#nazi

“There’s a saying in Germany. If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.”

― Regina Jackson, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

1. If racists can have black friends but still not approve of black people, why must someone who associates with Nazis approve of Nazis? And if a racist has a black friend but hates black people, does the black person now become a racist who hates themselves?
   
2. If a white supremacist is friends with a black supremacist, does the white supremacist become a black supremacist, or does the black supremacist become a white supremacist? Do they both simultaneously hold these contradictory beliefs together?
   
3. Most people are connected to most other people on earth by some number of degrees of separation. If Person A is friends with Person B who is friends with Person C...up to Person Z who is a racist, would this recursively make everyone in the chain a racist? What if everyone in the chain is aware of all these connections or understands that after some number of connections, someone in their network is statistically certain to be a racist? Are people responsible for what friends of friends of friends do?
   
4. Does this property apply to ideologies like religion as well? Did being friends with a Christian make Christopher Hitchens a Christian himself?