Current Events > NRA pundit praises Switzerland's "cultural homogenity"

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https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/07/20/nratv-correspondent-pushes-white-nationalist-talking-point-praising-cultural-homogeneity-air/220749

Chuck Holton, a correspondent for the National Rifle Associations NRATV, credited Switzerlands low crime rate on the homogeneity of its culture, echoing a long-held white nationalist talking point.

During the July 20 broadcast of NRATVs Stinchfield, Holton discussed his reporting on gun laws in several European countries and how they compare to those in the United States. Holton praised Switzerlands high gun ownership and low crime rate, which he attributed to the countrys homogeneity, saying he wished we could go back to having one culture in the U.S. NRATV host Grant Stinchfield attempted to clean up Holtons comment by adding regardless of color or race or religion, or any of those things:

You know it really has been fascinating to just kind of get an overview of the gun laws and how they affect -- how the culture affects the gun laws, I guess. Because you take a place like Switzerland, where they have a strong gun culture, number two to the United States as far as gun ownership and although they have very, very low crime. Very, very low murder rates. Essentially, maybe one per 100,000 a year or less. Very, very low and yet -- so what Im saying is that it doesnt have anything to do with the crime rate, as far as more guns equals more crime. Thats not true. What Ive seen is actually the safer places that weve been, be that Monaco, San Marino, even Italy to some extent up in the north, and here in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, those places tend to have higher gun ownership but lower crime. And it really doesnt have anything to do, I dont think even with gun ownership, as much as it does with the homogeneity of the culture. That is, the people who just -- they feel like theyre part of a country, they feel like theyre part of one culture and they arent so divided like we are in the United States. And thats something that kind of makes you go man, it would be really nice to go back to that time in the U.S. where we all just felt like Americans and we left each other alone to, you know, hey, its a free country.

Switzerland, the country with four official languages
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I thought the right-wingers liked Switzerland's banking system
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CULTURALLY
HOMOGENEOUS
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But what did he really mean?
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Antifar posted...

saying he wished we could go back to having one culture in the U.S.

uh huh.
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Antifar posted...

That is, the people who just -- they feel like theyre part of a country, they feel like theyre part of one culture and they arent so divided like we are in the United States

You can have this feeling without all speaking the same native language. It's about actually wanting your country to exist and prosper. When people whine about how the US is founded on stolen land, for example, it undermines this notion in the US.
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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

But what did he really mean?

Minute posted...

CULTURALLY
HOMOGENEOUS

Basically, as long as you're of European descent, it's "ok" in their books.
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

Basically, as long as you're of European descent, it's "ok" in their books.

What? People were incredibly fucking racist against Italians and Irish for the longest time.
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Switzerland has 28.3 guns per 100 people, USA has 120.
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I bet that poverty rates aren't relevant at all
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Switzerland has 28.3 guns per 100 people, USA has 120.

Switzerland also has mandatory military service, so anyone who owns a gun is professionally trained to use it.
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Minute posted...

KamenRiderBlade posted...

Basically, as long as you're of European descent, it's "ok" in their books.

What? People were incredibly fucking racist against Italians and Irish for the longest time.

This is a relevant comment in the early 20th century.
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Minute posted...

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Switzerland has 28.3 guns per 100 people, USA has 120.

Switzerland also has mandatory military service, so anyone who owns a gun is professionally trained to use it.

So?
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Minute posted...

KamenRiderBlade posted...

Basically, as long as you're of European descent, it's "ok" in their books.

What? People were incredibly fucking racist against Italians and Irish for the longest time.

This is a relevant comment in the early 20th century.

Okay, how about a Bosniak? I bet they wouldn't play kind with them. Then again, I doubt they realize there are even Muslims living in Europe that arent "DIRTY FILTHY FUCKING REEEEEEEEEEEEE-FUGEES"
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Basically I just think there's a point to the fact that people in Switzerland have been getting along for hundreds of years while in the US we have had shit like race riots. I bet there hasn't been anything like that in Swiss history in the past 200 years.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

Antifar posted...

That is, the people who just -- they feel like theyre part of a country, they feel like theyre part of one culture and they arent so divided like we are in the United States

You can have this feeling without all speaking the same native language. It's about actually wanting your country to exist and prosper. When people whine about how the US is founded on stolen land, for example, it undermines this notion in the US.

I can translate this for you.

It is about having people with white skin.
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Minute posted...

What? People were incredibly fucking racist against Italians and Irish for the longest time.

Yeah, society gets over that stuff, now they're included as "Europeans".
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StarsOfCCTV posted...

Sativa_Rose posted...

Antifar posted...

That is, the people who just -- they feel like theyre part of a country, they feel like theyre part of one culture and they arent so divided like we are in the United States

You can have this feeling without all speaking the same native language. It's about actually wanting your country to exist and prosper. When people whine about how the US is founded on stolen land, for example, it undermines this notion in the US.

I can translate this for you.

It is about having people with white skin.

See above comments about Italians, Irish, Bosniaks, etc.

Also see all the wars in European history between people with white skin.
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Man how dumb would you have to be to think Switzerland was homogeneous

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