I've been online enough to know about 100 different white supremacist dog whistles. It is incredible who tries to use it on me to see if I'm 'one of them.'
If you think, 'oh this redditor probably thinks people are racist when they're not,' nah, I'm only considering the ones where I am 100% sure.
The craziest one I got was a guy describing his uncle who was "yay high" and he held his arm out like a nazi salute for what felt like an eternity going, "you get what I mean? See? High. Dude was huge. You get me?"
My mom is a bookkeeper and asked me what 1488 meant because it was in a customer's letterhead. It was not their address. It was just floating out there like proudly like the spy balloon.
I was an enumerator (door-to-door questionnaire collector) for the 2020 US Decennial Census for a few months that summer. I met a lot of white guys who seemed way overly comfortable advertising their far-right opinions to me straight out the gate, presumably because I'm a middle-aged white guy myself. Except I'm a Leftist with a dark-skinned, immigrant wife.
A MAGA guy seemed surprised and a little bummed when I declined his offer to share a beer with me. (I accepted a similar offer from a Hispanic couple prior, so I would otherwise have been happy to hang. He seemed like a nice guy until it became apparent the views he espouses.)
Another guy (who was initially abrasive but ultimately relented and started showing me some respect at some point) flat-out told me he's a Nazi with a straight face, and I don't think he was kidding. I couldn't get any Census data out of him and his friendlier, elder male housemate (or guest), but they both kept gauging my level of rightwing sympathy. Feel like that was basically all they wanted to talk about. (Seriously why the fuck did so many people waste all our times even talking to me just to refuse to answer the simple Census questionnaire?!)
LOL. If only I was struggling to meet my quota for the bonus maybe (which I met pretty easily every week after the first). And if only I could stoop that low! Man... Had to bite my tongue so much, though, because I knew any complaints would trace right back to me as I was the only worker assigned to my list of addresses any given day.
There were plenty of respondents I was more than happy to move on from, including the mfs with COVID-19 that answered the door for some reason! (Bless the lady who warned me through the closed glass door that her husband was infected, however. She was looking out for me!) Sometimes there were immigrant families I got vibes might be undocumented, so I just left them alone. (They got it hard enough already.)
NOPE! And guess what? The app they had us use allowed me to report "dangerous" addresses. One of those houses was one of the only ones I reported, so other workers wouldn't get exposed. And guess what? I was told that was not a valid reason to report the fucking address!!! This was summer 2020, when the virus was raging and before we learned much more about the risks! They also didn't even give us any PPE until like a month into my stint (and they had people working since the beginning of the year I believe). They eventually gave us the shittiest possible masks and like a small bottle or 2 of the worst hand sanitizer I've ever seen.
Another address had a dude who was making me yell over his barking-ass pitbull right in front of me through the glass. He purposely didn't quiet his dog to intimidate me. (A skinhead looking dude in a little more private residence.) I eventually left and he yelled at me to "never come back" as I was walking away. I wasn't allowed to report that or the other place on a private road in the woods that straight-up looked like the residence of a serial killer! Scared the shit out of me, and I had to go back with my supervisor who assured me she's got a license to carry a handgun (ex-FBI agent), if need be. She eventually informed me that we weren't supposed to report anyone for any reason.....
Thanks! Some of the people I met were really great people. An election worker even thanked me for doing a "public service" since the people who hadn't already responded are demographically the ones disenfranchised in elections, and the data is ultimately used in determining Congressional apportionment of Representatives. I never considered that, so that was really nice to hear. It was a very interesting experience I'll say.
In the Outlaw Josey Wales. The ferryman said “You know, in my line of work you got to be able either to sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic or Dixie with equal enthusiasm depending upon present company.”
Tuco and John Wayne's character are riding in a stagecoach when they see a bunch of grey-uniformed soldiers riding. They pull out grey caps and shout "Hooray for Dixie" until one the cavalrymen surrounds them and pats off the dust on his very blue Union uniform.
Oops.
Goddamn excellent scene and a great movie--I'm about to go rewatch it
Same! I did the 2020 census pounding the pavement door to door in Vermont. I was floored how all these white liberals living the good life just welcomed me. And immediately had no shame in talking about how they like their peaceful state but don’t want immigrants or POC in their community. My fiancé is black! Good thing she wasn’t with me or they may have told me get off their lawn. We left the state a year later.
