princessnijireiki:

bejewelled-cupcakes:

abbiemillsamericandream: fuckyeahdiomedes: princessnijireiki: Did you spend time with real white supremacists? RADCLIFFE No, but I know some really f—ing racist people, friends I vehemently disagree with. They’re not white supremacists, they would never be that extreme, but they are anti-immigration and absolutely voted to leave in Brexit. And I’m still friends with them because I don’t think that friendship should be drawn along those lines. That’d be a really sad way of viewing the world. How important was it to humanize these characters? RADCLIFFE […] If you’re gonna feel something for these people, feel sorry for them. There’s something incredibly sad about a world where all the races are separate, and it’s so depressing and bleak to me, the fact that that’s what these people want. We should look at ourselves as trying to help them to come to an understanding. Absolutely, there are some people who will never have their minds changed, but we have to go forward with the belief that we can change at least some percentage of peoples’ minds out there. Racism is learned; we don’t come out of the wombs thinking this. I do think we human beings are essentially selfish, but good; we’d rather do a good, selfish thing than a bad one on the whole. In order to change something, to change someone’s mind, you have to have a conversation, but people won’t engage with you if they know that you’ve already written them off as stupid and evil. Why would they? Daniel Radcliffe is saying that people should be nice to Nazis. Go fuck yourself Dan humanizing white suprem– It didn’t really read to me like he was saying ‘be nice to and humanize them and ignore the issue’ it read more like he was saying ‘maybe try to educate them and also some people who think these horrible things won’t seem like they do at first and that’s the horror and also where sorrow comes in because this isn’t a cartoon they are real people and it just won’t show at first those horrible beliefs’ IDK I kinda got what he was intending to say in that article… it didn’t come across as gross at all? Feel free to educate me if I’m wrong on anything or missed something but this feels like people kinda missing the point?

alright, I’ll play.

“maybe try and educate them” is incredibly presumptuous when you’re talking abt people with violent & hateful intentions towards me & mine. it shows a fundamental lack of understanding that what are merely differences of opinion or “horrible beliefs” for some people translate to life and death for others.

this on top of the unpleasantness of being expected to endure that bigotry in order to “teach”/“heal” these self-declared racists in the first place— particularly if they don’t want to change & keeping in mind that this is still prioritizing the ease and comfort of racist fascists over the physical, psychological, and emotional safety and well-being of their intended targets.

we KNOW it’s scary when people are stealth racists. that’s why I made this post. daniel radcliffe revealed himself as someone who doesn’t think bigotry with as long-reaching impacts as brexit & anti-immigrant racism in a former world empire with large nonwhite populations is big enough to break up a friendship over… but then turns around in the same interview saying how appalled he is that people are voting for trump, when those are the exact same ideologies held by people he not only tolerates but REFUSES to cut ties with in his life. that’s dangerous. that’s not someone I want to financially support or even only see on my television screen, let alone embrace as a friend in my personal life.

to say we should “feel sorry” for white supremacists self-aware & conscious enough of the inappropriateness of their prejudices & behavior to DELIBERATELY hide their racism & violence, to the point that radcliffe’s character is playing an undercover agent who must INFILTRATE their community, is preposterous at best, and more realistically, smacks of old arguments that racism is borne out of ignorance (when people are intelligent enough to organize without being easily caught), pain (as if hardship or abuse justifies or even EXPLAINS hate crime in turn), or mental illness (both ableist and a means of evading culpability, also sth radcliffe specifically mentioned but conveniently forgot before attempting to cast the a.b. as pitiable).

“we should look at ourselves as trying to help them,” except they want to help me into a six foot hole.

“people won’t engage with you if they know that you’ve already written them off as stupid and evil” = a repackaged version of “be nice to your oppressors and make a sales pitch for your own humanity & that you deserve not to be hurt, or else YOU’RE the aggressor & alienating potential allies! you convince more fascists with honey & complacence than you do with self defense, indignation, or daring to suffer in an inconvenient way!”

also, radcliffe defenders who’ve jumped on this post (@cassiaandthewolf, @percivals-graves & @bejewelled-cupcakes) only go for that second quote as being somehow ~misunderstood~ bc they think his rambling gives enough ground cover to sneak past— but apparently no one’s been able to put a positive spin on that first quote, or at least one that they know wouldn’t be instantly & easily shut down with two googlable .gifs from “community.”

it’s transparent b.s. from people desperate to defend a man they’ve never met from public knowledge of his own words, about his own choices to play a “fascinating” fake nazi, pushing for sympathy & the healing power of martyring yourself to further the enlightenment of hitler fanboys, as a self-iding jew, in 2016, at 27 years old.