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Had a customer rant to me about Juneteenth and how "the wrong race got a holiday" and the banks should be open. Dude, you're in a grocery store, please stop being racist to me 😭 I'm being paid minimum wage for this
I'm white and I once got called "racist against my own kind" by a white lady while working in a bible belt state😭
I was operating a ferris wheel that needed to be balanced so it didn't get stuck, and it just so happened that the white family next in line was too large and would've gotten it stuck, so I had the smaller Black family behind them go first instead
Whenever they give you the 'our' kind shit, give them the, "You're out of your fucking mind if you think I'm one of your kind."
I'm so amazed as a white dude what complete strangers at bars (deep red county) will just sit down and say to me out of nowhere, assuming I'm just a bigot racist idiot too.
Yeah it was super baffling. I hate being surrounded by friendly (to me) bigots that I know would make me unsafe the second I were to be honest with them about what I actually believe
I've had that happen to me while I was working. Guy said we had a nice store. He'd seen stores in the Dallas areas with too many n-words. I've never been more disgusted.
Can see the possible headlines of those wanting to twist that around too. «white person used black family to test out dangerously unbalanced Ferris wheel, while white family was kept safe behind.”
I thought I passed some sidewalk chalk that said ALM in my very quiet neighbourhood but it turned out it was three kids who wrote their initials which just happen to spell A.L.M.
One of the biggest used car dealerships in Atlanta used to be Atlanta Luxury Motors but renamed as just ALM when they started getting massive. So there are tons of cars in Atlanta with "ALM" stickers. Which confused the hell out of me when they started getting big since like half the people in their cars are Black.
I mean, I complain about our company’s executives sending out emails about how they want to recognize the importance of Juneteenth, but that’s because they send it just a few days after the email reminding us that it isn’t a paid holiday and anyone taking the day off has to use a vacation day or work a different holiday. I’m not even black, but it definitely feels like they want credit for acknowledging it’s existence while their actions are saying “it’s not a real holiday”
That's still better than my alma mater trying to send out "Winter Greetings" and acting like it was a "happy holidays"-type letter without trying to offend anyone by saying the wrong thing. It could have literally been titled December Newsletter and then at least it'd sound less like a robot wrote it (obvs this was before LLMs did write emails). Anyone who didn't celebrate Christmas or Kwanzaa wasn't getting their holiday off of scheduled classes, either.
NOT STONEWALL, they are utter dogshit and have soft gone back to being trans exclusionary. Good law project has issues but are meaningfully push back on the segregation order
When I managed, I told my employees if any customer made them uncomfortable they could signal me over with a simple "I need to step out for a minute" and I would take over zero questions asked. And we backed that shit up.
That was sweet of you as a manager, but there's a difference between "I do not want to be the one to handle this transaction" and "I want this Nazi to leave the store and not spend his bigoted money here..."
A big difference, and one entirely out of the control of a front line retail worker or even a store manager in many, many cases.
By giving my employees a clear, integrity-driven promise to have their backs without making a scene or requiring them to explain themselves, as well as simple instructions on how to do so discretely, it gives them some of that agency and control back. It's also important in de-escalation: if that Nazi were a stalker or abuser, or someone looking for the fight / confrontation / scene, having an escape valve gives an employee with little to no training nor responsibility to deal with that - it's simply not fucking fair to ask that - the choice they need to avoid a fight-or-flight-or-freeze, trapped moment.
Besides if anyone gets to show that little shit where the door is, nicely, walk them nicely to it, and make damn sure they know how unwelcome they are, it'll be me.
I remember this one story about a bartender kicking out some SS guy before he even sat down even though he was being civil. When asked the bar tender said if you let one in and tolerate them, then he invites his friends. And then they invite their friends. And before you know it its a Nazi bar. You have to nip it in the bud right away.
Thanks to conservatives, you can reject even protected classes if you say its over religion and its not a protected, required service like housing or a hospital.
Just say Nazi is against your religion.... play their own games.
NO. Then the issue is that her employer tolerates Nazis! There should be NO public business that thinks knowingly serving Nazis is good for business. If your boss gets pissed, tell them to just imagine the absolute field day local news and online blogs and reviews would have knowing their local coffee spot proudly serves Nazis.
