Which is why it's so critical for other white people not to fall for that bullshit. To show our repugnance, to say "You know that's not true," and to make it clear there are CONSEQUENCES for being a fucking white supremacist.

Right now, white Democrats in Congress, attempting to be "civil", are letting malignant narcissists and white supremacists get away with it.

They are letting Gene spout his bullshit without consequences.

And it will only allow the motherfuckers to continue.

The only thing that will stop them, from Papaya Pol Pot down to one's cracker neighbor (who might take care of all the cats in the neighborhood, nice fellow if you're not brown, right?) is CONSEQUENCES. Social, financial, legal, and otherwise.

To pretend otherwise is to give violent malignant narcissists and white supremacists cover. They will use you for cover and discard you without a second thought.

For those of you wondering about Gene, he has passed from this world, and I can only hope he has some consequences in the next. He didn't dare do much to me--I was an adult, I was a neighbor, and I'm white--but I wonder how much harm he caused to others.

Because it bears repeating, I will.

The white supremacists saying "Biden supporters/antifa attacked the Capitol" do not believe their own bullshit.

And neither should you.

PS: I highly recommend reading @SlacktivistFred as a matter of course, but this is the article I was thinking of in particular: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2015/09/15/bad-faith-in-witch-hunts-and-moral-panics/