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You know I agree about it perhaps not being worth pursuing. My father and I have never been super close, but we've always gotten along relatively well. However I've been on several dates with a half black and half Asian man and he's really grown on me. It's nothing serious at the moment, but if things were to move forward between us, my father's outlook would become more significant.
I haven't read the whole thread but I'd suggest asking him how he'd feel about you dating someone of another race if that's what you're concerned about. Aside from that, if he manages to be respectful of other races in public, who cares if he's really a closet racist? Lots of people are.
Just about every person alive is racist. Go anywhere in public and you will see people stick to their own race almost exclusively. Whites hang out with whites, blacks hang out with blacks, etc. People feel more comfortable with people who look like them and share their same cultural values. It's human nature.
As far as visiting the S*****t site, I don't see anything wrong with it. Blacks and Hispanics have all sorts of websites that cater specifically to them. What is wrong with having a site that caters specifically to Whites?
There's a difference between mostly having friends of your own race and going online and saying you want the other races to die and you don't even think of them as intelligent humans. I doubt the OP's dad goes to Stormfront just to say that he doesn't have any black friends and prefers to hang out with white people.
It really annoys me that you say Stormfront "caters to whites," as though all white people are racist enough to frequent that site. I am 50% white and I would never go to that website.
Are you guys left-wing weirdos? To left-wing weirdos anyone who isn't a left-wing weirdo is a "Racist".
If you look at American black culture, there's plenty to criticize. But left-wing weirdos have assigned American black culture to a godlike protected status, immune from any kind of observation at all. This is not only dishonest but destructive to American black people.
Same way blacks felt when the shoe was on the other foot. Hurts to have the scales tip the other way, eh?
I would say so. Not to mention it is also illegal.
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The law is made by imbeciles for imbeciles. The law doesn't nor can it make every stupid thing illegal. No it isn't better. Legality doesn't make it any better. It's also legal to walk into the woods and tease a bear.
Way to find out is to tell him you are considering dating a Black man. If it took you finding out by a website I can't imagine him being too far out there. I would think he would have said something earlier that you should have picked up. Hey I may post on a republican web site but that doesn't mean I'm a FOX follower. He may just be spouting stuff just to be spouting stuff. What you could do is ask Ma. she would know.
Next if that's who he is then that's who he is. I'm not wishing anything bad for him but I have seen the older people get and the closer they get to meeting their maker that way of thinking changes. So as he lives a long life he will change.
Nothing nothing nothing is worse than child pornography, child rapist, child abuser. That's my opinion.
Fair enough but I don't hold children in such high regard. I can easily think of something worse than child pornography, child rapist and child abuser.
Yes, your dad could have been radicalized after being benign about such things most of his life. The airwaves, TV, internet, etc. are filled with hate. As he gets older, life may seem more insecure for him, the world more dangerous, more confusing, financially frightening, etc.
Hate groups offer common comfort to frightened people. They're simplistic in their thinking. And simple views appeal to people who find the world chaotic. It's also possible that your father was always this way, but never had any reason to overtly express his views. Even the worst racists are usually polite in public.
What should you do about it ? In my opinion, probably nothing. You're an adult, you're out on your own. Who he is has nothing to do with who you are or how you live your life.
First you're going to have to explain why you're snooping in his internet files. Yes, you borrowed his laptop, but you did not need to link to link to link, etc. Your search should have been confined to only what you needed. What you did right there is going to cause a big problem. He will never, ever trust you again.
Secondly nothing you and he can say to each other will change how he thinks. He is not pushing his views onto you to his family. What ever he feels he is keeping to himself. You grew up to be non-racist so he must have been doing something right in raising you.
Really, the discussion you want to have with him is only going to cause a breech in your relationship with him. Let me ask you something. Let's say he admits to being racist. Then what ? Do you want to spend the rest of his life arguing with him ? Do you never want to see him again ? What is it you hope to achieve ? You won't convince him he is wrong. Not going to happen. These views evolve in people on their own. You don't talk people out of them. They have to come to that realization by themselves. It's an internal process, not one you can impose from the outside by reason or arguing.
If you're dad's racism is limited to the internet, so be it. It's if you have children and he tries to indoctrinate them or if he starts spewing forth racist stuff at Christmas dinner with the extended family-- then you have tell him to cut it out. Then there needs to be very strong boundaries.
I think you nailed it dead on, willow wind.
OP, keep in mind that none of us are perfect, and it's difficult to realize that our parents sometimes aren't the perfect wonderful people we thought they were. As long as he doesn't spew the stuff publicly, it's his business, as sad as that may be.
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