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Hate groups do not just recruit people with ideas. They recruit them with belonging, purpose, certainty, and power. Follow @hope_with_holly for more. That is what makes them dangerous.They take loneliness, shame, anger, or disappointment and turn it into a story that says, “You are not the problem. Other people are stealing what belongs to you.”Then they offer an easy identity: superior by birth, important without earning it, and powerful because someone else has been pushed beneath you.But real confidence does not need an enemy.Real strength does not require a hierarchy.And real patriotism does not depend on treating other Americans as less human.White supremacy is not strength. It is borrowed self-esteem dressed up as purpose. Hate groups do not just recruit people with ideas. They recruit them with belonging, purpose, certainty, and power.That is what makes them dangerous.They take loneliness, shame, anger, or disappointment and turn it into a story that says, “You are not the problem. Other people are stealing what belongs to you.”Then they offer an easy identity: superior by birth, important without earning it, and powerful because someone else has been pushed beneath you.But real confidence does not need an enemy.Real strength does not require a hierarchy.And real patriotism does not depend on treating other Americans as less human.White supremacy is not strength. It is borrowed self-esteem dressed up as purpose.#america250 #whitesupremists #racism #insecureView all 2,469 comments
