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Hate and "Nice People"

The fine, fashionable are of deflecting moral responsibility.
Feb. 2, 2018
Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than 'politics.' They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren't nice people? Resisters.

We can whitewash complicity with such things as "agreeing to disagree" all we like, and flippantly dismiss anyone who calls us out for it as a "hater." But to borrow a phrase from C.S. Lewis' Screwtape, doing so won't keep any of us out of the Kingdom of Hell...

It will only make us more amusing when we finally get there.

References

Anti Defamation League (ADL). 2016. "Rash of vandalism, swastikas and harassment reported following Election Day." ADL Blog, Nov. 11, 2016. Available online at http://blog.adl.org/anti-semitism/rash-of-vandalism-and-swastikas-reported-following-election-day. Accessed Feb. 2, 2018.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 2016. "2015 Hate Crime Statistics." Available online at https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2015. Accessed Feb. 2, 2018.

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). 2016. "Over 200 Incidents of Hateful Harassment and Intimidation Since Election Day." Southern Poverty Law Center, Nov. 11, 2016. Available online at https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/11/over-200-incidents-hateful-harassment-and-intimidation-election-day. Accessed Feb. 2, 2018.

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). 2016b. "Update: 1,094 Bias-Related Incidents in the Month Following the Election." Southern Poverty Law Center, Dec. 16, 2016. Available online at https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/12/16/update-1094-bias-related-incidents-month-following-election. Accessed Feb. 2, 2018.

Wikipedia. 2018. Unite the Right rally. Updated Jan. 28, 2018. Online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally. Accessed Feb. 1, 2018.

Wikipedia. 2018b. Cuckservative. Updated Jan. 31, 2018. Online at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckservative. Accessed Feb. 1, 2018.




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