OrangeGrayBlue
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Yup. Im sure if he was handsome the people in here calling him a fat fuck would agree with his actions.
I doubt they would agree, but that's kind of the point. His physical appearance is irrelevant to the reason for his arrest, so why make it about that? He was arrested for being a racist, not for being ugly. If he wasn't a "fat fuck" what would people say? And then why not just say that in the first place? We can't fat-shame racism away because, this guy notwithstanding, there are plenty of fit & attractive & extremely racist people, so trying to make the connection that white supremacists are uniformly ugly doesn't hold up. It isn't helpful because, like it or not, we still have to disprove the validity of bigotry and racism in 2017 and, "Yeah well you're ugly" isn't gonna cut it.
So it's not that the people calling him ugly would suddenly agree if he was attractive, it's that framing the argument as "You can't be genetically superior because you're ugly" is immediately void the second someone considered traditionally attractive decides to shoot up some public space. It's a weak argument, I think that's pretty easy to agree upon. In a world where racism is some rare occurrence maybe we could just call him ugly and move on, but we live in the world where racism controls the executive branch and both houses of congress soooo.....