Why is it seemingly nowadays that if a person has a traditional view about a social issue, they are?

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  • Don't worry, the progressive feminist left will never lose it's grip on Sweden.

    Leluch123 posted: »

    So the police and the governments in Europe are just trying to keep Muslim violence quiet. Otherwise the backlash will be likely real, and t

  • Leluch123Leluch123 Banned
    edited February 2016

    You're probably right Sweden is lost anyways... Ragnar must roll in his grave...

    ousen posted: »

    Don't worry, the progressive feminist left will never lose it's grip on Sweden.

  • edited February 2016

    Sweden

    I just googled them to find out latest news

    http://www.thelocal.se/20160227/daily-mail-runs-campaign-against-sweden

    Now attempting to censor other countries criticism of them

    http://www.thelocal.se/20160227/im-going-to-die-swedish-girl-tells-of-life-under-isis

    One of their citizens gets impregnated and kidnapped by isis

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden

    Ever since the collation of crime statistics was initiated by the Council of Europe, Sweden has had the highest number of registered rape offences in Europe by a considerable extent. In 1996, Sweden registered almost three times the average number of rape offences registered in 35 European countries.

    http://www.dailystormer.com/immigration-has-made-sweden-the-rape-capital-of-the-world/

    Sweden now has the second highest number of rapes in the world, after South Africa, which at 53.2 per 100,000 is six times higher than the United States.

    So covering up the problem for years only made problem worse

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    Ok now this is freaking me out this is my last comment on this

    Leluch123 posted: »

    You're probably right Sweden is lost anyways... Ragnar must roll in his grave...

  • Which caused a Dominantly SA organized Riot against Jewish Business and homes within Germany that became known as the Night of the Broken Glass.

    "Caused"? You must be joking, Kamerad. I'm not sure if you're quite aware of the situation of Jews in in 1938. Here, let me help you with that.

    Meanwhile, the position of the Grynszpan family in Hanover was becoming increasingly precarious. Sendel's business was declining, and Herschel's siblings both lost their jobs. In August 1938 the German authorities announced that all residence permits for foreigners were being cancelled and would have to be renewed. This was in reaction to a Polish decree which was to take away the Polish citizenship of Jews living outside the country, including those in Germany. A few days before that decree was to come into force, on 26 October, the Gestapo was ordered to arrest and deport all Polish Jews residing in Germany immediately. The Grynszpan family was among the estimated 12,000 Polish Jews arrested, stripped of their property, and herded aboard trains headed for Poland. At the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Sendel Grynszpan recounted the events of their deportation on the night of 27 October 1938: "Then they took us in police trucks, in prisoners’ lorries, about 20 men in each truck, and they took us to the railway station. The streets were full of people shouting: "Juden raus! Aus nach Palästina!" ("Out with the Jews! Off to Palestine!").

    When they reached the border, they were forced to walk 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the Polish border town of Zbąszyń (Bentschen, in German). Poland refused to admit them at first as the Sanation regime had no desire to receive the Jews whom it had just stripped of their Polish citizenship. The expulsions only stopped when the Polish government threatened to start expelling members of Poland's Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) minority into Germany. The Grynszpans and thousands of other Polish-Jewish deportees stranded at the border were fed by the Polish Red Cross. Conditions for the hapless refugees trapped out in the open on the German-Polish frontier were extremely bad. A British woman who went to work with the Red Cross in providing help reported: "I found thousands crowded together in pigsties. The old, the sick and children herded together in the most inhumane conditions."[13] Life there was so bad, she continued "that some actually tried to escape back to Germany and were shot". It was from Zbąszyn that his sister Berta sent a postcard to Herschel in Paris, recounting what had happened and, in a line that was crossed out, apparently pleading for help. The postcard was dated 31 October and reached Herschel on Thursday, 3 November.

