[El_Hombre_Grande]

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One of the things I love about poker is that (almost always) nobody cares who you are, where you come from, who your parents are or what you look like.

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Ah, but isn't that the point of this whole thread? This guy DOES care who you are, where you come from, who your parents are, and what you look like. And he openly announces that he'll hate you for it and wish you dead (and possibly make you dead) if you don't align properly on the above characteristics.

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Not to burst your rather egocentric bubble, but if you were to encounter the fellow in question he probably wouldn’t even notice you (much less give a hoot about your linage). That is unless you were to continually suck out on him big time. Then he might in fact, actually “wish you dead”.

Considering your “heightened sensitivity” you may be deserving of kudos for ever entering the public arena.

Basically, you own your emotional response. You don’t know the story of the guy with the tat. He may or may not be all that you attribute to him. Until you are certain, if you must hate, why not hate on what the symbol represents to you, not on the man.

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I guess for some, ignorance is bliss. You can choose to delude yourself into believing whatever you want about the possibly really nice guy with the swastika display tatooed on him. But placing a tatoo on your body isn't accidental, and displaying it isn't accidental either. Nor is not having it removed when the procedure is now painless and cheap. So being a realist I must assume that he wants to convey to me that message that that symbol has conveyed since the Holocaust. I wish I had your optimism, but I haven't had the occasion to meet any well intention, swastika displaying guys in my existence.