Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Feb 11
th, 2014 at 3:01pm:
sir prince duke alevine wrote on Feb 11
th, 2014 at 1:50pm:
Misty, you know too well that I called you an extremist because of the colourful words you tried to use to describe issues. Remember? And especially when you start talking about feces.
Incorrect. Read here:
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1391510268/255 Read particularly reply 258, as most of the conversation is in quote boxes. Nowhere did I use "colourful words". I merely described what topics I'd like to see on Q&A. You dismissed and ridiculed topics I'd like to see discussed on the show. It's not hard to see who is the extremist when someone flat out refuses to talk about some topics.
Quote:May I also add Misty, my dearest old friend, that ethnic crime is a very nice strawman created by dummies like yourself to try and lay blame on the rise of crime on "multiculturism", instead of on the true cause, being the growing divide in social equality.
There is so much wrong here I do not know where to start. "Social equality"?! What is that? What does it even mean? There can only be equality of opportunity. Never equality of outcome. You simply can't regulate humans to be equal. You'd have to cripple and lobotomise everyone at birth (even then some would excel and others would be mediocre as they progress through life).
The second problem is the presumption that, even if "social equality" is to be achieved, how does this fix crime? Crime will exist as long as laws exist. But laws will always exist, so there will always be crime. The real problem here is limiting crime to an acceptable level. This requires social conditioning. Equality doesn't mean anything here. People have to be conditioned or "engineered" into believing that certain behaviours are acceptable and certain behaviours are not. And if you import people from a culture where certain behaviour is tolerated and accepted, but not tolerated or accepted here, then we could call that "ethnic crime".
Moreover, crime is actually a necessary evil. It shows what behaviour is acceptable. You can't have the good without the bad; they work in an ineradicable dialectic. We hold up what is good behaviour by contrasting it with the bad. Not that we should tolerate certain behaviour. Equality here doesn't even enter the equation. In fact, it makes the situation hazy and confusing, especially to shallow thinkers like yourself.
The word equality needs to be expunged from the lexicon. It's a weasel word, and used to often justify the most horrific atrocities. Just like your old country with its bloody and murderous past. No matter how many they killed or how much social engineering and bureaucracies they set up, they couldn't achieve the secular paradise.
Misty, what is social equality? Really? I'm going to equate that to your own conditioning

It really is quite sad, that when someone speaks of social equality, you straight away assume one is talking about outcomes. No, no, no. Social equality means equal rights, and equal access to opportunities (health,education). Would I say our current society offers this? Obviously not. And as a result of the inequalities that exist, this is where crime spawns from. Can it ever be eradicated? Probably not, I agree with you. But the rises we have seen have come from the direct result of our society becoming less equal.
Can I get an example from you as to what you would consider an actual ethnic crime? An actual example, Misty. I'm curious to understand what crime is occurring in Australia that is accepted by the "ethnics" back home, but we deem intolerable. And then I'd be interested to investigate further to truly understand the underlying cause.
Oh and Misty, my reply 258 was actually:
Quote:I'm not ridiculing all the issues. I'm ridiculing how you call the issues.
The only issue I will ridicule is ethnic crime, because I'm curious to understand how it's different to normal crime?
so Am I ridiculing the issues you've raised, Mist? Or how you choose to refer to them? Think about it. Use that PHD brain.