    On the evening of Sunday, 6 November 1938, Grynszpan asked his uncle Abraham to send money to his family. Abraham said he had little to spare, and that he was incurring both financial cost and legal risks by harbouring his nephew, an undocumented alien and unemployed youth. There was a furious scene, and Herschel walked out of his uncle's house carrying only about 300 francs. He spent the night in a cheap hotel. On the morning of 7 November, Grynszpan wrote a farewell postcard to his parents, which he put in a pocket. He went to a gunshop in the Rue du Faubourg St Martin, where he bought a 6.35mm revolver and a box of 25 bullets for 235 francs. He caught the metro to the Solférino station and walked to the German Embassy at 78 Rue de Lille. It is generally believed that Grynszpan wanted to assassinate Count Johannes von Welczeck, the German ambassador to France. While entering the embassy, Grynszpan walked by the exiting Count von Welczeck, who went out for a walk on the Paris streets every morning. At 09:45 am at the Embassy reception desk, Grynszpan represented himself as a German resident and asked to see an Embassy official; he did not ask for anyone by name (an important point in the light of later events). Grynszpan claimed to be some sort of spy who had very important intelligence, which he had to hand over to the most senior diplomat available, preferably the ambassador. Unaware that he had just walked past Count von Welczeck, Grynszpan asked if he could see "His Excellency, the ambassador", to hand over the "most important document" he claimed to have. The clerk on duty asked Ernst vom Rath, the more junior of the two Embassy officials available, to see him. When Grynszpan entered vom Rath's office, Rath asked to see the "most important document". Instead, Grynszpan pulled out his gun and shot vom Rath, five times in the abdomen. According to the French police account, he shouted "You're a filthy boche" and that he acted in the name of 12,000 persecuted Jews.

    Grynszpan made no attempt to resist or escape, and identified himself correctly to the French police. He confessed to shooting vom Rath (who was in critical condition in a hospital), and again said that his motive for doing so was to avenge the persecuted Jews. In his pocket was the postcard to his parents. It said: "With God's help. My dear parents, I could not do otherwise, may God forgive me, the heart bleeds when I hear of your tragedy and that of the 12,000 Jews. I must protest so that the whole world hears my protest, and that I will do. Forgive me. Hermann [his German name]"

    This murder was just a pretext, an excuse for the Nazis to do what they had wanted to do for a long time anyway.

    Something like that was bound to happen, it was deliberately provoked. Surely you'd go quietly when all your folks are systematically wiped out?

    The US certainly didn't help out much. They didn't want to take any Jews in because they were afraid there could be German terrorists among them.

    History repeats.

    Kameraden posted: »

    I think people are afraid to become Nazi stereotypes. Being the Nazis used such events to arrest and lock up millions of people though. De

  • I guess the fun ends when you deny a large group of people rather elementary rights for no other reason than "it's always been this way".

  • VainamoinenVainamoinen Moderator
    edited February 2016

    The German governments cover up of the sexual assaults in cologne because not PC to ever highlight anything bad about the recent influx immigrants I remember reading somewhere Merkel german PM her getting re-elected would be in serious doubt if anything bad about the immigrants she let in came out so it was covered up

    No governmental hand was in the police's cover up of the Cologne incidents and Merkel's re-election is mainly in doubt because her governing style is based on having no plan at all.

    We don't have a problem with journalists chosing to not report on immigrant crime; we have a problem with journalists and others reporting complete bullshit about it.

    http://hoaxmap.org/

    (Website collects and disproves rumors/reports about refugee and immigrant crime. There's quite a bit of that crap. Evidently some people think the media isn't reporting enough crimes of foreigners, so they're making something up.)

    Markd4547 posted: »

    Getting criticism for unpopular opinion is normal I heard quote recently I can't remember who said it but stuck with me. If a belief can't t

  • I think you got the point exactly but missed my saying it completely.

    Vainamoinen posted: »

    Which caused a Dominantly SA organized Riot against Jewish Business and homes within Germany that became known as the Night of the Broken Gl

  • edited February 2016

    Sounds like "reporters" being reporters. Take what juicy information you can and sell news papers before you know whether it is true or not. That can land you in jail in some countries. Called "False" reporting. But when so many collectively do it at once, it's kind of hard to punish people for false reporting.

    Personally such reports are not a big deal as long as the reporters and news papers hosting the articles make it clear that it isn't fact, but rumors, and hear say, and make sure the readers "Know" that it likely is rather than fact. Tragically, that often doesn't happen. If you believe the local police and government are covering it up, make sure you let the viewer/readers know the writer's opinion is that an "Opinion."

