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Should have paid more attention. The agenda of the Nazis was fairly obvious; explicit, in fact.

I try not to make inferences too distantly from what people say and make personally clear. Saying that journalists, pundits and politicians like Steve Sailer et al have sinister motives, on the magnitude of those of a certain German dictator, just from having a "really bad feeling about them", or misrepresenting or disfiguring their actual statements into grotesque travesties of themselves, appears to be nothing more to me (not specifically referring to you) than a deliberate attempt to shut down and defame anybody who disagrees with a certain political and philosophical orthodoxy. I think it's sick and I'll have no part in it, thank you.

aikmann4 wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2010 at 3:00pm:

The rhetoric of the Nazis was out there (and even that they moderated when expedient)... Few in 1920's Germany believed that a crime unprecedented in thousands of years of human history could have sprung from "good old-fashioned European anti-Semitism"

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My point is that our acts of omission and commission, born of what we fear, have undesirable consequences beyond that which we would intend or, more to the point, can control.

aikmann4 wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2010 at 3:15pm:

All the more more incumbent on us then to be sure we do not project our personal fears, lest they be misused by those among us who crave personal power before the greater good.

There's always a risk there though; in that our fears and anxieties may in fact be urgent and legitimate, and thus warranting of a seeing to. Whether you are entirely right, or I am entirely right, or we're both a little bit right or both entirely wrong, whatever route that we take is inevitably going to result in us being bombarded by a host of trifling as well as severe problems.

I'm not afraid of the boat people, no. I'm not sure "afraid" is the word I would use to describe my sentiments on non-white immigration either.

If I lived in the United States, yes, I would have a sense of fear for the potential (and, current, palpable) implications of its totally self-destructive, suicidal, immigration policy. If I lived in Europe, particularly, a country like France, yes, I would "fear" what the future of my country would look like under a Muslim majority population, or even a sizable Muslim minority. I don't think even you would disagree with the last one. Australia's situation is more complicated and I feel may require deeper investigation before I can make any (proper) moderately strong statements on it, in one way or another.

The whole boat people situation has provided a convenient niche for politicians who want to appear tough and appeal to anti-immigration sentiments, without actually opposing the bulk of immigration. It's a precarious tight-rope walk between the bogans and our corporate overlords (who always have an insatible thirst for immigrants).