When did I run off screaming? Another attempt to discredit me as a coward because you are losing the racism debate, not just because you are poor at debating but your limited experience of diversity results in you making sweeping generalisations about non white people. It doesn’t matter if I’m black or Indian, most non whites experience prejudice at the hands of “inflated” poorly educated white males it’s just a fact of life, however your brand of racism is scurrilous as many white people dont spot it and you get to layer coward thief and liar into the mix. This is how modern racists operate. Perhaps there is too much focus on the overt racism of the minority who dress like little nazis with bad partings and stormfront tats, they influence fewer people than lib interlopers pretending to be politically aware.
You lack both the necessary education and intelligence to post about your culturally appropriated Easter eggs such as Buddhism, Socratic enquiry and now Sikhism. Do carry on though. How’s the yogic path working out for you so far? Meditation not going well?
Yeah lots of people are pricks, happens in every "race" we are all equal like that. When europeans dominated the world for a few hundred years by the fluke of technology and a unique cultural situation that refined the art of war using it, some people got strange ideas. Western people became more arrogant as "modern civilization" spread through the world and other peoples took a few generations to adapt.
You can live that past or try to move forward and not carry it upon your back as so many white people do, who are the products of conditioning as are we all. Many "baby boomers" grew up with movies on TV from before the second world war along with the attitudes that were displayed, our culture was soaked in it. I had the good fortune not to be raised with such burdens by my parents, you are your culture to a certain extent, but everybody should seek to better themselves.
My efforts, have been efforts at deconditioning, to be mindful is to consider our actions and not to be a slave to conditioning or habit, but I admit I do have a pot habit! I take frequent breaks and I'm due for one soon, but I do enjoy getting high. I look at Buddhism not so much as a religion, but as a system for personal development and reducing suffering, both our own and of others (sorry about that
). My take on it is scientific and evolutionary in nature. Say we were living in a village 100,000 years ago and I disrespected you, well that would have serious implications among a small group where every body seeks to improve their social statues, you lived a hundred yards from me and we interacted everyday. Now move ahead to the present and say some stranger cuts you off while driving, does it make any sense to freak out and chase the guy down?
First, what do you want from other people? What does it take to make you happy? Is the end point going to change when you get there?
Am I a bigot for calling scotchman bearded weirdos in dresses, or am I just poking the stick?
You've read my posts here and they have been consistent, calling me a racist makes you look like a fool and paints you into a pretty tight corner when it comes to having people support your cause. What is your cause?
My cause is liberalism and that means freedom and equality for all in the end, though many liberals don't really realise what they signed on for. Churchill was a liberal an old guard colonialist, a hold out against Indian independence, but he was a committed liberal, even though he was a bigot, he went along for the ride. There is no other way forward, you and I live in multicultural societies in the leftovers of the British Empire, as do the Americans, that comes with baggage. We have seen what social division and racism lead to in America, imagine if the same thing were to happen in India another diverse and multicultural society, though an ancient one. We have seen such strife all over the world based on religion and ethnicity, the ethnic cleansing in the balkans are a european example.
If you don't like the UK immigrate to Canada, it might not be as bad here, lots of people from India came here via the UK for a reason. As far as I'm concerned you're welcome, provided you qualify and most Canadians wouldn't.