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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHate is taught, no one is born with it.
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The video starts with a woman wearing a camouflage Make America Great Again hat on the back of a pickup truck yelling at people who are protesting outside of Dixie Outfitters.
I will teach my grandkids to hate you all! she shouted at the demonstrators.
Then she stood up, brandished the flag in front of the demonstrators, and said, Suck on this!
After this, she wrapped the flag around her back like a cape before turning back to the protesters and giving a supportive shout out to the Ku Klux Klan.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/ill-teach-my-grandkids-to-hate-you-confederate-flag-waving-trump-supporter-freaks-out-at-blm-protesters/
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,752 posts)sheshe2
(83,933 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,752 posts)sheshe2
(83,933 posts)PS...How are you feeling? Sorry so late in asking.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)sheshe2
(83,933 posts)hunter
(38,328 posts)I had a crazy grandma, a danger to herself and others at times, thankfully not like that.
sop
(10,265 posts)Disaffected
(4,569 posts)hate can be a product of both nurture and nature. Fear of persons/things different from yourself probably served as an evolutionary advantage back in the days of early human development in the Pleistocene jungle. Same with animals.
Thing is though, humans also developed the ability to reason (albeit with widely varying degrees of success) and most realize that instinctive fears one may harbour are not always rational or just and, we therefore adapt accordingly.
As someone once said "We all have thoughts that would shame hell". I suppose this is true to some extent but a civilized society learns to compensate for our evolutionary baggage.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)TomSlick
(11,110 posts)If so, her employer (if any) should be shown the video and asked whether her public views represent the company.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)Viral video from BLM protest in Branson shows woman honoring KKK
A video of a woman who was sitting on the parking lot of Dixie Outfitters Sunday night during a Black Lives Matter protest has gone viral. As of Monday afternoon, the video has more than 100,000 views and was shared more than 3,500 times. On Twitter, the video has been viewed more than 2.4 million times.
In the video, a woman sitting on the tailgate of a truck with a Confederate flag attached and wearing a camouflage Make America Great Again cap gets into a heated confrontation with a Black LIves Matter demonstrator.
The woman, who told the News-Leader her name is Kathy Bennett of Branson, stood up and shouted to the demonstrators, "I will teach my grandkids to hate you all."
Then she said "suck on this" and shrouded herself with a Confederate flag. Bennett then turned around, made a fist and said, "KKK belief."
TomSlick
(11,110 posts)Is she employed?