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Originally Posted by well named
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Education and engagement is how you deal with the kind of stuff that 5ive is posting.It doesn't seem to work with some people.
Sure it does. Take this quote from 5ive. I googled it, and it seems to be StormFront content. Why does he keep posting that here? He's the only who does, and it's a problem.
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Originally Posted by 5ive
So, as the United States and Europe are flooded with Arabs and Aficans, eventually the quality of life in these once great lands will become like that of the third world regardless of the social/economic/political system. Nobody is going to help the United States and Europe if our people fall to a third world status.
Anyway, there are two things you can do:
- Call this racist
- Engage with it.
For example, you could point out the that Arabia is the cradle of civilization, and that those people are near identical to the ones there today. That Jews (which I think a lot of these neo nazi types at least respect as intelligent, even if they hate them), are very genetically close to Arabs. You could talk about the thriving culture in in the Middle East, and how it rivaled everywhere else 2000 years ago. Pretty hard to fit a genetic thesis about Arabs in with that.
You could point out that Koreans came from fairly "backward" in several ways - as one of these guys would put it - to lead the world in high technology and test scores, in an amazingly short period of time. Thus highlighting the incredible importance of culture, and how it can be changed.
Will it change their mind? Maybe not. But reasonable bystanders will read it, and see the claims debunked. And it will have an effect on the person who wrote stuff like the above. A bit of it will sink in even to the most hardened mind.
Bad ideas simple do not flourish if good ideas are used to counter them, in good faith. It's suppression that causes the bad ideas to fester. Most of the horrible movements in history have been the populace, with their common, unwashed opinions, revolting against the intelligentsia, who are right on some things but wrong on others - wrong enough and disengaged enough that a clever but nasty person can drive a wedge.
There's a lesson in that. People don't learn it though. I'm not sure why.
Last edited by ToothSayer; 01-10-2017 at 01:08 PM.