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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-21-2005, 18:15

Well, California does have more than four times the population of Georgia. That means more idiots. And it's not just white supremacist groups. The map also lists groups like The New Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and Voz de Aztlan.
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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-21-2005, 18:46

Didn't we actually have an email flame war with the Voz de Aztlan from the old boards once?

might be thinking of a different group...


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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-21-2005, 18:49

When the Babri Masjid was torn down in India, idiot Indians from the US actually sent bricks to India for people to throw at the masjid.
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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-21-2005, 20:01

I live in California, and there is quite a bit of racism.
Example: I live in napa, A moderatly sized suburban city in california, which has expeienced an upsuge in minority population. The Local FIMs have talked speculate alot about why this might have happened, and what if any thing, they can do about this.

What they don't relize is the reason the minorities
come here is because said FIMs employ them, and unless they want to start paying minimum wage, they can't do anything.
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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-21-2005, 20:04

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wow.

edit: this was in response to the bricks.


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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-21-2005, 21:10

Back when I was studying poli sci, I was seriously thinking of getting a job with the SPLC.
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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-21-2005, 21:25

SPLC is?


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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-21-2005, 22:07

There will always be idiots. Funny review, though.
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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-22-2005, 01:18

There does not seem to be any depth that the human race will not dare to sink...The urge to find out how evil, ignorant and bloody stupid drives us to ever greater atrocities.

I liked the bit in the review about the rim job though :p


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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-22-2005, 04:03

There is a reason that the bible says the human heart is a desperately wicked thing. It's true. There are some real sickos out there.
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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-23-2005, 15:37

Interesting.

It would seem that the 'creator' of Racial Holy Wars considers himself a priest, one Rev. Kenneth Molyneaux of the Church of the Creator.

Their motto is RaHoWa.

How sad.


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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-23-2005, 16:07

I really hate this kind of thing. Aside from the total immorality of promoting anything that discriminates against and debases other human beings, there is something that really annoys me. People like this taint anything they associate themselves with. If they are white supremacists, they taint other white people. If they are nationalistic, they taint anyone who is patriotic. If they say they are Christians, they taint all Christians, and so on, and so on.

In the same way that the swastika has become indelibly associated with the Nazis, despite being an ancient religious symbol, I find myself feeling dirty because I am a white, Christian Westerner.


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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-23-2005, 16:20

Actually, Grace, they bash Christians, too. Just not openly, as their crowd is mostly Christian.

You see, Grace, we apparently invented you in our great master plan to erase the Great White Man from the planet.

*shakes head*


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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-23-2005, 19:49

It doesn't matter where you come from there are those who would impose their racial and religious predjudices on the rest of us. Look at Bin Laden, look at the KKK, look at Germany which still has a flourishing Nazi party. The BNP was viewed as a serious contender in the UK elections and that organisation is racist in the extreme. Look at football, gross acts of violence merely based on which team you support.

I think we are still many hundreds of years away from a united world. I would imagine a trawl around the net could produce many sites based on racial hatred and violence associated with it.

Even our lord Terry felt that racism was so ingrained in society that he had to have the trolls and Dwarfs at loggerheads. Fortunately it is dealt with very efficiently by the watch and usually doesn't need a multi billion dollar war to sort it.
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Default Racial Holy Wars - 08-23-2005, 23:46

And the next book due out is Thud!, which will feature the dwarves and trolls at loggerheads, risking civil violence... Talk about topical!


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