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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
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)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)Don't try to change his mind all at once. And don't argue with him.
But I like your response better.
ooky
(8,924 posts)I wouldn't give him any.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)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?
ooky
(8,924 posts)Starve him out.
kimbutgar
(21,164 posts)Too much time on the internet with conspiracy websites has rotted his brain into decay.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)Never met a nazi who wasn't also a gunfucker.
Persondem
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struggle4progress
(118,297 posts)The only sure-fire way to identify them is that they always deny being invaders from Mars!"