Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Anti-Eurocentrism: Idealist DiversionfromAnti-r...

[Ted Winslow <winslow@xxxxxxxx>]

JKSCHW wrote:
>
> << Much better to have neo-Nazis channeling their energies into drink,
> soccer games and dance than into murdering members of visible minorities. >>
>
> As someone who has seen a Brit football riot from a uncomfortably close
> perspectives--if you are close enough to see it. you are too close--I wonder
> if there is that much of a difference. The football match is often as not an
> excuse to murder members of visible minorities. --jks

I'm pretty sure you're right about this.  The kind of psychological
explanation I'm elaborating includes a theory of group psychology that
claims the underlying motivation is more likely to find direct conscious
expression in thought and action when the individuals in question form
themselves into a "mob" having the character of what Freud called a
"psychological group", as in "lynch mobs".

Ted
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