GordyL wrote on Apr 11
th, 2016 at 12:03pm:
Ok I'll answer your question. I'm in fact, not Jewish but I live in an area with LOTS of Jews.
All of the Jews who I'd consider friends are atheist.
So what ever you'd like to call their container, be it South African, Dutch, Russian, it's just a container. Their hardware has been wiped clean of the damaging virus which is religion.
Religion? But, Gordy, we're talking about culture. Atheist Jews still eat Jewish food, celebrate Jewish holidays and do business with other Jews. As you've shown, they live in a Jewish enclave. Jewishness is not just a religion, but an identity, a culture, dare I say, a
race.
Arabs are also a culture, whether they're Christian or Muslim. Christians and Muslims both frequent the Lebanese supermarkets in my multicultural ghetto. Most of the time, you can't tell them apart - the Muslims, I imagine, are the ones who buy the non-alcoholic beer. They all have big extended families in big houses with lots of fruit trees. They all have barbies and picnics at places like Cronulla beach, the source of the infamous Cronulla riots. These riots, remember, targeted Lebs, not Muslims, and the religion of the instigators that started those riots is not even known.
People on this board blame Muslims for the behavior of Lebs. They're quite happy to confuse the two. The reason they target Muslims is the immigration of Arabs. They "drive through" suburbs like Granville, Auburn or Bankstown and come to this board to complain about all the swarthy faces. They post articles about Muslims in the UK or Middle East to show how evil the swarthies are. They target Muslims because they're not happy with the changing racial/cultural population of our cities.
Back in the 90s, it was the Vietnamese. Pauline Hanson focused solely on Asian immigration and Aboriginals. At that stage, the Arab population had not yet reached its tipping point (it wasn't in the tabloids enough). Now, the racists here pretend they've always loved hard-working Asians and are only here to complain about Muslims, or as FD puts it, to criticize Islam.
This, of course, is all a hoax. The tail is wagging the dog. The racists have also gone for boat people, who at their highest number, added about 5000 people a year to our population of 26 million. Their resolve has been strengthened by the political focus of this issue, and the national clampdown on refugees who come by boat. Now that they've stopped the boats, they want to ban the Muslims, by which they really mean Arabs. After all, anyone can lie about their religion, and as you've shown, most people aren't religious anyway. The racists want people banned from "Muslim countries", by which they mean the Middle East and most of Central Asia.
Many, if not most, of the refugees we've had from these countries over the past 30 years have been Christians and minority ethnic groups and sects.
So, yes, I'd say religion actually has very little to do with this debate, and is only used as an excuse. What
really gets up the racists' noses is the belief that people from other races are trying to get one over Whitey. This includes things like dressing in foreign clothes, making complaints about hospital procedures, and having the gall to migrate to a white country in the first place. The racists here are incensed that the tinted races refuse to know their place. Their preferred social order harks back to colonialism, when the tinted races deferred to the white man. If a member of a tinted race complains or doesn't keep his (or her) mouth shut, they're bucking this perceived social order. The racists, you see, have a huge sense of entitlement. They argue that they deserve their place because their ancestors invented things and were successful in business. They argue that they deserve their place because their ancestors were good at subduing populations by force. "We won", they say. "To the victor the spoils".
Their argument, of course, means that if China takes over the Pacific and recolonizes Africa and parts of the Middle East, they'll be entitled to it too, but the racists don't like to agree with this. They just demand that they keep their 19th century social order in place for all time - a big ask, and one that is slowly being taken away from them. East Asia is outperforming the West in economic growth, population growth, industrial production, military development, literacy and numeracy skills, and in the number of patents filed (the inventions). The racists hate this because it renders their arguments redundant, so they cling to liberal critiques of religion - that is, they blame Islam.
Of course, you wouldn't do this, would you, Gordy?
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