That freaky white supremacist who shot up the museum?

Yeah, his site has been scrubbed, but for anyone with a morbid fascination, here's his manifesto that I snagged before his site got the MiniTru treatment.

The usual anti-semitic, protocols of the Elders of Zion stuff but from a semi-literate WWII vet.

At the least it will serve someone as a good fiction element.

Sounds like something The Saint would come up with.

Replace all the instances of JEW with American, or Bushoshi and it sounds like something our dear former owner and beloved bat-shit insane Cass would come up with.

Why wouldn't they release this garbage? Says a lot about the state of government education in this country, IMO.

Is this guy's mentallity possible with anything better than a sixth grade education?

The flipside here is seeing what happens without the social interaction skills developed during highschool.

That's way too simplistic. Racism isn't a result of lack of diversity or undereducation.

But it's cute when she does it.

I'm sure that these are a factor.... Even racist with Ph.D's are often the victims of a lack of diversity.

I'd be curious to know what you think might contribute to it, if not lack of education and diversity.

While I agree with your point, another factor would be conditioning - as in, that's what they heard while growing up, from both family and friends.

Nothing education and diversity can't overcome, IMHO.

How much bullshit have you discarded from family and freinds as a result of your education and socialization?

You can only educate and condition so much.

Some people are just assholes, but if you want to live in a free society you have to learn to live with them, too.

Education yes, die-versity no. Unchecked rampant full-on diversity destroys nations. It is essential for people entering a nation to assimilate into the dominant culture. Otherwise that country is living on borrowed time.

I'm sorry......

Did you seriously just suggest 're-education' as a means of combating racism?

I would love to hear who you think should have the power to force someone to be re-educated.

Exactly. It's good to be aware of and celebrate your heritage. It's bad to be so consumed by that heritage that you're unable to function in the larger society.

Racism is a result of generalization errors in thought process. For example, if the first black person you met was Mewa, and you assumed that all black people were like him, you might easily be inspired to join the KKK...

Well, *this* OP has an entirely different context now.

Lol I forgot that @BearTM was racist and also terrible.

I have no recollection of participating in this discussion. And yet, there it is. And, I still agree with my statement.

Sometimes I read my old writings and cringe. I'm pretty proud of myself here!

Same.

Okay, how the fuck do you disagree with this, @Shirogayne ?

It's not clear who you are responding to, but your post implies there are cultures that are unable to function in our society. Who did you mean?

There's a thing among fandom right now that I can best describe as purity politics with woke, progressive hat. Short version, these types are always yammering on about how dark fiction is bad and age gaps between adults are bad and "pedophilic". I've lost track of how many of these types have been outed as rapists and groomers themselves and hid behind purity politics to do it, or were even just reading and writing "nasty" stuff under a different username.

Anyway, this post smacks of exactly this, and he probably saved the documents to read himself.

No, my post implies that there are people who are so unwilling to assimilate into the culture of a nation to which they’ve emigrated that they are unable to function within that culture. Think of a close-knit “ethnic” neighborhood in a large city, where the dominant language of the surrounding culture is rarely heard, no-one ventures very far outside of the neighborhood, and they esssentially recreate the country they ostensibly wanted to get away from. Usually first-generation immigrants, but not always.

Who were you responding to when you said "exactly"?

I don't think you understand people very well. If they have a subset of society, whether it's Hialeah FL, Williamsburg Brooklyn NY, or Columbia SC, in which they are fully functional, they aren't going to stray far from it; especially if the rest of society isn't accepting.

Given that I barely remember this, I think I'm responding to Midnight Funeral. I had a very low opinion of Sokar in general and it seems unlikely I'd answer his nonsense.

Is that not the American Dream?

meh-my community is better for such things.
To my south east is one of our oldest Chinese neighbourhoods. All the signage has Chinese, most of'em have English. There's still religious iconography on sidewalks and buildings from when my part was predominantly Jewish, but also had a significant non english speaking Catholic population. We've got Afro-Caribbean shops and such sitting besides spice and dry goods importers from every other continent.

People don't need to assimilate to take part in or contribute to a nation's culture, let alone identity. They ARE the culture and identity.

Also, immigrants that have a community in the US need not even "assimilate" to European culture. It is not a requirement in our constitution. The only thing they MUST do, is obey the laws of this country. They don't need to speak English. They don't need to start eating hot dogs or develop a liking for baseball.

People come here to escape any number of things including poverty. The may come here for economic opportunity. But, there definitely is nothing about our constitution, our laws, our ideology that says "YOU MUST ASSIMILATE".