I agree. Cultural purity arguments are not only close-minded, but generally ignorant. The Nazi's and similar groups adopt pseudo-Darwinian ideas about how an ethnic group can be biologically superior and argue that to maintain that superiority they must maintain the purity of their genetics (and only marry inside their group)
Of course, they completely ignore any other evolutionary ideas, such as how mixing diverse populations and inter-breeding benefits the species.
Cultural purists seem to pick and choose their 'scientific' theories and selectively discard anything else.
This sort of censorship action is common in European countries. In many nations, the laws allow the government to prohibit speech that they believe threatens the well-being of the state. They exercise this power more often than the U.S.
The mentality of some European states is that
the government must protect the people from harmful and influential information that could infect them with bad ideas (like nazism).
Maybe this government-over-people mentality is leftover from the era of monarchy and the absolute sovereignty of the king.
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I agree. Cultural purity arguments are not only close-minded, but generally ignorant. The Nazi's and similar groups adopt pseudo-Darwinian ideas about how an ethnic group can be biologically superior and argue that to maintain that superiority they must maintain the purity of their genetics (and only marry inside their group) Of course, they completely ignore any other evolutionary ideas, such as how mixing diverse populations and inter-breeding benefits the species. Cultural purists seem to pick and choose their 'scientific' theories and selectively discard anything else.
This sort of censorship action is common in European countries. In many nations, the laws allow the government to prohibit speech that they believe threatens the well-being of the state. They exercise this power more often than the U.S. The mentality of some European states is that the government must protect the people from harmful and influential information that could infect them with bad ideas (like nazism). Maybe this government-over-people mentality is leftover from the era of monarchy and the absolute sovereignty of the king.