As Curtis/Qin is a young person of Asian extraction, I’m dubious about the prospect that the skinheads would have him.
So, you know, he’s got that going for him…
Today’s enlightened skinheads only require that you HATE the same people they hate. They don’t mind if you are one. Needless to say, the older skinhead generation thinks they’re a bunch of pussy liberal fags.
I’m not sure quite what’s going on. I get more of a feeling that he really thinks he’s accomplishing something by stating his right-wing theses – a kind of witnessing, in fact. I think to him, it’s very much like a religious-like exercise. That’s why every single thread is a reboot, and he never seems to taken in anything that has been said to him. He decides in advance what he believes, and writes an OP that strongly suggests that conclusion. He just ignores any information that might create dissonance.
And religion and politics to him are very much like spectator sports. He wants to be able to root for his team. He’s done a couple of threads now that suggests he wants to divide up the whole world into uses and thems – like the one in which he chose a party in every country to root for. It didn’t matter to him that his results really didn’t make any sense. There is something very naive and jejune about the way he goes about things. But he seems like a budding hard-line dogmatist to me, selectively picking out observations and studying arguments against him only to the extent that he can figure out how to evade them.
You never can tell. The wife’s idiot nephew, who is also Thai of course, was a complete and total fan of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis as a teenager. And he never could understand why I was not impressed with his “Western” outlook. (Seems to have been the snappy uniforms that attracted him.) I wouldn’t even let him into our home at one point. In his 20s now, he may have gotten over that, dunno, I avoid him at all costs because he’s just generally creepy. So you never know. And I think I have heard of Asian skinheads.
EDIT: Yeah, now that I think of it, there is a group of Nazi wanna-bes in Mongolia of all places. The BBC has done a report on them. Vicious bastards.
He’s in Orange County, CA, though, where the skinheads tend more toward the American History X-type.
I didn’t know that he has an Asian heritage, Somewhat surprising since the RW Curtis Lemay was most famous for firebombing Asians. I don’t really know how to interpret that.
It’s self-reported on his part. I’ll see if I can dig up a cite.
LeMay bombed the Japanese. Qin is Chinese.
There is no solidarity between the two just because they are both Asian. Anyone who bombed the Japanese would be a hero to most nationalist Chinese.
I don’t really know the poster that well (under his previous name either), so don’t know what the deal is, but sometimes I’ll start an OP not so much because I want to express my own views, as to get input from other posters on this board. I already know what my views are, and at a guess not many folks are that interested in them. No…I’m more interested in seeing an interesting discussion on topics that interest me. I don’t think I’ve ever started a thread and never returned unless the discussion just goes no where, but I can certainly understand why someone might want to start a thread more to see what other 'dopers think, especially on topics that might be interesting and that an OP might not know much about. Certainly I can see starting a poll thread like that.
That said, I have no idea about the First Emperor or his mad bombing earlier incarnation, so possibly take the above with a grain of salt.
-XT
Didn’t someone post something about him maybe being Aspergers?
Actually, I believe he’s said that he’s Korean.
ETA: and yes, I believe he is Aspergers. It shouldn’t be used as an excuse, though.
I believe Argent Towers was making a joke, not a statement of the nationality of the actual person behind the user name. Qin Shi Huangdi was (IIRC) the first emperor of China (thus, fills the definition of being ‘Chinese’ ;)).
-XT
No, it was actually not a joke - I thought, wrongly it seems, that he was actually Chinese.
:smack: That’ll learn me to jump in and put my foot in it. Sorry. Carry on.
-XT
What can you do? It’s annoying when posters start a bunch of threads and never participate in them, but would anyone want a rule about it? Clothahump used to do that a lot, but I think that was just for his own amusement. Haven’t seen him around in a while, though, which reminds me: what ever happened to Lissener?
Well, it’s not really the end of the world, but as i said in my previous post, when someone does it often enough it starts to seem like an internet version of “You and him fight to keep me entertained.”
As others have suggested, if you find something important and interesting enough that you want to start a whole new thread on the topic, the least you can do is make the effort to participate in your own discussion. This is especially the case in GD, a forum whose main purpose is to host ongoing debate. If you don’t want to actually participate in the discussion, then maybe you should put it in IMHO or something.
Well, i can understand the impulse, but if i’m that interested in a topic, i find that i usually want to engage other people and test my own ideas against theirs. Sitting back and watching other people hash it out isn’t really what i’m here for. If that were my style, i’d be a lurker with 100 posts to my name.
And, to extend to conversation to people like ralph124c in GQ, i think that the very least you can do if you start a GQ thread is come back and offer some thanks to the people who have made the effort to answer your question for you. I’ve been helped a lot by people in GQ, and for the most part i do my best to return to the thread in order to thank those people, and let them know how helpful their answers were.
And it’s not just that he never really comes back to the discussions but then he goes and starts ANOTHER one the very same day. He starts about five threads a week, say, but almost never comes back to them.
Probably not, although with ralph124c and Jinx in GQ, i would almost support such a rule.
The former has, by my count, started somewhere around 1,540 threads and the latter almost 2,000 threads, both in GQ alone. That’s threads that they have started. And a random sampling suggests that, in the vast majority of those threads, their one and only post is the OP. In the majority, they never return to thank people for their help, or to clarify whether or not the question has been answered to their satisfaction.
And this doesn’t even address the sheer stupidity of some of the questions. Each will disappear for a while, and then suddenly bombard GQ with a dozen useless questions in the space of a week or so.
There’s a reason we’ve had threads like:
Is anyone else glad Jinx only gets the computer every once in awhile?
and
Yeah, if he approaches his school work that way, it’s no wonder his GPA won’t get him into the UC system…