I actually believe this is one of the racists tactics: take “some” from “those” and convince them they are superior to the others. They accomplish two things: disunity in the already disenfranchised and a new member to spew all their hatred.
It’s the same tactic as “you’re not like those other women”
F*cking hell, people are scary. Remember the anti-Semitic Argie in The Netherlands?
OMG How can I forget that asshat?! I loved how he thought that we were just like him, spewing his hatred with liberty. And you are totally right about their tactic, they think they can play you against “the bad ones”; the funny thing is (and I didn’t bother explaining any of this), the government that they elected (and the previous ones as well) holds me in as much contempt as “those bad Muslims” and I get the same legal rights (or lack thereof) as they do. But I can assure you if I had bothered explaining to them that I am not really different, they wouldn’t have understood. After all, such people are pretty much guided by ignorance.
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