tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303338719634600452023-11-15T07:35:29.911-08:00Unapproved Comments to NYTrogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-89303936760264896822017-12-12T10:57:00.002-08:002017-12-12T10:57:31.139-08:00<br />
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By Thomas Friedman, Dec. 7 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/opinion/say-what-al-gore-ivanka-trump-and-donald-trump.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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<i>"The stakes couldn’t be higher. When so many big forces — technology, globalization and climate change — are accelerating at once, small errors in navigation can have huge consequences. We can get really far off track, really fast."</i></blockquote>
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I agree, but with one profound reservation: we are already <i>"far off track".</i></div>
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Why is Tom, like most people, unable to recognise this?</div>
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There is an evolutionary explanation. The human brain evolved to want (not just consciously, but also subconsciously) to maintain the environment on which it depends and has been successful in, which everyone who is anyone in society invariably has been. </div>
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We rationalise our view of reality accordingly, and the more intelligent and articulate we are, the better we are at doing so, of convincing ourselves and others that the state and status quo are fundamentally OK, when in fact they are not. Our civilisation is way off track for surviving this century.</div>
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No, I am not a "doom-monger", but a realist. I can see that we are way of track and heading towards disaster. Unfortunately, I'm not as intelligent or articulate as Tom and all the others who think I'm talking nonsense, because they are loath to question the fundamental soundness of state and status quo.</div>
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All I can do is refer you to my <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">BLOG</a>, in which I elaborate, from an evolutionary perspective, on why our civilisation is on course to self-destruct.</div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-69197943740269452922017-01-01T10:04:00.001-08:002017-01-01T10:04:30.679-08:00What the Alt-Right Really MeansBy Christopher Chadwell, Dec 2 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/opinion/sunday/what-the-alt-right-really-means.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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Were they meant as "Nazi salutes"? I find that very difficult to believe, Nazism being the very embodiment of evil.</div>
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Like the Nazi swastika, this salute is of much older origin. Like much else, including the concepts of nationalism, socialism and Darwinism, the Nazis hijacked and abused what seemed useful to them.</div>
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Progressives are much too eager to demonise expressions of white identity, which they do as a way of virtue signalling and asserting their own moral superiority.</div>
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Man is an inherently tribal animal, with a deeply rooted need for a sense of tribal identity and belonging. Our original tribes and nations having been long eliminated by the state, we are dependent on creating substitutes for them. </div>
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The state wants us to identify with itself as our nation and for this reason demonises and suppresses any serious rivals, which racial identity, of course is. A very serious rival.</div>
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It the state were a good substitute tribe and nation, one might accept it as such, but it is not. It simply uses its claim to nationhood as a way of legitimising itself, its ruling elites and the immense power they wield and abuse.</div>
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We need a better understanding of the state and how it manipulates and exploits human tribal nature, and the only way to acquire this is from an evolutionary perspective, which I elaborate own in my <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">BLOG</a>.</div>
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Don't soft-peddle or try to somehow explain the "alt-right." These are the same old neo-nazi racists. There is no "white race." Unlike Black Americans, Native Americans, Americans of various European descent share no common history or culture. My ancestry and culture may be very different than yours in spite of the coincidence or broad brush identity. If we learn anything from history and if we care about our country, racist hate-groups and the incitement of hate speech need to be suppressed. </div>
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<b>My response:</b> What an ignorant and hateful comment this is - and endorsed by the NYT!</div>
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What Al M clearly hasn't learned from history is that when you demonise the other side/tribe and seek to suppress them, as he expressly does, you pave the way for violent conflict.</div>
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He is stirring up hatred, just as both the Left and the Right did in the Weimar Republic - and we know where that led.</div>
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Even if you don't agree with them, you need to know and understand the other side - white nationalists in this case - if you want to avoid bloody conflict with them.</div>
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Just because I disagree with your ideology white racial self-denial and self-contempt, doesn't make what I say "hate speech". </div>
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I've put a lot of effort into trying to understand your side/tribe and views, and ask you to do the same in respect to me and my, white nationalist, side. I invite you to inform yourself on my blog. I don't hate you and I don't want to be forced into having to fight you.</div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-78883462142060153152017-01-01T04:51:00.003-08:002017-01-01T04:51:34.623-08:00Learning to Live with Human Tribalism<b>Do Not Go Gentle</b><br />
