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18th May 2022, 07:19 AM | #241 |
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I miss the days when all evil wasn't defended with a bland, glib, meaningless appeal to some truism.
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18th May 2022, 07:22 AM | #243 |
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If you have Heard of the Amero you know where this corrent Racist division started!
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Yes, it's definitely a real problem for white supremacists that not that many white people subscribe to their insane racial purity anxieties and are perfectly happy to comingle, genetically and socially, with non-whites.
I don't see how they can overcome this without authoritarian state power. |
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18th May 2022, 07:34 AM | #251 |
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Being a white American Male myself, I must say I'm quite fond of many aspects of our culture. But the people who worry most about "replacement" seem to want to return us to a fictitiously sanitized version of the unjust, intolerant society we ourselves replaced. Laws and proposals for the censoring of libraries, the corruption of science, the reversal of enlightened attitudes on sexual practices and reproductive rights, the abolition of environmental protection, voter suppression, even interracial marriage, on and on....the rhetoric of violence and hatred and venom and outright racism gathered under the head of the "culture war:" that's not aimed at the immigrants. It's aimed at ourselves. Of course those hordes of fertile immigrants are a part of the problem, because they seek opportunity, freedom and democracy, and those are the very things our replacement fear-mongers are trying to crush.
The replacement theory is a struggle of the worst elements of a culture against its own evolution. If immigrants pose a threat to that, good. It can't come too soon. |
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18th May 2022, 07:48 AM | #253 |
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Most of us don't give one single tiny crap if other people have the same melanin content as us.
"White" isn't part of my identity anymore than my blood type is. |
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Because, at the end of the day, it isn't really the race that anyone really wants to preserve or defend. Race, after all, is a pretty meaningless concept, a few trivial physical differences that convey no advantages or superiority to anyone. Instead, what people want to preserve is the privileged position their race bestows upon them in societies that historically have favored them. There's also an element that, disappointed with their lot in life but unwilling to accept their own responsibility for it, blame others for preventing them from achieving the success they feel they deserve.
The dynamic these days seems to be that the first group -- the historically privileged -- are afraid they're going to get knocked off their perch if the playing field ever gets leveled, so they pander to the second group -- those who haven't been able to make it in life -- by telling them it's all the fault of the other guys coming here and taking away what should rightfully be yours. Thus you have two groups that at face value have little in common -- the haves and the have nots -- allied against a common enemy based on race. Shake well and presto! you got things like "replacement theory." Bad enough on its own, but when the less tightly wrapped take it too seriously and start shooting up places, it becomes a lot less funny. |
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Interestingly, many blacks (and other non-whites)) feel differently. For example: Most black adults say race is central to their identity and feel connected to a broader black community https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...ack-community/ Some would say this is because whites are being conditioned to not care about their race, or even to feel shame about it. I imagine this is touched on in "Replacement Theory". |
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I'm not explaining the difference to you.
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18th May 2022, 08:06 AM | #257 |
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The only race I am aware of is Homo Saipan, are we talking about Replacing them with Lizard People, You know GwB was going tobuild the Trans American Hwy so he could Replace all the Democratic Pro Choice voters with Latino Pro Life Voters right?
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I would suppose if one's race has a history of segregation, bias, unfair treatment, housing discrimination, and if your parents have to tell you as a kid how to avoid being shot down by the cops for no reason, etc. etc. maybe it's no surprise that for you, race is more important than it is for those who need never think about it.
Of course in the newly bleached America some are promoting, it should be impermissible to talk about those things. How dare a minority think like a minority? Getting back to the original question of what merits might lie in "replacement theory," I am thinking there is a pretty simple solution, and it is this. I propose that any theory or scheme or vision in which the question of interracial marriage is on the table as anything but an affront to humanity that should be avoided at all costs...that theory is automatically disqualified. |
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No he will not because his entire persona collapses if he does.
Right now THE overreaching narrative across all the... well evil ideas is this weird trifecta of: - You're being intolerant of my intolerance - Deep inside you're really just as (insert evil) here as me, but I'm better than you because I admit it. - You need to be punished for pretending to have actual standards. |
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We're all wise to this trick.
