Apartheid doesn't always have to be based on race. It can also be based on religion or nationality. But regardless of what the basis is, it's always wrong.
Yet you would force a company to do business with clients not of their choosing. You would force medical professionals to provide services to which they morally object. You would insist on taking from my pocket so as to put into the pocket of another, merely because they stepped across a line. You're a hypocrite of the worst sort.
collectivist ideologies place the whole, the collective, above the individual. With the ultimate collective being a totalitarian State where the individual owns nothing and has no control over his life, but does, says, eats, and goes where the collective, either through democracy or oligarchy, decides he must.
Rand's "Anthem" gave a very accurate, and very chilling example of collectivism taken to its logical extreme.
I lived and operated a business in ElPaso for close to 8 years and I can tell you this much, the percentage of Mexicans in this country who want to assimilate is far lower than even you know. IF there was a call for a separate "country" by Mexicans living in the US, the numbers would amaze everybody.
When the last great immigrant surge from Europe took place just before and after WWI we saw (historically speaking) saw those families requiring no more than one generation to assimilate into our society, become fluent with English, hold good jobs, open businesses and become productive members of our society.
I'm very familiar with what it took since some of my mothers family (some of her grandparent's sisters and brothers) was among those who arrived a few years before that.
Yet it's not unusual to find third generation Hispanics in El Paso who are unable to function in english. Or who do not have a high school education, or hold a job paying much more than min. wage. I had a lot of these apply for jobs with my company and even if I hired the occasional one, they would never work out because they lacked the work ethic we demanded. I mostly employed people who were 5th or more generations or on occasion people newly arrived who another employee vouched for and assured me that they wanted to work AND be an American.
And just FWIW, I didn't allow Mexican flags around my business either. If some employee put one on their car and I saw it in MY parking lot, they got "the talk". And they parked outside my gate. Inside my gates was pure US territory, bought by the blood of patriots, defended by men such as myself. while I would never discourage their free speech or expression, I would let them exercise it all they wanted - outside my gates. Pretty soon I didn't have to even call them in, the other men took care of it for me. I was all about OPPERTUNITY and that flag represented oppression.
Seen it, read it. So slanted and full of lies and half truths that I'd be ashamed to call myself rational if I went along with it. First of all, there's no such thing as "Palestinians." There never was a Palestinian state. Upon the founding of Israel all people whatever their ethnicity were invited to stay and become citizens. However, the Arab states said they were going to demolish the new country and most Arab/Muslims left on their own accord. As I recall 4 countries invaded the new little country of Israel and like David and Goliath, Israel not only survived, but won. If they had kept the territory they won along with the 1967 seven day war, they'd own the Sinai, Lebanon and a chunk of Syria. Did you ever hear of a conquering country fiving back territory it won in war? And when it gave back the Golan as an attempt at peace, what they get? Hundreds of rockets per week. There's a classic story of the Muslim family who in 1948 loaded up their truck to get out of the about to be beaten Israel, but their truck wouldn't start. They were forced to stay. They had a small business which thrived and they became wealthy and not treated like the so-called Palestinians who didn't stay. And by the way, while tiny Israel took in literally millions of refugees, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt refused the now homeless "Palestinians" in order to create a ongoing huge refugee situation.. That's the truth in part, the other stuff is B.S.
Maph, you missed the point yet again. Read this. It answers exactly the differences in Collectivism vs Individualism. I am an individualist! I will NEVER BOW TO COLLECTIVISM.
Everyone is a collectivist. Collectivism simply means a group of people working together and sharing a common goal or ideology. Every human society is based on the principles of collective group action, even capitalist societies. Every company and corporation is a collective. Do you believe in teamwork and cooperation? If so, you're a collectivist.
It is not necessary for people to have different racial heritage for them to steal territory from each other. It's entirely possible for Arabs to steal territory from other Arabs.
Collectivism simply means a group of people working together to achieve a common goal. It's true that nothing massively evil can be accomplished without a large group all working together to bring it about, but it must also be remembered that nothing massively good can be accomplished without the cooperation of a large group, either.
Pretty much every large corporation can be called a collective, yet I sincerely doubt that many people here would call corporations evil.
I don't have a problem with property rights at all. In fact I fully support property rights, as I think it's pretty obvious and self-evident that there can't really be any real prosperity unless people can have a place of their own. I just abhor racism.
Not Muslims necessarily, but Palestinians, who could potentially be Christian, and often are. There's a documentary called "The Stones Cry Out" which discusses the issue in great detail. You can watch a trailer on the official website:
If you would read what I wrote, I said that that wall wasn't a consequence of calls for rejoining the halves of Germany. It was, as you say, a means of preventing defections to the west, and a "punishment" for BoP and as a challenge to a new president that they thought was weak.
What gives you cause to believe that I don't hate evil?
Black South Africans could not have racial apartheid against other blacks. They might could have apartheid, but it couldn't be racial.
Rand's "Anthem" gave a very accurate, and very chilling example of collectivism taken to its logical extreme.
It's called "anarchists".
When the last great immigrant surge from Europe took place just before and after WWI we saw (historically speaking) saw those families requiring no more than one generation to assimilate into our society, become fluent with English, hold good jobs, open businesses and become productive members of our society.
I'm very familiar with what it took since some of my mothers family (some of her grandparent's sisters and brothers) was among those who arrived a few years before that.
Yet it's not unusual to find third generation Hispanics in El Paso who are unable to function in english. Or who do not have a high school education, or hold a job paying much more than min. wage. I had a lot of these apply for jobs with my company and even if I hired the occasional one, they would never work out because they lacked the work ethic we demanded. I mostly employed people who were 5th or more generations or on occasion people newly arrived who another employee vouched for and assured me that they wanted to work AND be an American.
And just FWIW, I didn't allow Mexican flags around my business either. If some employee put one on their car and I saw it in MY parking lot, they got "the talk". And they parked outside my gate. Inside my gates was pure US territory, bought by the blood of patriots, defended by men such as myself. while I would never discourage their free speech or expression, I would let them exercise it all they wanted - outside my gates. Pretty soon I didn't have to even call them in, the other men took care of it for me. I was all about OPPERTUNITY and that flag represented oppression.
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issu...
Pretty much every large corporation can be called a collective, yet I sincerely doubt that many people here would call corporations evil.
http://www.thestonescryoutmovie.com/
Former president Jimmy Carter also has a book about the issue titled "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
http://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Peace-Ap...
What gives you cause to believe that I don't hate evil?
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