RE: It's okay to be Takei
May 21, 2012 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2012 at 4:05 pm by Ben Davis.)
(May 21, 2012 at 3:15 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I do have to recognize their rights, as the government recognizes their rights. Who am I to oppose the government in that regard?When you said...
Quote:Even though a person of a mixed race has equal rights under the law, such a person does not have equal worth in front of my eyes....you admitted that you don't care what the law might say, you'll apply your own criteria with the specific purpose of treating people unequally on grounds of their ethnicity.
Quote:Well, I guess you never heard of ethnic consciousness. That is the consciousness that I and many nationalists possess.Of course I know the term, don't be patronising. It's purpose was to unite oppressed ethnicities in the struggle for equal rights (in the same way the term 'feminism' is used by women). It was not intended to be used as a nationalistic premise for bigotry! Your abuse of the term shits on the memory of all those who made any kind of sacrifice in the name of racial equality.
The belonging of a particular people and race. Not two or more peoples or races.
Quote:I feel belonging to a single and single race of people only.You do; the human race. It doesn't matter how you 'feel' about it, that is the basic fact. You might well benefit from having your genes sequenced & read so that you can understand how similar you are to other people of every nation. All human 'ethnicities' are a varied mixture of each other; in fact, there is no such thing as 'ethnicity' except as the result of negative tribal memes. A greater understanding of what binds us as a species would do you the world of good.
Quote:Whatever. Obviously I do not care if you choose to pollute your own blood. Just stop inciting others to do so by preaching that it doesn't matter.You demonstrate my previous point for me. I don't care about your tribalistic justifications for bigotry, it doesn't change the fact that your views cause harm to others. Thousands of people are killed each year because of such views; many, many more are abused or injured.
It matters a lot.
It spells the difference between loyalty and disloyalty, it spells the difference between honesty and dishonesty, it spells the difference between being useful to your nation and to your people and being a liability.
Certainly, in a country that was founded upon an ethnicity, we must care about such things.
One more thing. Historically, societies which have accepted other 'ethnicities' into their own have generated far higher survival rates and quality of life, on an individual basis, than those which have xenophobic tendencies. Not only are your views ethically questionable, they're fractally wrong.
Sum ergo sum