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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 30, 2024

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Migrants attempting rape gangs on underclass girls in blue states would have the problem that the underclass is also Cathedral-protected.

Migrants attempting rape gangs on underclass girls in blue states would have the problem that the underclass is also Cathedral-protected.

That's not how it generally works with progressives. All the matters is whether the victimizer is more "privileged" (i.e. white) than the victim. Otherwise they'd care far more about black people getting murdered by other black people than they do about the much rarer cases of them getting murdered by white people.

I don't agree, race trumps gender and class, if you put a gun to a feminists head and asked if she'd prefer an all native feminist utopia or a misogynistic open border one, many would lean towards an anti racist society. I'm paraphrasing nick land here, the cathedral purity spirals, you had English academics putting out studies about this migrant rape crisis and then denying it's the work of migrants, citing "socio economic reasons" and a "racist" society.

Elon for all his faults and his recent 4chan and Charles Johnson run in is trying something good. There's no solution without mass deportations. Unfortunately people will keep taking this stuff more and more. Society really wants to commit suicide.

What I'm getting at is that underclass girls in blue states tend to be black and/or Hispanic.

Oh sorry, I keep forgetting American demographics are terrible.

Honestly, if it came out that the people in Detroit had these grooming gangs, would there be actual violence happening or would Pakistanis get a pass because they're poorer, more foreign and Muslim? I'd bet on some skirmishes but it'd not be as much as even we'd expect.

Honestly, if it came out that the people in Detroit had these grooming gangs, would there be actual violence happening or would Pakistanis get a pass because they're poorer, more foreign and Muslim?

My bet would be that being Muslim trumps being black when it comes to the progressive stack.

There is a large Muslim community near Detroit- mostly middle/upper middle class Arabs. The blacks in Detroit, by comparison, are poor.

Plus, I imagine Middle Eastern migrant rape gangs would be substantially less interested in US underclass girls than they would be in UK white chavs in the first place. iasip_you_certainly_wouldnt_be_in_any_danger.mp4

Sloot, surely you have no major criticism of the gangs, given their view of young western women lines up almost exactly with your own?

This seems uncalled for. These guys are literally raping and torturing young women. You don’t have to be a feminist or respect those girls to find that repellent.

Sloot’s view on these girls and the state of western womanhood is, as far as I can tell, the same as (the dreaded) Jim’s, which is to say near identical to the Mirpuris in question.

This isn't true in all cases though, what's funny is that many of these girls who did get raped also got abortions, something Jim calls unlikely. I do read him, he's right about certain things but at the same time, this entire issue stems from mirpuris doing it. Natives of ones own society, a healthy one would have enough shame and not drive it like a rented car.

Women who are being raped don't actually like it. Jim has a good understanding of women but it's not the best model, you'd find better resources by actual pickup artists or that pdf from manhood 101.

Again, leaping from "you have views on western womanhood which I find medieval and repellent" to "you'd totally shove broken glass up a young girl's vagina, wouldn't you, admit it" seems excessively uncharitable.

@2rafa's comment was perhaps unnecessarily snide, but she's not wrong. Have you ever read Dread Jim? His only problem with Muslim rape gangs is that they're Muslim.

This is also why I called @KulakRevolt's entire schtick performative. Here he is pretending to be outraged at Muslim rape gangs, while on Twitter he fairly explicitly argues that we should be raping the women who belong to our enemies.

"Who, whom?" isn't just a leftist hypocrisy.

I read an article once or twice, I think. For @KulakRevolt, I can't say, I don't use twitter. I still remember when he advocated the slaughter of teachers for oppressing children by making them sit in a classroom, so I don't take him very seriously, though he is absolutely right about the bovine, docile-to-the-point-of-sabotage response from British elites. I hope those responsible someday get what they deserve, and I think that what they deserve is pretty close to what @KulakRevolt thinks they deserve.

But @Sloot is not @KulakRevolt; while he may have a poor opinion of western women, I've never seen him advocate for rape and torture, and I felt @2rafa's comment crossed a line. I could have reported it but it seemed more honourable to reply in person, which I did.

I agree the comment was snide, but it was based on many years of commenting history and interaction, so wasn’t really a drive-by.

There are plenty of white underclass girls with no dads in the US.

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