Its a fact that people generally prefer to live with others who are culturally and ethnically similar to themselves.

Its also a fact that pride in your unique cultural is mostly encouraged and considered a positive thing.

Unless you're white.

If you're a *white person* who prefers to live with other people who look like you

and if you are proud of whatever white culture you participate in,

then you're a racist and white supremacist. nostr:note17d8x6urd6g32dduvks205vtmxtnmk40zerhlq5uaft3kgc09cwyqp5eapu

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Basing it on race is too simple, IMO. If someone has a high IQ, I want them in my country, and to settle down here, and then mix in as much as they can tolerate. Race only becomes an issue if they're dumb. Not trying to throw insults at anyone - I just prefer to cut it that way instead.

I'm not talking about immigration in an abstract way.

I'm talking about the daily experience of people living life.

in which case

if you're stupid you probably want to hang out with other stupid people

who look like you and have similar cultural assumptions.

And I'm not saying it's 100%

people come together all the time crossing cultural and racial boundaries.

But by and large

it's just *easier for everybody to live amongst people who are similar

True. I combine all my social assertions with localism - only a community has any right to make decisions about that particular community. How much immigration they allow, or with what criteria, is up to them. No one in Israel should be telling my town in Texas to accept refugees, or insert whatever locations. That's not because I don't want to help refugees - I actually do - but a foreigner telling my community anything is an act of war in my view, and I would absolutely respond to any such imposition with war, if I had such authority (which I don't want).

Racism is a system. The problem isn't with cultural pride, the problem is with active ostracization coming from political offices and the media. What the comic is showing is manufactured consent for immigration policy, using a denatured definition of racism as a cudgel

then we're talking about different things.

I've heard people say stuff like this, but I really don't think this is true. I do think people prefer to live around those they grew up near and who, generally, hold the same basic values. This doesn't necessarily mean they're the same ethnicity, and it also doesn't necessarily mean they have entirely the same culture. For instance, I wouldn't want to live near some white dude swinging around a Confederate flag or spouting off about LGBT people committing sins or whatever.

However, IMO this is an argument for diversity. When children with parents of different ethnicities and cultures grow up together and interact, presumably their views and beliefs will be something of a mix of their parents' and those they grew up near (perhaps with the exception being if the parents are obscenely racist or something like that).

Likewise, I don't think there's a limit to celebrating "white culture" (I'm assuming you're mainly talking about celebrating stuff from various European cultures). I do think some people take their opinions too far and demonize white people (this happens in the other direction too, of course), which is obviously not good, but IMO this is the exception rather than the norm. It's just that the exceptions tend to be rather loud (especially on social media).

Guilt or Shame is a tactic used to oppress groups/individuals into behaving within a "desired" norm. This norm is desired by the weaker party, the party which would use violent coercion if they were strong enough.

The act of shaming is a feminine trait for this reason.

When the mental burden of guilt is shed, cowards can be dealt with precipitously, either through legitimate negotiation or acts of violence.

The goal is to not allow oneself to be shamed, but rather discuss forward options. If negotiation fails, violence is required.

Western culture is currently Feminine, but that may soon change.