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Chris_the_Brit said:
More loony left stuff from CNN. No self-awareness whatsoever
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After the project veritas leak we now at least know their whole business model is "make outrageous poop up for ratings" I think most of them don't believe half the things they say.... they are all con artists.
 
rambo919 said:
Signs that a culture is dominant or how does it become dominant? Be specific.
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Elaborate on both, in the argument that, "You NEED one dominant culture", I would need to be enlightened on how it is achieved and the signs in it retaining being dominant, also apply known societal examples in support.
 
rambo919 said:
You are conflating things here. Ethnocentrism is a cultural preferential worldview for one's own culture, xenophobia is a irrational fear of the outsider. Xenophobia is nor a rational fear, rational hatred or necessarily irrational hatred.

All these things don't necessarily follow.

The internet has only allowed for free flow of most information, not all and not directed. Some people choose to cast off ignorance and others to entrench it.

Hard wiring is not something that can simply be bullied away as people are still trying, it stays there in the subconcious and makes the flocks react in ways those of lesser understanding do not expect. Multi-culturalism has NEVER worked long term at any point in history and is now collapsing, it was collapsing slowly but now it's racing.

Take any empire that tried it, it fell apart in civil war and riots. Babylonian/Persians, Grecko/Romans, whatever exactly the chinese/manchurian/chosen/etc one was, Austro-Hungerian empire (for a modern one), and so on. It always ends the same. Chaos and destruction.

Yes Rome had a soft collapse but not before a century of civil wars and the western capital being repeatedly sacked by frontier parts of the empire.

You NEED one dominant culture in order for society to function, there is no alternative. The British/American Empire will fall the same way the others did before it.
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Not a dominant culture, but rather a shared identity. Culture can be a mix match of anything, it doesn't matter. But for people to coexist they need a shared identity.
 
greg0205 said:
"affronts some"

You're the arbiter of who can be affronted now?

Only you?
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Nope, murder also affronts me, and I'm sure enough of people in South Africa to do a democratic NDZ style 2k (actually (.4k) win vs over 500k.

Am I calling for it, no. Is it a legit argument he has? Yes. Why? It highlights hypocrisy.
 
TysonRoux said:
www.aljazeera.com

Banksy supports Black Lives Matter with new work on Instagram

Banksy's new artwork shows US flag set alight by a candle as part of memorial to anonymous, black, silhouetted figure.
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Banksy's new artwork shows US flag set alight by a candle as part of memorial to anonymous, black, silhouetted figure.


British artist Banksy showed his support for the Black Lives Matter movement with a painting he posted to his Instagram account on Saturday portraying a candle vigil under a United States flag.

In the post, the secretive artist, who rose to fame for his graffiti, writes that the system is failing people of colour, and it is the responsibility of white people to fix the system, not theirs.
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Finished, I am
 
theratman said:
How so? CNN posed the question...

CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?"

BENDER: "Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege." https://t.co/WhubQ9yJIf
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Yeah sorry got it the wrong way round.
 
buka001 said:
Yes some paint on some stone is the same as blowing up ancient architecture. More strawmanning from you.

There is a significant debate on the legitimacy of vandalism as an expression of free speech.

If some mofo president erected a statue of Hitler, it would be a very justifiable expression of free speech to vandalise that all day every day.
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We are not talking about erection though are we? We are talking about preservation. Big difference.

On the current wave of statue vandalism there are really two matters at hand:

-the preservation or removal of said monument of which there is many arguments for and against. (I sit on the side of preservation)

-then there is the manner if there removal. Which I think there is a pretty clear cut right or wrong answer to, which is this:

These protests are taking place in free countries (the free’st if you believe a dude with an orange face) with democratically elected local, regional, national governments through which the will of the people is acted upon. If the will of the people is to have a statue be removed, it should be through the democratic process. The fact that it isn’t flies in the face of democracy and all that it stands for.

On that basis alone, this current wave of vandalism and destruction should be widely condemned no matter where you stand on the remove vs preserve debate.
 
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