I came back and have a lot to say, so this is going to be a long ass post.
Aight, so I'm braced for the colorful puzzle piece internet stickers, but I genuinely want to understand where you're coming from with this.
1. Say the "incompatible with our values as westerners" bit is true. In that case, what do you do about Islam? Ban it?
We can start with nullifying the stigma surrounding talking about the religion itself and it's practices.
2. The generally held opinion here seems to be censorship in any form is bad and that freedom of speech. I also see a lot of if "x is banned, y and z will be too". Say you do want to ban it. If a whole established religion is banned (or otherwise restricted), is that not impending on personal freedoms? How do you prevent the eventual banning of other religions if a precedent has been set? And wouldn't that be censorship of like, the Quran?
I'm not trying to be like, "gotcha!" or whatever. I genuinely don't know.
For one, there's always exceptions that prove the rule. Islam has been described as "a political ideology wearing religion as a beard" and I don't disagree. It's the only modern religion that has these problems, and pretending it doesn't is unbelievably naive. Society can figure out a solution, as I'll expound on later in this post.
No point banning anything, since it'll just drive everything even further underground. (Though, I suspect that's what The GoPro-fessional admired about China.) Much easier for intelligence agencies to whack-a-mole these things when they're operating (more or less) in broad daylight.
This sentiment cannot be expressed enough. Driving these people into a corner is what made them imitate wild beasts to begin with, doing such further and in doing so separating them from rational discourse will only serve to inspire much the same.
The point that I'm well aware you were making in this post btw, I want to reiterate:
If these people are open about it, at least we know who's at risk for violent action.
It is a genuine secondary concern to identifying a problem, how you should solve a problem.
If you have a corrupted hard disk and keep trying to reboot the computer it won't work, you have to accurately acknowledge the problem before you can solve it. Worrying about the problems in solving it in advance only gives undue anxiety.
Though if you do want to think about solutions, you can't effectively ban a religion and maintain a liberal society. (This is also part of the reason liberal society and islam don't mix; islam does want suppression of other religions and atheism)
And I always think this is a good thought experiment: if you moved with your family to saudi arabia, how many generations would it take for your family to celebrate stoning women for being raped and such? Or support legal forced marriages?
I think most people's answer is: hopefully never.
Then what makes muslims so different? And if they are so different, how could they be compatible as a people?
In the end I think the idea that you can seperate religion from the identity of a people can only result in the most massive of bloodshed. And as a result I think the most peaceful long term solution is remigration.
There may be better solutions. Just have to start acknowledging the problem to get more bigbrains on solving this.
I quote this in full because it's so well put together.
I am but a single man, but it's been proven that when you get enough humans together to solve a problem they (we) can find an answer so long as we can get on the same page and assess the information given. Breaking down the censorship of the problems that are occurring and allowing people to speak honestly about the situation will make way for actual solutions to be had that don't include capitulating to backwards beliefs.
No, you don't ban it - what you aim for is to make it as socially acceptable to mock and lampoon as any other religion. At the moment, if you make a quip in an office about, say, Mo flying around on the back of a winged horse, you'll be frogmarched into HR and likely fired for being insensitive - once that changes, tensions will fade.
I agree, but this is another immutable aspect of Islam. It's a basic tenet comparable to "thou shalt not kill" in their religion that one cannot mock nor make images of Mohammed. This isn't something that's going to be reconciled without people considering exactly what's going on here.
If you enjoy the freedoms of the western world and choose to keep it that way, then you do need to have a conversation about it.
Islam is completely incompatible with anything that isn't that exact sect of Islam. That's not a "what if". It's a reality.
Feminists should be pro-removing kebab. Islam is not a feminist religion, no matter what taqiyya hijab'd western muslims say. If we desire to keep the west or any country - China included, how it is, then you do not allow Islam to take over. Look at the UK. It's fucked, there's no saving it. The british are licking the balls of every Islamic brown person that strolls on in.
As for banning, no you don't ban it. You just start moderating it. You start holding them to the same standards everyone else is held to. You don't let them run around like animals. You send them back if they can't behave. You stem the flow of the savages and you don't go opening the flood gates to the ones directly from war zones.
You certainly don't kowtow to them, make up new laws to protect them and fetishize them like SJWs do in the west.
You encourage your own countries to be self feeding, you encourage your own citizens to raise the birth rate. You don't import replacement populations of second grade humans.
I'm not saying some muslims aren't good people, but their culture is incompatible with freedom. Hence why they fight each other, everyone else and flee their homelands all the time.
Also, to the people who say "Well.... white people stole the land from brown people" in Australia/NZ forget the small fact, that when they turned up, nothing was there. The people who were there beforehand didn't have any kind of modern culture. So "allowing" muslims to "take over" coz the "white people did it" isn't the same thing.
