On the subject of Shiloh Hendrix, I want to say this. I read a few years ago in one of Charles Murray’s books, I think, that the racial policies of liberal America were inexorably leading to the stigma of identifying as white disappearing.
As a result of Hitlerism, white people no longer thought of themselves as white. They wouldn’t say things like “as a white person, I…”
But then it became fashionable to force people into seeing themselves as white. Seeing their whiteness as the most important thing about themselves. Saying it aloud again and again. Thinking about what it is and what it means. The liberal overlords thought that this was necessary to achieve greater victories over racism.
As a diversity facilitator once brayed, “the white people in this room aren’t being self-accusatory enough! Tell me about your racism!”
This genie once summoned won’t crawl back into a bottle. If you tell people that their race is the most important thing about them, if you repeat it enough, if you make sure they hear it their whole lives, they’ll believe you.
I’ve been insulted and humiliated over my race many times. I’ve been led to understand that my existence is a blight. Only last week I was at a large meeting that concluded with a wish that white people disappear. And next week I will once again write paperwork justifying the hire of a white person like it’s some dirty act for which I need to apologize.
Somebody says something you don’t like on the playground, you can leave. I can’t not write this paperwork because then I can’t hire. That’s the real insult.
It is my strong opinion that the absolute best thing to do is for everybody in America immediately to lay off the race issue and not come back to it under any pretext for the next 50 years. Anybody who brings it up at all should be immediately ostracized. We’ve prattled about race incessantly for decades. And the results are abysmal.
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As a diversity facilitator once brayed, “the white people in this room aren’t being self-accusatory enough! Tell me about your racism!”
I’m well aware of this kind of self-abasing exercises being perpetrated throughout the Anglo-sphere: and it’s not recent either, since the shenanigans at Evergreen College in Washington State go back a few years now. Everybody should watch the documentary about it: just search under Brett Weinstein.
Personally, I’m not sure I would be able to go through with them, though I’m not going to cast any aspersions on anyone since many people depend on their job for their livelihoods.
What amazes me is that so few people have rebelled against such inhumane and humiliating rituals. I can only deduce that “White guilt” is indeed a thing in the US and Canada, unfathomable as it may seem to us Europeans.
I know it’s the doing of rabid racialised activists and not all black people, with the active support and connivance of similarly deluded white wokisters. Still, I can’t help thinking that this is not going to help improve race relations and, who knows, one day, far down the line, some people will be made to pay for things that they didn’t do, same as people of European origin in North America are being made to right now.
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People are rebelling by donating to Shiloh Hendrix. The white guilt is slowly starting to wear off.
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About fucking time. Why the hell did they think this strategy of centering race into everything would work in their favor? All it would do is invite comparisons among races in terms of their behavior, accomplishments, intelligence, etc., and that’s not a fight any woke POC can win.
15 years ago I was unaware of the racial composition of crimes in this country. Now I can rattle off FBI crime stats on the top of my head. Congratulations, morons! You yelped about police brutality so much I just had to looking into it lol. Oops.
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Gotta admit: before these last couple years, never really thought about race.
Now: heck, white people are all right. Since we’re posting everybody’s race scorecard all the time now, I’m cool with being in the top three for all the things that make civilization possible: lower crime, higher intelligence, ability to exist in a high-trust social environment… that’s pretty great, actually. Nice. Thanks for pointing it out.
I still teach my kids that people are people, we’re all children of God, and that’s our lodestar for how to treat others. They are still blessedly innocent of the whole race issue, and make passing remarks like: well, of course all the other kids in the neighborhood know we’re new, because we stick out: they all have darker tans than us. Realized yesterday when my kids were trying to describe one of the neighbor kids, that they were under the impression that afro hair was something people were paying a hair salon to do– a fashion. We did correct them at the most basic possible level: oh, yeah, if your ancestors were from africa, you tend to have that super-curly hair like that. Just like if your folks came from southeast asia, good odds your hair is straight and black. It’s a thing. Nothing more. They nod and move on. It’s not a big thing. I know someday they’ll get the scoop on the uglier side of all that. No need to initiate ten-year-olds into adult pathologies though.
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I’m also glad that my kid hasn’t yet become familiar with the American race obsession. I have no idea why this obsession is so ingrained. It’s poisoning everything.
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It didn’t have to be. My grandparents were pretty racist, in that they had a lot of negative base assumptions about “those people” that never survived actual contact. Black youths were hooligans. Except for the black teenagers who lived next door: they were good kids. Any black people you meet in public might be criminals. Except the ones at church. That’s totally different. Having grown up in a scrappy self-sufficient and very poor family, my grandma was embarrassed to need a cleaning lady (crippling arthritis), but regarded the cleaning lady (they had the same one for many years, she happened to be black) as a friend of the family. IIRC that was pretty typical of their generation. Sort of a… “black people” are (insert stereotypes here), but Louise and John and Eli are OK.
My parents grew up with those attitudes and were pretty determined to change them, and not pass them on Mom went out of her way to make friends with the kids who integrated her high school. They never told racist jokes, they deliberately and carefully avoided indoctrinating us into the attitudes they grew up with, and stuck with: people are people. I’m sticking with that for my kids. I’m really hoping things don’t get stirred up again to the point where I have to teach them to be cautious about certain other races… but there seems to be a determined effort in that direction.
