Reply #20: instead fo worrying about the symbol... [View All]

[Nazgul35]

try worrying about the cause....it wouldn't matter if the falg had the symbol of an old milk bottle on it.....the problem is racism and where it comes from....

It comes from being uneducated....it comes from dispair, lack of hope....forcing human beings to compete against each other for whatever scraps are left over when Dick Chaney and friends are done....

So you'll get rid of it by preaching to them that they're bad people...is that your argument about the Germans circa 1930s, America today? Or is the answer that people, when driven by fear and need are sucseptible to any message that provides security in the form of symbolism and ethnocentrism....

For me, the way to beat racism is to remove the problems that create an environment for racism to take hold....will this eleminate all racists...no....but it certainly will diminish the ability of politicians to use it to divide people.....

the same way we should be trying to solve the problems in the developing world that creates an environment that makes a person think that strapping a bomb...or flying a plane into a crowd of fellow human beings is better than trying to live! Remove the underlying causes of dispair and want, of the politics of seperation and exclusion...and yeah...I think we just might make things better in this world.....