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Re: Make SOME effort to educate yourself
Author: Splitting Hairs
Date: 11-11-2016 - 21:51
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> >To associate contemporary Democrats with the KKK
> based on what Woodrow Wilson or Robert Byrd did
> 100 years ago is really ignorant. I don't go
> around claiming that the Republican Party is
> supportive of Environmental Protection Agency,
> even though it was created by Republican Richard
> M. Nixon because I am intelligent enough to know
> that the Republican Party of 2016 is not the same
> as it was in 1969.
>
> Nor is it the same Republican Party my great-great
> grandfather helped found in 1860. Now that you
> mention it, Wilson, a Democrat from Tennessee,
> segregated the armed services. Thirty years later,
> Truman, a Democrat from Missouri, re-integrated
> them.
>
> My take on "political correctness" is that it
> tends to run counter to a basic human trait which
> I refer to as "us and them-ism", which is
> intimately related to the notions of family,
> tribe, nationality, even race, etc. and innate
> urges to protect them and further their
> development. Some in the anthropological world
> feel that without this trait, homo sapiens might
> hot have come into being at all.
>
> Like drinking booze (another human trait), the
> problem is getting carried away. The "libtards"
> etc. have gotten carried away in one direction;
> the Great Groper and his ilk have run off to the
> opposite extreme.
>
> In this day and age of nuclear, biological, and
> chemical weapons with their prospects of such
> widespread and long lasting destruction, a certain
> amount of consideration and decency toward others
> is an absolute necessity, including those who
> you've been brought up to "hate" or "despise"
> (those people can get carried away too). What
> makes the situation more complex is that "us and
> them-sim" enforces a herd mind-set: a few
> individuals, who happen to be Moslem, blow up a
> bunch of things, killing people. Herd thinking
> immediately couples this to "all Moselms are
> evil", which in stark reality is no different than
> saying "all Christians are evil".
>
> Given the great variety of human thinking and
> opinions, to me it's simply a self-initiated case
> of being polite to others (at lest until they
> start blowing up things, beating on you, etc.) and
> then going after those individuals rather than
> their socio-religious-ethnic-racial group. As for
> the two polarized nut-case extremes, I don't care
> for either one.
Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia, thus as a child he was a citizen of the Confederate States of America. However, he was sufficiently "reconstructed" enough to be elected governor of New Jersey in 1910.
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> >To associate contemporary Democrats with the KKK
> based on what Woodrow Wilson or Robert Byrd did
> 100 years ago is really ignorant. I don't go
> around claiming that the Republican Party is
> supportive of Environmental Protection Agency,
> even though it was created by Republican Richard
> M. Nixon because I am intelligent enough to know
> that the Republican Party of 2016 is not the same
> as it was in 1969.
>
> Nor is it the same Republican Party my great-great
> grandfather helped found in 1860. Now that you
> mention it, Wilson, a Democrat from Tennessee,
> segregated the armed services. Thirty years later,
> Truman, a Democrat from Missouri, re-integrated
> them.
>
> My take on "political correctness" is that it
> tends to run counter to a basic human trait which
> I refer to as "us and them-ism", which is
> intimately related to the notions of family,
> tribe, nationality, even race, etc. and innate
> urges to protect them and further their
> development. Some in the anthropological world
> feel that without this trait, homo sapiens might
> hot have come into being at all.
>
> Like drinking booze (another human trait), the
> problem is getting carried away. The "libtards"
> etc. have gotten carried away in one direction;
> the Great Groper and his ilk have run off to the
> opposite extreme.
>
> In this day and age of nuclear, biological, and
> chemical weapons with their prospects of such
> widespread and long lasting destruction, a certain
> amount of consideration and decency toward others
> is an absolute necessity, including those who
> you've been brought up to "hate" or "despise"
> (those people can get carried away too). What
> makes the situation more complex is that "us and
> them-sim" enforces a herd mind-set: a few
> individuals, who happen to be Moslem, blow up a
> bunch of things, killing people. Herd thinking
> immediately couples this to "all Moselms are
> evil", which in stark reality is no different than
> saying "all Christians are evil".
>
> Given the great variety of human thinking and
> opinions, to me it's simply a self-initiated case
> of being polite to others (at lest until they
> start blowing up things, beating on you, etc.) and
> then going after those individuals rather than
> their socio-religious-ethnic-racial group. As for
> the two polarized nut-case extremes, I don't care
> for either one.
Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia, thus as a child he was a citizen of the Confederate States of America. However, he was sufficiently "reconstructed" enough to be elected governor of New Jersey in 1910.
