"Alt-right" Parading Ignorance, Stupidity, Malice, Etc.

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Re: "Alt-right" Parading Ignorance, Stupidity, Malice, Etc.

Post by mistermack » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:53 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Seabass wrote:Argumentum ad rectum...
ad rectum? surely you mean ab ano, you mean the origin rather than the target, right?
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Post by Svartalf » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:55 pm

given that you seem to be spewing it from every possible orifice, you must know what it's all about
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Post by JimC » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:56 pm

mistermack wrote:Racism is a natural instinct. Just because you choose to suppress it, doesn't make you a non racist.
We're all racists.
You can act straight all your life, but if you fancy the same sex, you're still gay.
Same with racism.
There's nothing wrong with being born gay, and there's nothing wrong with being born racist.
In any case, there is no right or wrong. All there is is the current consensus. Or rather, the consensus of those who have the power to control the indoctrination of the masses.

Since race is an abstract fluid grey area, not a scientific black and white, the racist instinct behaves differently in every individual.

Most of the people on this site who argue against racism hold that view because they've been indoctrinated in a certain way. By the continual drip drip that you were fed at school, and are now being fed by the media. If you'd been born in Germany 100 years ago, you would be far more racist. That's just a fact. If you really can kid yourself that you would not have been racist, you're just a self-made idiot.

Not all people in Nazi Germany acted racist, but then again, not all had the same upbringing.
In any case, when things are going well, it's fairly natural to say, "live and let live".
But when things are going badly, really badly, then the true nature of people starts to come out.
I disagree. It is reasonable to suppose that natural selection may have produced a tendency to be wary, even fearful of the "other" as opposed to in-group bonding and solidarity. This seems to be a tendency in hominid social groups in general. This tendency (calling it an "instinct" would be a misuse of terminology) may be a component in the development of racist attitudes, but is not in itself a sufficient cause of full-blown racism.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:05 pm

It's mostly racists who say that racism is the most natural thing in the world, even when nearly every racist has to be taught who to be racists against.
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Post by Seabass » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:06 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Seabass wrote:Argumentum ad rectum...
ad rectum? surely you mean ab ano, you mean the origin rather than the target, right?
:grr:
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Post by mistermack » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:09 pm

JimC wrote: I disagree. It is reasonable to suppose that natural selection may have produced a tendency to be wary, even fearful of the "other" as opposed to in-group bonding and solidarity. This seems to be a tendency in hominid social groups in general. This tendency (calling it an "instinct" would be a misuse of terminology) may be a component in the development of racist attitudes, but is not in itself a sufficient cause of full-blown racism.
Your ancestors 20,000 years ago were likely to not just kill, but to actually eat strangers, and your descendants in 100 years time would do the same, without the benefit of the modern culture, which has developed over the last few thousand years.
At the moment, the education and indoctrination we get from the modern culture has reined in much of the natural racism that lurks in all of us. But it's a very fragile edifice, and like I said, it relies on the relative well-being that we currently experience.

You only have to look at Israel, or Syria, or the former Yugoslavia, to see real human nature in action.
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Post by mistermack » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:16 pm

Seabass wrote:
Svartalf wrote:
Seabass wrote:Argumentum ad rectum...
ad rectum? surely you mean ab ano, you mean the origin rather than the target, right?
:grr:
The common version is ex rectum.
Your effort is not just funny, it's ironic. :biggrin:
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Post by Seabass » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:28 pm

mistermack wrote:
Seabass wrote:
Svartalf wrote:
Seabass wrote:Argumentum ad rectum...
ad rectum? surely you mean ab ano, you mean the origin rather than the target, right?
:grr:
The common version is ex rectum.
Your effort is not just funny, it's ironic. :biggrin:
Whatever. Point is, you're just making shit up without providing any evidence. That's just a fact.
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Post by Svartalf » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:31 pm

technically, the correct version ought to be "e recto", as Romans practiced elision of the x in front of a consonant, and the ablative case is the one to use when discussing the origin of what's coming...
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Post by mistermack » Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:06 pm

It's academic anyway.

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Post by Cunt » Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:12 pm

Is there a definition of racism which doesn't require presuming someone's race? Something which would identify racists regardless of their skin tone, claimed ancestry or current political alignment?
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Post by JimC » Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:19 pm

Some racists are self-admitted, like our very own Tyrannical, and spokesmen for groups whose raison d'être is to pursue racist policies. Membership of such groups would be pretty telling, also.

More generally, if people are advocating that people who they perceive to be a different race to themselves be treated differently (almost always for the worse), then they are probably racist. Clearly there are exceptions, such as stating that people with white skins have a greater need to use sunscreen than others, but they are fairly trivial...
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Post by Cunt » Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:38 pm

JimC wrote:Some racists are self-admitted, like our very own Tyrannical, and spokesmen for groups whose raison d'être is to pursue racist policies. Membership of such groups would be pretty telling, also.

More generally, if people are advocating that people who they perceive to be a different race to themselves be treated differently (almost always for the worse), then they are probably racist. Clearly there are exceptions, such as stating that people with white skins have a greater need to use sunscreen than others, but they are fairly trivial...
Forgive me, but this seems to make it very easy to call everyone racist.

If everyone fits the description, does that mean you agree with Galaxian and Tryannical?

Whenever I heard the subject raised, it is usually to divide by race, or other language which means the same thing. Diversity quotas, reparations, affrmative action, special hiring status in government jobs. Preferential treatment in awards of government contracts. Not all of these things can easily be called 'good' or 'bad', but they can certainly all be called racist.

Can you see why the term is not the most incisive insult, when you wield it at a target like the ever-vague 'alt right' ? It doesn't really tell me much beyond your opinion.
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Post by Hermit » Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:56 pm

mistermack wrote:Most of the people on this site who argue against racism hold that view because they've been indoctrinated in a certain way. ... If you'd been born in Germany 100 years ago, you would be far more racist. That's just a fact.
Excellent argument that racism is social rather than genetic.
mistermack wrote:Not all people in Nazi Germany acted racist, but then again, not all had the same upbringing.
Another excellent argument that racism is social rather than genetic.
mistermack wrote:In any case, when things are going well, it's fairly natural to say, "live and let live".
But when things are going badly, really badly, then the true nature of people starts to come out.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:46 pm

mistermack wrote:Racism is a natural instinct. Just because you choose to suppress it, doesn't make you a non racist.
We're all racists.
Impressive how you just ignored everything everyone just told you refuting your faulty understanding of genetics and evolution.
Most of the people on this site who argue against racism hold that view because they've been indoctrinated in a certain way.
Oh right, understanding how genetics and evolution work is being "indoctrinated". You sure you aren't a creationist?
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