White Americans are often quick to distinguish between everyday prejudice and radical bigotry, between what I saw in Harrisonburg and what happened in Charlottesville, almost as if one doesn’t have anything to do with the other. It’s a convenient distinction, if a false one. “We like to think that the white-supremacist movement is in fact a ‘lunatic fringe.’ Yet the vitriol of hate groups is not so much an aberration as it is a reaffirmation of racist and gendered views that permeate society,”
The thoughts I hear aloud from white ppl that sound exactly like what WN say, it is astounding.
