Posted: Apr 4, 2008, 10:14 AM CST
solitare wrote:The OP has used an old phrase bandied about and used on occasions since the late 60's by several of the more popular "terror" groups such as Baader-Meinhof, Red Brigades, PFLP, Black September. Even by the extreme right and white is the US,; it never became a phrase that was popular with mainstream media, even after the movie The Godfather in 1972. I haven't heard it in years except by the old individuals that on rare occasions get together and talk politics and tactics, so the term is a valid, though almost "archaic" one, as anyone who has studied political science, urban guerrilla warfare and political propaganda should be aware of. I'm just mildly curious as to where the OP found it or was it just chance wording on his part...but most of all, I'm amused at the levels of vitriolic openly murderous responses for simply asking a perfectly legitimate question that more people around the world would be curios about, in a terminology that they would recognize. Certainly a number of peoples that far outnumber your populations...again, so much for the ever flaunted and vaunted "free speech and freedoms of expressions". The OP has obviously forgotten that those concepts do not extend to others outside the the hallowed halls of the intellectually frozen mental capacities of the New World Order neo fascists...
Who claims America is perfect? Many of us are not happy with our government and that is known. Do you have a perfect government? I don't like it when people take joy in what is actually our misfortune and make sweeping generalizations about America and American people. and to say that anyone other than the New World Order neo fascists are intellectually frozen is such a generalization. I am not a New World Order neo fascists and I'm sure that many people who disagree with this hate thread are not either. but here is a little something I better understand then making sweeping generalizations and running....
WHY DO WE HATE?
Sermon given by Rev. Emily Burr on 5/7/06
at Kearsarge UU Fellowship
Hate thrives when we lose the individuality of the members of a group. We have an innate tendency, called the binary instinct, to divide the world into us and them. It is a way for us to create “order in a world otherwise overwhelming in flux and detail,” according to Harvard biologist Edward Wilson. The combination of generalization and us-them mentality interferes with our ability to empathize with those in the “them” group. This lack of empathy is one of the most surprising and disturbing aspects of hate. It is what allows humans to engage gleefully in cruelty and torture. Our ability to reason can overcome this innate tendency. In a recent article in the Globe, Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan contends that the language of neuroscience is not enough. We will always need to include morality meaning and love when discussing psychological reasons for human behavior. Scientific information about the functions of the brain cannot alone guide our morality. Our ability to judge right and wrong, and the systems of meaning and morality that we create can be used to combat hate in ourselves and in others.
One important way we can work against hate is to do all we can to deconstruct the us-them dichotomy. Getting to know individuals in the other group can counteract the dichotomy that creates dehumanization. When we get to know an individual and can see how that person is like us, we can empathize with them and our hatred of them as one of the “other” can dissipate. This was the thinking behind the program that brought Catholic and Protestant youth from Ireland to live, work and play together here in New London over several summers. Social psychologists have discovered that working with others to achieve a common goal builds trust and helps eliminate the us-them dichotomy.