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I don't doubt that most "progressives", including Roger, mean well, but in demonising and suppressing the "raging beast" of human tribalism, instead of seeking to understand and harness it, they are paving the way for the very horrors they fear and desperately want to avoid.</div>
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We must learn to live with our tribalism, which I'm sure we can, but only by developing an understanding of it, not as a "raging beast" to be forcefully constrained and suppressed, but as a product of human evolutionary development.</div>
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In overreaction to the Nazis having hijacked and abused, for their own evil purposes, the half-baked ideas of social Darwinism, a previous generation of academics made a taboo of applying Darwinian logic to their own species, but this is exactly what we need to do, if we are to develop a realistic understanding of ourselves and the societies we have created (see <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/political-implications-of-evolutionary.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a>).</div>
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-49639325200347591782017-01-01T04:45:00.000-08:002017-01-01T04:45:58.254-08:00Fake Cowboys and Real IndiansBy Timothy Egan, Dec. 2 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/opinion/fake-cowboys-and-real-indians.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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It's interesting how we think in terms of "them and us"; only in this piece the author, a white man, is siding with "them" rather than with his own side/tribe or race.</div>
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Why? Because in overreaction to the evils committed by white men (especially slavery, Jim Crow and the Holocaust, despite the latter being white on white) it is now deemed a moral virtue for them to deny and despise their own white race. And with moral virtue comes personal advantage, privilege and power.</div>
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I'm not defending the evils committed by my own white race, put pointing out how an ideology of white racial self-denial and self-contempt now serves the state and its liberal elites as an instrument of socio-political intimidation and control, just as medieval church ideology once did.</div>
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It's the age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, with America's white elites demonstrating their moral superiority, and thus right to rule, over both white majority and all the ethnic minorities, by themselves embracing this self-destructive ideology, and not just of white America, but of American society at large.</div>
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-66215134174050157142017-01-01T04:36:00.001-08:002017-01-01T04:37:41.642-08:00Seduced and Betrayed by Donald TrumpBy Paul Krugman, Dec. 2 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/opinion/seduced-and-betrayed-by-donald-trump.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-75394790196056688872016-12-03T12:47:00.000-08:002016-12-03T12:47:20.475-08:00White Nationalism is about White Identity<b>White-Collar Supremacy</b><br />
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Ms Baker seeks only to demonise "<i>white nationalism</i>” which she maliciously equates with white supremacism and racism. <br />
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-37199029822118962962016-12-03T12:19:00.000-08:002016-12-03T12:19:09.753-08:00Demonising Tribalism in Others, While Indulging Our Own<b>Donald Trump’s Demand for Love</b><br />
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-69230428970975402082016-12-03T11:54:00.000-08:002016-12-03T11:54:34.783-08:00The Left's Demonisation of White Identity<b>Trump: Making America White Again</b><br />
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Why are our elites (Clinton & Co) inflicting this madness on their fellow whites and misleading minorities like you? In part it is an overreaction to slavery, Jim Crow and, above all, Nazism and the Holocaust, which I elaborate on in this <a href="http://unapprovedcomments.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-wests-overreaction-to-nazism.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a>.</div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-25383416616100682062016-11-14T12:17:00.005-08:002016-11-14T12:17:53.707-08:00If America is to Unite . . .<b>Homeless in America</b><br />
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If America is to unite, it has to stop denying the reality and importance of RACE.</div>
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The NYT could play a leading role in ending this denial, which is a consequence of an overreaction to the evils of Jim Crow, Apartheid and, above all, Nazism and the Holocaust.</div>
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-5142047446032366812016-11-14T12:09:00.000-08:002016-11-14T12:09:54.727-08:00A More Perfect Union?<b>Republicans and the Myth of Election Fraud</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many a true word is spoken in jest. Only, it's not that Darwin is disproved, so much as mentioned at all in a political context, which is, of course, only permissible as a joke, Darwin having been banned from all political thought in the aftermath of WW2 and the Holocaust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was banned, because the Nazis hijacked and abused, for their own evil purposes, the half-baked ideas of social Darwinism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They may have been half-baked and largely misconceived, but they didn't deserve to be demonised the way they were, and still are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Darwinian logic has a vital role to play in understanding ourselves, Homo sapiens, human societies and civilisation at large, and the fact that a taboo has been made of it is comparable to the Catholic Church once having made a taboo of the Copernican view of the universe, only much more serious. The taboo on Copernicus delayed our