We just watched a youtube video of Neo-Nazism in Russia. Jordan got all upset and kept on saying "Did you hear that?" or "Did you see that?". I did hear and I did see but I wasn't shocked or even slightly surprised.
There are videos showing live humans being decapitaded by two men using a manual saw, there are young balled men declairing their pride for being white/Russian/Hawaiian/Swedish/whateversuitsthepurpose, there are old balled men sig-hailing and holding speeches for the young balled men, there are flags with symbols, gang behavior, and all the other things that I (as many of us) have seen over and over and over again.
I thought that we were past this, lets see... oh yeah, 20 years ago! But no, as soon as an economical recession comes around people have to fall back into the easy trap of "its not my fault that I have no education and no job - it must be somebody else's fault. Let's blame the immigrants/jews/muslims/blacks/whites/Japanese/communists/whateversuitsthepurpose".
What strikes me is how factual and well informed these people sound, until you listen to what they say that is.
They really know how to present bullshit in a persuasive way, but it's still bullshit.
In the case of the Russian neo-nazis, I wonder if they ever considered all the Russians that died of the hands of Nazis, in war, concentration camps, and as targets for soldiers in training. But then again, rasists aren't really famous for their intelligence of knowledge of history.
I admit that I am a humanist. But I am also a scientist in training and I am trained to think like a scientist, which is why the loop-holes in nazi logic disturb me so much. If you want to persuade me of something, you need good arguments based on solid, peer-reviewed, published research that used correct and unbiased research methods. I would totally convert to neo-nazism if anyone would give me that one simple thing. And I have looked for it for years but without result (the rasism-supporting science from the first half of the last century is proved wrong long ago).
Why is it so hard to give a base for racism in the same way as anything else is given credibility: provide adequate litterature reviews, come up with an experiment that tests your hypothesis, perform the experiment, evaluate the results, and let other scientists remake the same experiment to see if they come up with the same result?
Let's put it in a way that is easier to understand (just in case a neo-nazi is smart enough to read this but not smart enough to understand the last paragraph): get your facts straight and get them from reliable sources. Oh right that causes a problem, because there are no such sources and the facts needed do not exist.
I am open to change and if you think that you are capable of it then I urge you to try and prove me wrong.
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