ravingfans said:
A few things:
- This woman has NAACP at Howard University and black lives matter on her bio and avatar. She's not the brightest light bulb in the chandelier. She's also telling on herself with this tweet.
- I once read an AMA with a reformed white supremacist skinhead on Reddit. When someone asked "what's one story you can tell that would surprise us?", he told a story about returning from a meeting with fellow racists at a house. While driving home that night, a group of them stopped when they saw an elderly black couple on the side of the highway with a flat tire. All of them jumped out of the car immediately and changed the tire. When it was done, they proceed to drive home, and no one said anything about what they did. It just goes to show you that no matter what ideology you are taught, even virulent hatred, sometimes human nature and biology just takes over. Respect for your elders is one of those things that is just ingrained in us early on.
- When filming
White Right: Meeting the Enemy, Deeyah Khan met many avowed white supremacists and neo-nazis. Khan is Punjabi/Pashtun, and wanted to meet people who claim they hate immigrants and people with darker skin. While she was interviewing these groups, she goes to Charlottesville during the Unite the Right protests. antifa is there, they're lobbing tear gas and attacking the neo-nazis, and you can see Khan is scared. One of the first things the group of men she is with do is form a barrier around her, putting her at the center. If anyone is going to be attacked or hit with teargas, it is the men on the outside. So these men, all who proclaim they don't like immigrants or 'others', when put to the test, their first instinct is to protect the woman interviewing them, one of those 'others'. Again, it doesn't matter what you're told or what you're taught, some things are ingrained in us. Many of these men, after meeting Khan, left their organizations.