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    [–]DoubleReverse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

    I've told you what I mean by bigotry. Bigotry as I'm using it refers to actions, not thoughts. If you still don't understand I have no other way to explain it to you.

    There is no addressing the "root" of bigotry because every single other person on Earth is different from you in more ways than not. What we can do is show a little higher function because we are humans who don't have to be enslaved by our basest instincts.

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      [–]DoubleReverse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

      I don't see you complaining about how assault or stealing are illegal, even though it takes restraint to not do those things.

      Why not just preemptively confiscate all property from anybody you might feel the urge to steal from? That's the only way to adress the "root" of the problem.

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        [–]DoubleReverse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

        "In contrast, society can function without diversity."

        Without diversity, there is no society. If you have 2 people together, you have diversity.

        "I don't regard other people having stuff which I want as a problem. A challenge, perhaps, to be won by following certain rules (voluntary exchange, etc.), but certainly not a problem."

        Diversity isn't a problem either. Bigotry is. That's why bigotry is illegal and diversity is not. For the same reason that stealing is illegal and owning property is not.

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          [–]DoubleReverse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

          I'm talking about ethnic diversity too, in addition to all the other forms. Bigots discriminate inside their own skin color on the basis that they aren't similar enough. The alt right still wants to persecute other white people if they're Jewish, gay, female, liberal, et cetera.

          A bigot isn't only afraid of black people or white people. He's afraid of everybody who isn't the same as himself, which to some degree means everybody. Trying to appease you by persecuting a specific phenotype would simply be pointless, not to mention self-destructive. It's far easier and more harmonious to just tell the bigot to shut up.

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            [–]DoubleReverse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

            The only threat to the function of society is retards who would rather point fingers at skin colors and dumb shit like that than solve actual problems.

            "Though to be honest, I think that if God gave us a magic button that would create the white ethnostate tomorrow, but one including Jews, homosexuals, liberals, etc. (women being included by default for obvious reasons), we would press it without hesitation."

            Of course you would, and it would enable the persecution of hundreds of thousands of people without actually solving any problems.

            "Somehow, only in the last few decades (or just years, depending on your perspective) have white societies as such seemed faced with existential threat."

            Your predecessors were whining about how catholics and irishmen and seatbelts were destroying society.