From kerriko@soda.csua.berkeley.edu Sat May 8 18:09:32 1999 Date: 26 Feb 1995 23:32:42 GMT From: kerriko Newsgroups: alt.gothic Subject: Re: WHITE SUPREMACY On the perils of purity, grae@industry.org writes: > isn't it funny that the logic that the kkk [that's an exception to my > usual capital-less typing, they deserve NO respect that capitalism (wow, > a slight-within-a-slight!) implies] uses "racial purity" as a basis for > racism? that same philosophy was used to maintain the "pure-bloods" for > nobility. and anyone who paid attention in their history/social science > classes knows that such inbreeding led to mental decline. > > does anybone see the leap in logic here? > > diversity breeds interest; familiarity breeds stupidity; second-cousins > shouldn't breed...and you can quote me on that. Okay, turns out the group in question is a chapter of Aryan Nation. And either they're skittish or disorganized, 'cos their big rally was postponed. On purity, tho', this logic always kills me, partly because of the inbreeding perils. Their quest for and claims of racial purity are laughable, I mean, who knows what turns their bloodlines took here and there? Ugh! I occasionally see these people on the news or on some talk show; they're never too bright, and there's something empty in their eyes. And often, they don't look incredibly Aryan to me. So what do they mean by Aryan? Hell if I'm going to proclaim my ancestry superior to any other. Simone mentions hearing that a large percentage of white supremacist recruits came from college campuses. This, while creepy, is not altogether surprising? This was addressed (I know, none of you bothered to see this) in the "Higher Learning" plot, and altho' the movie pretty much sucked, I thought about it for a long time. Quick, flame me if I start to sound like too old! But it seems like colleges would be the place to look, if you were trying to recruit new blood. Like college students have not *quite* established their own identities. I think it would be especially easier to recruit someone who was attending a college far from home. You know? Normally I don't pay much attention to white supremacy; I admonish people who insist upon using racial epithets in my company, and that's about it. But I think it's pretty scary that supremacists are at least organized enough to band together and call themselves Aryan Nation or whatever, and I hope that youth today is less malleable than I think it is. Focusing on hate is hardly a good idea and one can only hope that eventually these groups will self-destruct. Cheers, and thanks for the responses! Echo