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That’s even worse. Sorry we imported a bunch of third world people who commit violence at higher rates. Besides having to live with that, we will arrest you when they attack you because it’s much easier to arrest you who won’t resist too much whereas they might heavily resist.
How is this not waging the culture war? Possibly I have misunderstood the ethos of this weekly thread.
I agree this is waging the culture war.
You recently said something along the lines of “I like the west except its people”
Yes, that's true. There's much I like about the west. For example the institutions are great in theory but the people around them lead to them rotting and withering from inside.
Singapore for instance basically copied British Insitutitons on Independence and has done really really well over the last 70 years while the UK has just declined. The institutions are the same in both places, the only difference is the people, and that's where the divergence in fortunes comes from.
I was just stating a fact, not trying to wage culture war.
What is it you don't like about western people?
To wit, this is another video by the same channel that recorded the arrest OP is talking about; pick a random start point and watch this for a collage of how these sorts of people behave: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XOWLnLNWKAw
And now realize that I, a well adjusted, highly productive member of society gets taxed close to 50% to subsidize these people so they can continue to behave in the way they do right now. Any reasonable person would develop a dislike.
This is just about the lower classes, but other justifiable reasons also exist for those above these people on the social stratum.
As you point out yourself later in the comment, this is cherry-picking the dregs of society. Actually Singapore is majority Chinese, so I'm guessing (as per standard HBD thinking) their dregs would behave better. But then, the original context of your comment was about the demographic replacement of Western White Americans by Latinos, whose dregs I assume behave even worse (as per standard HBD thinking - also those cartel atrocity videos like Funky Town come to mind)
Could you expand on this? I'm guessing you are thinking of Western "degeneracy" here (feminism, gay marriage, gender-affirming care, soft-on-crime policies, etc), but I won't put words in your mouth.
Right, but stepping back a little, all of this (your job, your home, etc) doesn't exist without the UK - which was (mostly) built by White people, and who play an essential role in maintaining it the present day.
If we look at the rest of the world, empirically it seems that non-(White/East Asian) races, on a group level, are unable to build or even maintain high civilisation (Singapore didn't just "copy British Insitutitons on Independence", it is also ~75% Han Chinese!) - importantly, even if you are a talented individual, you still need to go to a 1st world country to get a well-paid job (as I understand it, this is why you are here in the UK)
And there's also a bunch of "personality" things that are nice: politeness, honesty, quietness, individualism, etc.
So I argue that you should like the Western peoples, because as a group they allow you to realise your talents and enjoy a much higher quality of life than you would have had if they had never existed in the first place.
I guess I'm basically just asking the cliched "if you hate it so much here, why don't you just go back to where you came from?", but in good faith as a non-rhetorical question (I remember you've been asked this before, and replied something along the lines that you need to be here for salary reasons, whilst disliking the native people, and I'm challenging the idea that these 2 things are unrelated to each other)
India does build high civilization. It utterly fails to make its dregs benefit from it- they worship toilets instead of using them- but they're quite capable of building it.
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