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I am an Aboriginal woman, and my people are hurting : Comments
By Samantha Cooper, published 4/6/2020Reconciliation Week is exhausting at the best of times. Now more than ever, we are bombarded with tidal waves of racism and ignorance.
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Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 21 June 2020 2:58:47 PM
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To paul1408.
I would refer you to US Army psychologist Lt. Colonel Grossman's book "On Killing" for his opinion about whether most infantrymen today will kill without turning into Psychiatric cases. I am glad you knew something about Vietnam and low IQ troops. Let's fill in what you don't know. The US Army, the world's foremost technological army, knows that IQ testing is accurate and it uses the scores to assesses the suitability of recruits for their usefulness to the army. During WW2, the most intelligent soldiers were reserved for duties within the continental USA. The yanks did not want their brightest getting killed off. If you know anything about warfare, you already know that of the five types of front line units, it is the infantry by a big margin which takes the most casualties. Therefore, the US had a policy in WW2 of assigning low intelligence "Hicks, Micks, and Spics" as infantry. This policy was carried over into the Vietnam war, where in the US conscript army, "McNamara's Morons" filled out the infantry while the university caste stayed home. Thus there were US soldiers shooting up heroin and smoking dope while on patrol. But there was another aspect to the war. Aware that most infantrymen would not kill the enemy, the US Army for the first time in history used "Operant Conditioning" to brainwash soldiers to overcome their natural human inhibition towards killing members of our own species. This worked just fine, but had unintended tragic consequences. 62.500 US soldiers died in Vietnam, but in the 20 years after the war, an incredible 60,000 committed suicide. They could not live with the guilt. The US Army today is volunteer and they try to get men of at least average intelligence or better to become infantrymen. The US Army post WW2 derided infantry before Vietnam, and other than 1 division of paras, had none. It now has four infantry only divisions classified as elite. And they try to recruit the most intelligent among that 12-15% demographic who can kill other human beings without getting serious psychiatric problems. Posted by LEGO, Sunday, 21 June 2020 6:12:34 PM
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To Paul1409
I love reading books on history, psychology, sociology, social psychology, criminology, astronomy, and especially first hand historical accounts. That is why I am all over you like a rash, and can present my arguments in the manner of teacher talking down to a retarded child. Your own delivery is woeful, and you are not so much a debater as an angry heckler. You should at least try to present your opinions calmly in the form of reasoned arguments. But you can't. Your opinions aren't thought out because they were programmed into you by your peers. Like your clothes, your opinions are a fashion statement. The British army lost almost every battle for 200 years because the leadership of the British Army were incompetent aristocrats. Ludendorff said that "the British soldier fights like a lion but is led by donkeys." The Boers made it a crime, punishable by death, for any Boer soldier to kill a British general. The situation with the British Army for 200 years draws parallels with today. It was not necessarily because the aristocrats who made up British generals lacked intelligence, it was because they stopped thinking critically and instead relied entirely upon the "the book" and class prejudices for their decisions. They did not need to think things through because they were the smart aristocrats and therefore infallible anyway. The Greeks call stupidity based upon arrogance "hubris". This same hubris exists today within the smart tertiary educated Brahmin caste, of which you are a stirling example, who think that they must always be right about everything because of who they are. They don't need to think things through. This makes them easy marks for any ideologue with any potty cause. All the ideologues have to do is present that ideology as the fashionable views of the educated caste, while the contrary view is presented as the opinion of low caste deplorables. The status conscious trendies then accept it with alacrity. It is very difficult to turn elitists away from their fashionable views because they have already linked their opinions to their own self image Posted by LEGO, Monday, 22 June 2020 2:37:37 AM
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LEGO,
Indulging in self praise like you often do, masks your insecurities, you are a perfect example of one suffering from Alfed Adler's "inferiority complex". You give little insight into yourself, but from what you have posted, at 18 your insecurities had you bumbling along as a flipping flunky behind "McNamara's Morons" (your words) in Vietnam, all for the joy of killing commies. You need to feel superior, otherwise how could you be a white supremacists. I am sure in the circles of those of low intelligence you move in, Neo-Nazi's, white supremacists, right wing extremists, you are indeed of the higher order of intellect. You gave a reference to a mediocre US militarist, turned author, for something you claimed as fact. The work is criticised by more learned authority as the methodology used is viewed as questionable. Since it suits your narrative, you stick with it. Posted by Paul1405, Monday, 22 June 2020 8:23:14 AM
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To Paul1410.
One expects a few insults and sneers when debating an opponent, but your entire post was just a personnel attack on me? Is that the best you could do? You asked me "where did I get all this guff? "and I told you. I love reading and I am very widey read. I like to keep informed, and I do my homework on the topics I choose to give my opinions on. Heckling is a poor reply to a person who is presenting reasoned arguments.The reason why you are getting angry is because you are failing badly on this topic. That's because you are suffering from hubris. You did not bother to do your homework before you decided which side was right, and you took the wrong side. All of your life your teachers, peers, and friends have told you that racism is just the most awful thing. Racists are idiots. Racists are Nazis. Racists are beyond the pale. End racism and the world will enter the golden age of Aquarius. So you never even bothered to check whether or not the racists had a point. Why should you? The idea that the other guy might be right and your Brahmin caste of super brains might be wrong, never even entered your head. To become a heretic among the very peer group you associate as your own superior class would be an act of treason to you. Perhaps it is just because I am an electrician that I saw things differently to you? I don't belong to your snobby peer group so I don't give a fig for their already low opinion of a deplorable like me. I think their constant puritan moralising, finger pointing, and always outraged attitudes are quite funny. And these so called "anti racists" made a very big mistake when they kept blaming my race for the endless problems of dysfunctional ethnicities. I was smart enough to recognise racism towards my own race when I saw it. And I wondered what was really going on? That got me thinking straight. Posted by LEGO, Monday, 22 June 2020 10:06:06 AM
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But Paul1405
Does LEGO have so much to feel inferior about? After all, why is LEGO posting a comment at "2:37:37 AM" above. Is LEGO worried and can't sleep, or does he really live in the US? Some American friends comment offline that LEGO lives in New York city. He may not be American but of UK-Canadian extraction and of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys South Asian Hindu Indian stock. Hence LEGO's hatred of Muslims... Muslims being a minority in India, distrusted by Hindus. Cheers Posted by plantagenet, Monday, 22 June 2020 12:32:10 PM
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OLO's own Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel.
On the occasion of Colston the Slavers pull down http://youtu.be/04NXGb1pA6g
Here's a poet of dusky colour to wrap your American gums around http://youtu.be/b3DKfaK50AU
That black poet you just saw - is Vanessa Kisuule. She has a personal website http://www.vanessakisuule.com/biography and you?!