We don’t learn anything regardless, because there’s nothing to learn. We had a self-professed honest-to-God unrepentant and untreated pedophile here perfectly willing to answer questions about pedophilia, and I didn’t ask him a single question or engage him in any way because I didn’t care what he thought. I deal with pedophiles on a regular basis in my job, and they’re not rare snowflakes with a lot of insight to offer. Pedophiles are pedophiles because they have a mental illness that makes them attracted to children, and the ones that don’t see anything wrong with it are that way are that way because they engage in cognitive distortions that give them mental justifications for it that are completely airtight in their own minds and are utterly transparent to everyone else. After a while that became apparent to all, and he was banned.
Similarly, I don’t need a racist to tell me why he thinks the way he does, I already know why racists think the way they do. They lack critical thinking skills, they don’t understand confirmation bias, and they generally aren’t very truthful or even insightful about their motivations. Here in a few more pages it will be apparent that this racist is pretty much like every other racist on the planet, that there’s absolutely nothing to be gained by attempting to engage him, and then this will get locked and he’ll be banned. Then we can get back to something more constructive than debating a racist, like playing handball against the drapes.
More a matter of when you are from than where. Amongst my many cousins still in Texas, a couple I would think of as racist, but you ask them and they’d say no. Their parents generation, my various uncles and aunts, had no problem saying they were racists, and would blink uncomprehendingly at you for asking such a dumb question.
While I was on active duty, I was assigned to protect someone important while I was doing the Protective Services thing. I can’t really go into the who’s or what’s, but I can tell you that we have forces in Namibia. The Secret Squirrel type. In the military, this isn’t news in itself, since everyone knows where we got folks, so I’m not letting anything slip.
But the Boss had to go to Namibia. I was chosen as part of the Advance Team. I went down with several others to make a meet with the local PD, set up Halls and Walls, etc… spent a couple of lovely weeks in that dump. It was an excellent opportunity to see how the locals lived, too.
Hey, I appreciate the OP’s candor. He’s not flopping out pejoratives or being a jerk. He’s at least willing to discuss his ways without flinging around shit like a pissed-off monkey. I don’t agree with him, but I consider his posts to be educational. When you can identify what causes a certain category of people to think a certain way, it goes towards more peaceful ways to resolve conflicts with them.
I grew up with people like the OP, and I acted like them to fit in when I was a kid. When I was old enough to think for myself, I moved away from that. It’s mainly ignorance that keeps that mindset going, willing or not. Not everybody gets to grow up and live in enlightened, intelligent environments. They have to find such places on their own, and it can take a lot of steps to get there.
Except on the other board, which he linked us to, where he openly uses the N word in describing those he hates so deeply. But hey, if you’re not Pol Pot, it’s perfectly fine to call people “niggers”, right?
In my original post, I identified myself as what you all would call a ‘racist’, but made a special effort to say that that is not how I thought of myself.
I felt it was simpler to just come out and identify myself as such, instead of saying how I feel and be buried under waves of accusations. Better to just get it out of the way from the beginning and then I can sort the sincere folks from the ones why just want to spew insults.
If I came on and said “Hi. I’m Ariovistus and I build Mission/Arts & Crafts style furniture” (which I do, btw), I would have gotten perhaps one or two replies, mostly about what I was doing here…
Honestly, I do not like blacks. That alone is enough to cause a wave of insults and accusations here. But I came here for a discussion, not to open myself up for abuse, though I knew that was a probability. I found that there are plenty of people who accuse me of feeling the way I do based solely on skin color, when it is their actions that disgust me, not what color they are.
Bottom line is: people self-segregate. If living in a widely-mixed society was the normal state, the Government wouldn’t need the Battalions of lawyers and activists, police and other entities, to enforce it.
But they do… the number of lawyers and enforcers for racial diversity are legion.
I ask the question: why are they needed if a multicultural society is a good thing? People would reach that state on their own and not have it forced on them by do-gooder busybody government types.
Why is murder bad? Why do we have to force people not to murder by having do-gooder busybody government types? If not murdering is so great, people should just do that on their own.
It should have been end of discussion once everyone saw the link in the OP. You can’t have a meaningful exchange of views with a race-hater. And he’s lying about not hating blacks. Nobody with any respect at all for black people would post on that site.
Hey OP, whatever your name is, just go back to the shithole you crawled out from. You carry far too much ignorance and bitterness to ever gain anything from this board.