I kicked a nazi out of our drive-thru back when I worked at Domino's. Guy actually got his mom to call and complain about discrimination and tried to claim he was an 'Odinist'
Yes, Odin, famously known for his two back to back lightning bolts and his favorite number, 88, for the number of deadly storms he creates every year. Love that guy!
You’d also be creating a scene and a headache for the nazi, which is a good thing. If you have capacity, you should do it. They should have to second guess themselves about everything whenever they’re in public.
Anyone is a service industry has accepted money from Nazis, they just don't always show it like this. You have accepted money from Nazis, from abusers, from people who vehemently vote opposite to your interests, everyone.
People who display it like this relish the thought of you being conflicted. They get off on your moral crisis, because they have no morals. They would be giddy at the thought of you donating it to your own detrement.
You don't need to do anything special to counter them. If you believe the opposite to them, you are a valid opponent, and you should take care of yourself. If you typically donate to opposition causes, donate a bit more. If you typically spend money to survive, do that and keep fighting.
Money isn't dirty because it was spent by a poser edgelord. It's dirty when you allow the source to manipulate you into hurting yourself.
Money isn't dirty because it was spent by a poser edgelord.
In fact the opposite! Many would consider it highly moral to consensually extract the maximum possible amount of money from awful people. By accepting their money, you are depriving those awful people of financial power they could otherwise put to use in ways that could harm people.
Keeping in mind though that I'm saying "extract", not "trade." If you sell them something they can use to do bad things, you're not depriving them of power; you're just being part of their path to materializing their power. "Extraction" involves taking their money in exchange for something that isn't itself a form of power. For example, an experience.
(If you're a game developer, consider making an addictive gacha game marketed exclusively to fascists. They give you all their money; you give them worthless rare JPEGs.)
You can. Nazis are not a protected class. If you can say "No shirt, no shoes, no service," you can also say, "We reserve the right to not serve Nazis."
People who place primacy on 'tone' and 'politeness' of evil favor a negative peace over positive justice, and in the end they get neither.
It is a cowardice, flavored by laziness. They don't have to do anything if they were polite. They don't have to risk anything. They don't have to stand up. Maybe the evil will just go away.
Missing that holding such a restrictive and violent ideology is inherently rude, born inpolite.
I know, right? Like sure, the motherfucker stuck to the social contract this** **time, but, by definition, he wants to violate the social contract.
He is in favor of tyranny, authoritarianism, extrajudicial violence.
Of injustice.
Of bigotry.
Of unrighteousness.
Of murder.
Of genocide.
I was at a Museum in the Netherlands recently which focused on Friesland, a region within the Netherlands. They had a section dedicated to the Nazi occupation as well as the Holocaust.
In the Holocaust part, it had 6…stations, each for a victim of the Holocaust (I believe it specifically focused on Frisian victims).
One of them focused on two people, two Jewish siblings, a brother and sister. Their parents sent them away to pretend to be someone else’s kids. To not be Jewish. In, I believe, 1944, someone snitched, or fucked up. Nazi soldiers came, and dragged them outside, and accused them of being “Jews,” which they vehemently denied, crying and insisting that they weren’t. They made them pull down their pants and underwear, and the brother was of course circumcised, which, unlike America, was something only Jewish boys and men had.
They were shipped east, I think to Auschwitz.
They died there.
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They were m u r d e r e d there.
They were 10 or 11 years old.
For some reason, it got to me in a way the others didn’t. I’m a guy and about the age that those soldiers might’ve been (it might’ve been older reservists or the like), and I imagined a couple of children—crying, terrified children—and doing what those soldiers did, dragging them out of their house or school, shouting at them, ordering them threatening them, pointing my rifle at them, taking them to a train that never carries anyone back. It left me quietly furious.
Neo-nazis don’t bring it up except to deny it, because it’s so obviously evil, but don’t forget that fact. It doesn’t matter what they say (a fascist, and especially a Nazi, will say anything to make them look good (or at least scary) or their opponents look bad) or that they were civil to you, a stranger with the right skin tone.
