This is what makes me angry. Responses like the above. Are you his lawyer. Your response smacks of the very issue I was talking about. The apes comment itself is quite revealing. Are you saying you agree that Locke was right when he said black people are the product of mating between black women and apes?.
The enlightenment was a racist endeavour that ultimately lead to the various holocausts carried out by Europeans. It gave us brown people nothing. It gave Europeans the supposed scientific and philosophical foundation to spread their white supremacy to the rest of the world.
His posts smack of racism and your defending of him exemplifies the issue.
Let me make it quite clear for both of you lest you fail to understand.
We are Pakistanis. Yes many of us our born in the uk but our thinking is not the same as yours. Thus your enemies are not our enemies. Putin is a European. He is what you are just a different side of the coin. When he was flattening Muslims in Chechnya you secretly cheered as he was killing terrorists. You jailed people who raised funds for the chechens. Now the chechens fight for Putin. You feed our enemies like Israel and India and expect us to help you hold the spoon. You want us to bow down to your values many of which we find hypocritical and frankly illogical.
We are not the same. Do not expect us to bow down and say yes masta. This is not a plantation and we are no longer your slaves. Putin is a European problem. Because he is a European. Another product of your centuries long forays into geopolitics that has turned this world into a hellscape.
It is high time you start to listen to what we are saying. And if you can't don't preach to us. We are not interested I your ** anymore. Liberalism is merely the other side of fascism. Liberals will bomb us for our benefit while fascists will just bomb us. Your not that different.
When you were bombing falluja it was an anti terror operation blamed on hussein. Putin is doing the same. He's just a gangster from a different family than yours.
You are making yourself angry by inventing
in your head things
you think are in my head, but aren't. You haven't answered any of my points.
Enlightenment was the rise of science, and that people should think for themselves and not blindly follow the Church.
Locke was a genius in his work on identity and empiricism, who inspired Jefferson and the US Founding Fathers, but wrong about White Supremacy (while opposing the institution of slavery). While he championed property rights, he also thought that "primitive" societies such as the Native Americans hold no property and therefore can be driven off as one would drive off a lion or tiger.
The apes comment is scientific fact. We are all of us descended from apes. I don't know how your drew your false conclusion from my statement. If I think black people are less human that white people, why did I marry a black woman? Tell me. Come on, tell me why you think I did that.
Russia is not Europe and Putin is not a European. Russia extends all the way to the Far East. Putin comes from a different historical and philosophical tradition.
Don't put your words in my mouth please - I did not cheer when Putin slaughtered the Chechens (I looked on in stunned shock), and I did not put anyone in jail for fundraising. I do not support Israel or India (the latter has leaned toward Moscow since 1948, not the West). I didn't bomb Fallujah - remember, every one of the MPs from my party voted against that intervention.
You seem to think all white Western people are an homogenous unit and all think the same. We are not and do not.
Liberalism is diametrically opposed to fascism in the same was that communism is diametrically opposed to capitalism. The problem is predators who want to impose their will on others - be they Genghis Khan, the Caliphs, the imperial Europeans, the imperial Japanese, the USSR, the Bush-era neoconservatives, or Putin.
