Was reading the imdb.com threads on "American History X" last night (which i think is a great film), and i noticed quite a few people with shockingly primitive racist views. I have never met anyone like this in real life because most of my friends are quite intelligent, but i am worried about the increase in racism recently. This is on a movie forum, not a political or white-power forum.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/board/nest/8155890

Its quite a long thread, the comments by Worley are the best, like:


"I can't believe how brainwashed you all are.. jeez..
Do want the white race to disappear?
What if your country turned into a 3rd world s*ithole someday? "

"The white race, north-east asians and jews are the only races without genetic disabilities."

"The name Homo sapien was first used by the 18th Century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus. The word "sapien" means "wise." The name was originally used to speak of the White man and synonymous with "europaeus." As a result, many later taxonomists and geneticists believed that Negroes and other races should be classified as different species."


The guy is obviously thick. His views have big flaws and he obviously is insecure. But its scary how people are advocating draconian measures to be taken against Abu Hamza (The London race-hate inciter). All of a sudden human rights dont mean so much. Also many people seem to want to distance themselves from the "liberal" label - seems like everyone wants to be right wing nowadays.

I am not so concerned with challenging him, but i am worried about the education in this country, and our society in general, it seems like the cycle of hate is getting worse.
I know the political topics on ESR have been tiresome recently, but i found this thread a real eye-opener.