Certain views are verboten to state and will, if stated, get you randomly attacked, especially by the crowd who’d look up 25 year old postings in the first place.
It does not matter what other things you do. It does not matter if you can be quoted as saying something that doesn’t put white people on the top.
“If only I had said it in a manner that makes it clear it’s not white supremacy, people wouldn’t hurt me” ignores that people don’t have rational discussion in mind. There is no way to say it in a manner that can’t be quoted out of context in social media and used to set a mob on you. You can’t avoid this by being nicer about it.
This seems to me like a quokka-like position.
Certain views are verboten to state and will, if stated, get you randomly attacked, especially by the crowd who’d look up 25 year old postings in the first place.
It does not matter what other things you do. It does not matter if you can be quoted as saying something that doesn’t put white people on the top.
“If only I had said it in a manner that makes it clear it’s not white supremacy, people wouldn’t hurt me” ignores that people don’t have rational discussion in mind. There is no way to say it in a manner that can’t be quoted out of context in social media and used to set a mob on you. You can’t avoid this by being nicer about it.
It’s also quokka-like in the opposite direction. Actual bona-fide white supremacists, like David Duke (founder of a revival of the KKK) will be indirect and evasive about their beliefs. If they can, they will totally try to get labelled not a white supremacist on some technicality.