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I don’t think it works that way for most people, maybe for some radicals but there are radicals on every side. Yesterday I overheard a conversation where a man was talking about a trip to our capital (in EU country) and how there were "strangepeople" (I wrote it together as it’s an insult as one word here and he meant it that way), wearing pink and rainbow and he was frightened and how’s he glad he returned to our small city in the middle of nowhere.

Did I thought he was a fascist and did I want to kill him? No, he seemed like a decent man who’s just afraid of things he’s not familiar with and who believe in stuff pushed by crazy radicals because he has no experience with people and situations unknown to him.

Did I want to punch him? No, I wanted to discuss with him, but I haven’t got time, as I needed to pick up my kid from the same art school he was bringing his kid in.

So tell me, why is he concerned about people who he saw on metro and who were not threatening him? Should he be afraid of me, because I probably could be described as woke as I think that you should let others be, if they don’t hurt you or others? I don’t care about online media, this is real life example.



There's a world of difference between someone who may not feel comfortable around people who look/dress differently and sending squads of masked men to round up people due to their ethnicity and send them off to concentration camps.


Those two things are five steps away from each other, not a hundred steps.




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