    Vainamoinen posted: »

    The German governments cover up of the sexual assaults in cologne because not PC to ever highlight anything bad about the recent influx immi

  • Yay for multikulti and tolerance, I hope they are happy in their culture rich paradise!

    Markd4547 posted: »

    Sweden I just googled them to find out latest news http://www.thelocal.se/20160227/daily-mail-runs-campaign-against-sweden Now

  • I didn't say that I agree with everything those Youtubers say. I simply pointed out that they address the specific points of the people they're critiquing. Go back and look at Sargon's older videos, and you'll see that he'll play a clip from the video he's responding to, and then address what was said in that particular clip. And Mundane Matt will usually show the article he's talking about on screen and read out certain segments of it. You can't make a meaningful critique if you don't address the point.

    BigBlindMax posted: »

    2016 : When impressionable teens get their political philosophy from ranters on YouTube. What a world we live in.

  • Vainamoinen posted: »

    Which caused a Dominantly SA organized Riot against Jewish Business and homes within Germany that became known as the Night of the Broken Gl

  • BigBlindMaxBigBlindMax Banned
    edited February 2016

    That's fine I guess. Just seems like you're parroting their views a bit. Can't speak on the other two, but Sargon of Akkad is a big-time quote miner and scammed his fans on Kickstarter. He gets paid to be sensationalist and clickbaity.

    No offense, but getting your political philosophy from YouTube pundits is little better than getting it from the back of a cereal box.

    I didn't say that I agree with everything those Youtubers say. I simply pointed out that they address the specific points of the people they

  • But doesn't that group in itself denies the rights of people within it's own group?

    Vainamoinen posted: »

    I guess the fun ends when you deny a large group of people rather elementary rights for no other reason than "it's always been this way".

  • American society has greater morals than the ones presented in the bible. We don't kill people for working on the sabbath, where is the outcry from the zealots over that?

  • I don't get it from them. I watch them because I agree with quite a bit of what they say.

    BigBlindMax posted: »

    That's fine I guess. Just seems like you're parroting their views a bit. Can't speak on the other two, but Sargon of Akkad is a big-time q

  • Well, while it's true that some ''internet progressives'' (aka SJW) don't know where to draw the line, most religious conservatives (if not all) want to force their own beliefs on other people, such as homosexuals. It's okay if you don't support the act of two men/women getting married, you don't have to, but if you try to deny their RIGHT of doing so, then I don't see why you shouldn't be considered a ''bigot''. You CAN be morally against gay marriage and still be in favor of the legalization. Otherwise, you're just shoving your own beliefs down their throaths.

  • JenniferJennifer Moderator
    edited February 2016

    You don't necessarily even have to be for it, you can just shrug it off as an inevitability. There were a lot of prominent conservative celebrities who were against gay marriage, but stopped talking out against it after the Supreme Court ruling legalizing it. They still didn't support it, but they figured what's done is done, and they were able to move on.

    As long as there is still freedom of religion, the legalization of gay marriage won't affect you if you're not gay or bisexual, as you are still free to attend a church that interprets its religious texts to not allow the marriage of gay couples. Just as Orthodox Jewish churches can still refuse to marry a Christian person to a Jewish person, a church can refuse to marry gay couples. This legislation isn't going to change any of that.

    Freedom of religion isn't going anywhere in the United States. Despite what some pundits say, there is no "slippery slope" that is going to force churches to perform ceremonies they don't believe in. If there was such a thing, the Orthodox Jewish churches would have been forced to marry Christian people to Jewish people when the civil rights laws were put into place in the 1960s.

    TheCatWolf posted: »

    Well, while it's true that some ''internet progressives'' (aka SJW) don't know where to draw the line, most religious conservatives (if not

  • edited February 2016

    It doesn't make sense to me either but I personally think it's a horrible attitude to dislike people based on visual interpretation rather than substance but I don't want to sound like I'm telling people who have opposing opinions as me as being wrong. I personally don't think it's okay to dislike something on the basis of 'just because' but I can't really force an opinion on someone, especially if they keep it to themselves. It would be a nicer world in my opinion if people didn't dislike others based on things they can't change about themselves.

