be normalized (in your case normalizing the Israelites behavior) and what should not be. and you guys are just so content to live within the fever dream and accept contradiction after contradiction after contradiction.
You know, saying "fever dream" is not making a point. You are not on the right side of anything here in the moral sense or otherwise and the things that you imagine are gotchas just aren't.
I think Black Israelites who make it their day job to yell on the street are crazy, and I don't really know what they were saying, but it may well have been racist too. It's a total non-story though. This is for a couple reasons. One it was just a couple people and a couple weirdos shouting anything is not a story. A couple weird white racists shouting on a corner is also not a national story. A big march of Black Israelites with hundreds of people carrying torches would be a big story.
Are the tiki torch marchers crazy? Probably not. The ones I saw profiled were like stupid frat boys who hoped to finish college and get regular jobs, but maybe screwed that up because they made their racism extremely public.
How the **** is calling someone crazy "normalizing" it? It's really abnormalizing it, right?
There's another thing here if you want to get into racism, structural/institutional racism and power. It's relevant that white people are a majority, hold most of the wealth and positions of power in the US, and are a far bigger threat to minorities than the other way around. I know that part really bugs you, but it's true. Some people are more concerned with white racists because they are more dangerous.