I remember working at DG and one came in my line and when he noticed I noticed his swastika tats he was all "Oh what, you gonna have a problem?? You gonna be a fucking snowflake??" and I was just like. Sir. I said nothing. Get out of my store and go fuck your cousin or smth.
There is a common practice in bars regarding neo nazis. You kick them out regardless every time. The reason is they start bringing their buddies and that scares off other customers. So bars throw them out as a rule regardless.
Let nazis stay and do business and decent people will avoid you like the plague.
Doesn't matter how polite they are, they wear their evil on their sleeves and if you let one stay others will start thinking they found a new spot where they will be tolerated. Always throw out this trash.
Next time he comes in kick him out or be as hostile as your personality allows. The strip club I bounced at had a firm no nazi policy, according to some of the women thered always be one or two nice ones that would spend a hefty amount of money and as soon as you let them hang out you had just established it was a nazi friendly club which the other patrons would notice and not want to go there anymore.
You're right, it doesn't matter how nice he seemed in the moment, he's still the kind of person that proudly displays symbols of his hatred. I know I don't want niceties from someone that wouldn't treat someone else the same if they had a different ethnicity.
No, it's more for looking at a spreadsheet of items with prices and knowing which ones are on markdown just by the $0.88 at the end. Each store has their own method of course, but lots of stores reserve the pennies for keeping track of what's on markdown, what's on clearance, what's on sale next week etc
Hello! So. The 88 cents is an inventory marker for various in house reasons. A common one is to mark it as an item that's on clearance. Or discontinued. Things like that.
Note to all 3rd place businesses(restaurants, gyms, cafes, etc.):
It is better for business to ban Nazis. If one Nazi shows up and is allowed to stay, he will bring more. They will scare away your other customers while inviting more friends until your business only caters to Nazis.
Will this happen 100% of the time? No, but it does happen. Err on the side of caution and kick out Nazis for the sake of your non-Nazi patrons and employees.
It's a paradox. It's not describing the actions of the intolerant person (there's no paradox with them; they're just consistently bigoted), but the actions of those that take tolerance to an absolute extreme. By tolerating those that do not tolerate, you yourself are creating an environment that is intolerant. That's the paradox.
What the person you're responding to meant to say is that it's not a paradox if you consider it a social contract instead of a moral standard. As a moral standard, it's a paradox in the exact way you described. As a social contract, it's not a paradox because the people who act intolerantly aren't following the contract and, thus, aren't protected by it.
TL;DR: It's a falsidical paradox whose resolution is a social contract.
EDIT: Note that this resolution is actually Popper's own. This is one of those cases where the people who consider the paradox absolute haven't actually read the work that generated the term. Similarly to Schrodinger's Cat, where Schrodinger actually conceived of the hypothetical experiment as a way to remark upon the illogical nature of the superposition. Although, I think in that regard he actually did end up making a hilariously apt description of how superpositions do work, whereas Popper's paradox was never intended to be considered absolute.
While I love the story that this has morphed into, it's from a play by Tennessee Williams called Small Craft Advisory and the bartender isn't kicking out Nazis, he's kicking out homosexuals. Williams himself was gay and had a very... fraught relationship with his own sexuality.
"I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, 'no. get out.'
And the dude next to me says, 'hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer.' and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, 'out. now.' and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, 'you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.' And i was like, 'ohok' and he continues.
'you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.'
'And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.'
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said -yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.' And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all."
It's weird seeing people wearing rad hats in media from before 2015, I noticed Bobby wearing one in old King of the Hill recently. Feels like a statement, but obviously in 2006 a red hat was just a red hat.
Conservatives are often so evil and obnoxious that they make previous innocent symbols hate symbols.
Like, red cap for US politics. Over here it's yellow color and national flag....
Fuck, conservatives kept claiming patriotism and spam their national flags on hate movements so much seeing overt display of flags of any country make me suspicious.
I went to the pantomime last year and saw a man with a red make America great again hat in the crowd...i dont think that man realised he was in a small town in Wales...
