Dix said the information “doesn’t fit what we want to represent to the community.”
OK, you need to let me get my flame-retardant suit on before saying stuff like that.
Dix said the information “doesn’t fit what we want to represent to the community.”
Telling statement. Not so concerned with the Nazi sympathy but concerned it doesn’t fit what they want to represent to the community. Sounds like what they want to represent is not the same thing as what they actually believe and support. As the GOP congress would say, lost opportunity. Shakes head sadly.
It’s notable the Sheriff said “it doesn’t fit what we want to represent to the community" and not “it doesn’t fit what we are”.
Dix said the information “doesn’t fit what we want to represent to the community.”
Dix considered a more definitive disavowal and condemnation of the jail officers' views, but he didn't want to alienate all the guys over at the fleet garage.It’s hard to do when using the words “Georgia” and “Sheriff,” but I’m going to try to be generous here and accept that the Sheriff is sincere in saying this is not what he wants his department to represent — in public or private.
“Hitler did nothing wrong,” said Jones.
“I did nothing wrong,” said Trump.
I gather “He’s just a friend” works well on you.
Dix said the information “doesn’t fit what we want to represent to the community.”
He just wishes they’d kept their cotton-pickin mouths shut.
No, but this was my one attempt at not being cynical today.
Another example of what was NOT said …
being the most important —
What bare minimal knowledge of 20th C history could someone be missing to believe that “Hitler did nothing wrong”?
Not sure this enters into it at all.
An interview sometime in the future…“So, why did you leave your last job”…OMFG…
Firing them shouldn’t be the end of it.
Each and every case they were involved with should be RE-OPENED to see if they lied to put minorities and/or immigrants in prison.
If they didn’t think Hitler did anything wrong, how could they possibly think lying is wrong?
Costner described “racism as normal” and “not a bad thing” and expressed admiration for George Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party. Jones’ online profile on the gaming platform Steam included the motto, “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
This passes for intellectualism among racists. Having grown up in what was basically a “California or Bust” transplanted OK community in my youth and moving to Arizona when I was 17, I have heard these kind of comments all my life. I have always spoken out against them, but this stuff is generational. It is said as casually as comments about yesterday’s NFL games, and the people who repeat it are usually shocked when someone calls them on it.
In an age when we deal with 50 shades of assholery on a daily – hourly – basis, we need not to be too cynical all the time. (It is ultimately self-destructive, after all.)
I note that the sheriff did fire the jerks, for expressing raunchy opinions. But, as a baby step, we should keep an eye on him to see how he goes after this. Actions betray beliefs, and exist in patterns available for examination.
On this one, temporarily, and with open mind, I am going to trust and wait for verification.
Asking them “Why do you say that?” is almost more of an intellectual challenge than they can handle.
Growing up in a rural Midwest community that was culturally more Dixie than Yankee, I had a fella I worked with one summer who thought George Corley Wallace was IT. In our lunchtime conversation, I found he really didn’t know what Wallace stood for, other than being for US and against THEM. Being a little snot, I told him “Wallace says X.” and he agreed. Before we were done, this guy had agreed with every point in the Communist Manifesto that I could recall.
My father later chided me for dueling with an unarmed man.
The point is, they will agree with anything if you tell them their Hero said it first.
A rigorous screening before employment and a 90-day probationary period would help even more. Or did the Sheriff just hire whoever walked in the door?
Hiring good people shouldn’t be difficult. Getting rid of bad employees IS difficult and can be a nightmare.
Just as with worshippers of the Pumpkin Traitor, the knowledge is there, but is rejected as not fitting a racist worldview.