It is way easier to teach people how to use machine guns than to be human

Check this out.

I guess some people actually think that killing a presidential candidate is a step towards achieving their racist and white supremacist aspirations. To me, that sounds plain silly. Murdering Barack Obama will only shock people into talking about the issue of racism. No one’s going to clap for them aside from their fellow white supremacists – and mostly from inside their closets. Nothing will be gained! They will be ostracized and anti-racism movement will gain a stronger voice.

If they murder Obama, it will be publicized like omfg. Then people will stop viewing these dangerous ideas as things of the past, and start taking them seriously as something that unfortunately has a presence in the world. Assassinating a young and beloved politician of hope will only make him a martyred saint and a stock example of racism in the 21st century, giving anti-racism activists more material to work with. And that’s probably not what a couple of white supremacists want.

But I guess these drug addicts are just kids, living in the clouds without any real agenda – which is a relatively comforting thought. They may have a distorted view of the world, but are thankfully stupid – which means they will never be able to give power to their distorted view. I do not find them particularly dangerous – not because I am certain that they are incapable of murdering Obama but because they do not even know how to use their hate properly. They are hateful, but powerless. They haven’t got a clue.

Racism, like sexism or homophobia, is an art. It needs to be subtle, hidden (sometimes even from oneself) and moderate. It has to feign fairness. It has to use the epithet “Statistics show that…” consistently. It has to be perfectly polite. It has to be quiet and agreeable. Racism has undergone a revolution (after WWII? only recently?) and now the trend is to be as silent as possible – or at least sugarcoat it until it is unrecognizable.

In comparison to competent artists of racism, these raving meth users are harmless. No one will ever listen to them. No one will ever want to be associated with them. They will just be considered “knuckleheads” and “whack jobs”.

Although they’re probably just a bunch of kids high and rambling about scary and serious things they know nothing about (and there’s no evidence that they are a real threat, an article says) things like this make me kind of nervous. They should tighten the security around Obama and keep the guy safe.