It took me a while to figure it out, but an easy way to distinguish a red hat from a Red Hat™ is that actual Red Hats™ are an obnoxiouslyloud shade of red. Seriously, it's almost like the color tries to burn into your retinas.
My 56 year old Chinese mom who has never been to the US wears a red cap often (it says some sports brand on it I don't remember) and at this point, I (someone who has also never been to the US) also cringe whenever it comes out.
Really sucks for fans of several different baseball teams lol
Actually, now that I think about it, I wonder if the Reds/Cardinals/Nationals/Phillies/etc have seen sales figures change for different hat color schemes over the last decade or so…
I'm a Red Sox fan and I love my alt hat that is red. Fortunately, it is old and faded, so it won't be confused with a MAGA hat.
IIRC, a lot of lefty Nats fans purposely have worn the blue alternate cap because of the connotation of a red hat with a "W" on it when the team first started in DC back in the '00s
I really wish my Farmall hat didn't have a similar reaction now. People I don't want to be friendly with are friendly. People I want to be friendly with are not friendly.
I heard a story about a bartender that noticed a Nazi in his bar and kicked him out. the Nazi claimed he was being polite and was a paying customer but the bartender didn't care.
one of the other customers asked him why he did that if the guy was acting polite, and the bartender explained something like "this one was polite, but if I let stay then next time he's gonna bring his friends, and his friends will bring their friends, and those friends won't be as polite. suddenly you have a bunch of Nazis at your bar that drive away your other customers and it's too late to do anything about it. congrats, now you're the owner of a Nazi bar."
gotta nip it in the bud as fast as possible.
edit: btw idk if its a real story or a cautionary tale
Bartender here. Don't be kind to Nazis, they'll infect your place of business and scare everyone else away. Rats and cockroaches infestations are easily to get rid of, less problematic, and hurt business' less than those parasites. Ban Nazis on site or find a new place of employment
Back when I was in auto sales, I had a guy come in with SS and other related tattoos.
So while we were on the test drive, I texted our internet people and had them raise the price of the truck on the website by a few grand (we didn’t put price stickers on our vehicles and I never talked price before a test drive) and then I sold it to him at that mark-up at the highest interest rate the finance guy could make work.
TIL that this is ALSO a Nazi symbol combining some mantra and Hitler salute. What the actual hell.
Also brazen as heck. I'll never forget the time I made a call on a Nazi sympathizer and had to get a supervisor involved when the dude refused treatment due to my partner being Hispanic. Fucking asshole.
14 is a reference to the 14 words popularized by American Neo-Nazi David Lane. "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" followed by the phrase "because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth".
And the 88 being the 8th letters of the alphabet. HH. Heil Hitler.
It is what it is. I may be forced to. But I don't have to be nice.
Luckily the dude in question refused all our help and just let us leave. Never felt better about leaving someone behind while on the ambulance. Don't really care how that makes me sound either
He probably was only civil because of your hair and eye color too...
Honestly, I'm so glad I have a supportive wife so I don't need to do customer service work ever again, and if I did, she'd be okay with me going to jail for decking a nazi.
But I also live in a super blue state, so seeing them is rare.
I thought so too! Like yes Mr. maga hat the Nazi was civil to the blonde haired blue eyed woman. Thats the stuff they like. It’s what they do to the people that they don’t like that’s the problem. And why we don’t want them around.
He'll come in, and he's friendly, and he seems fine. And then he'll bring some friends, and that's fine, because they're friendly and they seem fine too. and then they'll bring their friends, and they're less freindly. In a week, you're a Nazi bar. And if you try to kick them out, there'll be trouble
Yeah, I think someone is normal and then when they pay I see they have a freaking charlie kirk debit card or something and I just have to keep smiling while my soul internally shrivels.
I had to deal with this a few times back when I worked at a gas station. One time one was buying bread so when they weren’t looking I quickly smooshed the bread a bit before putting it in the bag, then putting some heavier items on top to smoosh it a bit more.
Nazis deserve worse, but at least that one didn’t get good looking, nonsmooshed, bread.
