Is Sam doing enough to distance himself from legitimate bigots?

It's not that I'm mortified. It's that I can't figure out why legitmate racists stick around if they should know Sam isn't on their side. It's just intriguing to me that someone who makes such an explicit effort to be charitable and nuanced as Sam does seems to attract some of these asshole in droves. Why haven't they dismissed him as a cuck or zionest what have you? What keeps these types energized and in engaged in Sam following?

See, it depends who we mean by "racists". There are mean-spirited, closed-minded tribalists and bullies who do (((this thing))) a lot, and call everyone "cucks". Then there are idiot-savant types who can't "get with the program" and keep being persuaded by things polite people are taught to rationalise away, and unpersuaded by things polite people are taught to find conclusive, and end up believing 'controversial' things.

The former type will hopefully never be welcome here, and do (I would imagine) call Sam a cuck and zionist. The latter see Sam, rightly or wrongly, as a kindred spirit, even if his 'controversial' views aren't the same as theirs.

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