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Old 08-10-2011, 08:33 PM
 
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What I hate about the criminal class is that they somehow got connected to the lower socioeconomic class (mainly by the liberal penchant for always blaming crime on poverty) and that impugns a lot of very fine, morally upstanding poor people who are trying diligently to climb out of their circumstances.
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Old 08-10-2011, 08:34 PM
 
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Right. The massive immigration to the West is a huge benefit. The immigrants coming in from Africa, the Middle East (and for the US -> Mexico, Latin America) are bringing an advanced culture which promotes science, technology, invention and higher standards of living.
While the Whites/Europeans have a culture which promotes degradation, destruction, illiteracy, sexual promiscuity, violence, gangs, and a low standard of living.
Listen immigration is not the problem. Immigration makes our country stronger. 200 years of America's history has shown that to be the case.

Look at this article:
UK RIOTS 2011: Sikhs defend temple and locals protect pubs as Britons defy rioters | Mail Online

Minorities and White working together and with the police to defend their communities against the looters. Isn't that amazing?

Again the problem is the poor not immigrants.
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Old 08-10-2011, 08:37 PM
 
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Listen immigration is not the problem. Immigration makes our country stronger. 200 years of America's history has shown that to be the case.

Look at this article:
UK RIOTS 2011: Sikhs defend temple and locals protect pubs as Britons defy rioters | Mail Online

Minorities and White working together and with the police to defend their communities against the looters. Isn't that amazing?

Again the problem is the poor not immigrants.
And again, it's not "the poor," but rather, the criminal class, and there is such a thing.
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Old 08-10-2011, 08:38 PM
 
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Charming.

Well if you don't like 'em, don't make 'em. Support efforts to strengthen the middle class, and they'll be too busy working to riot. Unfortunately, our current policies are looking to create a society with 10 have nots for every have, and that will not end well for the latter.
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but by "our current policies" I assume that you are alluding to the conservative policies enacted by congress and previous administrations. If this is the case, how can you claim that big government and Socialism in the UK has succeeded in "strengthening the middle class?"
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Old 08-10-2011, 08:55 PM
 
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The problem with Western society is not massive immigration, minorities, liberal/conservative, or too much/too little welfare. It is just the lower class. The poor people. They are the scum of the earth and need to be caged like animals.
I guess you haven't actually learned anything; or, you choose to troll.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...ed-youths.html
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Old 08-10-2011, 09:01 PM
 
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I guess you haven't actually learned anything; or, you choose to troll.

UK riots 2011: Liberal dogma has spawned a generation of brutalised youths | Mail Online
Good find! The same thing is happening in Philadelphia and Chicago with the violent flash mobs.
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Old 08-10-2011, 09:18 PM
 
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It's not the poor per se, but rather what Marx would describe as the lumpenproletariat or a vulgar example of Ayn Rand's "moochers." Truth be told, no one truly gives a damn about this segment of the population. From the man who ****s right outside his tin shack in a Mumbai slum to the meth addict in the American Midwest, these people are doomed to a meaningless and tortured existence. The least we can do for them is possibly give them some sense of pride and purpose through conservative social engineering. The least they could do for us is not to trouble us with the vulgarities of their existence.
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Old 08-10-2011, 09:22 PM
 
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These riots were about race. Why ignore the fact? – Telegraph Blogs

Not my claim, the claim of the article.
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Old 08-10-2011, 09:23 PM
 
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I learned that many conservatives really really don't like Black or Brown people.

Wait, I already knew that.
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Old 08-10-2011, 09:26 PM
 
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You're exactly right, in my opinion.
You say this, yet you blame "liberalism" for the riots? The statement you wholeheartedly agree with is the essence of liberalism.
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