Both stories have recently drawn fire for normalizing white nationalists and supremacists while failing to include the voices of those targeted by their hate. Some white people see their own attitudes and beliefs reflected in the words of white supremacists or hear echoes of the same sentiments spoken by their mother, brother or neighbor. So they look for something redeemable in white supremacists to save the image of themselves as good people. We have to process how those biases lead to prejudices, how segregation works, how white supremacy works and how it shows up in our institutions and practices." We are not separate from the Nazi sympathizer who has four cats and likes Seinfeld.

Source: CNN November 27, 2017 20:48 UTC