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16790968? ago

What follows is taken from the Wikipedia Article on Alister Crowley, on the section "Views on race and gender". My question is, what is wrong with these views, and why does the board hate The Master Thereon so much?

Crowley was bisexual, and exhibited a sexual preference for women,[273] with his homosexual relationships being fewer and clustered in the early part of his life.[237] In particular he had an attraction toward "exotic women",[274] and claimed to have fallen in love on multiple occasions; Kaczynski stated that "when he loved, he did so with his whole being, but the passion was typically short-lived".[275] Even in later life, Crowley was able to attract young bohemian women to be his lovers, largely due to his charisma.[276] During homosexual anal intercourse, he usually played the passive role,[277] which Booth believed "appealed to his masochistic side".[278] Crowley argued that homosexual and bisexual people should not suppress their sexual orientation,[237] commenting that a person "must not be ashamed or afraid of being homosexual if he happens to be so at heart; he must not attempt to violate his own true nature because of public opinion, or medieval morality, or religious prejudice which would wish he were otherwise."[279] On other issues he adopted a more conservative attitude; he opposed abortion on moral grounds, believing that no woman following her True Will would ever desire one.[280]

Biographer Lawrence Sutin stated that "blatant bigotry is a persistent minor element in Crowley's writings".[281] Sutin thought Crowley "a spoiled scion of a wealthy Victorian family who embodied many of the worst John Bull racial and social prejudices of his upper-class contemporaries", noting that he "embodied the contradiction that writhed within many Western intellectuals of the time: deeply held racist viewpoints courtesy of society, coupled with a fascination with people of colour".[282] Crowley insulted his close Jewish friend Victor Neuburg using anti-Semitic slurs and he had mixed opinions about Jews as a group. Although he praised their "sublime" poetry and stated that they exhibited "imagination, romance, loyalty, probity and humanity", he also thought that centuries of persecution had led some Jews to exhibit "avarice, servility, falseness, cunning and the rest".[283] He was also known to praise various ethnic and cultural groups, for instance he thought that the Chinese people exhibited a "spiritual superiority" to the English,[284] and praised Muslims for exhibiting "manliness, straightforwardness, subtlety, and self-respect".[285]

Crowley also exhibited a "general misogyny" that Booth believed arose from his bad relationship with his mother.[286] Sutin noted that Crowley "largely accepted the notion, implicitly embodied in Victorian sexology, of women as secondary social beings in terms of intellect and sensibility".[287] Crowley described women as "moral inferiors" who had to be treated with "firmness, kindness and justice".[288]

16790969? ago

Crowley enjoyed being outrageous and flouting conventional morality,[265] with John Symonds noting that he "was in revolt against the moral and religious values of his time".[266] Crowley's political thought was studied by academic Marco Pasi, who noted that for Crowley, socio-political concerns were subordinate to metaphysical and spiritual ones.[226] He was neither on the political left nor right but perhaps best categorised as a "conservative revolutionary" despite not being affiliated with the German-based conservative revolutionary movement.[267] Pasi described Crowley's affinity to the extreme ideologies of Nazism and Marxism–Leninism, which aimed to violently overturn society: "What Crowley liked about Nazism and communism, or at least what made him curious about them, was the anti-Christian position and the revolutionary and socially subversive implications of these two movements. In their subversive powers, he saw the possibility of an annihilation of old religious traditions, and the creation of a void that Thelema, subsequently, would be able to fill."[268] Crowley described democracy as an "imbecile and nauseating cult of weakness",[269] and commented that The Book of the Law proclaimed that "there is the master and there is the slave; the noble and the serf; the 'lone wolf' and the herd".[235] In this attitude he was influenced by the work of Friedrich Nietzsche and by Social Darwinism.[270] Although he had contempt for most of the British aristocracy, he regarded himself as an aristocrat and styled himself as Laird Boleskine,[271] once describing his ideology as "aristocratic communism".[272]

16794957? ago

Anti christain

A lot of them sounds like lies that we've been here over and over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YMG7zDHbew