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Small town Republican thoughts on refuting the alt-right. In The Republican Journal:
I want to make one thing very clear: The Waldo County Republican Committee absolutely, unequivocally condemns Nazi and KKK ideologies and actions, as well as any other kind of bigotry, and we encourage all of our voters and the community at large to do the same.
For fellow Republicans out there, worry not, we don't like Antifa's ideology and actions either, but we need to clean our own house; we need to worry about our own responsibilities.
Such honesty, and clarity of thought!
The most dangerous part of politics today is identity politics, trolling, pathos and a severe lack of critical thinking. You cannot defeat the insidious hatred of bigoted politics with more hate. By doing so, you morph the conversation away from policy and ideology to silly label syntax, eventually devolving completely into back and forth verbal gymnastics. Make no mistake, these trolls are ready for you as you stoop to their level, and they beat you up with mountains of experience.
So what do we do? Very simple. Stay neighborly by controlling your reaction. Seek out those with whom you disagree, try to understand them first, and politely offer your counter argument.
And it looks like the Republicans in Maine, if not in Illinois, are rejecting the alt-right.
The way to defeat Mr. Kawczynski is not by attacking him, but by attacking his ideas. Here are some flaws in his thinking: His immigration ideas are antithetical to the Maine Republican party platform, a section of which states, "We support the assimilation of legal immigrants into Maine society."
Kawczynski's ideas stand in contrast to Maine history and culture; in fact, it is white folks with racist ideologies who pose the greatest threat to Maine's foundation, not other races of people.
Another brilliant tidbit:
Ultimately, all you have to do is walk outside with your eyes open in this state to see that Kawczynski's fearmongering about "white genocide" is completely laughable.
Entire guest column is well worth a read.
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Saturday February 10 2018, @04:09PM
Look for coincidences and ratios. Some groups can't get along with any other group, others live in peace. Take for example Jews vs Samoans. Now Samoans are about 1/10th the world population of Jews so terms like "Samoan Pogrom" or "Samoan Holocaust" should be about a tenth the Jewish equivalent, after all both races have lived with those horrible white males for a long time. In just ONE civilizations conflict during ONE war in ONE decade there were 24 nazi death camps for the Jews. Now Samoans being 1/10th the Jew population you'd assume over the entire history of mankind there numerically should have to be at least a tenth of the Jewish experience, or 2.4 Samoan Death Camps. Yet you look for them and find ... nothing?
The closest you can find is shitposting about how a fifth the population of Samoa died when New Zealand was running the place during the 1919 flu epidemic, whereas 9K New Zealanders died out of 1.4 million which is maybe 1%. The flu overall killed about 5% of the planet's human population but it varied by a factor of ten or so based on civil engineering infrastructure and medical treatment or lack thereof, and frankly probably a lot based on luck, so its hard to really claim NZ holocausted the Samoans in 1919 with a straight face. And that weak attempt is the best I can find. Its just so odd, for centuries about half of Europe (or the USA) had Samoa as a colony but they as a race never "earned" enough animosity for camps.
Its just odd the way some groups catch hell from multiple civilizations on multiple continents over multiple millennia, almost as if they have a subgroup behavior that doesn't play well with any others ever, whereas other groups live in peace, or even thrive, when rubbed up against the same supposedly evil civilizations. Just such a weird coincidence. And the people to blame for an entire species not getting along with one small group, is always some individual political opponent or trendy media approved two minutes hate victim, even though they can't get along with the entire world ever, never, historically.
I mean, isn't it historically relevant that "anti-semitism" seems to magically sprout up in every civilization they ever contact, but "anti-samoanism" isn't even a concept? I'm sure its all the white male right winger's fault, us 21st century moderns must have gone back in time to make the Egyptians, Romans, Palestinians,Industrial era Germans, frankly all of Europe multiple times in the middle ages, god only knows who else, pissed off at the Jews. Just one little modern political opponent did all that rabble rousing in the past. Huh.
I'm just saying, certain groups seem to bring on oppression by various means, and others don't, and local politics don't seem to matter much in the weight of history. As long as Jews act like Jews and Samoans act like Samoans, one of those groups is gonna end up in pogroms for all eternity across the entire planet regardless of small time local temporary politics.