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> I don’t use Twitter, and I abhor white nationalism as much as any other kind of genetic population-based supremacy movement. So you’re at least wrong about me
by angoragoats 1y ago
> I don’t use Twitter, and I abhor white nationalism as much as any other kind of genetic population-based supremacy movement. So you’re at least wrong about me.
I never claimed that you use Twitter or that you were one of the "Twitter is not real life" people I was referring to.
> Like DHH, though, I am staunchly anti-multiculturalism. This has nothing to do with genetics or identity groups; it has everything to do with beliefs. Search your own convictions, and you’ll likely find that you feel the same way as DHH and I: you likely want your neighbors to not be ardent believers, for example, that women are inherently 2nd class citizens.
Beliefs are held by individuals, not by cultures. To conflate the two sounds dangerously close to racism to me. So no, I don't feel the same way as you or DHH about this. It might be true that I don't want my neighbors to believe that women are 2nd class citizens, but there are plenty of people who believe that anyway in my own culture, so I don't see the this point and multiculturalism as being connected. The logical thing to do in this case is to espouse anti-mysogynism, not anti-multiculturalism.
> You’ve just been misled into thinking that anti-multiculturalism is somehow related to the poison of one specific identity-based movement (white supremacy).
No, I was not misled into that; we are discussing DHH here, and I think it's clear from his own words that DHH is referring to some sort of ethnic nationalism. The evidence is only a single click away from his "As I remember London" blog post, if you haven't seen it yet: the very first link in the article (anchor text "no longer full of native Brits") links to the "Ethnic groups in London" wikipedia entry[1]. So he is equating being a "native Brit" with being of a certain ethnic group. Do you share my belief that "ethnic group" and "identity group" are terms that are reasonably close in meaning? If so, then by your own admission, DHH is not espousing anti-multiculturalism, and instead is advocating for some sort of ethno-nationalism.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London