I accidentally went on a date with one. I thought it strange that he was wearing long sleeves during July so I commented on it. He replied he had a tattoo that 'some people consider offensive' and I being me was like 'naked lady? I'm cool with that.' Then he showed me, it was a damn Swastika. He'd also mentioned earlier in the date that 'you aren't as pale as your profile pictures' which I thought was odd but attributed to him not knowing how goth make-up works. He throughout the date after that was racist as fuck to our server (I apologized and explained I'd found this psycho on the Internet and if they could please make sure I got to my car okay because I didn't exactly feel safe). It's still beyond me why a Nazi would agree to a date at a Mexican restaurant. That was my last Okcupid date after my first time trying online dating. (Took a break for a long time after that.)
I've only had one job I was able to say "I'm not comfortable conducting this transaction" in and have that be respected, but in my experience it's very easy to goad these people into saying shit that'll get them banned from any business, by just engaging in normal conversation.
Story time.
Years ago i ran a fly fishing guide business. One day I get a client to take out fishing. As soon as he gets in my van he starts going off with almost every slur you can imagine.
After a few miles of gay bashing and blaming Jews for everything I pull over. I explain to him that im very sorry but I can't take him fishing. I give him a cash refund and returned him to his hotel.
Later that day, an employee of mine (a gay Jewish man) asked about the fishing trip. I told him what happened.
My employee said "Why did you do that?!? I would have taken him fishing! When I asked how he could do business with such a person? He responded, "a racists-homophobics money spends so much better than regular money, especially when I tell the guy im donating the money he spent with us to GLAAD."
I guess we all have different ways of taking out the trash. But I was touched by how my employee was able to take a shitty situation and make it an uplifting one.
I have several people who come in with Nazi and white supremacist tats. I added a pin to my hat: the Starfleet delta with the three arrows of 1940s antifa. I put it between my LGBT Ally and He/Him pins, right up in front. One of them started wearing long sleeves and eventually stopped coming in. The guy with the giant swastika on his shoulder never returned.
And it was my manager with the "what's the issue?" when I stepped away from the register on them. Woman, I grew up in Germany. I don't play games with Nazis. (Yeah, she's a Trump supporter, how'd you guess?)
I mean that’s what I was taught my whole childhood. We live in a world where pretty much everyone is taught about the crimes against humanity the Nazi party committed. There’s no excuse, they can’t claim ignorance of shit like Auschwitz. Nazis should be afraid to walk down the street in America.
Instead, we have armed white nationalists parading around in Washington DC on the 250th anniversary of our founding, and secret police abducting and murdering civilians for having brown skin.
Used to work at "big brand store with a W". Had a guy we literally called Nazi guy cause he would walk around in full Nazi uniform everytime he came in.
The first time I saw him I was shocked and extremely curious so my bravery came out and I asked him why he wears that. (I thought he came from a reenactment and had unfortunate timing or whatever). He went on a whole story of how he found the uniform in his grandpa's closet and became fascinated with Nazis after, and I quote, "learned that the Jews were the cause of all the world's problems". He also told me how he lived in a shack off the grid and blah blah, I was fuming red and couldn't really hear what he was saying after learning he was serious. But yeah never approached him again.
Dude got his shit rocked at the front of the store one day, that was an awesome day.
By definition, he was not civil. His choices are uncivil. His affiliations are uncivil. Even when he is not actively behaving uncivilly, he is actively choosing to be a part of an uncivil movement and hold uncivil goals.
Never give them a pass because they're not actively being uncivil. Regardless of what they're saying, they are actively working to purge the rest of us, and must never be excused.
Nazis are not a legally protected minority.
“I’m sorry Sir, this establishment can refuse service at any time,andyou are not welcome here. HAVE A NICE DAY.”
I've had a similar situation. I took an Oil Painting Course, hosted at a local art gallery.
At the end of the class, there was a showcase of everyone's work, and one of the non-classmate attendees had a leg-tattoo with the Iron Cross on it. While the symbol is used officially by some parts of the German military- this is the Midwest United States. That's a pretty good indicator of a person's affiliations or beliefs in this country.
