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2014-08-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Anon1 2014-08-26 04:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Sorry for the squares dunno where they came from...

Posted by Anon1 2014-08-26 04:50|| 2014-08-26 04:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry for the squares dunno where they came from...

We've been having a bit of a problem with that, dear Anon1. A minor glitch in the latest upgrade.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-08-26 05:29|| 2014-08-26 05:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Ferguson, Missouri is a media amplified micro-example of a larger phenomena. Policemen and judicial systems are not the problem. The problem is white policemen and white judicial systems. A Native American reservation style of law enforcement and justice [our people - our system] is the eventual goal, but we're still talking micro.

Macro examples can be found in Zimbabwe and South Africa, where so-called 'white flight' and the resulting tribal law enforcement and governance have resulted in entire cities, communities, and entire countries revert to tribalism, lawlessness, and anarchy, what I like to refer to as soft genocide.

No amount of cultural awareness, Affirmative Action (AA), Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), or flat denial by progressives can alter cultural differences and demographic shifts. As in the case of the Jew, people eventually move elsewhere and start over, simply to survive.

The irony here is, blame for failed pluralistic societies is oftentimes placed upon those who have left, not those who are now in charge who actually ran the others off. It would be somewhat comical, if it were not so tragic....and fok'n obvious.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-26 05:39|| 2014-08-26 05:39|| Front Page Top

#4 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6160

Maths is impolite.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-08-26 07:45|| 2014-08-26 07:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Well that took a bit of de-unicoding.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-08-26 07:49|| 2014-08-26 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Now watch the youth. This is a green light to attack also for them. 10-14 year old youths will be very active and at all hours. They will destroy their own neighborhoods. They will attack anyone. When you have anything- you got to spread it around brother.

Posted by Dale 2014-08-26 08:21|| 2014-08-26 08:21|| Front Page Top

#7 PJ Media - Andrew Klavon on Culture.

American black people are being lied to and the lies destroy them. They are being lied to by corrupt people like Attorney General Eric Holder and Al Sharpton Jr. and Jesse Jackson and the leftists in our news media. They are being told that their poverty is due to prejudice and that the police are targeting them out of bigotry. They are being told that the dreadful existence of slum life grew out of slavery and is being perpetuated by hatred.
None of this is true. Poor black people are poor because they have no family structure and get little education. Police target them because so many more young black men are criminal thugs than young men of other colors. Women clutch their purses when a black man gets on an elevator not because they’re racist but because the statistics and the facts they have seen with their own eyes have taught them that that’s the wise thing to do. People aren’t suspicious of young black men in hoodies because people are ignorant or bigoted. They’re suspicious because reason and experience tell them that young black men in hoodies are threatening.

O. J. Simpson wasn’t innocent. Tawana Brawley wasn’t raped and neither was Crystal Mangum. George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in self-defense. There is always racism everywhere, but America may be the least racist country on earth. For black people to think otherwise is to believe lies created to keep a narrative in place. The narrative gives the people who create it power and an appearance of virtue — Holder, Sharpton, Jackson, the news media and the rest. As for poor black people, the narrative keeps them poor and angry and helpless and so destroys their lives.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-26 08:46|| 2014-08-26 08:46|| Front Page Top

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-26 09:22|| 2014-08-26 09:22|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't seem to recall this kind of behavior tolerated among the community during segregation (a vile institution that should never come back). Of course, at that time, upper and middle class were forced to live among the lower class. The extensive amount of anti-social behavior wasn't tolerated. While the Left talks about white flight, they blind themselves to the effects of upper and middle class black flight from the very same areas. Instead they substituted government as the adult supervision in these areas forgetting the need for someone who lives there rather than a commuter who had to work among them was needed. Someone, who like the older segregated community, wouldn't accept excuses for anti-social behaviors rather then rationalize it away to avoid having to do something about it till it got too ugly and destructive to avoid.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-08-26 09:23|| 2014-08-26 09:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Undocumented shoppers and potential Donk voters.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-26 10:50|| 2014-08-26 10:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Besoeker, the lies are worse than that.

They were lied to by feminists when they were told fathers were unnecessary.

They were lied to when they were told there were jobs Americans won't do only to find unskilled jobs priced out of their hands.

They were lied to by unions who felt that whatever company had to meet their demands and found the companies moving to other states.

They were lied to when they were told that governmetn assistance is a right and not a safety net that you should hope to never have to use.

They were lied by their own culture when they were told that education wasn't essential in success.

Holder and Companies lies are horrific because they are trying to redirect blame for this massive failure on those that have been trying to stop it all along.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-08-26 14:38|| 2014-08-26 14:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Lying is sine qua non for the Democrats.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-08-26 16:09|| 2014-08-26 16:09|| Front Page Top

#13 as i understand it the man had thieved a shop and was running away. Death is too high a price to pay for theft - but because everyone in the US potentially owns a gun, the coppers would be more likely to shoot first ask later

The cop shot for the same reason as a woman shoots an unarmed man charging at her - the 100 lb difference means Brown could have killed with his bare hands, much as an adult can easily kill the average 7-year-old using merely his fists.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2014-08-26 17:54|| 2014-08-26 17:54|| Front Page Top

#14 good luck with your upgrades, delightful Trailing Wife!

Besoeker: very interesting. Yes indeed this is the heart of the problem. Multiculturalism doesn't work unless there is one clearly defined dominant culture that is too strong to challenge. Once smaller cultures get strong enough to challenge, they do - which is why Islamism the political dogma must be banned from the West, weeded out root and branch. Only reformation style moderate Muslims should stay - who accept the separation of mosque and state and whose religion is only a private matter for the home.

But these riots looked different to me, i mean black people have lived in the US for hundred of years so they are not new immigrants with a different culture and language.

I looked at this situation as racial conflict within one culture. having said that it is clear they have evolved a separate sub-culture on racial lines with its own speech patterns etc.

yes they have been lied to that their lot in life is all the result of racism and slavery.... this is hundreds of years on, and they're not victims any more.

Lack of education: big problem. Culture that encourages you to disrespect education and not make the most of it: bigger problem.

I have black friends from poor third world countries whose parents used to study hand-me-down charity books under street lights as they had no electricity and couldn't afford candles.

They were successful and their children are well-adjusted people living in Australia: captains of merchant ships, chefs, teachers.

That generation's children are now studying accountancy and law.

these kids in the USA would have had some shot at learning to read and write at least in primary school

that is more than my friend's parents

so what do you do? short of sending in the military?

Maybe that is what should happen

I also note there is something in the individualism of the US that lends itself to looting and rioting - which may not necessarily be a bad thing (though of course looting and rioting is). It is a willingness to defy authority

Japan: in the worst of the tsunami or any other disaster, the people will not loot anything

if you leave your wallet on a train they will give it back.

a strong civic culture - society first, self second.

the downside is uniformity and blind obedience

Posted by anon1 2014-08-26 23:34|| 2014-08-26 23:34|| Front Page Top

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