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This is an elected representative. I would say the white people are the only magnanimous enough to tolerate such genocidal rhetoric about themselves, and to install subhuman filth like this into positions of power in their country. Can you imagine a chinese politician talking like this about han chinese men? Or a mexican politician declaring latino men are evil? Would they even have a political career?
But everything has its limits.
Why are Somalis in america? What has this group ever contributed to its host society? Other than scams, that is.
This is for the shitlibs who are saying the kid she said the n word to was autistic. No, he was just low IQ. Autistic kids are honest to a fault, not thieves. Autism is another way Somalis have gamed the system.
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Pretty much all tribal cultures are like that. Everything is oriented toward family/ingroup: outgroup exists to be milked for resources to benefit the family. It’s only lying if you lie to family: everyone else is fair game. Even in VN, which I love, anybody who gets into public office… his job is to squeeze all the cash and privilege he can out of that position, for the benefit of his relatives, for as long as he holds the job. Anything else the job entails is secondary.
This is what Americans don’t realize they are letting go of.
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“all tribal cultures are like that”
It’s pretty much the default state of humankind to live in some kind of extended family situation (maybe called clan or tribe). The rest is like you say: things like fairness and honesty are reserved for the in-group and anything you do against someone from outside doesn’t matter.
It’s partially a defense against poverty (since it’s about sharing resources over a group so that individuals having a rough time can be supported) but also guarantees poverty as anyone who’s successful has to contend with a bunch of in-group members with their hands out.
The big problem is how to deal with the outside world of ‘them’… Some cultures, mostly muslim, go all in on things like cousin marriage so you’re not bringing dirty outsiders into your group. Others (esp Latin America) have institutions like compadrazgo through which select outsiders can be treated like insiders (betraying a compadre or comadre is as bad as betraying a sibling). I suspect that the VN custom of referring to people they’re not related to as relatives (granfather, grandmother, elder brother, younger sibling etc) is another adaptation signalling good intentions.
Getting out of that system is difficult but a prerequisite for societal prosperity.
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I dunno. Getting out of that system is 100% a prerequisite for any democratic form of government, anything resembling impartial rule of law.
VN can’t do democracy, at this point. Communism-in-name-only seems to be a good fit for them, at least right now. In ten years, who knows? The government, for all its corruption, seems to have decided that prosperity is the way to avoid becoming a vassal of China. Nobody wants that. Not even the ethnic Chinese in VN.
Inter-group tensions have eased along with rising economic fortunes. The blanket ritual forms of respect implied by using familial terms for nearly everybody may be, as you say, a way to signal friendly intent. But I think they may also be benefitting from strong strains of religion– the commies did try to bring about an atheist utopia back in the day, but they were nowhere near as successful at it as China: much smaller population, and as dad says “they’re practical people, even the commies”: they weren’t willing to kill sufficient swathes of the population (China’s never had a problem with this). So instead, you now have really, really dedicated religious communities, whose old folks went through the re-education camps. Until recently, they (Buddhists, Catholics, Cao Dai) were barred from government employment, which may turn out to be the greatest thing that ever happened to them. So they’re the business class now and they have a leg up on, say, China, which still basically operates on clan lines: you can only do business with family, everyone else will try to cheat you. But in VN, Catholics can do business with other Catholics anywhere, and increasingly can do business with Buddhists and other religious people with an expectation of mutual trust. There’ve started to be intermarriages, which used to be taboo. I think in some ways religion is doing for them the same thing that it did for America: grease the skids for implicit trust over large groups of people who don’t know each other and aren’t related. Religious are still a minority there, so it’s not the same dynamic overall. But they’re on the upslope of that cultural engine, where the US is busy leaving it behind. Dad comments that usually prosperity for Catholics means a decline in vocations, but from what we are hearing, the seminaries are fuller than ever.
And yeah, not all religions are equal in this respect. Both Catholicism and Buddhism come with the elevation of honesty and right-dealing as goods *in and of themselves* not *in relation to ingroup/outgroup status* (not sure about Cao Dai ethics– that is a strange bird!). Coincidentally, while the VN govt. has learned to live with its homegrown populations of Buddhists, Cao Dai, and Catholics, they have an absolute ban on importing Islam, and are highly suspicious of protestants as well (they regard them as foreign political agitators, which they are). Islam is the opposite of all that: it is *expected* to lie to outsiders and try to cheat them. All views of honest dealing are strictly relational: it is not a good of itself. The odd isolated immigrant might have a shot at adapting to American cultural norms here. Self-reinforcing communities of them are a problem.
We fail to account for that in immigration policy to our detriment.
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This is the most dysfunctional thing you can imagine. An immigrant from the most violent and unstable place on Earth not only has zero gratitude to America but is spewing venom against the country that gave her everything. And we are all sitting there and pretending that it’s ok.
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This is the guy who filmed the interaction, hoping to destroy her life.
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Speaking of tribes…
The house is introducing a bill that would make boycott of Israel illegal.
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