RE: The right.
March 16, 2020 at 2:34 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2020 at 3:11 am by WinterHold.)
(March 15, 2020 at 11:21 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Try not to obsess over the loonies who want to pin the world’s woes on Muslims. It isn’t everyone, it isn’t even everyone on the right. It’s a tiny but vocal minority who would rather use your faith as a catch-all scapegoat than take a hard look at the facts.
Kinda like the the way you personally want to pin everything on Zionists. Stings a little, dunnit?
Boru
It's not tiny at all, it won in America for example with herds behind herds of Trump supporters.
In the UK it managed to get the UK out of the EU.
As for Zionism, only a contradictious person would still give the outdated British movement any legitimacy. WW1 is over, the world today is not the world of WW1. The imperialistic era is over. Zionists are a plague in today's world.
(March 15, 2020 at 1:37 pm)chimp3 Wrote: @Winterhold: What is left wing in Saudi Arabia? Does the left exist at all or is everyone a fascist?
There is no left or right in Saudi Arabia; rather there is a central monarch controlling everything.
(March 15, 2020 at 3:59 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(March 15, 2020 at 11:02 am)WinterHold Wrote: News about the presence of rightist extremists in New Zealand have been quite a surprise to me.
The xenophobic anti-Muslim lobby is still present as it seems; despite the many hits its concepts have received.
The biggest surprise that I still have with the anti-Muslim mentality is this: how is it still authentic to blame Muslims for the world's huge problems?
From Coronavirus to the possession of fatal nuclear weapons by non-Muslim countries; up to the almost crazy-uncountable selling of weapons by non-Muslims; is blaming Muslims for any problem in western society is a worthy cause or a simple spicks and specks drawn by a greedy person with a hate complex and a need for a cause to gain votes in an election or more cash ?
In my opinion, the right's xenophobia would never end, because it is in the essence of any society since the dawn of time.
The Internet has allowed me to see that there really is an astonishing amount of bigotry in the world.
I don't know if it was always there, and got more visible because of computers, or if the Internet tends to spread it. Maybe both.
Recently on Twitter I discovered that there's a big overlap among people who prefer traditional art, architecture, and urban design with white supremacy. Any photo of a nice street in a traditional town will soon draw anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim comments.
And of course you can't talk sense to such people, because their bigotry isn't based on reason in the first place.
The internet got compromised in its simple form meaning that profiles in twitter -or any other network allowing new member to join- can get easily manipulated or created to form a fake general opinion.
We saw that with the Trump presidential campaign when millions of accounts and messages started to support him online. There are PR companies that provide this service for a payment btw.
So I won't trust social media easily. Their system is rigged, and unless new security measures are used to secure accounts; they remain a mere medium for spreading whatever billions of times if you got enough processing power.
Don't chat with these accounts because either you won't get a response; or will get a recorded message. A single person might be behind thousands of accounts; with a software made to control these accounts' messages.
That's why you can't talk sense into them.
About art, any familiarity with "surrealism art"?
I'm always shocked when I look into horror surrealism, I don't know any artists but these paintings keep me in wonder most of the time.
Though kinda disgusted at times