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Is She A White Supremacist Or Just Doesn’t Know English?

What does this tattoo really mean?

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I was at a public pool in Prague the other day and I saw this tattoo:

At first I was like, wow, that’s a poorly done tattoo. Then I was like, it’s in English. “Children?” Oh, it says something dumb about her children. Then I saw that it said “white children.” What the f’ck? I looked closer:

“She must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

What the f’ck X 10.

That’s some real white supremacist stuff there … but then I wondered, is she a real white supremacist or does she just not really understand English and / or the implications of such a statement?

I thought about it. In the USA there would be no question, but here in the eastern realms of Europe, where these types of sensitivities are vastly more blunted, there are broader delineations of such definitions. It really could have gone either way. I did not bother asking her about it … kind of not really wanting to know the answer.

But if it was there latter — that she was a bonafide white supremacist mama — I am left a little confused. I simply don’t understand how people from virtually all white countries can be white supremacists — even though this region has a history of such movements, which are again gaining momentum all through the central and eastern portions of Europe (i.e. the whitest places on the planet).

I grew up in an Upstate New York prison town. Around 20 percent of the kids I went to school with were black, roughly 10 percent Hispanic (the kids of migrant agricultural workers), and the rest were either white farm kids or white townies. If you grew up here and had real, day to day exposure to other races and cultures you may be able to say, “I think we are better than them, blah, blah, blah,” I guess. You would have experience that you could formulate perspectives from. I guess.

How could you do this from a place like Prague? Has anyone here ever seen a black person who wasn’t selling drugs / girls on the streets around Wenceslas, a study abroad student from America, or a businessman from Africa? Have they ever talked to anyone who wasn’t white?

But this isn’t how this works, is it?

While cultures / races tend to flock together in even the most demographically diverse places of the world (look around a NYC subway car if you don’t believe me) and, no matter where you go, Group A will warn you about Group B and Group B will in turn tell you how bad Group A is, exposure to different tribes has the effect off leveling of extreme adverse sentiments. People from this side of the tracks have never like people from that side, but there is something about knowing that they’re there that keeps everybody in check.

It is in places where the Other is a remote concept — the danger lurking in the dark, the invader who’s going to come in and take away your way of life — that racial movements seem to arise.

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  • Rob June 20, 2019, 2:18 pm

    I think that tribal is deep down human nature. Hmmm you’ve done a LOT of traveling, does tribal look like a part of human nature?

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    • Wade Shepard June 20, 2019, 3:10 pm

      Yes, definitely. We all (well, maybe not this lady) praise the value of diversity yet we flock in groups that are predominantly made up of people who look like us, are from a similar background, like the same music, have the same politics and world views, like to cultivate the same social image. Deep down human groups abhor diversity — we’re afraid of it, feel challenged by it. We don’t like differences of opinion. We want to feel secure that we are walking the good path. We don’t like questioning ourselves. It’s always been funny to me to listen to liberals talk about how much they love diversity and then watch how they treat, I don’t know, a Trump supporter. Diversity is a challenge, and that’s exactly what groups do not want. So yes, I believe we’re tribal by nature.

      Unless you travel for a really long time until you find yourself on the outside of all groups — the place where your opinions piss off both the left and the right. Yeah, it’s a little lonely out here but being tribe-less also makes you more culturally amorphous. I can hang out with anyone and listen to anyone say just about anything without getting pissed off. I brag, but it took a long time to get here.

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      • Trevor June 20, 2019, 6:01 pm

        unsure the meaning of this but in the UK a tattoo in this position – above ass crack – is called a tramp-stamp. lmao such a funny turn of phrase

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        • Wade Shepard June 21, 2019, 10:30 am

          And I thought tramp stamps were supposed to be sexy …

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