Aussie Skinhead wrote on Nov 25
th, 2009 at 10:36pm:
[quote]You will regret Australia having hundreds of different ethnic groups and races come the next great depression or should I say economic collapse. Think about it, the races don;t get along with each other. Sydney is a giant open air ghetto. You'll have millions of unemployed people from different races. Each race and ethnic group hate each other. All this will lead to only one thing... total anarchy. But you won't mind because you just love multiculturalism and multiracialism.
You're right - I do like "multiracialism." The alternative (racist white supremacy) puts me to sleep. I was starting to agree with the tone of anti-lassez-faire capitalism expressed here, but you've lost me with this whole Nazi schtick.
The "races" are here. What are you going to do - ship them all somewhere else? The problem with this Fascist routine is that it's so unrealistic. Sure, five neo-Nazis might have the will to do something. Who knows? You may well be right and everyone else wrong.
But politics works through consensus and competing wills - not one will. The whole authoritarian thing, I believe, is completely out of date. Modern - global - culture is very individualistic. And "Australian" culture - if there is currently such a thing - has become global. Along with the economy and information technology. Australians have always been anti-authoritarian - we've never been one blood, one God, one Leader, now have we?
And I'm not saying that there isn't significant discontent with globalisation and multiculturalism, particularly in rural and regional areas. Hanson certainly showed that.
But you're barking up the wrong tree. I just can't see why you would find a problem with different races living in one place and time. You can call me a fool - call me anything you want. If you can convince me, however, please do.
This - by the way - is the only way you'll be able to make any headway in the mainstream population.
I fully believe in a multicultural/racial Australia. I'm sure you'd see me as the sort of weak, lefty "jew-lover" skinheads probably rail against (of course, my Aryan blood is distinctly "pure").
But I don't see our views as fundamentally opposing. I agree that we need to reduce our consumption, produce real things as opposed to mindlessly "speculating," and, on the whole, live simpler lives. Hitler would wholeheartedly agree, of course.
And Hitler would also agree that the problem is economic. Fascism occurred in the midst of the Great Depression. Whenever there are structural shifts in the economy/history, people will cling to the familiar. They may even long for some imaginary past, as the Nazis did with a completely manufactured mythical "Aryan" identity.
The sooner race disapears from the agenda, the better. But what am I saying?
It has.
If you choose to retain a form of crude, nationalistic bigotry - the longing for some imaginary past and the yearning for something that will never be - it's your call. But I find this sad. Hate is fear. Underneath this xenophobic, tribal longing for the past is the inability to live with change - a deep-seated fear of change.
I see this as a weakness, not a strength. And while I agree that it lurks in the Australian unconscious - as Hansonism showed; as the White Australia Policy certainly showed - I believe it shows Australia's national weakness as a country situated in Asia.
The only "true" Australians are Aboriginals - and even they only came here 50,000 years ago. Why shouldn't the whites all piss off back to Europe? Yeah, we vanquished, we conquered, we settled, we cleared, we killed off the lazy Godless bastards that wasted this great land.
And now we're living with the consequences.
Ultimately, Fascism does not work in the intellectual climate of an internet-driven world of competing ideas. Fascism was established by Brownshirts and Nazis - the "collective" will of uniformed dupes, and inevitably - total war. Nazism pitted itself against liberal democracy and debate. It was about action, not argument: the bullet in the back of the neck. Kristalnacht.
Fascism might convince in the town square - but the internet?
If "protectionism" is a superior political alternative, it requires the power of persuasion. As a reasonably open, "white" Australian political observer, I'm completely available for conversion if you can use your keyboard rationally, with common sense, and with heart.
So far...