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I'd think that the example of the old lady refusing to rent to non-whites would be particularly pertinent given the modern dynamic where hotel owners rent out every room to the government so it can house migrants in them. And then these migrants rape women and children. Just search 'uk migrant hotel rape'. It's practically a sport at this point.
I think you are not paying the respect prejudice deserves. And that this is a cognitive and moral failing on your part. You are looking at the words, not the emotion.
I saw this a lot in the aftermath of the big purge of the Alt-Right from YouTube. Where lefty youtubers could claim, after the fact, that they ultimately won and that the alt-righters had always been kind of stupid. And to an extent that's not an inaccurate observation. There were a lot of 'vapid' and 'stupid' creators in that space. They didn't really understand HBD to any relevant extent, they didn't do well in debates and they certainly could not predict how bad things could get. But they did get an audience. How? Principally because their attention was on the same gut wrenching worry others felt. That the current state of affairs was bad. They could not necessarily articulate why. But they had a gut feeling and others could emotionally resonate with that.
To that extent, it should be a source of embarrassment, continuously, for every person that was more intelligent, erudite, or otherwise better equipped to handle reality, that they are continuously shown up by random racists when it comes to identifying threats. The trajectory of the western world has been so comically bad the past three decades that it's hard to imagine how it could have gone worse.
Turns out, almost every economist is a retard, actually. Along with every educated person that can read, write and reason yet fail to recognize that no, importing the third world will not be an economic benefit, colonialism didn't make Africa poor and 'poverty' doesn't make black people rape. The racist could not necessarily articulate why he knows what he knows or believes what he believes. But they had a gut feeling that has outshone every alternative. Sure, they continuously fumble the moment, make bad arguments and otherwise embarrass themselves, but ultimately they've not been the ones who've been wrong when it counts.
Smartdick sophistry is for fags dickwaving intellectualism in geneva tea halls, not real fucking life. If listening to whites complaining about brown's is untoward then how about asking browns themselves whether they would be happy living next to other shades of brown. White racism has nothing on brown or yellow racism, pakistanis lacked the institutional capacity of nazi germany and still successfully purged their hindus, the Japanese annihilated the Christians and tried their best to genocide the chinese, the Sinhalese reduced the tamils to a rump, every arab state expelled the jews (dont fucking morocco me pedants). Foucault could write wistfully about the nobility of the african experience because he had a coterie of boytoys eager to metaphorically and literally fellate him in exchange for his crumbs of comfort. Now the europeans let themselves be raped by these same browns, and the other browns are baffled and increasingly jealous that they didn't take the gora for what they had when the opportunity presented itself at first.
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