Society/Culture Christchurch Mosque mass shooting

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Four Muslim men flew planes into the World Trade Centre (a place seen as a capitalist monument, where people were doing business and making a lot of money, (things Lefties like yourself hate, a building where it is highly probable that a lot of Right-Wing conservatives work) on 9/11, and another plane tried to fly into "Airforce One" (carrying a Right-wing President), but it was averted by passengers.

I would say that is a case where Muslims (who Lefties love defending, no matter what they do) attacked Right-Wingers.

But, let's see you spin this into how it is a U.S. Government conspiracy, they paid Muslims to fly into the World Trade centre, and paint the four guys who did it as being completely innocent.

The Left can't condemn the Right and say that every right-wing person is culpable of this, while condemning Right-Wingers for generalising that all Muslims must be terrorists. Both generalisations are wrong.

BTW, as a Mod, you should be more balanced and down-the-line, and not mod according to the side you don't like. Moderators have to adhere to higher standards here than the rest of us.
So dumb, the leftist protests post 911 were against the war in Iraq not the war in Afghanistan. Pretty much bipartisanship ruled when it came to invading Afghanistan. The right puts to many caveats in their condemnation of this tradegy thats what is so disgusting, they are just so scared to offend their extreme supporter bases on the fringes so they carefully shape their condemnation. Its mainly because theres an election coming up here and in the US.
 

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Apologies for being unclear. Cleric accused the left of denying biology when it comes to gender. I was wondering if you're saying that; these people don't exist and his point is moot, OR that these people aren't aligned with the left, OR that you yourself have a certain belief on gender?

Is that any clearer? I know what I'm trying to say - sometimes I don't put out my thoughts clearly. :p
Society has moved on from gender issues apart from some keyboard warriors, Corey Bernadi, parts of the liberal party and homophobic religions.I regard it as bigotry to be against gender transition ect now.It's funny how 'consevatives' are always one step behind society.All these progressive policies eventually come in anyway eg Indigenous and women's right to vote, child support payments, not illegal to be gay anymore, gay marriage ect.In fact the Greens policies from 15 years ago are now mainstream and written into law.Conservative voters don't want any change at all, no matter how beneficial to society.They want the world to be like when they were a child where most people are white and there's a picture of the English queen in the lounge room.A lot of it is to do with people refusing to accept that the world and counties are mutli cultural now which was an inevitable part of growing the economy and cheap mass transportation.
 

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You didn't get the equivalency of my post did you? Went right over your head didn't it?
Think harder when you re-read it.
I certainly got the attempted but plainly false "equivalency", and "head" wasn't the body part I immediately thought of when I read it.
 
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I am not tryin to curtail anyone's freedom, personally I don't have any interest in watching nor reading his manifesto however not sure that I agree that by viewing it is doing anything but what the terrorists are after.

Anyway, just my 2 cents. I haven't got the stomach for it, I cried watching the news about it.
It takes a real sick person to be ok with doing what that guy did. In some ways, I think anyone who self identifies as a white nationalist should be made to watch the video in detail. And the footage of witnesses and victims in the aftermath. Have a look at what this shit actually looks like - not a movie or video game. In some ways it's kinda like how I think anyone who eats meat should slaughter their own food at least once so they can appreciate where their supermarket good comes from.
 

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Have you written, all humans must die to save the planet on your car yet? Or all men must castrate themselves?
That's what you are fighting for. I just want to be left alone, and I'm happy to leave you alone.
You're a walking, fake news propaganda machine mate, Trump could have used you in the midterms.Whats all this about castration, are youban incel?.I'll give you the tip, if you respect women and are nice to them, you might get a date one day, it's not rocket science mate.
 

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When did racism become a dissenting voice? Racism is a belief that your race is superior to another race, how's that gonna affect a society? There's far too much sympathy for racists on bigfooty, it's a disease that needs to be cut off at the head before we have another Hitler.
Fair points. I meant 'dissenting voices' as ANY that go against societal norms, in this case the tenets of common decency, acceptance, and inclusion. I should have worded that a bit differently.
 

