Wednesday, April 28, 2021

A black man on black and white culture

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/white-people-s-war-on-western-civ/

A few quotes:

White Americans are usually quick to blame themselves for the state of race relations, and despite their high propensity for tolerance, they are unjustly characterized as racists. Across the country school districts are lowering standards to appease minority activists, yet it appears that whites can do nothing to placate their anger. What is also quite ironic is that whenever black professors proclaim racist sentiments, they are often enabled by their white colleagues, citing free speech. Anti-white racism is acceptable to the point of being virtuous, while whites are never allowed to defend themselves from racism charges.

To some, the nebbish behavior of whites needs explaining. But we ought not to be surprised at the pathological altruism of whites. Conservatives like to brag that Western culture holds freedom and individual expression in high esteem. If white people as a whole have greater respect for individual agency and are less ethnocentric than other groups, then they will generally be more inclined to tolerate dissenting opinions, even to the detriment of their own interests.

And another. 

As such, white intellectuals have become partners in the quest to destroy the cultural heritage of the West. Blinded by pathological altruism, they are unable to acknowledge that a civilization without a culture must collapse. [...]  But the real issue is that radical non-whites and their liberal peers want to annihilate the Western canon. Contrary to the naïve perceptions of most white people, movements to decolonize curriculum are not efforts to create an intellectually diverse environment. Rather, they reflect contempt for Western civilization. 

And another.

For instance, several leading universities have devoted departments to the politically inspired discipline of African studies. Due to the name, most would assume these departments teach students about African states like Benin and Oyo, and their own histories of imperialism and slavery. Instead, they fixate on Europe’s relationship with Africa and glorify African primitivism.

The main objective of such courses is a politically motived push to engender hatred for Western civilization. [...] Moreover, the politicization of education continues unabated since white people care more about the feelings of misguided grievance mongers than the survival of their culture. Only white people are silly enough to think that Caucasian philosophers should be removed from the curriculum of a majority white society. [ed note: they're not misguided. They're evil and they hate white people and want to exploit them for their own benefit. It's naive to call them misguided.]

Universities in China would not tolerate white Americans telling them to make their courses less Asian. Yet strangely some think that it is acceptable to demand that American universities dump the Western canon.  

Same guy wrote another article. He's actually got a whole corpus of interesting stuff.  https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/why-republicans-struggle-to-gain-the-black-vote/ 

Acts of contrition can never endear the Republican Party to black Americans. Republicans have assumed the opposite for decades, thinking that blacks will reward them with support for their energetic pandering.

What Republicans fail to realize is that black people view voting as an expression of group solidarity. This solidarity is crucial to the identity of black Americans, and even though many blacks identify as conservative, voting for Republicans is thought to violate their identity. Those who do violate this identity are excluded for failing to uphold sacred traditions in the black community.

Although many blacks identify as conservative, they remain loyal to the Democratic Party, to the bewilderment of analysts. To black Americans, voting does not aim at empowering the individual—it is seen as expressing the interests of the group. If blacks believe Republicans are hostile to their goals, then they will vote for Democrats, even when policies advertised by the Democratic Party may prove to be detrimental to their economic well-being.

This group voting mentality is especially difficult in the ever-present mentality of victimhood. Black activists and white liberals want us to accept the cult of black victimization, tying this closely to black voting patterns, thus making it difficult for Republicans to appeal to black voters.

Black victimhood is what the word racism as it's usually used in America means. It's a con. Or maybe it's almost more like a cult. Either way, the entire thing is a hoax. It doesn't exist, and its only purpose is to extort blackgeld from naive and nice white people who assume that ethnic minorities are as fair-minded as they are, so they give them benefits of the doubt that have been proven over and over and over again to be misplaced. The article linked describes this in more detail:

Unlike the radical separatism advocated by Huey Newton and the Nation of Islam, black victimhood functions as a group adaptation mechanism, by allowing black activists to impose demands on the state. Black separatists are usually maligned by the mainstream, but their vision is more liberating than that of black liberals and their white companions. Separatists want black people to be free from white institutions, whereas liberals envision a society where whites are responsible for looking after and coddling blacks.

