When You Argue With a White Supremacist, You Can Never Be Right

Walter Rhein Podcast · Dec 31, 2025 · 7m

I recall being indoctrinated with the tactic of mockery. White supremacists can never be wrong. They can never look weak. They can never admit there’s something they didn’t know. If they’re caught by surprise, they immediately default to, “Well, that was impossible to predict. That was an act of God.”If anyone attempts to challenge them on this, they perceive it as a personal attack and respond with violence or mockery.My father was so good at mockery that he rarely had to resort to violence. Though violence, too, was part of his arsenal. He used his physicality to get my mother and me to do…