part of a conversation

[smibbo]

listen, you think that just because the extremists have a louder voice that they represent anybody besides themselves? What flavor crack you smoking? I bet you also believe that the KKK actually represented the whole of southern culture and attitude, don't you? Yeah cuz it's so much easier to sit there and think that a couple of idiotic yahoos are somehow the epitome of society rather than admit that the fact is that when a bunch of wack-jobs run out and start killing people, the rest of the world is slow to move... you know why? Cuz we're scared. Hell yeah, those nutjobs might come after us next. We don't want to face those assholes. We don't want to confront them every time they pop their microencephalic heads out of a foxhole. Cuz next thing you you know, it turns out the asshole is our cousin and he's gone postal on everyone and now because we openly disagreed or defied him he's gunnin down OUR family too! That's why people in the fucked-up south tolerated the likes of the KKK for so long! NOt because they're all ultra-racist too... of course they're racist but that doesn't mean they AGREED with what the KKK was doing! They were just too damned scared to take them on. And who wouldn't have been? The whole power of any extremist group is seeming to be far more powerful than they really are. But then you believe they've got the numbers, or the guns and next thing you know they really ARE more powerful than you... all because you let them make you scared.
...I may despise those jackasses to the core, but at least I'm not handing them the power of being scared of them. I pay attention, shit yes, but I'm not giving them any more power than they have. Too damned bad everyone else DOES>