I HIGHLY recommend people actually click through and read the superintendent’s full ad, because it’s a gold mine of hypocrisy, idiocy, and not-so-subtle racism.
EDIT: To clarify, the article doesn’t actually present the superintendent’s screed. It embeds a tweet that has a photo of it. That said, it’s been posted elsewhere in this thread, which has the added upside of avoiding Twitter.
I don’t know, I’m starting to get the sneaking suspicion that “good” and “profitable” aren’t synonyms. It’s almost as if there is often a financial incentive to make things worse…
Pretty sure it was Bernard Montgomery Sanders.
Also, just to see if they have even the tiniest bit of plausible deniability, I checked out Midgard’s shop. There’s overtly white supremacist shit ALL OVER the place.
It’s not like these people accidentally supported a band with reprehensible beliefs behind the scenes. It’s not like a totally normal music shop turned out to be a front for white supremacists. There’s note even any serious argument about “separating art from the artist.” The leak includes what people bought, and you can tell when someone bought overtly white supremacist music. And even if they didn’t, and the band or album name doesn’t give anything away, what’s it doing at the Nazi store? Why isn’t it streaming, or on Bandcamp, or self-distributed? These customers still had to know there’s an obscure Nazis music store, what it’s called and where to find it, confirm that it’s a Nazi store the moment they went there, and still give them money and their address to place a mail order. Oh, some of them aren’t native English speakers? Then that just makes it even more damning that they did all this with a language barrier in place!
Plus, just look at the apologists in this thread. They’re fucking cowards. They can’t just come out with their beliefs, so they’re just asking questions, deflecting from the topic. One is concern trolling for the fundamental humanity of literal Nazis, despite the fact that the main fucking problem with Nazis is that they considered marginalized groups subhuman. Where’s the concern there? Why the focus on the people who oppose Nazis rather than the Nazis themselves? Another one could barely resist giving the game away by saying they’ve been called a Nazi before because of their anti-immigrant positions.
The people defending this shop and its customers aren’t serious people. They’re dishonest, cowardly, and stupid.
That user was cowardly from the jump. It’s why they wouldn’t outright make their point, but “just ask questions.”
Also, can we appreciate how desperate and nonsensical that entire argument was?
Okay, lots of them are Japanese. So… what about the ones that aren’t? Why isn’t that person concerned about the one who absolutely understand what it means?
And secondly… it’s still a huge red flag that Japanese customers were going so far out of their way to buy extremely obscure music from racist bands from an overtly Nazi music seller. If an American specifically imported music from a Japanese shop only racists know or care about, covered in Axis power imagery, that’d still point towards being a huge racist.
That user is seriously turning themselves in knots to defend people who buy Nazi music from the Nazi store.
Ah, the Sam Bankman-Fried Defense.
I’ve thought about this a lot. I think there are three main elements.
People like this will judge the facts based on the conclusions they want, and they sure do prefer the conclusion where their selfishness wasn’t that bad.
They’re extremely bad at understanding anything that isn’t black & white. So when you go into things like rates of effectiveness or levels of confidence, they shut down, and either say “it doesn’t work” or “nobody knows for sure.”
One of the major benefits of masks is to prevent yourself from spreading infection, and they just plain don’t give a flying fuck about other people.
Also, the point that got to me was his defense of sending kids to school because covid wouldn’t affect them too badly. Firstly, some kids will be badly affected, and secondly… where the fuck does he think the kids go after school? They go home, where they’ve got parents, guardians, maybe even grandparents and other elderly family members.
What a dumb asshole.