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And? A bunch of commies think the Greens are their party here.
There's **** all communists. And the ones that do exist are disinterested in the system.

White nationalism was a major security issue prior to 2016, and he has brought even more out. Now we have another mass shooting. This is a major problem over there, it will come out here soon, and imo adds nothing to the debate adding that calling out white nationalism polarises people.
 

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The only way you can stop these kind of attacks are strict gun laws. No coincidence that the safest countries in the developed world has the strictest weapon laws

The ideological issues will never be fixed. There is no way to stop "Islamphobia", one of the main driving forces of the opposition to Muslims in "their country" are Christians and Christians endorsed politicians. As long as you allow the notion of "freedom" of religion, you will have to put up with these religions opposing each other. Religions are born to fight each other. If Muslims are the majority in these countries and Christians are the immigrating ones, the outcome would still be the same

Racism will also never stop happening, there will always be an element of society that will be racist. The only way you can prevent these people from doing harm is to stop them having easy access to destructive weapons
 
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The race part is a function of where we are from
Where we are from is a social construct.

We are kind of all from Africa. Or barring that, a protoplasmic soup in the middle of the Pacific, 3 billion years ago. Technically the big bang also (carbon, hydrogen and so forth).

The line is set via social construction, not some biological reality.

'We' are 'them'. Only a fiction constructed by human hubris suggests anything different.
 

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You're throwing around some god awful accusations in this thread. Maybe you should call it a night, eh?
No mate,I wasn't calling you anything,it's a general statement that I call out bigotry when I see it .That's what a real man does.I'll be staying on the thread to counter the far right types on this thread.
 

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I won't watch it.

Somehow, in all of my years on the internet, despite the intense interest, I've avoiding watching the ISIS murdering videos, the Russian hammer killings, and all of that other shit. While I'm curious, I can't bring myself to watch people be murdered - especially when people relate stories of a lady begging for help, and him executing her.

Your other point is a good one - I'd be very surprised if there weren't reprisal attacks in the near future; and this absolute piece of shit is likely going to trigger violence in NZ/Aust, when we've been fortunate enough to avoid most of it :(
I saw that one. It's the one that finally saw me draw up concrete borders around what I will and won't watch. That was the night I'd had too much internet.
 

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There's **** all communists. And the ones that do exist are disinterested in the system.

White nationalism was a major security issue prior to 2016, and he has brought even more out. Now we have another mass shooting. This is a major problem over there, it will come out here soon, and imo adds nothing to the debate adding that calling out white nationalism polarises people.
You're not listening. At no point was my post about comparing numbers - it was about the perceptions of those groups and the political actors/parties they endorse being incorrect. I've also quite clearly clarified the issue I brought up, which is conflating conservative viewpoints with responsibility for the attack. It's that straightforward.
 

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The only way you can stop these kind of attacks are strict gun laws. No coincidence that the safest countries in the developed world has the strictest weapon laws

The ideological issues will never be fixed. There is no way to stop "Islamphobia", one of the main driving forces of the opposition to Muslims in "their country" are Christians and Christians endorsed politicians. As long as you allow the notion of "freedom" of religion, you will have to put up with these religions opposing each other. Religions are born to fight each other. If Muslims are the majority in these countries and Christians are the immigrating ones, the outcome would still be the same

Racism will also never stop happening, there will always be an element of society that will be racist. The only way you can prevent these people from doing harm is to stop them having easy access to destructive weapons
Weren't the car/s also loaded up with IEDs?
 

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No mate,I wasn't calling you anything,it's a general statement that I call out bigotry when I see it .That's what a real man does.I'll be staying on the thread to counter the far right types on this thread.
I've actually cringed reading your posts in this thread and you're coming across as being unstable. I hope for your sake you've merely had a few too many.

Enjoy.
 

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The line is set via social construction, not some biological reality.
This is pseudo-scientific rubbish that denies the differences that actually exist in human kind across the genetic landscape of the planet.

Otherwise there wouldn't be certain racial groups at higher risk of developing certain and specific medical conditions.

Denying the reality doesn't bring us closer. We are different and that doesn't reduce the value of any.
 
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