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See I feel like I have a ready counterexample in West Virginia, where, ironically, I have met the most people from the "alt-right" and the most Trump supporters. I have never met even one nonwhite person from West Virginia, and in parts of the state it can be assumed that minorities simply do not exist. West Virginia is also #49 when we sort states by average income level.
West Virginia is a flagrant fuck you to classical racism, I think, and that's why we can have people like Mozz who have racially motivated opinions and racially motivated data, but reject the notion that certain races give any kind of inherent biological advantage as well as the idea that it's okay to discriminate based on race. Because when white people were literally just handed a state, it basically became the joke of the Union. Even worse than KY! (KY is only 90% white though, so if you were a racist, you could point to that being why people don't think Kentucky is as inbred as West Virginia is.) Mississippi, #50 on the list of per capita income and average income, turned out to be a sizeable fuck you to MODERN "racism" and the alt-right though, as despite its massive population of black people, it has a lower violent crime rate than the 95% white WV. I think what we should be focusing on instead is the mass disenfranchisement of around a million black people under the Obama administration. That sounds like something that the anti-racism squad should pay a little more attention to. A bunch of guys who post frogs on Twitter and rally behind Trump because he's white seem somehow less important in context.
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1. The current alt-right term is credited to Richard "I got punched on live TV while talking about my dank Pepe meme pin" Spencer, known racist fucktard who advocates for, amongst other things, "peaceful" ethnic cleansing. 2. That I wasn't joking about the branding thing: guys like Spencer and Vox Day (who Mozz linked) bristle at being called Neo-Nazis despite walking like a Nazi duck, making noise like a etc. etc. etc. They know that when the average American hears the term "racist," their mind almost always drifts to either the KKK or the Nazis: the modern day Klan is an impotent punchline, and the Nazis in living memory committed crimes so heinous that pretty much everything semi-related to their ideology became radioactive by association. Like "race realism" or "human biodiversity", redefining themselves as simply another inoffensive interest bloc on the right is a ploy to parade around the same old shit with a new coat of paint and get their claws sunk into political legitimacy before anyone gets wise. 3. Not everyone on the alt-right is necessarily racist, because there's enough regressive/misogynistic bullshit in the overall worldview to ensure some overlap with the Gamergate/MRA crowd (the fact that the "feminists/progressives lecture you on your so-called privilege when you're a white/male/both nobody in Bumfuck County Flover State" narrative is basically interchangeable between the groups helps quite a bit). There's even some pushback from guys who want to be in the movement for the street cred, but realize that talking about how the white race is under siege from the foreign hordes is not good optics for selling juice recipe books in between Twitter rants about how the government is trying to hide the secrets of your super semen from the masses. Maybe this will eventually change, but I suspect that guys like Richard "I ran so fast from the guy that punched me that my Kenyan ancestors would be proud" Spencer are happy to indulge this for now because it gives them an additional fig leaf while they try to worm their way into normal discourse. Until then, if someone brings up that they're alt-right your best case scenario is that they're going to give you some bizarre theory about how women are responsible for peak oil, and go down the rabbit hole from there. Quote:
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Whether you are correct or incorrect to hold such views, that's the bitter debate. But by definition, you are racist if you believe there is a difference between a person who has life history / life characteristics A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and K but also happens to be white and one who has A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, and K but also happens to be black. (For example, "my parents cloned me and then genetically engineered Clone Me in utero to have black skin and green eyes instead of my natural white skin and blue eyes. Consequently, Clone Me is slightly better than Me Me at basketball.") Quote:
For one, are you sure you're not confusing race with culture and ethnicity? I imagine your problem is with poor urban black Americans, not with rich suburban black Americans or mid-poor urban black Britons. Also, whatever problems you have with that demographic, I believe you'll rediscover them with quite Caucasian ghetto dwellers in Eastern European countries. For a second, would you say that any country which is majority genetic hybrids (e.g. Mexico = Spain + Aztec, Iraq = Arabia + Persia, Japan = SinoKorea + Ainu) would objectively be better off today in the year 2017 had they never been hybridized genetically? (Ignoring the setbacks of conquest and of war, particularly since the invaders often bring with them a technological superiority that could be argued to advance the region as much as nation state destruction can be argued to set it back.) For a third, what is your personally held view on children from mixed race pairings? For example, do you believe that a half-Japanese half-English child is a) superior to, b) inferior to, or c) possesses the same potential as a full English child? ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ UPN hasn't historically been kind to avowed racists. I personally am pretty deeply anti-racism, at least in theory if not always in practice. (I suspect I can be a little Sandra Bullock at times ...) But one of my best UPN friends is also famously (or I guess was famously ... most people here hardly know him besides a name now ...) someone who believes in intrinsic differences between the races, e.g. in the maximum achievable intelligence of different races. Does that make him a "racist"? Yes, absolutely. But is he hateful with it or does he want to kill, burn, maim, torture, or scare away people of races he holds to be genetically inferior to his own? I'm pretty fucking sure he doesn't. One of the nicest members we've had and is/was generally well-loved by the community. And so in that sense, he can hardly be called a "racist" at all. "Racism" means different things to different people and in different contexts.
