tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post3421739743249564910..comments2020-10-03T06:18:18.780-07:00Comments on Progressive Positive: An Angry Black Male Murdering Jihad?LanceMillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967321155433918187noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5931227998239921482.post-4416195090215247932008-06-11T12:29:00.000-07:002008-06-11T12:29:00.000-07:00I see misleading vividness, no spree, no racist mo...I see misleading vividness, no spree, no racist motive and no pattern in the victims of these killings (Mahato is from India.)<BR/><BR/>It is your parents neighbors, not the people who invaded their home (whatever their motivations) who actually commited a crime more heinous than mere murder.<BR/><BR/>1. The comments about ethnically cleansing the neighborhood clearly advocate a crime against humanity. Whether this actually constitutes "incitement" is another issue.<BR/><BR/>2. By making these comments in public where their white neighbors could overhear they directly participated in ethnic cleansing.<BR/><BR/>In the united states you are allowed to wear a swastika armband in public and say "kill whitey", even if it contributes to segregated neighborhoods like we see in Seattle. If it happened in Germany they'd make a law against it. If it happened in Iraq, someone would blame George Bush.<BR/><BR/>The meme of ethnic cleansing is practically indistinguishable from the meme of racial identity. (What does it mean to have some people "in" and "out" of a group if it has no physical effect?)<BR/><BR/>So here's what I say: There is no angry black male murdering Jihad. There is an ethnic cleansing meme in the united states, and we can't blame that on Hitler's army of Little Eichmann's or George Bush's crusaders.<BR/><BR/>When any person says "let's go someplace where there are no people of that ethnic group" let alone "let's send that ethnic group someplace else" they propagate the idea that a campaign of ethnic cleansing exists.<BR/><BR/>If perpetrators and victims were evenly and randomly distributed by race we would expect that about half of crimes would be perpetrated by whites against non-whites or non-whites against whites. In other words once the meme has been planted, we <I>will</I> see gut-level evidence of this ethnic cleansing (regardless of whether it actually exists.)<BR/><BR/>However the promotion of gut-level evidence over reason protects the memes by misdirection. It draws our attention to criminals who may not even be infected by the meme, and even if they are infected have less chance of spreading it than a harmless "law-abiding" citizen.<BR/><BR/>Furthermore it makes our own minds more susceptible to the meme when it shows up in a mutated form ("We should go someplace where there are no black people <I>who don't want to live around white people</I>.")<BR/><BR/>Congratulations, you have discovered a primal, spiritual connection. You have tapped into a pure experience which precedes pictures and words.<BR/><BR/>Now let us ponder Orgel's Second Rule: <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgel's_rule" REL="nofollow">"Evolution is cleverer than you are."</A><BR/><BR/>Two policies have been proposed which actually make sense with regard to the type of crime you describe: <BR/><BR/>1. Certain symbols and words when used sincerely but "harmlessly" still constitute harassment and incitement to crime. This should be the focus of activism against "hate crime" rather than heaping more punishment on people who are already being punished for other crimes. It may be advisable to avoid the watered-down term "hate speech" to describe the crime of advocating atrocities like ethnic cleansing.<BR/><BR/>2. Mass media (and I would add other groups that survive by meme-spreading) are responsible for the information they choose to spread, and in the case of sensational crimes - perhaps even whole categories of crimes - they should not report them even though the scoop could be worth big money.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03072541194513236270noreply@blogger.com