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Cultural Defense Does Not Equal Racism or Xenophobia, and the Two Should Not Be Confused

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Racism is a very stupid concept. It takes someone's physical features and makes them a core characteristic from the perspective of the racist onlooker. It ignores everything from the person's beliefs, experiences, and actual character in order to throw them into a singular box because of their melanin levels or origin of ancestry.  

You've seen it a lot lately. While there are definitely white supremacists out there, you've seen it quite a bit with the rise of antisemitism and a great deal of it thrown at white people over the last decade from mainstream sources. 

Sadly, despite the fact that racism is reviled by the majority of Western people, its existence as a blanket concept makes it easy to understand and utilize as an accusation tool against groups or political parties. It even works very well as a way to villainize ideas. 

For instance, the defense of cultures. 

Right now, Ireland is experiencing something of its own cultural war, as highlighted by former MMA champ Conor McGregor. 

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As McGregor has been highlighting, his country is at war, not just with the wave of illegal migrants coming in and causing untold chaos within the country, but with its own government that punishes anyone who raises a stink about it. 

This includes punishing McGregor, who is now being investigated by the Irish government for hate speech for speaking out against it for effectively encouraging the chaos and crime to continue. 

Has McGregor said anything that could be construed as "hate speech?" Not even a little bit, but a resistance to the "cultural enrichment" of these waves of migrants coming into Europe is easily painted as racism because the people doing all this cultural enrichment are a different color than white and have a wholly different culture that doesn't look a bit like Western culture. 

Of course, the people pulling the strings at the top know that McGregor hasn't said anything racist. He's just spoken out against them, and they're using racism as a sword and shield to silence him. They are confusing — or are at least attempting to confuse — McGregor's love of his country and his heritage with a hatred of everything else. They're also trying to paint his anger at the rising violence and crime as a condemnation of a race, not the justifiable and legitimate anger toward bad immigration policy and the fallout that results from it.

Righteous anger and racism are not mutually exclusive, as the authoritarians and globalists would like you to believe. 

It's okay to want to preserve your home and the traditions and beliefs that come with it. There's nothing wrong with that, despite what the globalists say, even if the traditions and culture we're speaking of are primarily made up of white people. There are plenty of white cultures out there that are worth defending. 

At the end of the day, culture is an agreed-upon idea that developed over a long period of time. Every culture goes through changes throughout the generations, and that's completely natural. Culture isn't a static thing. Over the course of time, other ideas are going to pop up or be integrated by people coming from afar and including themselves in the culture. America is a perfect example of this. 

But what people are dealing with, be it in Ireland or here in America, is not natural, cultural change taking place over the course of decades and decades. What we're looking at is cultural erasure by conquering waves of migrants invited in and defended by globalist leaders who think they know better than you about how you should live your life and believe what you believe. 

This isn't about racism; this is about the upending of everything to institute something else, and that's never a good idea. 

If a black person came legally to a white country and began melding with the local traditions and adhering to the customs, then there would be no issue. It doesn't necessarily mean the black person has to begin believing what everyone else believes, but there are things that fly in certain countries and things that don't, and when you're in someone else's country, you live by their basic societal standards. The skin color of the person wouldn't matter at all; it's how they behaved. 

At some point, the black person's traditions and beliefs might start rubbing off on some of the people he comes around, and some of the local populace might begin picking up new ways and habits as a result of it. This is absolutely natural. A person does not come into an area without affecting it in some way, shape, or form, and that includes people. 

However, that's not what's happening in many areas of the Western world. Many of these illegal migrants are coming into these places and immediately ignoring the customs and traditions. They begin attempting cultural takeovers and actively resisting the wishes of those who live there. They have no interest in adopting the necessary behaviors and instead look to force their own. 

That's not enriching behavior; that's conquering behavior. That's destructive, and that needs to be pushed back against. 


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