This is actually a very common problem in mental health. I would suggest getting yourself into therapy. Simple self-exploration can sometimes be enough to tear down those walls. You want a therapist who isn’t afraid to “poke,” as I call it; one who isn’t afraid of causing you to break down, because if they’re afraid of making you cry, they won’t be able to help you get over your fears of it.

Yeah, bad pic.

That woman looks like a sex robot. Maybe just a bad picture? There’s something odd about her face.

Even the Wikipedia article you referenced contradicts your assertion that the group itself isn’t racist.

While Proud Boys leadership has denied being a white supremacist organization, the group and some of its members have been connected to white supremacist events, ideologies, and other white-power groups throughout its existence.

According to the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism the group believes that traditional masculinity and Western culture are under siege, using “Western chauvinism” as euphemism for the white genocide conspiracy theory.[4] Members have participated in overtly racist events and events centered around fascist, anti-left, and anti-socialist violence.[4]

Seems like you should do more work on knowing your enemy.

He’s pleading with the wrong people. These are all heart-of-hearts racists. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to a one. They deserve lifetime prison sentences, not forgiveness.

I wouldn’t fuck with it personally, but I don’t judge those who do. Well, no, that’s not true, actually. I do kind of judge people who participate in it, whether providing or purchasing. That’s probably uncouth of me, but what can I say? I’m a product of my society and my time. I do, however, think it’s totally fine, if practiced correctly.

Which is why I’m all for it being legal. If it’s legal, it can be much more reliably regulated, which is safer for all involved. We should not be banning human vices—that just creates crime. Instead, we should try to manage it and make it as safe as possible, whether you’re talking about sex, drugs, gambling, whatever.

“Dur dur dur, ‘Muricans dumb!”

If you’ve got nothing more pathetic to do than demonize an entire nation online, I suggest you go outside and touch some grass.

I don’t necessarily have a problem with this, so long as the lessons aren’t dictated to be from a religious perspective. I think the Bible and the Quran make sense as required reading as historical works. They’re tremendously important cultural and historical documents. As long as they’re taught from that perspective, I don’t have a problem with them being required reading texts.

The problem starts when they’re being required as texts to legitimize the religions they’re associated with. Then, you’ve got the state supporting some religions over others or no religion at all.

This was only an SNL skit and nothing more.

Agreed. This is just Candace Owens trash.

Also British food: jellied eels. Cut up eels in jello.

Fuck that.

Racist garbage. Don’t taint the BLM cause with this shit.

Grains defeat virus brains.™️

Balderdash! What can they do against the power of the Four Food Groups combined!?!

“Brazillion,” for those who—like me—were a bit slow on the uptake.

Target practice? No, my friend, that is the target.

That’s part of the reason I left. Moderation went insane. The slightest infraction got you permabanned from mainstream subs. Your post could be removed for amazingly technical reasons with no explanation at all for what rule you broke. The site just became impossible to use.

LOL.

FINALLY! Someone mentions the grossly unacknowledged Starbucks-Pepsi political divide!