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I'm committing no such fallacy. You are the one arguing the "builders of OP's culture" would have ignored demographics, when in fact the "builders of OP's culture" worked hard to destroy foreign cultures and bar outsiders from entry.
It's a benchmark because Republican politicians are very obviously less anti-white than Democratic politicians.
And how does this relate to the good culture? Every culture did this.
Until you can tell me why them doing it was good but other cultures doing it was also not good, it is a non central fallacy. It's not unique to whites.
Whites are the most anti-white people. The battle is cultural, not political. People become anti white because they read about it on twitter not because they follow vote democrat, most people don't vote.
If not being anti white is the only concern in the world, then sure. But republicans do plenty of things that makes the founding fathers turn in their graves, like printing gazillions of dollars. Or starting wars and losing trillions.
R vs D are irrelevant to this conversation, they are both largely dogshit. So back to;
Let's say with republicans around in your counter factual world, there is no anti white rhetoric, but the culture that remains is a shadow of its past self. Is that preferable to you?
Or am I correct in my proposal that its culture that needs to be preserved and created at the individual level?
That makes it even more ridiculous that you are recommending him to not do the thing that every culture ever has done based on the argument that "culture builders would have done this."
On the contrary, @f3zinker is recommending that he do the thing that every culture ever has done has has done to perpetuate itself. Stop worrying about stupid bullshit and instead worry about making babies and making sure those babies live long enough to make babies of their own.
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You are being ridiculous. As an individual he can't invade countries or single-handedly change culture. He can only change HIS lifestyle and HIS perspective. You keep on failing to propose a solution, what can OP do?? I will not continue this discussion further until you have proposed an alternative that is applicable to the individual and does not depend on policies laid out 60 years ago. Sorry it has to be this way, but I am constrained by the PRESENT time and place (and the world we live in), in my advice (and policy positions).
Also every culture practiced slavery, the west put an end to that. Which also coincided with their economic ascent. Should they have continued it? Should they bring it back? Nothing related to the argument just want to guage how much you are going to commit to the "thing that every culture has done" larp. Or do you actually operate on principles ?
2 . Also the majority of cultures did not live in a time where international commerce/trade wasn't the behemot it is today and the Internet did not exist. A country can do "what a majority of cultures have done for ever" they would just be sanctioned to hell.
I ask you once again. What should OP do as individual?
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