Sujet 17 %, soit plus d'un sur sept. Sur AF aussi il y en a, c'est sûr.

Citation : even someone as moderate as I am is pushed willy-nilly into the reactionary camp.

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# Am I the only person to notice that both Left-wing candidates were Mexicans?
# In the 19th century, the Democrats were the party of "rum, Romanism, and rebellion." Today, they're the party of parasites, perverts, and peaceniks. The only constant is that they're still the party of foreigners.

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The greatest evil that contemporary Westerners can imagine is something called "racism." It's not clear precisely what this is. The real evils perpetrated in the name of race -- the excesses of the Nazi regime, the injustices of the Old South -- have passed into history. Yet racism is still perceived as something omnipresent -- because the label is used so loosely that it can mean anything, and therefore nothing. More and more things, ever more far-fetched, are considered analogous to racism, and therefore part of the same pervasive evil.

Racism is usually defined -- when it ever is defined -- in terms of irrational hate and fear of other races. One problem with this definition is that racial hate and fear are not always entirely irrational: not when a significant portion of another race is a real threat, e.g. as white Klansmen or black criminals. Another problem is that racism so defined (i.e., as a form of xenophobia) is presumed to be universal (at least among "unenlightened" people); yet specifically racial animosity is actually quite rare and localized in history, and always entangled with nonracial problems.

Citation : Y'en a qui voient juppé, aussi...

Hors sujet : Gabou, tu as effectivement trouvé un champion du monde

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Physical science and technology would provide the know-how, while a new kind of regime, liberalism, would provide the conditions of liberty and equality enabling men to pursue their self-interest.

The problem with this (in the Straussian view) is that it exposed philosophy once more, and ultimately prostituted philosophy itself into the service of common men. The esoteric tradition was forgotten, and with it philosophy as such. At the same time, philosophy inadvertently exposed men to certain hard truths, truths too hard for them to bear: that there are no gods to reward good or punish evil; that no one's patria is really any better than anyone else's; that one's ancestral ways are merely conventional. This leads to nihilism, epitomized by the listless, meaningless life of bourgeois man, or to dangerous experiments with new gods -- gods like the race and the Fuehrer.

Hors sujet :
Delanoe, c'est quand même la politique politicienne, un futur mitterand en puissance. Un séducteur, pret à retourner sa veste, etc...