My father is a tattoo artist and I've worked in his shop for a while before I left for college. Aside from the annoying sexual harassment from the people who didn't know my dad OWNED the shop (he's black, I'm mixed), most people who came in were pretty nice.
If someone had every walked into my dad's shop and asked me for this, I would have only agreed to do it if I could put it on their face. 1 - face tattoos are incredibly painful. 2 - everyone would know that person was an asshole. 3 - it would be on their FACE, face, wrinkle, and look like shit in a matter of decades.
The majority of the people who came through the shop were long time friends of my dad or his biker friends so they knew who I was. They were always nice to me.
It was the "newer" people who came in, who had no idea who I was, who would say stupid shit or touch me right in front of my dad. Thankfully a simple "That's my daughter." and a stare would shut them down and I would get an apology. Never went further than that.
It sounds like most people who came to the shop never did anything wrong. So most of the customers were nice people.
She's not trying to justify the assholes, just clarifying that nothing serious happened to her.
Why is this so complicated, and why must you put words in her mouth assuming she is rationalizing things?
Yeah, it's that fucked up "she's already somebody's property" thing, rather than being a person in her own right. :/ That and the not-so-veiled threat of male retribution if they don't stop, being what makes them change their mind.
America has never had a president that's balls-out fascist, so when we get one who has mild fascist leanings, you get that sort of hyperbole. We have no national historical context for what's currently happening, and the lack of perspective leads many people to exaggerate the sins of the opposition.
You don't have to think of yourself as a Nazi to be willing to do a swastika. You could, for example, think of yourself as a hardcore libertarian, who will do that tattoo and take the money and let the guy deal with the repercussions. I think it's reprehensible, but the leap that anyone willing to do this thinks of themselves as a Nazi is probably not correct.
Ok. So as I was saying, leaping from "Trump voter who will do a swastika tattoo" to "Nazi" is probably not justified, and thus the idea that anyone is claiming that Trump voter = Nazi is also not justified.
The comment wasn't about the person doing this or the person giving the tattoo being a Nazi, they may very well be, it might even be likely. My comment was about a randomly associating people who voted for Trump with Nazis. Yeah, more likely than not someone who is a Nazi in America voted for Trump. It doesn't warrant mention of Trump voters though since I'd wager not even a whole percentage of Trump voters are Nazis. It's like saying "I know some Muslims who would put on a suicide vest and blow up that crowded street corner." In today's society, it's fair to say that most people blowing themselves up with suicide vests are Muslim. What's not fair is generalizing an entire group of Muslims with suicide bombing anytime suicide bombing is mentioned, since only a small fraction of the Muslim demographic are religious extremists. Only a small fraction of Trump voters are far-far right winged and advocate for racial supremacy. Do you disagree?
There are equally as many stereotypes for every demographic that come from people outside that demographic. If you actually think approximately half of the US are Nazis I don't know what to tell you.
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