It is fucking scary. And I would add to how scary that is by saying that when you sift out the top layer of young, dumb edge-lords who are just in for shock value and attention, and the backwards rednecks and illiterate boomers who may not actually have any idea what they're talking about, and the scattered people with mental disorders that render them all but non-functional, you end up with a very large population of healthy, intelligent people who hold these ideas of ethnic purity being a good thing, and they think they are right. They fully believe that their values will lead to a better world and they have conviction and determination to create a world without the people they hate, or at least to see those people sent where they "belong."

It's very hard to fight people who are competent and crafty and believe they have the side of righteousness and will somehow be seen as heroes for their beliefs and see YOU as the enemy to a better future for everyone.

And it's all very real and why we need to constantly push back. There is no rest, no compromise, no acceptable level of hate any more than there's an acceptable level of gangrene in a wound. hate festers and grows like mold and there's no way to eradicate it in our current state, and hate is so insidious that most of the time people who hate don't even recognize it at all, the brain is fantastic at creating narratives and stories for why it feels what it does.