Nobody is actually buying all this screeching about "fairness" from the side that spent 8 years telling everyone to "Suck it up snowflake." |
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18th May 2022, 08:30 AM | #264 |
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You of course "know" that "Whites" not hysterically concerned about ""non-Whites" replacing them are "self loathing". And the nonsense about demanding the "dilution" and "eradication" of the "White" "Race" is pure agit-prop. I will merely note that during the Civil Rights movement of the 60's there were plenty of hysterics convinced the movement was going to lead to the "eradication" and "dilution" of the "white" "Race". And of course this hysteria had been going on for quite sometime with all sorts of idiots for quite sometime concerned about the "White" "Race" being destroyed diluted etc., by the "Other", i.e., "Non-White". You see in much of the 19th century so many so-called "White" persons were convinced that the "Inferior" "Non-Whites" would disapear from contact with the "Superior" "White" "Race", a possibility that filled so many "White" idiots with happiness and glee. When it turned out that that would not happen you started hearing, begining in the late 19th century, hysteria about the "Yellow Peril", misgenation etc., etc. Why? Well because "Non-Whites" were not disapearing like they "should", and were now demmed, because they continued to exist, has threatening to replace the "White" "Race". And so the replacment hysteria continues to this day. After the Civil War so many "White" idiots believed that without the "kind" hand of slavery American Blacks would die out and the prospect filled them with joy and right until the 1920s many idiots held on to this belief. Sadly for these idiots it wasn't happening. They were deluded morons. For over a century those among "White" people who don't get hysterical about the threat of the "other" i.e., "non-White" have been accused of self loathing, and "practically demanding" the eradication / destruction of the "White" "Race". And of course these hysterical idiots did with fondness remember the good old days of slavery etc. As for a "White" "Race" aside from the fact that biologically the concept of "Race" has applied to Humans is highly dubious there is the issue of what happens when it is applied. It seems to be more a social catagory than anything else. If "Race" is in fact used has a concept it generally is restricted to classifying into 4 "Races": Caucasoid - which includes the peoples of North Africa, Iran, Arabia, most of India, Europe. So guess what most Muslims are "White" whatever the hell that means. Negroid - the people of sub Saharan Africa. Mongoloid - The peoples of East Asia. Australoid - Australian Aporigines and related peoples in Asia / Pacific. Of course the boundaries between the groups are to put it mildly very, very fuzzy aside from the whole concept even on a large general scale breaks down quite easily. Attempts to create make smaller sub-divisions into "Races" create so many problems of classification that they basically self destruct on their own absurdity and self contradiction. It is intersting to note the following. A), Humans are not genetically very diverse certainly combared to other primates or most other animals. In fact we seem to be inbred to a degrtee. B) In terms of what genetic diversity exists among Humans there is much more genetic diversity among sub Saharan Africans than there is among those humans outside of Africa. C) Australian Aborigines look a lot like sub-sharan Africans but are more closely related, genetically to Europeans. Why? Well because they originated from the same population that left Africa has Europeans. D) Humans groups can and do look very different from each other but on a genetic level the differences are tiny. And if you view "Racial" catagories has simply a shorthand for over all Cultural groups then the marriage of "American Blacks" to people of "White" European descent should not be a problem. |
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Wow. I mean, the other thread was startling in its unabashed and naked racism. I thought we'd plumbed depths as far as we possibly could there (as far as the subject itself --- haven't actually had time to read that thread yet, beyond just going through the OP and posting a response to it). And now this. I mean, this ...is something else altogether. Coming right after that weirdo ran amok, I mean to say. Interesting ...I guess? It's lots of other things as well, but let me not list the adjectives that readily come to mind. Sure, let's discuss this, why not indeed. Let's explore the nuances of scumbaggery, absolutely. I've added this to my subscription list --- in any case, posting here would've directly done that too --- and I'll come back later on and give it a read. The other one as well. At least until the barf reflex gets too overpowering. |
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I am still waiting for someone here to explain to me how un-naturalized, often illegal, immigrants are going to swarm ballot boxes across America and sweep the Democrats to power.
Substance, please. Dope Clock II: It's been 328 days since Bobby Menard announced plans to create "Artists Valley". So far all he has done is lie through his teeth. |
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Again the troll narrative they have to pretend makes sense is:
"We need to be politically protected from the fact that we've been in open warfare with minority demographics for decades and if you don't agree that's nothing but a partisan position" which is functionally insane but the level we are at. It is nothing but "Brown people don't like us because we call them all rapists and murders, so therefore they shouldn't get to vote." |
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Oh, please. Hardly a swarm. A few municipalities in Maryland, one in Vermont, New York City, and San Francisco hardly warrant all the replacement theory fear mongering.
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If a few ultra left communities letting non-citizens vote for the town council and the school board is a movement then that rabbit dropping in my back yard is an indication that a herd of cows are coming through next week.
I could be wrong about this but I think every state legislature has the authority to stop this sort of thing. So y'all need to get busy before you get "replaced" by the local school board chair. ---------- Dope Clock II: It's been 328 days since Bobby Menard announced plans to create "Artists Valley". So far all he has done is lie through his teeth. |
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While a agree that the whole replacement theory is racist, it doesn't help that over the last 20 years or so Dems and progressives have been celebrating the coming minority majority thing as though its a good thing. At most its a neutral thing. Talk as though its a good thing that whites will be a minority and some whites are going to think you don't like them so much. There's also the tendency of elites to gloss over the downside of immigration and diversity and act like anyone who doesn't is a racist.
Reminds of a line about holocaust deniers I once heard, They all say it didn't happen but they sound like they wish it had. Lots for progressive say replacement theory is a racist conspiracy theory(which it is) but they also often sound like they wish it were actually happening. |
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Yeah, I was kind of blown away by that rhetoric. Then I saw some videos, for example, where college students were talking about being ashamed of being white and such nonsense. It seems like everywhere you turn, there is some variation of white guilt being promoted. There is no doubt that white males in particular take a lot of heat these days; even in this forum I have seen it lobbed around as a means of invalidating opinions. I can imagine that sort of thing makes a lot of people promote white solidarity. Which is also criticized as a bad thing, of course. |
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I think a bigot just outed themselves..as they always do.
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SOme the replacement theorst are going to have their heads exploding when Captain America 4 comes out.........
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