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Lot of text here. Just replying to confirm I did read it all and that ... two things:
1. I don't like to load so-called "watchlist websites" when I am not for their content. Can be neutral, can be against: so long as I'm not for it, don't like to load it. The moment you made it clear what sort of site that was, I opted not to click Mozz's link. This has the unfortunate consequence of keeping me in the dark, but that's where trust in people like you factors in. 2. When I said "judge him by what he says," I wasn't precluding the site he listed nor was I vetting him. I was just saying, "Guys, don't judge him for labeling himself as ___." (For the reasons outlined.) By all means, judge away if he links to any militant, cult, or otherwise extremist websites. But even then, with No.2 I would say you should take a step back and examine the situation calmly and clearly. For example, if someone posts a link to The Young Turks on here, you might be inclined to judge them a certain way. But I think you'd agree there's a world of difference between:
I'd extend the same courtesy to Mozz. I had never heard of that site before. When I saw your post, I felt like I had dodged a bullet and I chose not to click on it. Maybe Mozz felt similarly. Maybe Mozz felt like he'd gotten hit by a bullet. Maybe he didn't realize that what he'd linked to was a far-right outlet. Maybe he doesn't regularly visit the site. Maybe he bookmarked that specific article because ... ... Well, forget it. You already made it clear in several posts that the article in question contains some rather indefensible white supremacist remarks. Soo ... yeah. I dunno.
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If you recognize that this doesn't actually match any sort of observable, historical, or genetic reality, you're smarter than most of the posters on /pol/. It also--by what I must assume is merely complete and utter coincidence--allows its adherents to sidestep the awkward discovery that everyone outside of Africa carries some small amount of Neanderthal genes, meaning that Africans are the most "pure" humans by default.
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If this is really the latest face of white supremacist groups, then it's pretty clear that it's the last cries of a dying beast. We're rapidly progressing towards a world state. We're also rapidly progressing towards something approximating the aforementioned Überman. (Maybe not crafted the way the Nazis intended, but there's no way in Hell that a humanity which makes it to the 22nd century is going to still be dealing with any simple genetic diseases. Gattaca is around the corner, whether people like it or not.) These people paying lip service to races they privately look down upon, and then saying, "But the important thing is that we keep our nations ethnically rich and pure, y'know?" ... lol yeah no, that's not gonna happen. This is neo-Nazis freaking out that Germany is becoming Turkified. This is neo-Nazis freaking out that Britain is becoming de-Anglicized. This is neo-Nazis freaking out at the prospect of American mutts no longer being able to simply say "Well I know I'm European " and being a true mix of European, African, and Asian races. I haven't delved deep into the literature, but isn't this a little incorrect? My understanding was that they had found that continental Europeans had Neanderthal ancestry and that, in the same paragraph, Indonesians and other Asia-Pacific islanders had some pygmy ancestry. (I forget the Homo name for the pygmy, but it was a hominid averaging around 1 meter in height. Locals have apparently long mistaken the adult skeletons for those of Homo sapiens children.) That the Indonesians don't have any Neanderthal, not that Neanderthal is in literally every living civilization.
