benjamin - anti bigot

Smart ass for logging in under two names. Gets you in twice as much brown smelly stuff.

How many other rules are you willing to bend?

No matter how hard you deny it you are a racist, does not bother me, I just wish you would acknowledge it.

Why do you decend to an anti Islam rant on each thread you participate in?

BrainDrain correctly called you a maggot. I will go further, you are a racist maggot, please admit it.

What a sad sorry life you live, but I expect that comes from living in a socially deprived cesspit.

Did you get your ass kicked by a lebo? Is this the reason for your hatred?

You may live in a weird little world, but don't think we all share your hatred.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of "Western civilization" he replied "It would be a nice idea`'.

Inky,

You have a point. I allowed myself to become (too?) angry. The one thing i truly can't tolerate is one-eyed, myopic, self-justifying Intollerance trying to pretend it is fair-minded and 'typically' Australian.

I did think it was fairly clear that I was angry at that aspect of Red.. sorry, benjamin the antibigot (surely related to 666 the Antichrist) and that whatever side It is on I am 'agin'. Personally I don't believe Australia is 'multicultural' I believe there are a number of ways we segregate ourselves (most of us belonging to more than one segregation at once and we form One 'culture'). Some hold tightly to values that others see as somehow 'wrong'. Frankly, why the hell bikie outlaw gangs are tollerated in Australia I haven't a clue but that is just my opinion - apparently not shared by all.

I should control my anger - after reading Red's latest posts the anger has subsided and I now feel only pity for it.

Red, Whitey, Blue, Maaaaate.

Not willing to guess which cesspool i crawled from?? I thought you would be too much of a coward to try that but i would have so loved to see you blow the sawdust out from between your ears when you tried and failed.

I repeat that you have not got the intelligence or desire to see exactly why you are so reviled and W R O N G!

I still think you have done nothing to deserve such a considered reply (i thought about it for under a second) but just so anyone else here can consider why your 'argument', for want of a better description, is so incapable of being sustained...

The topic is (Multi)culture. As stated, I dislike that term as i feel it inaccurate and open to misinterpretation /abuse.

You have abused it to cover a range of your personal bigotries (presumably though, not all). Culture encompasses History (of countries, states, cities). Changing culture is not something that can be done quickly or easily.

You have managed to reveal a tiny fraction of yourself correctly (European Enlightenment supremacist)...

could ever make as to why you should be ignored in future.

Iraq, under it's old name Mesopotamia, is the Cradle of Civilisation (sure, but what have they done for us lately? I can almost hear you scream) While your relatives were chasing mammoths under a nomadic hunter/gatherer 'culture', Saddam's antecedents were building the first cities and establishing agriculture and economics. When your later ancestors were wiping blue woad over their faces and declaring war on the closest tribe - Persian astronomers were inventing the system of time we use today and mapping and naming the heavens along with numerous other building blocks 'Westerner's took advantage of to help build their own empires much later in time.

But that is diversity and history and irrelevant to the likes of you.

So, why are you wrong today?

Because you imply that most of today's technology owes it's 'creation' to 'Western' societies (thanks entirely to the ripping off of the third world and slave labour, both foreign and domestic) that somehow makes 'western' culture superior and other cultures 'backward', as if all that counts is money and technologic superiority and the benefits that can flow from them (while ignoring the many negative - porn, drugs, crime, poverty sexual and economic inequality, all 'perfected' under today's Western Culture).

Not that you could ever appreciate it but there is far more to life and culture than that.

The other main reason you are so wrong is in your myopic view that Western culture is somehow non-violent and humanitarian. While any other culture is violent and of imperfect intent. (compared to perfect 'us') Thus 'proving' your argument (lol) to YOU.
If you have ANY intelligence above that of a maggot then use it to see why your views are entirely false or do I have to do ALL your intelligent thinking for you?

ALL cultures have virtue in them - ALL cultures have that which is either misunderstood (taking history into account) or is just plain bad judgement. This includes the one's Australia most closely ties itself to - the ones you claim are 'superior'.

Steve - it's pretty clear that Benjamin (or is that "antiBigot"?) has a couple of roos loose in his top paddock :)

Rainier,

"When Gandhi was asked what he thought of "Western civilization" he replied "It would be a nice idea"

Missing premise: The world from Gandhi's perspective is necessarily the true world.

"Which ethnic organisations are you talking about here? The Greek Clubs, the RSL?"

Missing premise: The RSL patronage comprise a distinct culture which is predominantly a low brow redneck white-anglo culture we should cringe at.

Steve Madden, BrainDrain,

I would be interested in hearing a more articulate reply to Benjamin. Not because I agree with him but because a position is only as good as the amount of criticism it can withstand, and you have not offerred any.