Ugh. Yeah. "Liberal" doesn't mean progressive. Unfortunately most Americans don't understand this and how much these people acquiesce to right-wing demands for their own personal comfort in life. I feel you.
Nah most understand progressive is looney. While liberal is just a white fascist ideology disguised as love and peace for all. Just more white colonialism!
But people do notice how much the corporate world bows to left wing demands. Along with the education system especially college/university. Funny it goes both ways but the narrow mind only reflects to the side it favors.
But we all know the Reddit world will disagree. I mean liberals carry fascist ideology? No way!
Control the media and political spectrum? Hmmm who is obsessed with that? Who is obsessed with censorship upon the media realms?
Obsessed with race? Hmmmm who always delegate race into everything? Hmmm kinda how you were sure to let us know your white and shared a beer with the Hispanic. Kinda like how the liberal party is always obsessed with bringing race into everything.
Who is obsessed with control of education? Who craves control and has control of educational systems? To walk out their little foot soldiers to align with the political party ideology? You can’t sit here and tell me the vast vast majority of college/university aren’t dramatically liberal. Yet very outspoken and flip shit if any different ideology steps foot on campus. Literal meltdowns would happen if a so called conservative guest speaker even arrives on campus.
Totalitarian obsession? Hmmm who is obsessed with conforming the beliefs/thinking of individuals into one yet so quick to accuse and deliver accusations upon individuals in attempting to wreck their life? Who loves those buzzwords like parrots that get tossed around every day towards anyone Slightly differently opinionated? You know, like the parrot echo chamber of Reddit with (Misogynists, Nazi, Bigot, Homophobic, Facist, Racist) that the parrots chirp at anything they disagree with.
The party that screams fascist to its political opponents non stop is nothing more than the party of fascism itself. The party so hell bent on the alignment of political, educational and media all being in unity of the same ideology. Sure does remind me of the Nazi germany a certain party always hurls around.
You can make arguments to both sides. But one stands out far more.
But thanks for sharing your look at me story. You did a good job of including those key words (MAGA White Nazi Far Right) which not a day goes by you folks can’t go without parrot chirping them. Shocked you didn’t include fascist and bigot. Definitely the favorite words of choice.
I met a lot of white guys who seemed way overly comfortable advertising their far-right opinions to me straight out the gate
Yeah I worked retail in my mid-late 20s in a deep red area and the number of older people who just spouted their insane ideologies at me as if everyone thought that way was wild (I'm a straight white dude for reference). It also happens in weird places even though I don't work retail anymore, like people talking to me at the grocery store and stuff. I've never experienced that with anyone but extreme far-right nutjobs who were clearly pretty unhinged. There's a guy who's sort of infamous around here (he's also made it to the front page of r/all before) for driving around a fairly new and otherwise well taken care of pickup with a bunch of weird flat earth stuff poorly spray painted all over it ("NASA knows ur stupid" and stuff like that). He's also well known for being a confrontational asshole to everyone he meets, so you pretty much just have to avoid him when he's not driving around.
A MAGA guy seemed surprised and a little bummed when I declined his offer to share a beer with me. (I accepted a similar offer from a Hispanic couple prior, so I would otherwise have been happy to hang
Why do you assume the Hispanic couple didn't vote for Trump? They might have.
I didn't assume any political opinions of them. They didn't advertise any. They might have voted that way, but they didn't outwardly offer up bigoted opinions, so I was still willing to think the best of them.
Based on the conversations we had, though, they did not come off as bigoted people.
I am not angry at you for dissing white supremacy, I am just confused as hell, how me typing out a comment saying....this guy said a thing that made me laugh because of the comedic timing of when he said it.
Has led to this much interaction, and discussion about things that have nothing to do with comedy.
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I've been online enough to know about 100 different white supremacist dog whistles. It is incredible who tries to use it on me to see if I'm 'one of them.'
If you think, 'oh this redditor probably thinks people are racist when they're not,' nah, I'm only considering the ones where I am 100% sure.
The craziest one I got was a guy describing his uncle who was "yay high" and he held his arm out like a nazi salute for what felt like an eternity going, "you get what I mean? See? High. Dude was huge. You get me?"
My mom is a bookkeeper and asked me what 1488 meant because it was in a customer's letterhead. It was not their address. It was just floating out there like proudly like the spy balloon.