understanding of the universe by just a few decades, while the taboo on applying Darwin to our own species may delay our understanding of civilisation permanently, i.e. fatally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The reason the world is in such a mess and heading towards an even bigger mess (civilisational breakdown, no less) is because of the complete lack of a human-evolutionary, i.e. Darwinian, perspective in the social and political sciences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've made a start on correcting this </span><a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span></div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-5614126731312595862016-10-18T04:53:00.000-07:002016-10-18T04:53:07.242-07:00Latest Batch of Unapproved Comments <div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Bert Stratton, Oct. 17 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/just-like-trump-i-avoided-paying-federal-taxes.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If America were a genuine nation, its citizens would be sharing with each other, instead of always being on the make, always seeking their own profit and advantage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this America is no different from any other country, of course, but why the deception and deceit of nationhood, when truthfulness is what we really need?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is because the state legitimises itself, its ruling elites and the immense power they wield and abuse by deceitfully posing as a nation it is not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a difficult, painful and frightening truth to recognise and face up to, but the truth it is, and if western civilisation is to have a future extending beyond the next few decades this is what we (especially academics) have to do (<a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by </span>Christy Wampole, Oct. 17 2016 <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/my-syllabus-my-self.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">LINK</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to article)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What separates us from past thinkers, is not just time, but also circumstance and world view. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We live in very exceptional times and circumstances, which are changing at an unprecedented pace. Things changed in the past, of course, but rarely at a pace that people noticed. Now the rate of change is quite dizzying, which makes many of us sick (I've just read and commented on the editorial about the millions struggling with pain and missing from the labor market (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/millions-of-men-are-missing-from-the-job-market.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>). But not the author of this piece, who has clearly found a secure and satisfying niche for herself in academia. As have most academics, who, at the centre of things are not subjected to the same centrifugal forces and insecurities that affect those on the periphery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hope the author will excuse my critical comment, but academics are the ones most people, including our leaders, look to as authorities in understanding the world, which I see hurtling towards oblivion, while they tinker with and delight in their syllabuses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The principal, underlying cause, I suggest, is that we are dealing with people, who struggle with being treated as "human resources" and consumers, rather than as the human beings they actually are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are taught that state and economy exist to serve society and people (human beings) at large, but this is simply not true.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then why do we believe it? Because we are naturally inclined to believe what we are taught by those in authority, who are well served by the state and the existing socio-economic order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone who is anyone in society, with any power or influence (including our teachers in academia) is well served by the state and status quo, which blinds them to their fundamental flaws. The system is working well for them, so they rationalise and defend it, something their above average intelligence makes them very good at.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This presents such a huge challenge that it is tempting to give up on it and simple to make the most of the current, favourable situation while we can, before the system breaks down, as it eventually must.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Paul Krugman, Oct. 17 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/opinion/their-dark-fantasies.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While Nobel Laureate and NYT columnist, Paul Krugman, is fully in touch with reality, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being a reasonable man, I suspect that Prof. Krugman would not claim to have a perfect grasp of reality, but a pretty good grasp, nevertheless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But then, who doesn't believe themselves to have a good grasp of reality? How can we not believe this without going mad?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From an evolutionary perspective, our brains evolved a need to believe in the soundness of its sense of reality. Otherwise, it would not know how to respond to its environment, which would cause it distress. It is comforting to be sure of yourself and your view of reality, and have it confirmed by others, especially to the extent that Prof. Krugman has.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prof. Krugman's view of reality, I believe, is deeply flawed, as is that of most, probably all, people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My view of reality is also flawed, of course, but less flawed than most, because based on an evolutionary understanding of my species and its situation. An understanding that is blocked to Prof. Krugman, because a previous generation of academics made a taboo of viewing their own species from a evolutionary perspective, in overreaction to the Nazis having hijacked and abused, for their own evil purposes, the half-baked ideas of social Darwinism: http://unapprovedcomments.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-wests-overreaction-to-nazism.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by </span>Topher Sanders, Oct. 13 2016 <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/sunday/only-white-people-said-the-little-girl.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">LINK</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to article)</span></div>
