I will grant the modern progressives a singular credit in that they acknowledge differences between groups of people. That is the only point on which we agree. The difference is that I am willing to accept, and work within this reality. They are not. They want to beat humanity into a paste of equality with the bludgeon of pure political force. I don't believe equality exists, nor can it ever exist in nature. Trying to enforce it will only end in suffering. I'm quite willing to allow hierarchy. In fact I believe hierarchy to be inevitable and healthy for a human society.
It's also worth mentioning that there are plenty of people on their side who don't give a rat's ass about equality and are just opportunistically pushing their group's interests, which is completely understandable and expected from human nature. People are more loyal to their groups than they are to any abstract idea. Hence why I mentioned before, different groups cannot live together in peace.
Let's be honest, if different groups of people could coexist peacefully, history would have shown it to be the case. Humanity has been around for awhile now. I have yet to see a realistic example of that ever happening.
I think this is the fundamental difference between right and left (as much as those terms mean anything anymore): equality vs. hierarchy, borders vs. openness.
Race and nationality, up until very recently in human terms, were inextricably linked. There are of course many factors that can lead to people splitting and forming their own communities, but race is clearly a primary one. Historically, you can't make people of different ancestries live together peacefully for any length of time.
There appears to be a genetic threshold where two peoples are too different from each other and will self-segregate. This, eventually, will lead to them forming their own communities, and then nations.
This is human nature; it doesn't matter how much you try to 'educate' it out of people, at the end of the day, their genes will do the talking.
As for your second point, I don't think any group of people are 'bad'. Reality is much more complicated than that.
Remember, the EU is constantly striving towards an 'ever closer union'. From its inception it wanted to become a federal state, and it will if it can force its member states to go along with it.
As for Poland and Hungary, unfortunately they benefit greatly from the monetary kickbacks they get from the EU, since they get a lot more in benefits than they contribute. I don't think they'll be leaving anytime soon, even despite their politics.
Okay, well in that case I definitely don't agree with them that 'whitey is bad'.
I don't think national borders are a false comparison at all. What purpose do they serve other than to separate different groups of people who want to live differently? That's segregation, by its definition, if not by its politicised American historical definition.
Beatings will continue until morale improves?
I think you know that's a very reductionist interpretation of what I said, but I will address it.
I am not agreeing with the SJW's because they are useful idiot college kids who don't understand what they are advocating. Heck, if you can formulate a coherent argument from them I'd like to hear it, because all I hear is a bunch of slogans and half-formed ideas with a general undercurrent of 'whitey bad'. You should know by now that they're the footsoldiers of the establishment; they've never had an original idea in their lives.
As for segregation working? Well, that's what national borders are for, or used to be for in a saner age.
A lot of the imposter's comments remind me of the kind of heated, meaningless arguments I used to get into on gameFAQs back when I was like 14. I think they might just be a troll, as in the old fashioned kind of troll who just wants to get a rise out of people. I don't think they have anything genuine to say, they're just here to get their kicks riling people up.
No, what I am saying is that tribalism is intrinsic to human nature, and trying to get people to ignore it is akin to asking a fish to breathe air. A better idea for structuring society would be to understand the imperfect nature of man and work with it, rather than striving for an impossible utopian ideal.
I think you might find yourself standing against human nature itself, in that case.
I always found it odd that Toyota was one of the only manufacturers that moralised over how their vehicles were represented in games i.e. no street racing/police involvement allowed. I guess it's symptomatic of a deeper problem in the corporate structure; the whole 'company as a moral actor' idea that a lot of corporations seem to be adopting, at least in their marketing.
I've been thinking about this for awhile now. Is there a legitimate way to represent the working man's interests and/or protect him from his employer's bad behaviour without it devolving into a marxist entryism vehicle?
Do you have any examples of 'psi phenomena' experiments? I've never heard of this, it sounds interesting.
There's them pesky hate facts again.
It would be kind of funny if we didn't have to play host to this bizarre distant inter-ethnic conflict on our streets.
I assume you're referring to the gulf stream? What makes you think it's going to stop?
Well I'm speaking as someone who loves the sun. I always feel more energized and in a better mood when it's sunny outside.
I can attest that the weather is really mediocre here right now. I'm still having to wear a coat outside in May, which is unusual even by British standards.
It depends what you mean by 'supremacy', really; I think that's a hurdle many people trip up on (and it's probably been made intentionally ambiguous). Do I believe that white people are 'supreme' in terms of their IQ or physical ability or general human worth over other races? No, I don't. Do I believe that white people should be 'supreme' in countries which they built (as in they should maintain a supermajority of the population, and they should dictate the national character)? Yes, absolutely. I believe every race deserves that 'supremacy'.
I don't like to get into these IQ/physical ability/aesthetics contests with other races. I don't really care where white people rank on the totem pole. They're my people, and I would want to preserve them whether they were the dumbest or the most intelligent, as I would expect from any other race.
Methinks the author doth protest too much...
Absolutely not. I think a lot of the problems we are facing today are because of the commodification of everything, even things which used to be sacred, like religion, history and culture. I've heard modern America be compared to a vast, continent sized shopping mall where people can wander in and peruse at their leisure, purchasing or passing things up with no connection to anything, or each other. After all, what does it mean to be an 'American' anymore? There is no binding social force other than meaningless consumption.
Huh, I just watched that video. It was pretty moving to see the officer come to terms with what he had to do. Almost made him seem... human?
No wonder nobody's allowed to see it anymore.
In other news, the sky is blue.
I have heard second-hand that Coinbase has de-platformed certain spicy political commentators. Just something to bear in mind, although I use them myself.
This is something I've been thinking about for awhile. Is it possible to have a stable, long-term caste system in society that doesn't devolve into rebellion or war? I know in modern terms the fall of Rhodesia and South Africa were primarily caused by outside influences, but I'm talking in general.
Even if that happened it would take decades, if not a century or more, during which time China would cement its hold.