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I am exceedingly confused in what universe I would be giving Mozz the benefit of the doubt, given that approximately 90% of our discourse in this thread has been him popping in to say that I'm Indian and have no business commenting(see: dogwhistle politics), clearly ignoring sources I post, and baiting really, really hard. I am even more confused as to why you think anyone else would be giving Mozz the benefit of the doubt either because if you really think he's a respected pillar of this community I don't know what to tell you. Mozz is the complete other hemisphere from "seeming nice and being generally polite and articulate", and at this point this is barely a personal attack, these are just facts. He could be in real life. He does not appear so on this forum.
But anyway, I have nothing more to say to him, not after he posted that link as a "defence" of the alt-right community and admitted to being a white supremacist in consecutive posts. I invoke Racist Tree privileges on that one. On the other hand, I do want to say holy fucking thanks Blastoise. Now, let's see what happened in the last few hours... 1) Trump threatened to "send in the feds" to Chicago. 2) Trump signed executive orders to continue the Dakota and Keystone XL pipelines. 3)Trump puts a gag order on the EPA and then orders them to delete their climate change page. Oh, and do remember...he most likely owns a shitton of stock in oil. Now look at the pipeline and then back at this. 4) He prepares to sign orders to prevent immigrants from "muslim countries" coming in. 5) He prepares to sign orders starting the wall. ...I think this very haunting 1922 article about Hitler by NYT should be read. History repeats itself.
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In a change of topics (I'm sorry I missed the discussion above), Trump enacted the promised federal hiring freeze (good), left military recruitment intact (good) but reneged on his promise to let HHS go unfrozen (bad).
In the community I work in, I find it hard if not impossible to accept Talon's Gattaca claim. There's far more holding the horrific genetic diseases in place than merely genetics alone. Poverty, culture and logistics being the three big ones.
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2) The Spanish blood certainly made the natives stock rise. Oddly enough, many, if not most Mexican elites look more like pale Europeans than natives. I do not know enough about the others. 3) Half Japanese/Half English would probably have a slightly higher mean intelligence than a full English child, maybe a few points, on average? I believe in intrinsic differences, I do not wish anyone harm, I do believe countries work best when they are grouped by ancestry, and I subscribe to the notion that Diversity + Proximity = War.
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One of the two races shown in the picture here tried to drive the other one to complete extinction. After a little while you might have been able to puzzle out the Hutus from the Tutsis, especially if you knew that Tutsis were taller and paler than Hutus or that the Tutsis are the top 6 and the Hutus are the bottom 6. But the point remains that from the outside, it's hard to tell much difference at all. And these people HATED each other. We're going way past what the KKK was all about, way past even what Hitler believed. Hutus and Tutsis spoke the same language with no distinctive differences, lived in the same places, and had only minor physical/racial differences (nose shape and skin shade? please). And yet, they hated each others' guts. Before black people were considered people in America, WASPs were being dicks to Paddies. To Scots. To Germans. To Poles. To other WASPs (who were poorer and from poorer areas of England). Technically, you need diversity and proximity for conflict. Technically. But really you just need proximity. Humans will come up with the diversity themselves if you give them a little time. EDIT: Grouping countries by ancestry is a Too Late situation. I think Africa would be a lot more peaceful if white dudes hadn't drawn all over the continent in Sharpie, but I don't think there's anything we can do about it because the politics of the region have grown around the wounds that were inflicted on it. Also, the notion of sorting America by ancestry would involve a lot of complicated shuffling as native populations lay claim to various ancestral lands and the stuffing of 20 million white people into various sanctioned areas. You don't want that headache. |
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Shuckle makes an important point here. I didn't intend on jumping into this discussion, but I'm going to reiterate it because I know a handful of people have him blocked and therefore won't see it.
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01-25-2017, 08:29 AM | #3363 |
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From Mozz's post it seems pretty clear to me he's more concerned with culture than race per se. Which makes sense.
One of my old professors in college wrote a book about economic improvement in Britain. What happened was that the nobility would have multiple children, and only the first successor would inherit the estate. The second-third sons were forced into the lower classes but brought their high culture down with them, which bettered the community for peasants. Incidentally, that book is this one so read it if you doubt my words. The problem with "brain drain" like only selecting college-educated immigrants to enter the US is if you steal the smartest people from a community habitually, or steal all the young ones, the community that remains festers and becomes a problem. Letting dumb, poor ones into your country might be better overall than letting the stupidity/poverty concentrate into an undesirable entity.