    Chilled posted: »

    Well said. But it just doesn't make sense to me those that don't like women/dark skinned people/etc 'just because'. There's no real reason and I just see ignorance, but I get you and mostly agree.

  • Should people who don't want others to have basic human rights based on beliefs be called 'Social Justice Warriors'? Because I personally don't see any kind of Social Justice, it's more so Religious Justice.

    TheCatWolf posted: »

    Well, while it's true that some ''internet progressives'' (aka SJW) don't know where to draw the line, most religious conservatives (if not

  • And even if we're not dealing with the local clerk refusing marriage certificates, it is still the principles people vote on. So yes, those kinds of positions do hurt people.

    That's just the price of being able to vote freely.

    Sarangholic posted: »

    That's pretty much the context the OP is referring to, namely being against gay marriage. And even if we're not dealing with the local clerk

  • I know what you mean about people having no respect for tradition, because when I was doing human sacrifices to the Allfather at a blót I was holding, some people got really bent out of shape.

  • edited February 2016

    You are referencing a 2000 year old text. No sane religious person uses the Bible as their entire moral compass. You should read it and you may get a better understanding. The Bible never once states it's morally okay to kill.
    Quote me wrong, because even if you can, you are still using a 2000 year old text as a basis for your point on a modern society.

    American society has greater morals than the ones presented in the bible. We don't kill people for working on the sabbath, where is the outcry from the zealots over that?

  • I don't believe in going to heaven when you die. I've just never believed in it! I believe that when we die, that's it.

    And as far as going to hell I don't believe in that either. My reason for not believing in Hells because I've always heard it said that human beings are God's children, and I've always asked myself: "What kind of loving father, (and God is all loving), would stick his son or daughter's hand in a fire to punish them for something they did wrong? If a loving human father wouldn't do so, than why would God, who is the creator of man?"

    Sarangholic posted: »

    Well then correct me. Do you believe in Hell? Do you believe in Heaven? And what are the criteria for getting to Heaven if you believe in it?

  • Wow, that was... unexpected. Pardon me for mischaracterizing your views.

    My advice, never read The Bible, it will completely screw with your idea of God.

    Though that leaves a good number of questions, namely the question of Evil, and perhaps more importantly, a sort of modified Pascal's Wager - if there is no damnation, and therefore now salvation, but only the human world, why should we follow God's laws, supposing for the sake of argument that God does exist?

    Kenny/Lee posted: »

    I don't believe in going to heaven when you die. I've just never believed in it! I believe that when we die, that's it. And as far as goi

  • I think Chewy was being sarcastic.

    Chilled posted: »

    You are referencing a 2000 year old text. No sane religious person uses the Bible as their entire moral compass. You should read it and you

  • Uh, what? I think you misunderstood what I said.

    prink34320 posted: »

    Should people who don't want others to have basic human rights based on beliefs be called 'Social Justice Warriors'? Because I personally don't see any kind of Social Justice, it's more so Religious Justice.

  • edited February 2016

    I think the problem with Tradition is people much rather live with an "American" tradition which is easily up for debate on what is "American." Personally the USA's concept of Tradition is actually the adoption of traditions of all the varied cultures/people who have come here over our nations entire history. So those who's families have lived here for a few generations automatically say this is the American way of life, and anyone new who comes here must adapt to it. But the issue being the US has had a tradition to adapting to the people who move here, not the other way around. The only reason it worked so well for so long was because people and immigrants had the ability to build their own communities, but now the available land is drying up and it's considerably harder for a large immigrant group to move to the USA without moving into areas already occupied by another group of people. Which causes scorn.

    I mean I live an a dominantly Irish and German area of Illinois and we celebrate a lot of local festivals and holidays not celebrated by the rest of the country. If I drive far enough north I will run into area which was prominently settled by Scandinavians for example. List goes on and on.

    That being said. As an American I'm all for new cultures coming to the USA, because that is part of our tradition, part of our history to do so. I personally would hate to see it ruin ancient parts of the world however which have long deep histories spanning thousands of Years. I do not like the idea of Europeans moving to Asia, or Arabs moving to Europe. etc etc etc.

