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Re: Are you in a Religious Cult? Take the test

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Post by skinkestek »

antris wrote: post #40
skinkestek wrote: post #39

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> I didn't say you were dumb or that you should be ashamed. You did say that white males where the root of the problem. I am a white male.

Where did I say white males were the problem? I said the system is built upon white male supremacy, but I didn't blame anyone for it. The system is the problem, not people of any specific identity. White male supremacy is an ideology, not an identity. Anyone can be white male supremacist, regardless of gender or race. Also, you can definitely be a white male who's not a white male supremacist.

> White male supremacy is an ideology, not an identity.

So where do these have their meetups?

Where can I find contemporary writings that explain the superiority of white males?

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Post by freen »

thinkingemote wrote: post #38
avs733 wrote: post #6

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Lord…three comments. Three comments in before “don’t be a jerk to people different than you” is called a cult.

Ironically almost every religious cult has “don’t be a jerk to people different than you” as one of it's highest precepts. Cults operate differently - it's not what they believe, it's how they behave in the world. Not saying wokeism is a cult at all, but that religious cults often have Good Well Intentions. Precepts don't make a cult. (A healthy religion encourages love and tolerance to those in the outgroup e.g "lov…

They aren’t very well hidden: they proudly wave the flag of traitorous slavers.

Confederate history month still exists in a bunch of states.

Have you seen the nazi flags at trump rallies? Jan 6th?

Re: Are you in a Religious Cult? Take the test

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Post by thinkingemote »

eloisius wrote: post #35
thinkingemote wrote: post #23

Cults are generally classified by those outside the organisation. (_points_ "That is a cult!"). But this very classification helps to reinforce any us/them ingroup/outgroup behaviours which we see actual cults doing ("Don't trust those outside, only trust the ingroup"). Real cults isolate and the isolation increases with attack from outside. A cultish group that is not attacked may not actually radicalise. This is al…

They may not radicalize into a Waco Siege situation, but they will likely continue to rob numerous naive members of their money, livelihood, and their children’s opportunities.

Yes. Maybe radicalise was the wrong word. Too many "terrorism" connotations.

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Post by antris »

skinkestek wrote: post #51
antris wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did I say white males were the problem? I said the system is built upon white male supremacy, but I didn't blame anyone for it. The system is the problem, not people of any specific identity. White male supremacy is an ideology, not an identity. Anyone can be white male supremacist, regardless of gender or race. Also, you can definitely be a white male who's not a white male supremacist.

> White male supremacy is an ideology, not an identity. So where do these have their meetups? Where can I find contemporary writings that explain the superiority of white males?

Depends on where you live.

In the US the most obvious mainstream example is republicans upholding white male supremacist laws. Of course they avoid direct language and use dog whistles instead, because saying out loud that you're a white male supremacist isn't a good look anymore. Of course the democrats do it too, but their dog whistles are more subtle and not as obvious.

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Post by [deleted] »

freen wrote: post #52
thinkingemote wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ironically almost every religious cult has “don’t be a jerk to people different than you” as one of it's highest precepts. Cults operate differently - it's not what they believe, it's how they behave in the world. Not saying wokeism is a cult at all, but that religious cults often have Good Well Intentions. Precepts don't make a cult. (A healthy religion encourages love and tolerance to those in the outgroup e.g "lov…

They aren’t very well hidden: they proudly wave the flag of traitorous slavers. Confederate history month still exists in a bunch of states. Have you seen the nazi flags at trump rallies? Jan 6th?

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Post by [deleted] »

thinkingemote wrote: post #53
eloisius wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They may not radicalize into a Waco Siege situation, but they will likely continue to rob numerous naive members of their money, livelihood, and their children’s opportunities.

Yes. Maybe radicalise was the wrong word. Too many "terrorism" connotations.

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Post by [deleted] »

avs733 wrote: post #50
anonymoushn wrote: post #21

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I don't think that's what anyone actually means when they say that.

You’re right! It is used to play the strategic ambiguity game. Where what one means when they say it is never the same as what it means when they are asked to explain what they mean.

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Post by freen »

mrslave wrote: post #54
freen wrote: post #10

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/r/theDonald refer to him as “god-emperor”

And now let's be intellectually dishonest and pretend like they meant it literally. On Reddit.

Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding.

There isn’t much daylight between an ironic nazi and a real one.

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Post by IIAOPSW »

skinkestek wrote: post #25
freen wrote: post #13

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It always astonishes me the degree to which “don’t be an asshole” is considered a radical position. oh, zarzavat, of course, you are obviously correct: it’s the people who sell “F#%K your feelings” t-shirts at rallies and wave nazi flags at “legitimate political discourse” who really care about others. Trump: truly an empathetic person, deeply caring about others. Assholes never like being told they are assholes. It’…

> It always astonishes me the degree to which “don’t be an asshole” is considered a radical position. That is not what wokeism means. Wokeism is about - making boys and men feel shameful for being boys and men - making white people feel shameful for being white - and other such things. What you talk about is not something that any reasonable HNer would call wokeism.

Wow, you ran out of gas by point 3 and went with "other stuff". Talk about shameless.
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