And a glimmer of hope

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Why I Left White Nationalism

By R. DEREK BLACKNOV. 26, 2016


I could easily have spent the night of Nov. 8 elated, surrounded by friends and family, thinking: “We did it. We rejected a multicultural and globalist society. We defied the elites, rejected political correctness, and made a statement millions of Americans have wanted to shout for decades.”

I’d be planning with other white nationalists what comes next, and assessing just how much influence our ideology would have on this administration. That’s who I was a few years ago.

Things look very different for me now. I am far away from the community that I grew up in, and that I once hoped could lead our country to a moment like this.

I was born into a prominent white nationalist family — David Duke is my godfather, and my dad started Stormfront, the first major white nationalist website — and I was once considered the bright future of the movement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/why-i-left-white-nationalism.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

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1. Insightful

Although at least we can take comfort that it takes not the majority but an electoral college created concentration of whites

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2. chose to invite me into their dorms and conversations rather than ostracize me

Telling paragraph;


"Several years ago, I began attending a liberal college where my presence prompted huge controversy. Through many talks with devoted and diverse people there — people who chose to invite me into their dorms and conversations rather than ostracize me — I began to realize the damage I had done. Ever since, I have been trying to make up for it."

tRump

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3. Huh, one of my homeboys from PB County

He makes a good point as to how his mind was changed through rational conversations with the other side. Not yelling, belittling and I'm sure a little humor was involved.

If all of us here would pick a Trumpite and make them our own special little project we may be able to change more than a few minds especially when Trump and Co. start affecting their lives in a negative fashion, contrary to what they though they were going to get with this candidate.

I know there are some that are going to be impossible to deprogram but that doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try, IMHO.

I have a couple victims in mind right now.

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4. I can honestly say I don't know any "Trumpites" and can't imagine that such people exist.

But as far as an existence theorem goes; it's obvious they exist as "President Electoral Collegian" Trump exists.

I am ashamed of my country for the first time in many years; and I believe it may be in the process of committing suicide, and the only silver lining in becoming a pariah nation, as we surely are doing, is that the people who brought this on have brought in on themselves.

They, the ignorant and the fearful, will suffer the most, as they should.