    I know what you mean about people having no respect for tradition, because when I was doing human sacrifices to the Allfather at a blót I was holding, some people got really bent out of shape.

  • I was referencing exodus, which is from an even older book, but thank you for actually getting my point. Why are people using millenia-old books to justify their social and political views and just outright ignoring the parts of the same books they don't like?

    Chilled posted: »

    You are referencing a 2000 year old text. No sane religious person uses the Bible as their entire moral compass. You should read it and you

  • My stupid mistake haha. I agree then

    I was referencing exodus, which is from an even older book, but thank you for actually getting my point. Why are people using millenia-old

  • Wait no...the point is that a lot of morals don't apply to a modern society whereas others do. Basic ones such as 'kindness' are present in the Bible and of course are expected in society, things like murder isn't 'ignored' because people don't like it, it's because it's not used in the context of what God is trying to teach Christians. It's simply used because the Bible was written by over 20 different people and the history was vastly different. I hope that makes sense.
    Can you provide some examples? Only if you want to discuss haha.

    Chilled posted: »

    My stupid mistake haha. I agree then

  • You can believe what you want, but if your belief involves any form of discrimination against people who can't control who they are, then no, I'm not going to respect your belief.

  • edited March 2016

    I know someone who shared a picture on Facebook of a gay person in Russia getting kicked in public because he was holding a LGBT flag. He posted a caption saying that he approves that Russia "doesn't accept fags" and "this is what happens to faggots in Russia." I commented my surprise and disapproval of such a close-minded and hateful comment and someone called me a hypocrite because I didn't respect his "beliefs". If you believe something like that is okay, then I'm not going to respect you, case closed.

  • Clarification to OP: I'm not saying you support anything of the sort, I'm just stating in general how I feel about these kinds of arguments.

    I know someone who shared a picture on Facebook of a gay person in Russia getting kicked in public because he was holding a LGBT flag. He po

  • "I'm intolerant of intolerance."

    I know someone who shared a picture on Facebook of a gay person in Russia getting kicked in public because he was holding a LGBT flag. He po

  • edited March 2016

    Sure, if that's how you wanna look at it. I'm not going to respect those kinds of beliefs, and neither will a lot of people. If you support the physical hurting of someone or something that doesn't affect you in any way, like homosexuals, then no, I'm not gonna be okay with that. And yes, that does make me a better person than them because I'm not the one supporting physical violence.

    Viva-La-Lee posted: »

    "I'm intolerant of intolerance."

  • No respect or quarter for bigots.

    Viva-La-Lee posted: »

    "I'm intolerant of intolerance."

  • I mean, you're saying exactly what I've been saying and asking me for examples of what?

    Chilled posted: »

    Wait no...the point is that a lot of morals don't apply to a modern society whereas others do. Basic ones such as 'kindness' are present in

  • You sound like you're for the Bible as well as being against it, on one hand, you agree with me. But then you say "just outright ignoring the parts of the same books they don't like?", like you don't like the fact people 'pick and choose' what they believe in it (which isn't true if you read it). That's what it sounds like anyway, I have no idea if you are with or against me haha. Maybe i'm just confused. I'll narrow it down, are you Christian? Or other? That will most likely make me understand instantly.

    I mean, you're saying exactly what I've been saying and asking me for examples of what?

  • Okay I see the problem, and I'm not having a theology debate with you. No one ever gains anything from those. I will jusy say I disagree with you in regards to people picking and choosing what parts of the bible the will and will not follow. But this is likely due to it being written and/or translated in a way that makes it difficult to know if a certain passage is to be taken literally. I think you already touched on it being written thousands of years ago by multiple people so I hope this comment won't cause further confusion.

    Chilled posted: »

    You sound like you're for the Bible as well as being against it, on one hand, you agree with me. But then you say "just outright ignoring th

  • Ruin the lives of and kill those that want to ruin lives and kill.

    http://mythologian.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ouroboros-dragon-serpent-snake-symbol-716x400.jpg

    BigBlindMax posted: »

    No respect or quarter for bigots.

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