Mentalist said:
It may deal with cultures to an extent but it also makes presumptions based on colour which is a fallacy and basically piss poor logic. So you're right that when dealing with individuals taking these racial sterotypes to heart in how you react to said person is nothing but narrow sighted and stupid. The problem arises when you lump everyone together into a culture. Afterall, a culture is made up of individuals.
Yes, it is -- but it's made up of individuals who share a language -- you couldn't have a culture without that, because those individuals wouldn't be able to communicate with each other otherwise. It's made up of individuals who, very often share some measure of their ancestry -- that measure is falling, of course, due to global travel and migration, but it is still there. It's made up of individuals who share certain beliefs and attitudes -- you couldn't have a culture without that, because those individuals wouldn't be
willing to communicate with each other otherwise. These shared beliefs and attitudes influence the way those individuals will behave, toward fellow members of their culture and toward outsiders. It is most often how individuals behave toward outsiders, based on the shared beliefs of their culture, that creates racist stereotypes. And although individuals can adhere to the shared beliefs of their culture to a lesser degree or a greater, those cultural commonalities are not fiction -- they're not figments in the imaginations of those who dislike or hate them.
Well yes, Sunnis are as a whole bastards. But a lot of people will not or cannot make the distinction between A sunni in Iraq and a muslim student living down the road. This is something that has to be brought out into the open. Saying that blacks act in an uncivilized way in one instance and then having whites lynch American/British muslims over September 11th because they are angry and feeling righteous is just flat out wrong and decidely aniamalistic and stupid.
Both are examples of the fallacy I already identified -- but it is
also a fallacy to judge that because a thing can be misapplied, it cannot be
correctly applied.
I am not convinced that the ANP has made a disitinction between mistrust where it is validly logical to place it or just placing there own culture of hate apon an entire race/s.
Then, as I pointed out before, it behooves you to examine their rhetoric, and come to an informed conclusion.
It seems like this is not happening though. Clerics are getting deported and sometimes held under the terroism act for spouting their hate filled rhetoric at mosques and such.
If their rhetoric isn't causing a demonstrable and direct material harm to anyone, then such a practice is wrong.
I actually totally agree that these people should be dealt with but it can produce a double standard. The ANP marching against black behaviour is a fine line, they are not marching against a culture of violence and behaviour perpertrated by all people they are focusing on a race.
That's not entirely true -- they were specifically protesting police ineptitude in dealing with gang violence.
White supremacy is a dangerous thing. People are people and they deserve to be judged on there own merits not on what racial society they are from.
That's true -- and if Black racists and racists within other minorities held such an enlightened view,
only fools would defend white racism. Unfortunately, it's simply not that way.
Fair point. I do not claim to know the ANP's minutia of their ideology but I can take an educated guess. We live in multicultrual nations and segregation just isn't the way.
There are many prominent minority figures who disagree with you, actually.
Nazis believe that whites are superior. I am white through and through but I take precedence with this. There are swaths of white unevolved fucktards that cause huge amounts of trouble,
I can describe two varieties off the top of my head -- whites who emulate black gang member culture (otherwise known as "whiggers") and the sort of rebelling idiots who take up racism without understanding
at all the justifications for it.
if they are not just exclusively singling out blacks as a problem then they need to make that clearer because I do not believe for a second that they make a point of making it clear to people that they see the disticntion or enforce it or look down on such view points within there members, quite the opposite.
But what are you basing that conclusion on? Have you examined
any of their doctrine? Or are you passing judgement based only on the word "Nazi" and the associated hyperbole surrounding it?
Perhaps, but can you tell me that they dont feed into racial profiling at all? If black communities can't behave themselves in civilised ways then I agree that we should make a point to stop them from their illegal behaviour but its when we paint everyone with the same brush.
Precisely as I've said.
the ANP are not a very positive force, there are a lot of things to fight for in a better society and I think contingents of whites marching exclusivley against black communities rioting is dangerous and misguided.
I don't agree -- racism for non-whites is accepted, sometimes encouraged. In the interests of fairness alone, white racists should be painted with no more negative a brush than black racists, hispanic racists, Jewish racists, Asian racists, Arabic racists, or any other variety.
Perhaps marching against types of people that commit these acts, against murders rapists pedophiles. Inhumanity and anaimalistic behaviour is a human condition not a racial one.
Except that those persons do tend to fall into distinctive racial categories.
As a final point I will go so far as to say that I dont personally buy into the propoganda against all the Nazis in WWII. I read the memoirs of Karl Doenitz the grand admiral of the Kriegsmarine. A Nazi, yes, but an amazing man and along with the entire Kreigsmarine especially were incredibly brave men who were not nessicarily facists whatsoever. Hitler, Himler ect were facists. The Nazi ideals are, while including many a good idea and is not exclusivley an ideology of hate does perpertrate and take a supreme right handed fist to people in its way. It also made NO personal distinctions between people and race and has to be taken account for its crimes. The regime was facist and the ANP taking on the Nazi name will have to deal with the history of a name they live and march under.
And in my opinion, they acquitted themselves admirably. They committed no crimes, inflicted no harm on anyone -- as a matter of fact, they weren't even permitted to hold their march, as is their First Amendment right under Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly clauses. They could have protested that with absolute justification, but they didn't. They chose to comply with the police, and allowed themselves to be escorted out of the area -- this was
before the gang members who did the rioting arrived, mind you. They didn't flee -- they obeyed the law, to the letter and to the last.
And yes, there are men to be admired from the Wehrmacht -- I consider Erwin Rommel, the "Desert Fox" to have been quite a heroic figure, and a genius tactician.