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> The cosmopolitan worldview that approves of melting-pots was born in response to the terrible failure of nationalism, which "we" experienced to the fullest. History hasn't ended …

> Because humans are humans, regardless of where they originated from. It's our responsibility to take care of people, period I think that only westerners, with our pathological al…

> The fix to failed integration is not to prevent people from getting in. It's to improve integration. And why is that our responsibility? This is outrageous. I were forced to emig…

> The problem with colonization is that it disrupted the holistic growth of national communities The same with immigration, then. Psychologically is even worse maybe, because inste…

It never stops to amaze me the doublethinking necessary to simultaneously believe that "colonization is bad and Africa is war-torn because of the arbitrarily drawn borders by Weste…

> What's the more precise (and less false) statement hiding behind this? Damage control due to the recently increasing friction caused by massive immigration.

> You seem to think "reflecting on its past" is one of the advances that came with Western civilization Not if taken so far as to become self-destructive. > Not sure what "modern w…

> Every society on Earth exists as it does because it destroyed much of the previously existing landscape and natural inhabitants, THANKS. Every human culture out there is responsi…

I can only recommend reading this paper: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf It really lives up to its title. Suddenly computational complexity is not just a highly tech…

I'd say pattern recognition is a very important aspect of science, and intelligence in general, so every ideology who tries to suppress theories for aesthetic or subjective reasons…

> 5. something else? 0. Stop the dogmatic multi-culti cult, accept human nature (= we prefer to live with our kind) and strive for a world in which every race and religious group i…

Come on. Everyone knows evolution is a social construct.

I used to like the Nolan chart too, but recently I've been thinking that even 2 axes is overfitting. Politics is so complicated that only a very simple model has predictive value, …

On the other hand, The Culture is just sci-fi, while Japan exists.

Evolution doesn't apply from the neck up, didn't you know?

> An aging population, combined with falling fertility rates and no immigration is a disaster waiting to happen. No, that's what's going to happen in Europe. Japan will just have t…

> Accepting immigrants is a pretty good insurance against your civilization going extinct, in fact. Yeah, it only gets replaced. > More diversity, more innovation. Sure, sure.

Also automatic indentation.

> And if someone disagrees I'd like to hear your opinion. No opinions, only censorship.

And an enviable level of social trust.

I think Japan will manage. Not sure about Europe.

Well, that's horrifying. I'll shut up now.

So "you are free to say whatever you want, but if I don't like it I will destroy your life".

What do yo really mean by that? Personally I worry that mere attaching some empty labels to an argument is reason enough justify censoring it.

So, free speech is great as long as you don't strongly disagree with it.