@Finn dAbuzz,
Finn dAbuzz wrote:
Ceili wrote:
I think most extremists are beyond repugnant.
Which extremists do you not find repugnant?
The kind that, in the end, give up their violent ways and work in a peaceful manner to obtain their goals. Like Nelson Mandela and so on...
I don't care if it's religious or political. While I can sympathize a cause, I deplore violence.
I hold a special hatred for people like the Norway bomber. I find it ironic that this man cited many of my heros as his own. I find it hard to believe many of their messages could be lost him, considering the privileges he enjoyed, in a society that had made him rich enough to finance his evil ways. He was well educated, never knew famine, war or disease. He's never know a day of hardship. He lived in a peaceful place and yet he found a reason to inflict pain and suffering on so many.
Because he is evil and insane. For some reason you believe either that affluence should preclude evil insanity or poverty justifies it.
No, he's not insane. Many of his ideas are. Evil, yes. As are many many of the people that spread, preach and believe this brand of extremism. And to clarify many... this would not include the children breast fed an extremist point of view. There is hope for them.
While much of the above could describe Osama Bin Ladin et al, I can't for the life of me understand why someone in England, Norway, Canada or the US could possibly be bothered with far right fundamentalist thinking. I don't understand people who go looking for a fight. I can't for the life of me understand why a person who lived a life like his would have so much to hate. I can't understand why people who live a gilded life compared to so many in the world would have time to burn a cross on someone's lawn or publish a 1500 page manifesto, or bomb and shoot at people who aren't the enemy. It blows my mind.
Mine too, but you, while perhaps acknowledging that bin Laden enjoyed a greater degree of affluence than Brievik, fail to understand that most of the masterminds of Islamist terrorism share the same profile. Even Mohammed who knew he would not return from his his holy attack, was far from an impoverished peasent. The poor bastards who might actually be dirt poor and uneducated are used by the masterminds as bomb-vest fodder.
It's these poor bastards I have some sympathy for, and only them, sort of.
This is why I hold an especially hateful position on extremism, or most specifically white extremism. I hope that clarifies my position.
It certainly does. You have a bigotry for whites. You assume, with no supporting evidence, that all white extremists are affluent and all non-while terrorists are impoverished.
Bigotry, that's laughable. I suppose in your eyes if I don't hate the brown guy more, I must be a bigot... lol
I hate white supremacists more, I guess, because they hate me and the life I enjoy. I think they're idiots. What makes the way we live so awful for them?
I look around, read history and to my mind, I don't believe this continent has seen a terrible famine, or devastating drought - causing mass migration since, I dunno - the thirties. Sure, the average white extremist could be a dirt poor hick, but most of them aren't. The poor bastards above, with bombs strapped to their chests, have no idea who I am, or where it is that I come from. Their leaders may hate my lifestyle, or have other psychotic reasons for wanting me and mine dead, but the average foot soldier was probably just looking for a job, some money, some security, most of them don't have an agenda, or the luxury to "plan an attack". Most of them, probably don't know where their next meal is coming from.
I don't think it takes a genius to figure out that there is a huge affluence gap between the average al quaida bomber and the median white supremacist.
That being said.. I was raised in the aftermath of Hitler and the Nazis and grew up reading Mark Twain, for example. I've learned what unchecked pride in ones skin colour can lead to. I was also raised in the shadow terrorist activity funded by similar ideology. So yeah, I hate them. Bigotry? Hardly.