Seeing so many hate proud white people...What is Racism
POSTED BY: kaneman
UPDATED: Saturday, September 4, 2010 16:43
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Warning the following post contains the truth those who live in a liberal loopthought and do not want their ideas challenged...go hug a tree
There is surely no nation in the world that holds "racism" in greater horror than does the United States. Compared to other kinds of offenses, it is thought to be somehow more reprehensible. The press and public have become so used to tales of murder, rape, robbery, and arson, that any but the most spectacular crimes are shrugged off as part of the inevitable texture of American life. "Racism" is never shrugged off. For example, when a white Georgetown Law School student reported earlier this year that black students are not as qualified as white students, it set off a booming, national controversy about "racism." If the student had merely murdered someone he would have attracted far less attention and criticism.
Racism is, indeed, the national obsession. Universities are on full alert for it, newspapers and politicians denounce it, churches preach against it, America is said to be racked with it, but just what *is* racism?
Dictionaries are not much help in understanding what is meant by the word. They usually define it as the belief that one's own ethnic stock is superior to others, or as the belief that culture and behavior are rooted in race. When Americans speak of racism they mean a great deal more than this. Nevertheless, the dictionary definition of racism is a clue to understanding what Americans *do* mean. A peculiarly American meaning derives from the current dogma that all ethnic stocks are equal. Despite clear evidence to the contrary, all races have been declared to be equally talented and hard- working, and anyone who questions the dogma is thought to be not merely wrong but evil.
The dogma has logical consequences that are profoundly important. If blacks, for example, are equal to whites in every way, what accounts for their poverty, criminality, and dissipation? Since any theory of racial differences has been outlawed, the only possible explanation for black failure is white racism. And since blacks are markedly poor, crime-prone, and dissipated, America must be racked with pervasive racism. Nothing else could be keeping them in such an abject state.
All public discourse on race today is locked into this rigid logic. Any explanation for black failure that does not depend on white wickedness threatens to veer off into the forbidden territory of racial differences. Thus, even if today's whites can find in their hearts no desire to oppress blacks, yesterday's whites must have oppressed them. If whites do not consciously oppress blacks, they must oppress them UNconsciously. If no obviously racist individuals can be identified, then *institutions* must be racist. Or, since blacks are failing so terribly in America, there simply must be millions of white people we do not know about, who are working day and night to keep blacks in misery. The dogma of racial equality leaves no room for an explanation of black failure that is not, in some fashion, an indictment of white people.
The logical consequences of this are clear. Since we are required to believe that the only explanation for non-white failure is white racism, every time a non-white is poor, commits a crime, goes on welfare, or takes drugs, white society stands accused of yet another act of racism. All failure or misbehavior by non-whites is standing proof that white society is riddled with hatred and bigotry. For precisely so long as non-whites fail to succeed in life at exactly the same level as whites, whites will be, by definition, thwarting and oppressing them. This obligatory pattern of thinking leads to strange conclusions. First of all, racism is a sin that is thought to be committed almost exclusively by white people. Indeed, a black congressman from Chicago, Gus Savage, and Coleman Young, the black mayor of Detroit, have argued that only white people *can* be racist. Likewise, in 1987, the affirmative action officer of the State Insurance Fund of New York issued a company pa
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All across the country, black, Hispanic, and Asian clubs and caucuses are thought to be fine expressions of ethnic solidarity, but any club or association expressly for whites is by definition racist. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) campaigns openly for black advantage but is a respected "civil rights" organization. The National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP) campaigns merely for equal treatment of all races, but is said to be viciously racist.
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* According to the latest US Department of Justice survey of crime victims, more than 6.6 million violent crimes (murder, rape, assault and robbery) are committed in the US each year, of which about 20 per cent, or 1.3 million, are inter-racial crimes.
* Most victims of race crime - about 90 per cent - are white, according to the survey "Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims", published in 1993.
* Almost 1 million white Americans were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by black Americans , compared with about 132,000 blacks who were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by whites, according to the same survey.
* Blacks thus committed 7.5 times more violent inter-racial crimes than whites even though the black population is only one-seventh the size of the white population. When these figures are adjusted on a per capita basis, they reveal an extraordinary disparity: blacks are committing more than 50 times the number of violent racial crimes of whites.
* According to the latest annual report on murder by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, most inter-racial murders involve black assailants and white victims, with blacks murdering whites at 18 times the rate that whites murder blacks.
Who is racist? What is racism?
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Originally posted by kaneman:
Warning the following post contains the petulant ramblings, those who live anywhere but ultra neoconland and do not want think EXACTLY LIKE I DO...need not bother with this bullshit.
Gotcha.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by Storymark:Quote:
Originally posted by kaneman:
Warning the following post contains the petulant ramblings, those who live anywhere but ultra neoconland and do not want think EXACTLY LIKE I DO...need not bother with this bullshit.
I would have bet you were one of the cowards. It is only an essay...It can't bite you. Or did you read it and can not debate the truths you read?
Gotcha.
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Originally posted by kaneman:
It is any resistance by whites to the idea of becoming a minority people.
I find this actually fits the bill of racism.
After all, how can you possibly resist something like that? You can not like it, which however implies that being a minority is sucky thing to be, which implies that there's a level of inequality leveled at current minorities, which undermines the claim that there is no such thing as racism.
But "resistance"? What's that supposed to look like? I can't think of a non-creepy way to resist such a development.
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Never fails to make me smile.
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Oh the poor white man!
Oh the poor oppressed white man!
Oh the poor victim of racism white man!
Oh, someone get me a crying towel!
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Originally posted by AgentRouka:Quote:
Originally posted by kaneman:
It is any resistance by whites to the idea of becoming a minority people.
I find this actually fits the bill of racism.
After all, how can you possibly resist something like that? You can not like it, which however implies that being a minority is sucky thing to be, which implies that there's a level of inequality leveled at current minorities, which undermines the claim that there is no such thing as racism.
But "resistance"? What's that supposed to look like? I can't think of a non-creepy way to resist such a development.Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Never fails to make me smile.
How about leveling the playing field? You know letting everyman live by his own merits. Seems we love telling our children that they can be anything they want to be here in America if they work hard at it, however it is becoming clear that for a lot of white children this may not be true. And don't forget a lot of people considered white came later and were never WASPs(thus never got any economic beniefit from slavery), however they are discriminated against in favor of any non-white reguardless of wether the non-white came into this country yesturday.
See, I don't have a problem with affirmative action for the black decendents of slaves. I can see the disadvantage and mistreatment they received for a longtime in this country, but when that extends to any person of color, being they just came to America last week, that never faced that hardship seems kinda unfair to the Irishmen or Italians that came after slavery, that we allow for discrimination against them in favor of an immigrant from Niarobi that did not have the disadvantage of unjust slavery at the hands of WASPs. Or a japaneese, mexican, or any "non-white" for that matter appears unjust.
I don't see how any honest person can see this as right. Affirmative action should only be for black decendents of Slavery. And it should have a time table.....Or should we do it forever?
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Frem that picture is the point. We have laws that protect Gays, Blacks, Jews, women, and a whole slew of others from discrimanation, yet at the same time we allow for the systematic discrimenation against a group because they are considered white. How is that being "Tolerant" or "Understanding"?....How about being "Fair" and "Constitutional"?
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