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It also serves the age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now supposedly unprejudiced, "colour-blind" and xenophilic elite, on the one hand, and the morally inferior, naturally (evolved human nature being what it is) prejudiced, not colour-blind, but xenophobically-inclined masses, on the other, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their "moral superiors".</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wrong! It's been curdled by the SCALE of immigration and demographic change. No one likes being reduced to an ethnic minority, where traditionally they have been the majority. Naturally, it makes them very unhappy and angry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wrong again! The rise of Mr. Trump is a consequence of mass poor-world immigration undermining many Americans sense of what it means to be an American. There used to be white America, which was overwhelmingly dominant, alongside black America and a number of other less numerous ethnic minorities. America has now gone global, a mishmash of all humanity, with white Americans on course to become just another ethnic minority, and in which Orwellian newspeak and doublethink is all that holds the country together - but for how long? (<a href="http://unapprovedcomments.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-wests-overreaction-to-nazism.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>)</span></div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-45597411479692236592016-10-13T00:43:00.001-07:002016-10-13T01:08:09.356-07:00Delusions of Nationhood<b>Can the U.S. Win This Election?</b><br />
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America (nor any other country) can not begin to tackle its problems, which are now existential, until it recognises its OWN true nature as a mercenary "patron state" deceitfully posing as a nation, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites and the immense power they wield and abuse, at the expense of society at large and its long-term survival.</div>
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States have been deceitfully posing as nations since the end of the Middle Ages, supported by their academic elites, as they always are, because of their massive personal self-interest (subconscious more than conscious) in rationalising and defending their state employer, its role, self-image (as a "nation") and ideologies (social, political, economic and racial, formerly religious), on which the state bases its claim to moral and knowledgeable authority.</div>
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I can think of only one reason: state and status quo are leading us towards disaster, which they are. But first they have to recognise <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">THIS</a>.</div>
rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-77244372650532851482016-10-02T23:45:00.001-07:002016-10-02T23:55:53.901-07:00Two More Comments on Articles Demonising Donald Trump<b>When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 7</b><br />
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By Nicholas Kristof, Oct. 1 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/opinion/sunday/when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-7.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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In the land of the free, people are not free to say what they really think or how they really feel in regard to race, because if they do they will be demonised as "racist".</div>
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European societies have always been ruled by a supposedly morally superior elite. It used to be the clergy, of course, with their religious ideology. Now its the clergy's modern heirs and counterparts in academia, politics and journalism, with a more secular, racial ideology (not coincidentally, the exact but equally extreme and insane opposite of Nazi racial ideology) who are the moral supremacists, telling others how they should and shouldn't feel.</div>
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Racial prejudice is the new original sin, which only submission to priestly/academic/state authority and ideology can save us from eternal damnation for, not as sinners, heathens or heretics, as in the past, but as bigots, xenophobes or racists.</div>
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No one with any self-respect allows themselves to be told how they should think or feel, which is why millions are turning to Donald Trump. He may be very imperfect, but at least he does not belong to America's moral supremacist, liberal elite.</div>
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By Gail Collins, Sept. 30 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/01/opinion/how-could-anyone-vote-for-trump.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)</div>
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Most recently, they both created and defeated fascism (militarily and intellectually) and put men (white men, of course) on the Moon, but for some reason they have turned against themselves, embracing an ideology white racial self-denial and self-contempt.</div>
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More subconsciously than consciously, support for Trump is, I think, a reaction to this.</div>
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One might wish for someone better than Trump, but beggars can't be choosers. It is either him or Hillary, and Hillary makes no secret of her contempt for her own race, in which regard, she is just a typical liberal, of course.</div>
