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The discussion centers around a violent altercation between two individuals, highlighting underlying racial tensions and identity politics. Participants express mixed feelings about the incident, with some viewing it as a consequence of provocative behavior and others as a reflection of broader societal issues. The conversation touches on the roles of mental health and substance abuse in the conflict, as well as the impact of public perception and media portrayal. There is a notable critique of how such incidents are sensationalized and the tendency to categorize individuals as either heroes or villains. Ultimately, the thread illustrates the complexities of race relations and the challenges in addressing prejudice and violence in society.
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GRB, you need to post what is in the links and what about them you wish to discuss. Just posting links is not allowed.

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Char. Limit said:
' Take pride in yourself, maybe your nationality, but not your race.

Have you ever noticed that whenever people take pride in anything other than themselves, they can more easily get defensive about critical comments about the identity they identify with? This could be a nation, race, family, school, or branch of science. The question is why people attack and defend on the level of establishing validity for an identity category instead of just attacking people indiscriminately for misbehavior, regardless of group identity.
 
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guys with us around there will be no race war

after i read the post and its reply i believe that there will be none
 
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guys with us around there will be no race war

after i read the post and its reply i believe that there will be none
 
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hagopbul said:
guys with us around there will be no race war

after i read the post and its reply i believe that there will be none

If you think about it, though, any group identity including race holds the potential for instigating and organizing wars. What is war usually except organizing two or more factions of individuals into collectivist ideologies of hate and mutual destruction or domination? Without group identities, people would not be able to organize into factions (at least I don't think it would be possible otherwise) and without the ideologies of difference between factions, you couldn't convince people that people of other factions represented characteristics that they find negative and avoid in themselves.

The question is why people propagate ideology that promotes factionalism and the potential for collective violence? Yes, there is the idea that having an externalized enemy threat builds solidarity "internally," but this never really works because it's never really possible to control the hate and limit it to the enemy. Hate festers in people and seeks expression. If they can't find the enemy they blame, it comes out in other ways.

Another reason might be that if you can instigate groupist violence to a certain level, you can cause people to organize themselves into separate territories, which makes it easier to "divide and conquer." I think some people globally reflexively fear what they perceive to be big powerful nations and such people have an interest in those nations being plagued with internal factionalism. If people would just accept that ultimately even the nations are just factions that prevent people from orienting to life and each other on an individual basis, I don't think the fear and instigation of faction-forming and war would be necessary - but maybe this is naive and there are other functions of war - i.e. factional war as opposed to diffuse wars like wars on drugs and terrorism - i.e. wars that organize people into collectives and pit the collectives against each other such as international wars and interracial (race) wars.
 

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