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I wouldn't say I'm outraged. But I do feel raising awareness of people like this helps us avoid them, and helps the people they hate avoid them. Hiding these things, ignoring them because they embarrass us, or they are inconvenient only gives them the opportunity to go to far while we are not looking.
It shouldn't piss you off, it should worry you. And that worry should lead you to set an example, and with more worried people setting examples progress is made. Racism isn't curable in a person, you can't make someone not hate something. But with more awareness, more accountability, and more dialogue on the subject the next generation won't have as many racists. And the one after even fewer. It's that liberal indoctrination everyones terrified of... :mrgreen:
Here's the deal, this guy has every right to express his opinion in his store. He's doing it in an out of the way place where someone would actually have to make a significant effort just to accidentally run across him. For that, the author of the article, the Huffington Post and anyone who promoted the article through social media decided to make a big deal out of it like his opinion is some kind of social commentary on....what?.. small town America?
Nobody is trying to "hide" this guy. Nobody is trying to ignore the guy. We don't have to do those things because he isn't making an issue of his opinions outside of his own incredibly tiny community. Face it, if you guys have to go to Mayhill, New Mexico to "prove" that racism exists you're pretty much just proving that it's really not much of an issue at all.