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The NYT is a liberal newspaper, and there are many liberal values and attitudes that I agree with, but what I cannot accept is this ideology of white racial self-denial and self-contempt, which is perverse, an overreaction, I believe to the evils of slavery, Jim Crow, Apartheid and, above all, Nazism and the Holocaust, all of which white men were largely responsible for, but which white men also defeated.</div>
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I appeal to the NYT and its white liberal readers to look inside themselves and examine their attitude towards their own race, which has little to do with skin colour, but a great deal to do with ethnic origins, one's ancestors and cultural heritage.</div>
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-70286693362295507582016-09-28T11:56:00.003-07:002016-09-28T12:09:24.399-07:00Trump, Clinton & White Identity<b>Trump? How Could We?</b><br />
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By Thomas Friedman, September 27 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/opinion/trump-how-could-we.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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<i>"Electing such a man [as Donald Trump] would be insanity."</i> </blockquote>
I'm inclined to agree. But electing Clinton, who, like her husband and all so-called "progressives", is committed to an ideology of white racial self-denial and self-contempt, would also be insane - certainly for white America. <br />
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In overreaction to the evil of the white supremacism of Jim Crow, mainstream America (especially in academic circles) went to the opposite extreme of white self-denial and self-contempt. <br />
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It is exactly the kind of overreaction that the Editorial Board itself warned its readers about in response, The Price of Fear, to the Islamic terror attacks in Paris last November: <br />
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It wasn't just an overreaction to Jim Crow, but also, and probably more so, to the evil of Nazism and the Holocaust, which white people were also responsible for and Jewish academics (although white themselves) especially traumatised by. <br />
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This overreaction is understandable, but urgently needs to be recognised and understood, because it has caused, not just America, by western civilisation at large, to badly lose their way (see <a href="http://unapprovedcomments.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-wests-overreaction-to-nazism.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a>)<br />
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Not that we were on a good, sustainable course before hand. But it is preventing us from finding such a course, which I elaborate on <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-7465072116741347272016-09-18T10:06:00.000-07:002016-09-18T10:06:01.525-07:00Paving the Way to Hell with Good Intentions<b>Would You Hide a Jew From the Nazis?</b><br />
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By Nicholas Kristof, Sept. 17 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/would-you-hide-a-jew-from-the-nazis.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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I'm not "vilifying" refugees, or poor-world immigrants, who understandably want to settle in the wealthy West, and I would ask you, Nick, and your "progressive" colleagues, to stop vilifying those of us who oppose you in wanting to allow an endless stream of refugees and immigrants into the West, which ultimately can only end in disaster, not just for those fleeing here, but also for the West's Native (still largely white) population.</div>
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Your good intentions are paving the way to hell, which you are unable to see, because a previous generation of academics made a taboo of viewing their own species from an evolutionary perspective - an overreaction to the Nazis having hijacked and abused, for their own evil purposes, the half-baked ideas of social Darwinism.</div>
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rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-75162498560174852062016-08-24T05:56:00.001-07:002016-08-24T05:56:24.079-07:00Sociopolitical Sciences Stuck in Pre-Darwinian Dark Age<b>The Age of Post-Truth Politics</b><br />
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By Prof. William Davies, August 24 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/24/opinion/campaign-stops/the-age-of-post-truth-politics.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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As a professor of political economy, the author of this piece expects others to believe, as he does himself, of course, that he has an expert grasp of social and political reality - but does he? <br />
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I don't believe that he, or any of his academic colleagues have any better grasp of social and political reality than medieval academics had of the material world, be they Ptolemaic astronomers, alchemists, Galenic Doctors, Aristotelian physicists, or whatever. <br />
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The social and political sciences are, in my view, still stuck in a pre-Copernican, i.e. pre-Darwinian, dark age, because of the taboo a previous generation of academics made of viewing their own species from the same evolutionary perspective they view every other species.<br />
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This taboo began as an overreaction to the Nazis having hijacked and abused for their own evil purposes the half-baked ideas of social Darwinism. It should have been recognised and corrected by now, but hasn't been because a whole ideology has been built around it, on which academic and state authority now rests, just as it once did on church ideology. <br />
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When mainstream interpretation of social and political reality is so deeply flawed, it is hardly surprising that other interpretations are now gaining ground, some just, if not even more flawed than the mainstream, but others - if one can but recognise them - more realistic. <br />
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Here's a <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to my own efforts.<br />
