JockItch43 wrote:Betta Bulleavit wrote:JockItch43 wrote:
Came across this video yesterday. The hate and vitriol... not to mention the overt bigotry... absolutely absurd in this day and age. I believe our recent political landscape has empowered these folks to freely express what they've always felt. Never followed this guy, but he has over 300k followers. The backlash against this kid is ridiculous.
Everything about this clip is repulsing. It basically screams bigotry in every flipping way and it’s pathetic. It’s not old guys screaming at the clouds. No, it’s I’m a bigot and there’s no more room left in the world for people like us. Screw them.
Problem is there is plenty of room left for these people. They've been empowered.
Agreed. Like you said, our political climate has enabled individuals to be more vocal in their thoughts. And at the end of the day, I was always taught this. There are three things that you cannot control when it comes to other people. You cannot control what they think, you cannot control what they feel and you cannot control what they say. What you can control is how you decide to associate yourself with certain people. And what is happening is that groups that feel this way (the bigot mindset) are finding out that their ideologies have become the minority and it’s too harsh of a reality for them to accept.