Having said that, I think it's terrible that innocent people were killed, when the people who should be killed are the dumbasses bringing them in and replacing the population with them. If anyone should be killed.
I'm quoting your post for a reason other than that I agree with a lot of it.
No, it is the same thing. Thousands of unique cultures, languages, etc. were destroyed by disease-ridden foreigners taking over the place and oppressing the locals. That's exactly what will happen if Islam is allowed to take over.
That's the greatest tragedy of mass immigration, the blending of cultures in an artificial, destructive way and imposition of some homogenized globalist culture. It's a world where New York, London, Baghdad, Delhi, and Tokyo all look the same and are inhabited by the same people. How ironic that in their quest for more diversity and multiculturalism, they will destroy diversity and multiculturalism in the process.
A wise man once said "Don’t worry so much about money. Worry about if people start deciding to kill reporters. That’s a quote." It would still be shit if he did kill journalists, but if you're going to film yourself killing 49 people and write all that bullshit on the internet, they better be journalists or politicians.
Another quote that, while I may not agree entirely with, is worth including in it's entirety.
I would hold off on calling him "intelligent and calculated". The massacre slippery sloping into the 9th crusade is a looooooooong fucking shot.
Also he was definitely insane. Sane people don't shoot at children.
I have to interject that this man was not insane. Calling him insane absolves him of the agency, or mens rea, of what he did.
If your first impulse after an atrocity like this is to think (or worse, say), "Everyone I already hate needs to be shut up," it's time to rethink your impulses.
If you're surprised that people are like that, it's time to grow the fuck up.
The one thing I've taken away from this is that Brenton Tarrant achieved everything they intended, and everyone who did as he expected is worthy of shame.
He wanted people to fling shit, point fingers, politically grandstand, virtue signal, blame everything but the asshole who pulled the trigger, and generally use this as an excuse to hate others instead of the sick bastard who murdered those people in cold blood.
He has won, he's laughing his ass off right now, and as disgusted as that makes me, I can't blame him, he got the entire world doing exactly as he expected.
This was a sick social experiment written in blood, and the script he wrote has been followed as he said it would be without a hitch.
I understand your anger and where you're coming from. That said, acting as if though this man was some kind of monster who had no pitiable grievances does nothing but help to serve his agenda. What we, as humans, can do is come together and address the problems the guy had.
I don't mean on this website, or in this thread, but in general. Our societies are fucking failing in the ability for people like this jackass to meaningfully express their grievances. I could go on but this post will be long enough.
Oh jesus, this won't play out well.
New zealand prime minister wearing hijab in "solidarity" today.
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This is simply disgusting, and exactly what this faggot wanted.
Lol, watch out guys, we got an internet badass in the thread.
Some people are accustomed to the intrinsic brutality and ugliness of man. Calling such people "edgelords" is pretty rich considering actual edgelords have a bafflingly less complicated view of the shooting.
I think it's the sheer scope of how many die that's unsettling. Gore-wise, no it's not like a Cartel video. Think one of the worst vids I'd seen was an ISIS execution where they put a homosexual in a cage and burned him to death.
It's not that bad. Faggots who are LARPing as PTSD victims here are exactly that: faggots. If you've never seen someone die you might want to read my previous post about how coddled the modern first-world human is.
I honestly doubt that it can fly that far (2 or 3 meters) just by turning around at that slow speed.
Dude I've accidentally knocked shelving further than this guy did his dropped magazine. You're being a sped here.
Mind-blowing revelation : people feel revulsion at the sight of other people dying even if there isn't guts flying everywhere, hell even if there's no blood at all. Very surprising I know, I mean I nonchalantly masturbated to the whole mosque part because I am very badass.
Nobody that I've seen in this thread since page 24 has made any kind of boast about how non-traumatizing the video was. You're being a faggot.
which feeds into their persecution complex and they then blame Jews etc and go shoot up a synagogue. Deplatforming is probably the dumbest thing ever because it just breeds radicalization.
All because leftists are too feeble brained and can’t debate or confront them on their bullshit. That is unless they’re covering their faces with masks, leading online witchunts and dox brigades, and burning trash cans.
Which is why I am against censorship.
There's been studies on just how humans can solve a problem, and the fix is in. If we're
cooperative and
non-hostile to one another, we can solve just about any problem. We're, as a species, very capable of solving even the most difficult of problems if we can stop screaming about how xenophobic or racist one another is for mere suggestions.
I'm just one guy, but I'm not so stupid as to overlook that if we stop the stigma and ostracization around the topic, we can come up with an answer, but we have to overcome the slavering horde-mind of whether or not something is possible to discuss.