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This comment was approved and posted by the NYT, but I thought I'd post it here anyway.rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-37740693516011571062016-08-23T13:00:00.000-07:002016-08-23T13:00:27.808-07:00The Collective Trauma of Nazism & the Holocaust<b>Putting the Power of Self-Knowledge to Work</b><br />
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By David Bernstein, August 23, 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/opinion/putting-the-power-of-self-knowledge-to-work.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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This article relates to how childhood trauma can be a major factor in an array of social ills. However, it is not just individuals who can suffer such trauma. Western civilisation itself, I believe, suffered collective psychological trauma in the form of Nazism and the Holocaust, which is widely overlooked but having a hugely negative affect on modern western society. <br />
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In an editorial response to the Islamist terror attacks in Paris last November (<span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>LINK)</u></span>, the NYT offered these wise words of warning:<br />
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Western civilisation has indeed lost its way, but because our leaders - in politics the media and, especially, academia - would have to take responsibility for it (despite a previous generation bearing personal responsibility), they are loath to admit it, even to themselves.<br />
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There is also the problem of so many <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman;">personal, professional and political self-interests now being bound up with it, which something I elaborate on in other <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/why-im-so-critical-of-post-racial.html" target="_blank">BLOGS</a>.</span></span><br />
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Because the Nazis made a huge and very ugly issue of race, there was an overreaction to the opposite extreme of denying its importance, even its very existence, altogether. <br />
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Race is not the "social construct" we are taught to believe it is (except when you try dividing closely related peoples from the same subcontinent into different races, as the Nazis insanely did), but real and important. Not in the way that racial supremacists believe it is, but because central to any deep and meaningful sense of both personal and group, i.e. genuine national, identity. This explains why the state, which deceitfully poses as a nation itself, is so keen to suppress its importance.<br />
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America, and increasingly Europe, will never solve their race problems by denying the importance of race, but quite the contrary. <br />
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Jews were especially traumatised by Nazism and the Holocaust, and thus find it especially hard to face up to. Perhaps this is why they seem to play such a prominent role in the west's extreme overreaction to it.rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-87577117993289921682016-08-23T01:29:00.000-07:002016-08-23T01:45:10.056-07:00Would Some Jews Have Made Good Nazis, if . . ? <b>My Parents’ Mixed Messages on the Holocaust</b><br />
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Prof. Stanley, I'm very much on your father's side, who, I think, takes the more rational, objective, and self-critical view - of himself and his own Jewish tribe.<br />
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It is not just victims who pose a danger, because of their understandable lack of objectivity, but the "moral supremacists" who exploit their own or others' victimhood as a source of supposed moral authority: if you are, or identify with, the victim, you are automatically against the perpetrator (in the case of the Holocaust, the Nazis) and thus a "good guy", who others will attribute high social status to, which confers huge personal, professional and/or political advantage. <br />
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The Nazis being the very embodiment of evil, their victims are ideal for moral supremacists to identity with, making them the very best of goodies. <br />
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The problem is, there is a moral supremacist in all of us, often difficult to distinguish from just wanting to be moral - inherently moral animal that we are. <br />
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Moral supremacists, who have always had immense power within society (formally as priests, now more influentially as academics, politicians and journalists), exploited the understandable overreaction to Nazism, incorporating it into<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> the state’s age-old strategy of “divide and rule”, dividing society into a morally superior, now supposedly unprejudiced, "colour-blind" and xenophilic, elite and the morally inferior, naturally (human nature being what it is) less virtuous, masses, who must submit to the authority of and domination by their "moral superiors" </span>(see <a href="http://unapprovedcomments.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-wests-overreaction-to-nazism.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a> in which I elaborate).<br />
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The above is an edited and very slightly longer version of the comment I submitted to the NYT, but wasn't approved.<br />
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Now I want to respond to what you said about being a "white Jewish-American [whose] sons and wife are black Americans", and your concerns about "a thoroughly unjustifiable racism directed against [them]".<br />
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It was natural, but mistaken, I believe, to blame the Holocaust on "racial prejudice" against Jews, i.e. anti-Semitism, as a consequence of which racial prejudice, of any sort and towards anyone, was demonised and suppressed. It was an understandable overreaction, which should have long been recognised and corrected, but hasn't been, because of its incorporation in state ideology and its strategy of divide and rule.<br />