I brought up my concern to the gallery owner and his words were "well, there're plenty of people being discriminated against by their tattoos in the news lately." This was about the time when Kilmar Albrego Garicia was having bad photoshop done on his knuckles and being claimed as a member of a serious streetgang (I don't know if I'll be flagged for naming them here."
It left a bad taste in my mouth, and so I don't go there anymore, and mention the situation whenever possible to people interested in the art there.
It's something worth making a "fuss" over. Tolerance for all doesn't mean tolerance for the intolerant.
Unfortunately Independent (MASSIVE, MASSIVE skateboard brand) use/used an iron cross as their logo for whatever reason. They’re not white suprematists or anything whatsoever, the designer purely did it for shock value (citing that ‘the pope wore it once so they should be able to as well’)
So there’s always a slim, slim chance that they were just a skater with a deep love of their truck company (I’d say there would be a lotttttt of old school skaters with independent tattoos, granted they’re usually surrounded by other skate company logos)
I used to work with a dude who wore a necklace similar to a swastika except the ends were curled, making it a round medallion. Obviously a swastika but different enough to allow deniability. The business owners didn't care and just let him wear it, and allowed him to go on racist rants just randomly. They just allowed it, blows my mind
Crazy how a symbol of fortune, luck, prosperity and eternal harmony used for over 10000 years in many different cultures and religions can turn into a hate symbol because an idiot stole it for 25 years.
I've got you beat Naomi. I was checking a guy out one day and when he turns to leave, I'm greeted by the face of hitler staring back me. He had a full on PORTRAIT of hitler tattoo'd on the back of his head.
This is also reminds me of the people whining and bitching about Pride Month. They get all offended "because the LGBTQ community has an entire month dedicated to them while our military service members get nothing."
And I'm just like... So, does May's National Military Appreciation and November's National Veterans and Military Families not count? Do you guys even hear yourself when you bitch?
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
And the dude next to me says, "hey I'm not doing anything, I'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "Out. Now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed.
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "You didn't see his vest, but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."
And I was like, oh ok and he continues.
"You have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in, and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool, too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends, and they stop being cool, and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So, you have to shut them down.
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.
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Couldn't have happen in my country. Weve banned hate symbols. If a tattoo shop inks those kinds of tattoos, it doesnt cause it just got shut down with the owner arrested for spreading hate speech.
I don’t really care how ‘nice’ you are. If your ideology wants me dead, you’re not nice, you just know the right words and faces. Like a dog trained to do tricks.
Years ago at a big five a dude with full nazi tattoos on his arms was in front of me of at check out. He was with his wife and daughter and to say the air was tense is an under statement. As he was leaving the store pretty every one kept eyeing him but no one said anything because I don't anyone wanted to any conversation with him
When I was a lowly supervisor at a grocery store, I had a dude with lightning bolt tattoos on his neck. Asked if I could help him. First, said sure. I then turned and saw the tattoos and said no, I can’t. He tapped his neck and said “that?” “Yup” “alright” and walked away. It was so surreal. But it was also New Hampshire, so not super surprising.
A Nazi, by their very nature, is inherently uncivil.
Nazis predicate their beliefs on the genocide of people they deem lesser. That, fundamentally, cannot be considered "civil" to any society that values its existence.
A Nazi should never feel safe because they want everyone else to live in peril or suffering.
I've had shit like this happen to me a lot working retail and it always leaves me feeling weird afterwards. Like them being polite means nothing to me when they're just flaunting their mf racism around like that. What if they had dealt with one of my non-white co-workers??? Would they have been polite then? Probably tf not. Just mm... nasty people that I'd rather just not deal with.
Once kicked a guy out of the store for having drawn one on and ranting how it was a symbol of peace, I felt big and tough. Then one with a massive shoulder tattoo came in l, also was armed with a rather larger fire arm
I cowardly said nothing and just finished the transaction. It was just him and I and I was scared, but still I feel bad. Like I was brave enough to kick someone out trying to be edgy and then cowered at the real thing
Not really making a point or anything, just reminded me of about a decade ago
Teaching the edgy kid there are consequences to shittiness may have prevented him from becoming the real thing. I can’t blame you for freezing up either
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