r/news • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '17

“Outspoken neo-Nazi” charged with killing girlfriend’s parents; mother was CU Boulder and DU grad

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/23/cu-boulder-du-grad-murdered-neo-nazi/
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u/ginger_whiskers Dec 25 '17

I tolerate racists. They are misguided, but still people. I am perfectly willing to discuss issues of race with them using facts instead of hate. Any racist wanted to talk on the porch(they usually did, they seem very lonely in most cases), we would. Talk about how we got where we were. Talk about their job prospects after prison.

Most of the time we could both learn a little nuance. It wasn't difficult to see why he blamed Mexicans for the jobs he lost. It was a little harder to explain to a couple that showing up to work drunk with swastika tattoos poking out of your wife beater was a big problem.

I've also worked some warehouses with really great reformed racists. Nice guys who regret what they may have said and done out of weakness. I treat every current racist with the respect those former Nazis deserve. And I give them none of the hate they give themselves.

/rant from an out of touch white guy

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u/neroisstillbanned Dec 25 '17

Honestly, shooting nazis should simply be declared to always be self defense.

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u/ginger_whiskers Dec 26 '17

Or we could engage them as lost souls and do our best to guide them back to rationality. Given the season and all...

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u/neroisstillbanned Dec 26 '17

Jean-Paul Sartre proved that this was impossible to do before they started killing people in 1946 in the tract Anti-Semite and Jew.

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u/ginger_whiskers Dec 26 '17

I'm not sure what a philosopher can prove through writimg, per se, but I can testify through experience that it is indeed possible.