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The truth is that human beings are prejudiced about everyone and everything, including race; in fact, especially race, given our inherent tribal nature. To demonise and suppress this is madness, which, however, there is power-political method to.<br />
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Understandably, you don't want people to be prejudiced against your wife or children, because of their colour, i.e. race, but people are and always will be prejudiced, so long as they are human.<br />
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Racial prejudice is a problem that has to be dealt with in multi-racial society, but demonising and suppressing it (as "racist", i.e. evil) is NOT the best way to go about it. In fact, it is the worst, being an overreaction to Nazi racism, which involved a lot more than just racial prejudice. Ironically, far from reducing the chances of another Holocaust, demonising and suppressing racial prejudices is a sure way of paving the way for the next one.<br />
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The demonisation of racial prejudice serves the modern, democratic state as an instrument of socio-political intimidation, rewards, punishments, manipulation and control, just as medieval church ideology once did. It has taken the place of "original sin" (disobedience of divine, i.e. priestly/state authority), which only submission to priestly/academic/state ideology and authority can save us from eternal damnation for, not as sinners, heathens or heretics, as in the past, but as bigots, xenophobes, nativists or racists.<br />
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Demonising racial preferences and prejudices is no different, if you think about it, from demonising sexual preferences and prejudices, which, of course, until very recently, the state also did.<br />
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Demonisation and criminalisation are major sources of state authority and power. Clearly, there are certain behaviours which need to be criminalised, but demonising them, and what causes them, is an obstacle to understanding both, which is what we need to do, if we are to learn the live with our prejudices in as rational and civilised a fashion as possible, which is the only alternative to living in oppressive, Orwellian kind of society, which we are well on our way to at the moment.<br />
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Before we can deal with the issue of race and racial prejudice (rather than just demonising and suppressing it) we have to deal with the nature and purpose of the state itself, which is very different from what we are taught by academics, most of whom are themselves employees of the state, with a massive personal self-interest (subconscious more than conscious) in rationalising and defending its role, self-image (as our "nation") and ideologies (social, political, economic and racial, formerly religious), on which the state bases its claim to moral and knowledgeable authority (see <a href="http://philosopherkin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/civilisation-evolutionary-cul-de-sac.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a> in which I elaborate).rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-430333871963460045.post-75234246320841014962016-08-08T18:20:00.000-07:002016-08-08T18:22:27.313-07:00The Darwinian Nature of Human Situation<b>The World Loves Refugees, When They’re Olympians</b><br />
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By Roger Cohen, August 8 2016 (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/the-world-loves-refugees-when-theyre-olympians.html" target="_blank">LINK</a> to article)<br />
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<i>"There is talk of making the United States great again — read making the United States white again."</i> </blockquote>
America was founded as a "white nation", by people (the founding fathers) who, were they to return from the grave, would be horrified at Roger's contempt for his own race. <br />
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Why such racial self-contempt? they would ask. And I would explain to them that it is an extreme overreaction to the extraordinary evils of Nazism and the Holocaust. <br />
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What Roger fails to understand is that the Holocaust itself was an expression of white racial self-hatred, which he, in effect, with his own racial self-denial and self-contempt, is perpetuating.<br />
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<i>"Nobody wants refugees."</i></blockquote>
In Europe, everyone with any sense does not want large numbers of refugees of different race or ethnicity from our own settling here, because that would be inviting ethnic tensions and conflict for decades, if not centuries, to come. We have enough people of our OWN and enough problems without adding to them. <br />
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What Roger and his "progressive" colleagues also fail to understand is the Darwinian nature of our situation, a previous generation of academics having made a taboo of it, again in overreaction to the Nazis, this time for having hijacked the half-baked ideas of social Darwinism and abused them for their own evil purposes.<br />
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There is a natural rivalry between different human races, as the full title of Darwin's book On the Origin of Species indicates. One does not have to use this as a justification for racial supremacism, let alone for genocide, as the Nazis did, but going to the opposite extreme of denying its existence, along with that of race itself, is an extremely dumb thing to do.<br />
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Roger provides a classic example of good intentions (along with the moral supremacism that often accompanies them) paving the way to hell.<br />
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See <a href="http://unapprovedcomments.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-wests-overreaction-to-nazism.html" target="_blank">BLOG</a> in which I elaborate further.rogerhickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05106963913020831522noreply@blogger.com0