Charlottesville white supremacist strips off uniform and insists it's just for lulz

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Source: boingboing.net




Charlottesville white supremacist strips off uniform and insists it's just for lulz



/ Cory Doctorow / 6:52 am Thu Aug 17, 2017


CJ Hunt was at the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville when he spotted this young man in white supremacist uniform (white polo and khakis) running away from counterdemonstrators, then turning abruptly and stripping off while insisting that he was not really a Nazi and had just shown up for fun.

Hunt followed the young maybe-Nazi through the rally, interviewing him, and got him explaining that he just likes to be offensive and enjoys shouting things like "White power!" but doesn't really care about racism......................

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It really is a great video. Kinda pity the kid. Looking for fun in the wrong places!

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. In all seriousness, this person is still very dangerous, when he is not alone

and with his pals.

Everyone please be careful, this is not a game to them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. +1

[Downtown Hound]

2. Really funny joke there dude.

NOT!

[Nitram]

3. How can you pity a young man who joins a neo-Nazi rally for the lulz?

I wonder how many of the millennials who showed up in polo shirts and khaki shorts did it for a lark? Because they like the feel of power that comes with threatening people with violence? Makes me sick just to think about it.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. Yup, I think some that join are looking for somewhere to feel important and powerful

Maybe they feel powerless in their jobs, or families, and finding others that are just as frustrated with life, to have some group they can lash out with against easy targets like minorities, immigrants makes them feel powerful. They may not even be racist in the strict definition of the term. They are tag-a-longs.

And THAT is precisely why the President needed to immediately shut down the concept that there is anything good or noble about it. Or they are simply an equivalent of the other side who is against them. And if not the President, then as many others that can. Because its those that are in it half heartedly and for laughs and for the company, that will be emboldened to be a bigger part of it, and encourage others to join, when they see it grow themselves because not enough others shamed these organizations. But they are cowardly enough that if they see others in it being taken down, they will go back to simply ignoring the problem, which is at least better than stoking it personally.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. They can't stand the light.

[TNNurse]

7. He is not mature enough to be out in public without adult supervision.

Neither is Trump.