As advocates of capitalism, Republicans differ in their medium for empowering blacks, but like separatists, they also advocate black autonomy. Yet because blacks tend to be collectivistic, and have been socialized by the wider culture to imagine themselves as victims, preaching the message of self-reliance to black Americans may appear quite challenging. [...]

The plight of poor blacks is paraded by black intellectuals to justify their privileges at the expense of all Americans. Black activists fear independent black Americans, since they pose a risk to their material interests.  If blacks eschew victimhood, then activists cannot use their condition as a tool to extract resources from white institutions. Clearly, such circumstances obviate the services of activists who are handsomely paid to design anti-racist policies.

The truth is that victimhood is intertwined with the politics of black solidarity. Unless Republicans abandon the message of self-help, blacks will never perceive them as an attractive option to Democrats, and it is a waste of time for Republicans to specifically target black voters. 

There are two solutions to peaceful coexistence between America and the black nation embedded within our borders. Both of them have slim chances of actually coming true without radical—and in fact harrowing—events bringing them to pass.

1)  Set the black nation up somewhere where they can order society to their own liking, without interference from America and without them being able to interfere with America in turn. Whether this is a model like Lincoln's "back to Liberia" approach, like his "Jamaica or Haiti-like Central America or Caribbean approach" or whether it's more like ceding the inner city ghettos to them in a model a bit like that of the Indian reservations (except a bit stricter. White people don't interfere much in Indian affairs on the res, but they certainly feel free to interfere in ours off the res.) probably doesn't really matter too much. The key is "you do you and we'll do us, and we won't get in each other's way." This is the good fences make good neighbors approach; we can have peaceful and even friendly coexistence based on separation, and not interfering in the way that we each respectively set up our societies. Of course, blacks in America don't want to have anything to do with this other than a few "radical" ideologues, as mentioned above. Black identity is a negative identity; they literally have no identity if you take away their ability to claim to be oppressed victims of white privilege, as well as the ability to mooch of of white people because of their black privilege. Black people in America who reject this identity, as implied above, tend to over time because less black and eventually just kind of assimilate into America. Or at least they would if the advantages of claiming a black identity weren't so obvious and manifest. People like Meghan Markle, who is—what, 1/8 black? claim a black identity because its a prestige identity compared to a white identity. People like Rachel Dolezol and Shawn King claim a black identity even though they're completely white by genetics, because it's such a prestige identity. (This is similar to how liar and con artist Elizabeth Warren crashed and burned when her calls of being "native" "American" were disproved. Any non-white identity is a prestige identity in America these days, because the ruling caste is defined by their hatred of white people, Western civilization, and most especially Christianity and the freedom to practice it.)

2) The widespread adoption of the full Gospel of Jesus Christ among the majority of people living within America, and the purging of any aspect of the cultures and identities—white, black, red or otherwise—that are out of harmony with the Gospel. Given that the scriptures strongly suggest that this won't and in fact can't happen until the coming of Christ Himself and the destruction of the wicked and their burning at His coming, then it seems banking on this bailing us out of our predicament without us having to make hard decisions about how to manage the problem we've found ourselves in seems like wishful thinking at best. We made the foolish decisions that caused this problem to manifest, I suspect the Lord expects us to lie in the bed we've made for a while. Then, maybe if we're righteous and humble enough, which we certainly are not now, then he'll deliver us from the bondage that we find ourselves in.

1 comment:

Desdichado said...

Curiously, the way that Republicans could get some respect from black voters—maybe not votes, although they'd depress the votes for Democrats, and pick some some—is by a show of strength. A big part of the reason black voters are Democrat is because Democrats show strength, of a sort, and Republicans show nothing but submission and weakness. The contempt that black voters feel for Republicans is way past partisan self-interest, and has to do with contempt for their weakness and foolishness—and most of all, their self-effacing submissiveness to the nonsense of the Left. It's almost as if the Left is a hysterial woman, desperately trying to provoke a reaction of strength from the Right by being constantly more and more outrageously ridiculous. And their hysterial, emotional overreaction to everything is the constant refusal of the Right to simply stand up for itself and for normalcy.