I have no doubt that a lot of the uber wealthy pieces of shit at the top are fully aware of these studies and have been using it to their advantage. Some of them may try and rationalize it somehow, but the result is the same. Marketing experts like Bernays were researching this stuff for his clients 100 years ago. There's no way it's not still happening today with the level of datamining we have available. Like a few years ago when Facebook admitted they had been researching how to alter a user's mood by manipulating what posts the person was shown.
My favorite is when accusations of secret pedo cabals within the establishment are dismissed as antisemitic. I guess all pedos are jews and all jews are pedos.
Doesn't matter. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Multiculturalism is the official State Religion. Do people stop being religious when they're presented with evidence their god doesn't exist?
As a Canadian, I am on board with multiculturalism, and I know from experience that it can and does work okay, as long as "diversity" isn't the goal in and of itself, and that there's a broader blanket culture over top of the multiculturalism that the other cultural groups can buy into and respect.
It used to be that Canada prided itself on being a multicultural mosaic and that every person brought their own unique aspects of culture to share. But above all else, they were CANADIANS first, and had pride in being Canadian. This Canadian pride was probably best captured by this old beer commercial that I can never imagine being made today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pASE_TgeVg8.
But now I'm seeing more and more of a push from the left that we need to hate or be ashamed of the canadian identity and break off into these segregated cultural enclaves, and everything is falling apart.
It also doesn't help that certain groups of immigrants to this country just inherently don't want to integrate with the parent culture (I'm sure you all know what group this tends to be....)
The point is, you need to foster a strong pride in a uniting culture in order for multiculturalism to thrive underneath, or else you just all break up into infighting groups.
All that sounds like you're just on board with nationalism. If there's a broader culture that supersedes the underlying subcultures in the case of a conflict of interests, it's not really multi cultural is it? It's just mono cultural with a wide degree of freedom.
Yes. But that doesn't mean that you can't still appreciate the different cultural backgrounds that people came from.
Actually, that reminds me of something. I have a vague memory of when I was a kid and having it explained to me that Americans tended to be more patriotic, while Canadians were more nationalist, and having the distinction between the two concepts be made.
Nowadays the word nationalist is a dirty word because it's been tied intrinsically to white nationalism, but I do support the concept of a strong and united nation.
I have no doubt that a lot of the uber wealthy pieces of shit at the top are fully aware of these studies and have been using it to their advantage. Some of them may try and rationalize it somehow, but the result is the same. Marketing experts like Bernays were researching this stuff for his clients 100 years ago. There's no way it's not still happening today with the level of datamining we have available. Like a few years ago when Facebook admitted they had been researching how to alter a user's mood by manipulating what posts the person was shown.
The .win site has now been shut down on charges of antisemitism.
My favorite is when accusations of secret pedo cabals within the establishment are dismissed as antisemitic. I guess all pedos are jews and all jews are pedos.
the Talmud has some words about that
Well, you have to stop the bleeding somehow.
Doesn't matter. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Multiculturalism is the official State Religion. Do people stop being religious when they're presented with evidence their god doesn't exist?
As a Canadian, I am on board with multiculturalism, and I know from experience that it can and does work okay, as long as "diversity" isn't the goal in and of itself, and that there's a broader blanket culture over top of the multiculturalism that the other cultural groups can buy into and respect.
It used to be that Canada prided itself on being a multicultural mosaic and that every person brought their own unique aspects of culture to share. But above all else, they were CANADIANS first, and had pride in being Canadian. This Canadian pride was probably best captured by this old beer commercial that I can never imagine being made today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pASE_TgeVg8.
But now I'm seeing more and more of a push from the left that we need to hate or be ashamed of the canadian identity and break off into these segregated cultural enclaves, and everything is falling apart.
It also doesn't help that certain groups of immigrants to this country just inherently don't want to integrate with the parent culture (I'm sure you all know what group this tends to be....)
The point is, you need to foster a strong pride in a uniting culture in order for multiculturalism to thrive underneath, or else you just all break up into infighting groups.
All that sounds like you're just on board with nationalism. If there's a broader culture that supersedes the underlying subcultures in the case of a conflict of interests, it's not really multi cultural is it? It's just mono cultural with a wide degree of freedom.
Yes. But that doesn't mean that you can't still appreciate the different cultural backgrounds that people came from.
Actually, that reminds me of something. I have a vague memory of when I was a kid and having it explained to me that Americans tended to be more patriotic, while Canadians were more nationalist, and having the distinction between the two concepts be made.
Nowadays the word nationalist is a dirty word because it's been tied intrinsically to white nationalism, but I do support the concept of a strong and united nation.