Well, yeah, but you can go to stormfront and find a whole lot worse. There are lots of websites of crazy people, but they still make up a minority overall. Trust me, I'm aware of the variety and profligation of horrible people with crazy opinions. I mean, I've even been told in no uncertain terms in person that I both don't deserve to exist and that killing me would be justifiable, cause I'm an Israeli. You just have to bank on common human decency, which while pretty tenuous has more or less worked, even in the vast and strange Midwest (which I find myself in currently, although I think of Michigan as 50% Canada, anyway).
Basically, acknowledge the problem, work toward a solution, but don't have a cow, man. While it sometimes seems that the world is going crazy, due to a lot of crazy people shouting all the time, I think most Americans may be (unfortunately) ill-informed, but they aren't batshit nuts. Here's hoping, anyways. :)
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Date: 2010-04-06 04:18 pm (UTC)Basically, acknowledge the problem, work toward a solution, but don't have a cow, man. While it sometimes seems that the world is going crazy, due to a lot of crazy people shouting all the time, I think most Americans may be (unfortunately) ill-informed, but they aren't batshit nuts. Here's hoping, anyways. :)