draculina

Drac, you denounce identity politics, but you are on of the real advocates of identity politics on these boards.

The identity politics you advocate is national identity, which you see as far more important than identity by religion or a feeling of exclusion..

If you feel English, you are English. I was born and bred in England, but I’ve been…[Read more]

I think you’re missing Ms K’s point, drac, but I’m not going to put words in her mouth.

The Remainers are still in a state of shock. But we’ll see once the phony war over brexit ends- which it will soon. Every ambitious Eurocrat is desperate to get a place on the brexit negotiating team, I hear.

Remainers aren’t as identifiable as Muslims…[Read more]

Tolerance seems to be in short supply on this thread.

Ms K generally speaks sense. She knows the need for tolerance in our society.

It’s going to get worse, I’m afraid, ms K. After the Poles, they’re going to need another scapegoat. Wonder who it will be? I know!!! Muslims!!!!

Hellfire!!!!

Now that’s what I call radical, for sure.

Not sure about it being inconspicuous , though.

I was once told that catholic in Ireland have babies at that rate. You know what it says in the Bible – Go forth and multiply. So as all believers in Islam and Christianity take every single word of their texts as strictly true, and…[Read more]

No I am neither.

Ethnocentricity is a word like pettybourgeois – it’s only meaningful in terms of the theoretical framework within which you’re operating.

I don’t think that I am applying the standards of my own culture to that of others, so I’m neither cultural relativist nor am I ethnocentric. I think I’m applying the standards of an ethical…[Read more]

Noooo, not at all.

Cultural relativism applies to a different culture, irrespective of time.

If child sacrifice were common in Inca Peru in 1500, or in a newly-discovered New Guinea tribe today, the cultural relativist (such as you) would still respect it. When in the tribe, do as the tribe does.

Sorry, mah deah, it don’t wash,…[Read more]

I agree with drac on this.

A man called Michael Walzer is the chief philosopher of cultural relativism, and took tapioca’s view that when in Rome, you do as the Romans do.

He once called me the embodiment of evil, mind you lol

In Inca Peru, child sacrifice was acceptable. In India, there were areas where a woman was burned on the pyre with her…[Read more]

I know that argument – never heard it called the horseshoe theory.

It’s very superficial, but I can tell you more if you want a separate thread. It takes argument away on a sidetrack.

very much so. maybe it’s too early to tell at the moment but it’s starting to look like a full-scale motorway pile-up is developing. The phony war over the EU is nearly over – wiat for Trump-style bullying to take over big-time to convince us that the dead and mangled in the crash deserve it.

Nazi papers and right-wing blogsites exist which…[Read more]

very much so. maybe it’s too early to tell at the moment but it’s starting to look like a full-scale motorway pile-up is developing.

there are a number of Nazi newspapers and blogsites which make BB look like a suspicious Muslim fellow-traveller!! I wouldn’t use them as a fair criterion.

The Rothermere press in the thirties (the mail etc)…[Read more]

Tapioca, welcome to the debate.

Secularism can mean a whole variety of things – from erastianism (which is the position of the Anglican hierarchy historically) or it can mean vigorous opposition to religious activities outside a church ( as in France during the time of Ferry and then the 1905 crisis).

You seem to mean the separation of Church…[Read more]

no idea what the horseshoe theory is.

Economic policies are hard to classify as left- or right-wing. Public spending can be either. Both Hitler and Keynes were in favour of public spending.

Social policies can certainly be classified as right and left-wing. Try racial eugenics, or deportation of all British Muslims.

The Bank of England  can be mistaken, for sure,

but if you think it’s on a par with the anti-immigrant lies that I’ve seen on Facebook, then you live a sheltered life.

I went camping once, when I was nearly 16…NEVER AGAIN.

I was cold, miserable, couldn’t sleep. There were no lights (!) so i couldn’t read. I shared the tent with another lad, and am not that way inclined, so I couldn’t explode someone’s eyes (for the real jc aficionados, this is a reference to another recent thread)

Lovely countryside, warm…[Read more]

I never liked his music.

I’m sorry for his family’s loss, sorry Mr Michael died so young.

I’m sorry for anybody who dies young, and for their family – I liked Pixie’s post on this..

With the death of Peter Sarstedt, writer of that horrible song Where Do You Go To, My Lovely, 2017 looks set to be another record year (pun not intended) for RIP to…[Read more]

You have described Hitler as centre-Left, drac, so your categories tend to be confusing and, dare I say, confused.

I do think you’re acting in a rational manner insofar as you try to develop arguments from a set of premises. The premises aren’t totally clear, probably not to yourself if you’re normal. Most of us rely on premises which aren’t…[Read more]

drac, terrorist motivation – whether in France, Germany or the UK – is clear.

ISIS want a war in which all non-believers are killed. That’s the official line, though the actuality tends to be very different. Hint – they are making millions of dollars as well from a lot of odd activities, including people-smuggling. One Afghan guy I once met…[Read more]

drac, terrorist motivation – whether in France, Germany or the UK – is clear.

ISIS want a war in which all non-believers are killed. That’s the official line, though the actuality tends to be very different. Hint – they are making millions of dollars as well from a lot of odd activities, including people-smuggling. One Afghan guy I once met…[Read more]