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In other words isn't this really just the same old stubborn bunch of paranoid conservative Obama-haters and Birthers from last time, disgruntled that the "uppity, muslim, socialist, Kenyan (with Nazi tendencies)" still occupies the White House... so now they've simply "upped the ante" (aka, are embracing their guns and apocalyptic religion)?
Or are there also any minority folks who did vote for Obama, and who aren't gun "enthusiasts", but have suddenly decided to turn "prepper"?
Not all of them but many of them are. Also, it's interesting to note how much of this started in the 1960's and 1970's by white supremacists who kept claiming there was a race war coming and that white people needed to move to all white rural areas to escape the supposed black hordes who were coming for them and their stuff. There is a ton of stuff about this mythical race war and "Victory Day" (the day when the neo-Nazis finally kill the last non-white person) in neo-Nazi writings. Go ahead and listen to the ravings of the many prepper vblogs on the internet and you'll find it is filled with the exact same stuff and it's almost impossible not to see how the current prepper movement was heavily influenced by white supremacist mythology.
I live in a hurricane prone area..... I need to get to preppin.
This is a common misunderstanding. If you would like to know the difference between fact based disaster preperation and the apoclytic end of the world prepper nonsense then read this link because the two are completely different in both scope and motivation.
I hate to break it to these guys, but your collection of assault riffles and gas masks aren't going to fend off a standing army nor keep you alive for more than a few extra weeks should it really hit the fan.
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Get real man, preppers are waiting for the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. Don't you know anything?
LOL... My daughter-in-law worked at the CDC when they released the pamphlet warning about the coming zombie apocalypse (which was basically a Do Yourself a Favor and at least prepare for something pamphlet). She came in laughing because they actually had people lighting up the switchboard thinking it was really happening!
I think the entertainment world and the media's preoccupation with doomsday prepping and post-apocalyptic scenarios is their way of profiting from people's malaise, fear, discomfort, and sense that things are really becoming more and more out of control.
In other words isn't this really just the same old stubborn bunch of paranoid conservative Obama-haters and Birthers from last time, disgruntled that the "uppity, muslim, socialist, Kenyan (with Nazi tendencies)" still occupies the White House... so now they've simply "upped the ante" (aka, are embracing their guns and apocalyptic religion)?
Or are there also any minority folks who did vote for Obama, and who aren't gun "enthusiasts", but have suddenly decided to turn "prepper"?
Should something big happen, people like you will be crying about how unfair it is that some have so much more than others and will demand the government do something about it.
Not all of them but many of them are. Also, it's interesting to note how much of this started in the 1960's and 1970's by white supremacists who kept claiming there was a race war coming and that white people needed to move to all white rural areas to escape the supposed black hordes who were coming for them and their stuff. There is a ton of stuff about this mythical race war and "Victory Day" (the day when the neo-Nazis finally kill the last non-white person) in neo-Nazi writings. Go ahead and listen to the ravings of the many prepper vblogs on the internet and you'll find it is filled with the exact same stuff and it's almost impossible not to see how the current prepper movement was heavily influenced by white supremacist mythology.
So you are telling me the race riots of the 1960`s were not valid reason for people to think that?
Also you seem to know alot about Nazis...
So more of this "if you think anything bad can happen you are nuts" or "if you believe in Independence, and self reliance, you must be a Nazi" or "if you believe in self defense you must be a domestic terrorist" or the classic "if you dont agree me you must be a racist, Nazi, ect" its got old in the 1980`s, its rapidity failing now...
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