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[daveon]

Somebody mentioned the similarities between what was being said about Switzerland and the 1930s Germany. So we get this exchange:

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"The 1935 versions of Laird and du Toit would have been waving The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, calling for ein Volk."

LOL. I've never confused race with culture. Yeah, I'm a cultural conservative, especially when I see that Western culture has given the world concepts like democracy, freedom, the arts, and philosophy (yea, even unto libertarianism).

The culture of the minarets has given us... nothing, except violence and intolerance. Screw them and their pointy little towers.

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"Cultural Conservative" - that's one of the scariest things I've ready in a very long time.

I assume we have a working definition of Culture which includes a set of everything that they agree with and excludes everything that they don't.

It might not be racist, as such, but it's the kind of mealy mouthed crap that Nick Griffin uses to make his brand of racism sound acceptable.

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[supergee.livejournal.com]

The culture of the minarets has given us... nothing, except violence and intolerance.
Yeah, right. And all the Greeks gave us was buggery.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

500 years of democracy and brotherly love my ass, Mr. Lime.