My skin is crawling

jdluvr06

The museum I work for works really closely with the colleges in my area. Well my boss is going to give a guest lecture to a class next month about sub-cultures in our area. I volunteered to help him collect some data this week because I don't have anything important going on. So I interviewed some Nazis today and it was so fucking hard to not sit there with a completely disgusted on my face. It is just so hard to believe there are still people like this in the world. So I feel like I need a shower and to escape to a happy place for a bit to get all the negative out of my brain. I mean... It was just... Ugh!!!!

phira

Holy craaaaaaaaaaaaaap.

I think I need a shower, too, and I wasn't even WITH you.

FiancB

Ughhh there is no way I'd be able to pull that off. I hope you can put it out of your mind soon. I found a KKK site once and it was kind of a shock because these people seemed sort of almost relatively normal, and it was clear that they honest to goodness felt this way and about the Aryan race being preserved or wtfever and they honestly believe they are totally in the right and see nothing wrong with their thinking. It's a lot easier to think that they're just totally BSC and subhuman.

I work at a home for mentally disabled people and one of the clients is creepy and I recently found out that he sexually abused his daughters. I'm torn because he truly doesn't understand what he did, but I want to scream when he complains that they don't want to see him, and it makes his creepiness way creepier.

smalfrie19

Ick! I feel that way when I see states pass stuff like this, I legitimately want to cry. This cannot be ok.

 http://www.autostraddle.com/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-thatll-let-gay-kids-get-bullied-because-religious-freedom-230504/ 

grumbledore

Take a hot shower and have a glass of wine - luckily the non-insane outnumber the insane.  *hugs*

wandajune6

My skin is crawling just from hearing about your interview. I'm impressed that you could do it.

I loved everything about anthropology when I was younger (still do!) and always try to be particularly open-minded about different cultures and subcultures. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But some things just scare the shit out of me. Nazis fall under that category.

I normally try to find the good in everyone but as the grandchild/niece/relation of Jews who had to escape from Nazis during the war, my instinct is to want them all to disappear.

jdluvr06

Thanks everyone. I'm feeling a little better now. Thankfully that is the only despicable group I'm talking to this week, so hopefully I can put it out of my mind soon enough. I'm going to have a big drink (haven't decided what yet) and start reading my new book. I'm turning my brain off.