[quote]Fair enough, though I wasn't making the argument against it. So I feel like it wasn't too necessary. But yes whites shoot people, but it's mentally fucked in the head people we're usually dealing with. And that goes into mental health more than anything else.[/quote] I don't want to aggravate this any more since it's a whole new hole to tumble down and I don't really have an educated opinion on it so I'll concede it too. [quote]Ah. Still seems like a negative stereotype. [/quote] It's not really, and even if it is that doesn't change the fact that when seeing someone like that I can draw some instant conclusions. Even off of your "non-serious" point you kind of go along with what I'm trying to say by saying that white ones are usually desperate and overcompensate when trying to go into this culture. [quote]Citation needed? :3 *I spent a lot of time writing things but I deleted it. Dieting doesn't help the brain process things I've learned. :D*[/quote] Lynn, Vanhanen, Kanazawa with books like the Ten Thousand year explosion. It's also pretty evident when you just look at who emerged with farming and nomadic rather than hunter-gatherer societies first. [quote]Fair enough, but again. Whose silencing stuff like this? A race? No, a political ideology. Which I argue has caused a lot of the problems. [/quote] That doesn't change the fact that we can't really speak up and the books/studies published by this side are proverbially lynched from the get-go and half the time there aren't even publishers willing to distribute them on the grounds it's raycis. It's not hard to be right when you confiscate all of the other side's shit. [quote]Guilty until proven innocent? I can tell you that doesn't fit western views. (though you're not from here, so that probably means nothing.) But yeah, I just agree to disagree with that ideal. I understand where your logic comes from, but my brain just will never work that way.[/quote] Your loss. I've been taught to be a calculating and paranoid bugger from day 1 which has served me well. [quote]Doesn't help when you applied it to yourself, my man. XP But yes, that happens. Usually by privileged class white people that project their feelings to things, they actually care very little about. But I'm repeating myself. [/quote] I mean, I did it in part because I get tired of pushing aside the claims. If people want to bitch and whine and push these buzzwords at me then so be it, I've had it happen too much to give a shit. [quote]My predominantly white schools absolutely sucked, and was full of pieces of shit. And I highly preferred my predominately black school, many who were at least much less spiteful people. And my non-ghetto friends pale in comparison (and having an actual spine.) to how close I've become to them and the things they've experienced and took in stride. (Everyone that I've meet and spent time with, are far less spineless than people seem to think they are. Including my family. <.<) But I guess anecdotally, both hold about the same weight of the real world as a whole. [/quote] This is also more likely to do with culture preference and models, if one is over-exposed to a single cultural group - especially if it is usually designed for older/more mature people to be emulated - they will most likely come to resent it and find relief in another somewhat "rebellious" one. [quote]Believer of? (I mean I guess it's sort of obvious. (ignoring the 7 billion different denominations.) But I guess I'm not fully sure what that means either.)[/quote] From my country to faith, it kind of sucks being irrelevant/unheard of. Old Believers are pretty much the only Orthodox Christian branch/sub-group that isn't some unheard of cult or syncretism. It happened when a few hundred years ago there were differences in rite between Imperial Russian as well other Church Slavonic texts of all sorts and the Greek ones used outside of Eastern Europe. The Emperor wanted to close the differences between the Greeks and his subjects/diaspora so he ordered everyone to switch to the Greek way which was supposedly right and the Eastern European one was attributed to failures in translation and just overall differences appearing over time as is supposedly natural. Some people stayed with the old Rite and the Emperor issued a repression on them, thus many fleeing to either the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth where they couldn't pursue (Belarus being in the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth at the time) or to live with the Cossacks which were free of most Russian laws. Of course, later research vindicated us since it actually came to prove that we had rite based on Older Greek texts from Constantinople and such that the Greeks did not have, thus proving us, more or less objectively right. So thus came the name, "Old Believers." Reconciled means that we've accepted the Apology of the mainstream Orthodox Church but keep on with our rite.