but general contact with other peoples is not threatening to civilization or otherwise bad in any way

so mass immigration "changes" culture -- which is to say it removes the original culture.

not really

I don't know what you mean by "contact", but of course it's fine to have "contact" and acknowledge the other cultures.

I mean would you say the hellenistic kingdoms of asia were completely deprived of their cultures via alexander?

I just mean exchange of people, ideas, and customs

well I wasn't there in the during the times of the hellenistic kingdoms of asia so I cannot say with pure confidence how exactly it affected their culture.

yes learning from and borrowing from other cultures is not impossible in a world with segregation.

okay but you haven't explained why the segregation is necessary in the first place

in fact it's very possible, and should be totally allowed and even encouraged. markets should and could exist between states

preservation of culture and history

"to preserve culture" is vague

but if you're promoting cultural exchange anyway, what's the difference?

well, for example, in the south right now, they are removing and banning symbols of the confederate. if the left had their way, then these symbols would be totally wiped from the slate of history.

I'm certainly not a southerner, nor am I defending their culture. But that is how culture and history gets destroyed.

there was literally a thread in leftypol last week about how we should keep the confederate flag and use it to rally southern leftists

what is this "left" you're talking about

egalitarians, primarily.

I suppose is their driving philosphy.

anyway, the confederate flag is a special case

not really.

everything will be a special case in its own unique way if you go that route.

because it was pretty limited in its importance before the 1950's and 60's when it was used as an anti-school integration symbol

ok well if you wanna wholeheartedly defend a symbol coddled to represent white supremacy that's your call. there's plenty of southern symbols and points of national pride that aren't specifically designed to represent rejection of integrated academia

I said ''I'm certainly not a southerner, nor am I defending their culture. But that is how culture and history gets destroyed."

I was just using it as a relevant, modern example, of how culture gets destroyed.

Since you seem to deny that

if you rehabilitate a cultural artifact to make a contemporary political statement then that artifact has grounds to be destroyed

that's how it works

says who?

that's how society has tended in most cases I can think of

the swastika was left alone until hitler used it

sounds like a pretty spooky belief to me

I suggest you think that one out.

no whats spooky is thinking that shitting on a political symbol is literally cultural erasure

"shitting on"?

it's banned, they are removing statues of slave owners.

its not banned you dumb cunt, they literally fly it everywhere

of course anderson cooper was supported by slavery inheritance, but they don't seem to care about that.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a35912/confederate-flag-banned/

banning the sale of the symbol is a lighter form of an outright ban, sure. but it has the same effect in the long term.