Are preppers basically just white gun nuts reacting to Obama's re-election?

[gunlover]

Originally Posted by Greg_IA

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.

If one is to understand the mind of a statist, just look at kindergartners..

And you are right, they will be the ones crying for help the loudest and applauding what ever totalitarian government that might come out of such a crisese

[kidkaos2]

Originally Posted by Think4Yourself

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.

It's only "almost impossible" if you're a liberal looking for confirmation of your pre-existing prejudices.

People thinking that there's a societal collapse coming are going to lay in supplies, arm themselves, build shelters, and wilderness survival skills. It doesn't matter if you think the coming collapse is due to an out of control federal government or due to environmental disasters or due to a race war or due to religious end of days or whatever.

Two groups sharing one characteristic don't necessarily share other characteristics. Years ago there were people building and stocking bomb shelters in anticipation of civilized society collapsing on January 1 2000. Did that make them racists? Of course not.

[gunlover]

Originally Posted by kidkaos2

It's only "almost impossible" if you're a liberal looking for confirmation of your pre-existing prejudices.

People thinking that there's a societal collapse coming are going to lay in supplies, arm themselves, build shelters, and wilderness survival skills. It doesn't matter if you think the coming collapse is due to an out of control federal government or due to environmental disasters or due to a race war or due to religious end of days or whatever.

Two groups sharing one characteristic don't necessarily share other characteristics. Years ago there were people building and stocking bomb shelters in anticipation of civilized society collapsing on January 1 2000. Did that make them racists? Of course not.

to the left, "racism" is code for "believe what I do, and what I tell you or else" its been the MO since the 1960s, lucky people have had it up to ten feet above their heads of their stupidity.