I understand — and support! — the urge to make white supremacists the villains in fiction, but I feel like if you're going to do that you should probably work to make them something beyond a 2D cartoon avatar of a white supremacist. Not for *them*, but because...

I mean, I had this thought four years ago, when it was clear that white supremacy was going mainstream and whatnot, about how, like, my entire life, Nazis had been the villains in *everything*. Movies, TV, books, video games — just like, the go to avatar of evil!

And so it was very weird to see people being like, "Yes, this thing that has REPEATEDLY been used as the symbol of true evil is a good thing for me to do."

But *then* I realized all those villainous Nazis in like, Wolfenstein or whatever are completely detached from real people!

I don't have any desire to understand (or, worse, justify) bigotry and racism and hatred, but I think it is worth acknowledging that the people who do these monstrous things are *people*. They're not video game villains, they're *people*. Which is even more terrifying, IMO.

And the reason why I think you need to recognize that is not so you can feel empathy for the bigots (nope!), but because I think that humans need to see that they, personally, could actually be those bigots.

IDK. I think my point here is when you say that racists are just these cartoonish monsters, it's easy for people to be like, "Well I'm not a cartoonish monster so I can't be a racist!" when, of course, they absolutely are.