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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8032738" data-attributes="member: 6694221">From my perspective, I feel the goal of humanity is to figure out how each identity group can both preserve its own identity and learn how to coexist with other identity groups.This is a "practice", rather than a "science", because each identity group is unique, and has its own history, strengths, and needs.With regard to ethnic groups, I admire Jews, Druze, Jainists, and others, who have developed cultural skills that make it possible to preserve identity while cooperating whole-heartedly with other identity groups.I feel other identity groups can learn from groups like these for how to do this.With regard to "white supremacists", it is a painful irony. If only they would understand how much damage their hatespeech is doing to "white" ethnic groups. European cultures are so profoundly ashamed of these supremacists, that entire European identity groups seem eager to commit suicide in an attempt to disassociate themselves from such supremacists.The human species needs to censor any kind of supremacist group anywhere. Hatespeech must end. Today people can by handguns. Tomorrow people can buy biological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction. Who knows what technology will make possible?Hatespeech endangers the survival of the human species.With regard to identity groups. Groups mix. Each group needs to figure out how to "adopt" the other into the groups family.Each group adopts the other in different ways. Jews have the ancient aboriginal custom of a "Ger", who is a Nonjewish member of the Jewish community. In addition, an outside can become fully Jewish by conversion. I think this strategy is genius. It both preserves the Jewish identity and can even preserve Nonjewish identities within it, for members who wish to remain distinctive.Other tribes have other customs to adopt outsiders.Thinking of each group as a family helps conceptualize how to preserve the unique family heritage, and welcome new members into it.A nation state like France utilizes citizenship and language as a way to adopt the other into the French family. And so on. These are all complex issues.An American can simultaneously belong to several ethnic groups, including America as a unique ethnic group.</blockquote>

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