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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Fri Aug 10, 2018, 07:42 PM Aug 2018

What do you do when your neighbor is a Neo-Nazi?

Daniel Burnside painted a huge swastika on his home. His woodshop dons Nazi carvings and a Nazi flag. A scarecrow made to resemble Adolf Hitler keeps watch in his yard.

It all sits atop a hill in this small Rust Belt town, a beacon of hate greeting anyone who drives through.
Burnside says he's fighting a culture war.

"The last 20 years, my country has just turned into a cesspool. Garbage," he told CNN. "The UN's taken over. Our cities aren't American anymore."

By that, he means, they're not white.

"We're staring down the barrel of a gun here in white America," the 42-year-old father said. "There's still 193 million white Americans. Yes. The vast majority of them are in their 60s and 70s, will be in the ground in the next 20 years, and therefore we have the possibility of becoming a minority in our own country."

Already, Burnside has been marginalized by residents of this Pennsylvania town. Though he extols Donald Trump -- whom 79.5% of voters here in Potter County chose for President in 2016 -- he's drawn the ire of his neighbors in Ulysses, who say his intense racism doesn't reflect their values and has generated unwanted attention, angst and even fear.

After a story in The Washington Post exposed Burnside's bluster, death threats arrived online, taking aim at the town at large. But for all his fuming, Burnside hasn't broken any laws, a top elected leader in the area said, leaving little officials can do to remove the target of their collective backlash.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-do-you-do-when-your-neighbor-is-a-neo-nazi/ar-BBLLci5?li=BBnb7Kz

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What do you do when your neighbor is a Neo-Nazi? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2018 OP
Throat punch? Glamrock Aug 2018 #1
You treat him with kindness, of course vlyons Aug 2018 #2
I was going to say something like... Shemp Howard Aug 2018 #3
It sounds like he wants attention. ooky Aug 2018 #4
If the town does not agree with him, they should shun him csziggy Aug 2018 #6
Ah, economic sanctions. ooky Aug 2018 #8
I think this guy has early signs of mental illnesses kimbutgar Aug 2018 #5
Shun them, but don't ignore them. Iggo Aug 2018 #7
I would put a poster up in my yard. Something like this ...... Persondem Aug 2018 #9
"I'm more concerned about the invaders from Mars! They look like everybody else and blend in! struggle4progress Aug 2018 #10

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. You treat him with kindness, of course
Fri Aug 10, 2018, 08:00 PM
Aug 2018

When he starts up his diatribe on racism, you don't answer back with hatred and anger. If you can't manage to do that, turn on your heel and walk away.

Shemp Howard

(889 posts)
3. I was going to say something like...
Fri Aug 10, 2018, 08:33 PM
Aug 2018

Don't try to change his mind all at once. And don't argue with him.

But I like your response better.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
6. If the town does not agree with him, they should shun him
Fri Aug 10, 2018, 10:46 PM
Aug 2018

Refuse to interact with him, refuse to sell to him, refuse to allow him to participate in their activities.

From the article it sounds as though many of the residents are already taking that route. What I don't understand is that the article says he fires off bullets at night - why isn't that illegal as in disturbing the peace or something similar?

kimbutgar

(21,164 posts)
5. I think this guy has early signs of mental illnesses
Fri Aug 10, 2018, 09:50 PM
Aug 2018

Too much time on the internet with conspiracy websites has rotted his brain into decay.

struggle4progress

(118,297 posts)
10. "I'm more concerned about the invaders from Mars! They look like everybody else and blend in!
Sat Aug 11, 2018, 01:24 PM
Aug 2018

The only sure-fire way to identify them is that they always deny being invaders from Mars!"

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