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If your point is that Tony Hovater is a stupid idiotic racist and nutcase, I would agree.

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Well, not to me.

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Are you trying to say the neo-Nazi got preferrential treatment…?

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It is possible the neo-nazi got preferrential treatment. But it is also possible that Michael Brown assaulted a cop, unsuccessfully tried to take the cop’s gun from him, and then charged the cop and was shot and killed in self defense. The thing is, as much as I hate the neo-Nazi, as far as I know he has not committed any acts of violence. Yet. The first amendment prevents anyone from arresting him(or killing him) merely for being a neo-Nazi.

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Yeah but he’s a Nazi.

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I still don’t get your point. Just because two people are bad doesn’t mean both are equally bad. He’s a Nazi, the other’s violent, both are stated as such.

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You guys really don’t get it, do you? Read those two sections again. This Nazi guy is being treated as if he were a happy-go-lucky nice neighbor that lives down the street. He’s not. He’s a Nazi. The normalization is sickening. There’s also a bit of racism at play.

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yhwx said:

Yeah but he’s a Nazi.

Being a nazi, while unpopular, is legal in the United States (1st amendment). Assaulting a cop and trying to take his gun is not legal.

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yhwx said:

You guys really don’t get it, do you? Read those two sections again. This Nazi guy is being treated as if he were a happy-go-lucky nice neighbor that lives down the street. He’s not. He’s a Nazi. The normalization is sickening. .

rest assured, I would not treat him as a happy-go-lucky nice neighbor. I would want nothing to do with the guy.

There’s also a bit of racism at play.

No doubt. Tony Hovater is clearly a racist.

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I thought it was funny how the author tried to use rapping as some sort of blow against Brown’s character.

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Handman said:

I still don’t get your point. Just because two people are bad doesn’t mean both are equally bad. He’s a Nazi, the other’s violent, both are stated as such.

Yeah I don’t get his point either. Those profiles had nothing to do with each other and seemed incredibly objective. It isn’t like they omitted the fact that the guy is a Nazi. That would be a different issue.

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Jeebus said:

I thought it was funny how the author tried to use rapping as some sort of blow against Brown’s character.

That was stupid. I’m with you there.

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yhwx said:

You guys really don’t get it, do you? Read those two sections again. This Nazi guy is being treated as if he were a happy-go-lucky nice neighbor that lives down the street. He’s not. He’s a Nazi. The normalization is sickening. There’s also a bit of racism at play.

How is it normalization? They didn’t pretend he wasn’t a Nazi.

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I think he thinks it is becoming more and more normal to be a nazi.

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No; it’s the presentation as if he’s a normal guy.

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No; it’s the presentation as if he’s a normal guy.

Is that really what the article did?

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That fact that he’s a Nazi and is attempting to spread white nationalist propaganda would communicate to most sane people that he isn’t a normal guy.

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I think they said he appears to be normal, but isn’t.

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Yes, that’s very obviously what they’re saying.

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