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Let's say that the United States takes all the smart, educated, rich people out of Mexico and the only ones left are the poor and uneducated. Mexico then has to orient its economy toward exporting narcotics because they can't make anything else of value, and any smart person who does emerge from that pool immediately leaves for the United States. Wouldn't you agree that this is a terrible country to be bordering? It's basically a giant parasite that you are geographically incapable of removing. Whatever benefits the US gets from brain draining Mexico has diminishing returns at a certain point, while the effect negatively compounds for Mexico when all their leadership and industry have fled the country. While I don't care for illegal immigrants, the children of illegal immigrants are American citizens and are no longer capable of subverting the American economy in the same way their parents could. That wage-defying system collapses if there is no longer a free flow of illegal labour from Mexico, which can happen if you prevent that flow completely from Mexico or make Mexico a more desirable place to live. I live near the Canadian border and there is no threat of illegal Canadians coming here to take away the garbage jobs from Minnesotans. Yet, the region reeks of 1950's era racism and especially xenophobia.
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That's one of a few basic premises behind Trump sealing off the southern border.
Basically, it's in our nation's best interest to cut off a.) the undesirable things flowing from the southern border, like brown people if you want to be silly and drugs/weapons/crime if you want to be serious and b.) the desirable things flowing into Mexico, like jobs, money, and drugs/weapons. Isolationism is both good and bad for Mexico, though, and in this case I would say that Trump is right. I think I've talked here about the sad state of Mexico? A few times? The blunt truth, which Dopple touched on but did not fully illuminate, is that Mexico suffers from being attached to America's hip. I'm still a little shocked that Mexico hasn't taken the American offer to build a big ol' wall across the border, but that's probably because Trump promised to make Mexico pay for it and Mexico cannot afford it. When Trump backs down on that point and offers to have America pay for the wall, Mexico will readily agree and will probably take steps to assist. In other, similar cases, (the most radical and obvious example being East Germany), it was not the "Americans" building a wall, it was the "Mexicans." Mexico's government makes American corruption look like the show Recess! and Donald Trump look like someone who's never even heard of fascism, its gun crime rate is triple America's despite its gun control being a thousand times as strong, and its economy is bulimic in that everything that comes into Mexico goes right back out into America. I just want to hold Mexico and give it a big hug and tell it that everything is okay But it has to get worse before it gets better. There are SO many basic infrastructure issues that need to be fixed, and Mexican government is not going to fix them anytime soon, and there is nothing America can do directly to pressure it into fixing them. Sad!
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VGM you should really pick up Youjo Senki this season so we can discuss if it's actually fascist or not.
What face would you make, I wonder?
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Diet fascism with just the barebones principles intact and sans the fatty and unhealthy violent suppression and tyranny... is still a form of fascism
You don't just up and become a tyrannical authoritarian regime overnight, that would be ludicrous. It is the job of the citizens to act as watchdogs and call out the red flags when they are raised. ...regardless the aforementioned anime looks interesting enough to warrant an episode or two of my time, I suppose |
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"Depending on the results [of the investigation], we will strengthen up voting procedures!"
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Democrats typically want very loose voting standards.
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"Very loose standards" doesn't really apply to stuff like mandatory voting or what not.
I'm okay with some things on principle and paper only, like requiring a photo ID to vote, but its often done in tandem with other ridiculous dumb things, like closing down DMVs that make it much harder for people to go and get a Photo ID. If you want people to carry around a photo ID in order to vote, you, in fact, have to make it easy to get one! That way you aren't suppressing any voter populations. EDIT: In other news, at least four journalists, possible six (two of them may have had different charges) have been charged for rioting after covering the protests and unrest at Trump's inauguration. (Source)
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I seriously never thought I'd think Mike Pence would be an appealing alternative but it's starting to feel like it.
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I strongly disagree with Mozz on the idea of "intrinsic differences" (and variation on the individual level certainly outweighs any such differences in average between races or genders enough to make them negligible) but it does raise the question of why a predominantly white America is a substantially different idea from those of a two-state solution to Palestine/Israel or an independent Kurdistan made from Kurdish majority areas of Iraq/Syria/Turkey - proposals which routinely see support from liberal leaning activists. That too is national separation on the basis of ethnic and cultural groupings.
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