>>44046>This country has been diverse since its inception and it's been our #1 advantage ever sinceIs that why the founding fathers were extremely suspicious of even slight ethnic and cultural differences affecting American culture to the point that certain Europeans were banned from immigrating? And why it took until 1965 for us to even consider allowing certain other groups in? And why even when we freed the slaves we strictly limited their citizenship status and voting power? Let's not retcon history just because it's unsavory to us now.
>There's zero reason social capitol can't cross cultures in this country. I have friends and neighbors from all over the place. I don't bowl but we eat, drink, watch movies, talk shit, and so on with each other without losing "social capitol," you paranoid ninny.Individuals aren't trends. And the trend is that there was once a time that the average American town had enough trust that doors were left unlocked and there was no concept of 'stranger danger' for kids to hide away from. A time when getting change to use the payphone, something that literally comes with zero cost to either party, wasn't locked behind making a purchase at most stores. My point in the very beginning of the post is that exceptions exist and that's great for them, but in terms of *trends* people suffer in both small and large ways when social capital goes down. A major part of Robert Putnam's book involves community service, the church, and boys'/men's groups as non-racial, non-exclusionary methods of retaining social capital.
>How many people have ever been arrested for expressing xenophobia without attaching some kind of violence to it? You keep equating ideas with xenophobia and other loaded and politicized terms to justify things happening using the edge cases. You are comparing something quite soft and peaceful such as Jared Taylor's speech to a schizo shouting to gas the kikes and racewar now. It's aggravating to be forced on the back foot in every discussion by being forced to defend people I do not like, and I'm trying to be sincere and straightforward, so I feel it should be pointed out here.
On the topic of police/justice being biased against perceived racism that either doesn't exist or has no impact on the event, there is a plethora of high profile cases of such. A favorite one of mine is from the 90s. A man in Texas defended himself on a subway against three muggers, all caught on camera, all clear indications of self-defense, and he was put in prison for 15 years on hate crime charges because they happened to be black. No further evidence was needed to take 15 years away from his life. All because people assumed ill intent.
>When I worked for other people, I watched what I said. Now that I have my own business, I make sure my clients have no idea of my politics. The world is not your safe space. Never has been, never will be.Great. I'm happy to agree on this grounds. So I suppose this means that you're against political actions being taken by corporations unless explicitly and unanimously agreed to by the employees? That you're against, for instance, employee onboarding having a very specific political slant and endorsing specific political goals?
I already know the response. Those are in the name of Progress, Tolerance and Love, and nothing anyone to the right of it believes or does has the same motivations. I reiterate my previous point: people fail to see the motivation behind these beliefs, or as it seems in your case, the beliefs themselves.
>Find me an Antifa victim who was walking down the street minding their own businessI'll do you one better. Here's an antifa victim who was not only minding his own business, but mediating people in the name of understanding and peaceful discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muoR8Td44UE>fascism has always had an appeal to the mediocreI disagree. It's had an appeal to people who see society itself being, in their eyes, dragged down by people who don't see greatness the same way as their forebearers and nationfolk did/do. It's an issue of people having very different social systems in place, coming together in very unhealthy ways. Communities, large and small, have a culture all their own. When something contradicts or counters that culture, there is friction. Sometimes this friction is for the better -- I think counterculture has a place in society to force it to question itself -- but when the very core of a culture is not just questioned but ripped out against the will of the populace, there is serious risk to social cohesion. Change has to be gradual if it is to remain democratic or prevent violent upheaval, and instead of that we're seeing massive, sweeping changes to the culture and people of the country, being imposed from outside. We're seeing people being used as chess pieces, moved with the sole intent of stuffing cities full of fresh new voters to steer in their direction by promising benefits for them at the cost of others.
You think you're talking to a pimple-faced, unemployed permavirgin who hangs a confederate flag on the wall of his mother's basement. You think people can't have serious concerns with the way things are unless they hate other people. But in reality, I got these beliefs from traveling the country. From coast to coast, and inland too. North and south. Black and white and all in between. I don't wish to harm anyone. I don't see myself marching the streets and curb-stomping minorities to make America huwite again. I want to live my life as a simple tradesman, and form new, localized communities of trustworthy and kind people. I've lived, laughed and loved, and frankly for someone who's not even 30 I've got a lot more perspective than I think a lot of people my age do.
And before you ask, yes, that love extends to outgroups. I have French, black, British, and Mexican friends, and I spent a year trying to lift up my ex and de-radicalize him from his anti-natalist black-erasure belief system. I don't WANT to see him or his folk suffer. It's the last thing I want. Because I believe that the connections we willingly make with other peoples, cultures and ideas do good for us. But it has to be self-directed, and it has to be consensual. We can't just mash people together against their will and force them to make nice.
I think I'm done with this topic. I don't really think arguing it is productive past this point because it seems your mind is set, and I don't like having to do this back and forth like you're my enemy. Because you're not my enemy. You just think you are. Instead of continuing, I'm gonna post an image that sums up my belief system, which was screencapped from a surprisingly deep video on bodybuilding culture.
