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I appreciate your candor.
Ya, it's one of those times I don't feel the need to *****foot around, and frankly I'm surprised I'm in such a minority of folks willing to say it. There was a time that white supremacists wouldn't get an ounce of support from either the left OR the right. I went to high school in probably one of the most conservative / Christian / rural areas of Ontario, and the few guys that tried to go "skinhead" quickly decided it was a good idea to grow that hair back and lose those swastika patches if they wanted to avoid daily ass kickings.
The sad part about this, other than the obvious specifics tied to the incident (aka dead and injured), is that I don't think the majority of the right condones this garbage either...but we are so "my side" vs "your side" that a lot of you are being dragged down to defending them merely to ensure that no ground is lost to "the Leftists". This shouldn't be a Left vs. Right thing, any more than condemning pedophiles, human traffickers, con artists who prey on seniors, or thieves who steal from orphanages. Some stuff is so sketch, so scuzzy, so "deplorable" (if I can use that word), that Left and Right should be able to shake of partisanship and say "Ya, we've got major differences, and we don't like each other, but let's take a break for a sec and make sure that when we're done fighting over this country, we're not left with a truck stop toilet". You and I have brawled lots of times, but I would fight by your side to get these assholes to STFU, so that we can go back to fighting, knowing there is something worth fighting for.