• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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        24 days ago

        Just incredible. I think these people are too stupid to understand how stupid they are.

        In his interview with HuffPost, Fears tried to distance himself a little from the scene around him. He said of Richard Spencer, “I agree with like 75 percent of his ― he’s not ― he’s kind of a scam artist, in my opinion.” Asked if he identified as alt-right, he said: “I try and deny identity politics. That’s why I’m not wearing a white polo and all that stuff.” But he also served up a word salad of white grievance: “Like, OK, for one thing, say, you know, gay marriage, that’s cool, whatever, you know, except — that’s fine, I’m cool with it — well, then, what’s after that? The next step? This whole transgender movement, right? Well, if you don’t accept that, you’re a bigot, this and that. Well, that all goes hand in hand with being a white person.”

        Asked about the pin he was wearing during the interview, Fears said “it’s basically just like an SS thing.” Explaining the significance of the pin would require an extensive conversation about World War II, he said. “And it’s my heritage, I’m German.”

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          24 days ago

          Love how he tries to defend his racism with his ‘heritage’ as if that were the only thing Germans are known for

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            24 days ago

            Man could have chosen to be inspired to be a poet or scientist, some great thinker, instead he’s just a Nazi shithead.

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            24 days ago

            I was gonna mention Falco, but he’s Austrian… Are the cultural differences large enough that he cannot but counted as part of the “Germanic folk”? There’s at least one famous Austrian widely considered German, lol.