To: Hank Kerchief
This is anti-nationalist and ahistorical tripe.
The simple fact is that "autoracism" is not racism but a recognition of similaraty among ones people. This is the basis of culture and civilization.
Whether you beleive that we evolved in clans (sociobiology) or God created tribes, the fact is that the state of nature is not a single man or a couple but a group.
7 posted on
01/22/2007 11:40:57 AM PST by
rmlew
(Having slit their throats may the conservatives who voted for Casey choke slowly on their blood.)
To: rmlew; Hank Kerchief
a recognition of similaraty among ones people. This is the basis of culture and civilization.I don't think so. I believe the basis of culture and civilization is the grasping and utilization of "the Golden Rule," wherein each person identifies and integrates, on his own, the CONCEPT that if he wants to live peacefully and productively among others, and cooperate with them, he has to treat others as he wants to be treated himself. Simply identifying who's in your tribe and who isn't keeps one strictly on the PERCEPTUAL level, not the conceptual level, and thus still on THE SAME LEVEL AS ANIMALS -- or of religious or racist fanatics.
16 posted on
01/22/2007 8:16:07 PM PST by
FreeKeys
(Why not McCain? Because he won't nominate Supreme Court justices who'd overturn McCain-Feingold.)
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