Are Today's Germans Morally Responsible for the Holocaust?

[syk]

I think Germans have a moral responsibility to be aware that they, as a people, were once capable of this type of action, and to guard against a repeat.

Racist horseshit. Civilized human beings were capable of doing these things.

[Jacob]

I also fail to understand what's racist about saying something that boils down to "don't get married for the wrong reasons"; is he supposed to dodge the technically accurate wording given the subject of the discussion? Or is there something inaccurate in what was posted above? Did he complain of miscegenation in any other circumstances than that motivated by self-hatred?

The word "miscegenation" in the English language carries a few centuries worth of explicitly racist political agenda as baggage - i.e. anti-miscegenation laws and popularist opposition to mixing with "lesser races". I don't think appeals to being "technically accurate" is going to divest any users of the word of that baggage.

[Agelastus]

The word "miscegenation" in the English language carries a few centuries worth of explicitly racist political agenda as baggage - i.e. anti-miscegenation laws and popularist opposition to mixing with "lesser races". I don't think appeals to being "technically accurate" is going to divest any users of the word of that baggage.

Really? It may have the sort of baggage you claim in the USA. It does not do so to anything like that extent in Britain.

Words don't have "baggage"; people have "baggage".

[grumbler]

The word "miscegenation" in the English language carries a few centuries worth of explicitly racist political agenda as baggage - i.e. anti-miscegenation laws and popularist opposition to mixing with "lesser races". I don't think appeals to being "technically accurate" is going to divest any users of the word of that baggage.

Indeed, the word itself carries a racist tone because it inherently includes the concept of "race" and, thus "race blending."  The human race is already plenty blended.  To call out a given marriage as "miscegenation" is impossible except as a racist concept.  "Miscegenation" is a social term, not a biological one.

[Neil]

I also fail to understand what's racist about saying something that boils down to "don't get married for the wrong reasons"; is he supposed to dodge the technically accurate wording given the subject of the discussion? Or is there something inaccurate in what was posted above? Did he complain of miscegenation in any other circumstances than that motivated by self-hatred?

The word "miscegenation" in the English language carries a few centuries worth of explicitly racist political agenda as baggage - i.e. anti-miscegenation laws and popularist opposition to mixing with "lesser races". I don't think appeals to being "technically accurate" is going to divest any users of the word of that baggage.

Indeed, I've just started using it heavily lately.  My best friend is half asian, and he married a white girl that we went to high school with.  So I get to use miscegenation from time to time.  It's fun.

[derspiess]

Ever since my sister in law miscegenated, I've been using the term non-stop!

[citizen k]

I don't feel Tibetans have any moral responsibility to guard against their tendency to exterminate entire ethnic groups.  Nor do Balians, or Swedes, or Australian aborigines, or most people in the world.

The Swedes wiped out the Geats? Brain, any thoughts?

[fhdz]

Humans should be very happy for any marriage (or union) which results in children with mixed genetic backgrounds. The goal - maybe not a societal or cultural goal, but certainly the species-level goal - is to mix things up so inherited defects (predilections to certain diseases, etc.) are watered down and spread out, and inherited advantages (resistances to various blights) are spread widely.

[Ed Anger]

Plus mixed race black girls are hotter than the ghetto sistahs.

[MadImmortalMan]

So...there's an evolutionary explanation for Lettow's and CdM's yellow fever?

[fhdz]

So...there's an evolutionary explanation for Lettow's and CdM's yellow fever?

It certainly would seem so. There's also an evolutionary explanation for why like 101% of Jewish people need glasses.

[Kleves]

Humans should be very happy for any marriage (or union) which results in children with mixed genetic backgrounds. The goal - maybe not a societal or cultural goal, but certainly the species-level goal - is to mix things up so inherited defects (predilections to certain diseases, etc.) are watered down and spread out, and inherited advantages (resistances to various blights) are spread widely.

That all sounds well and good when you type it out like that. Yet when you try to explain it to the hot Asian chick in the apartment across from you and she slams the door in your face, you're weird one. Go fig.

[Ed Anger]

So...there's an evolutionary explanation for Lettow's and CdM's yellow fever?

They cry during sex. According to the pornos.

So hot.

[fhdz]

Humans should be very happy for any marriage (or union) which results in children with mixed genetic backgrounds. The goal - maybe not a societal or cultural goal, but certainly the species-level goal - is to mix things up so inherited defects (predilections to certain diseases, etc.) are watered down and spread out, and inherited advantages (resistances to various blights) are spread widely.

That all sounds well and good when you type it out like that. Yet when you try to explain it to the hot Asian chick in the apartment across from you and she slams the door in your face, you're weird one. Go fig.

I can't help you with your game. I can only help you with science.

[fhdz]

On another note: fellas, why Asian women?