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Why It’s Preposterous To Say Western Civilization Is About ‘Whiteness’
The Federalist ^ | 07/12/2019 | Bradley Birzer

Posted on 07/12/2019 11:12:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Sam Gamgee

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21 posted on 07/12/2019 12:03:31 PM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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To: SeekAndFind

Peak civilization has nothing to do with collectivism.


22 posted on 07/12/2019 12:07:33 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: libertylover
"where is the great literature"

Well, there is always the Quran and Hadiths...

23 posted on 07/12/2019 12:10:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind
To believe such a thing, one must first believe that “races” actually exist, something no scientist worth her or his salt would believe.

This is probably the gayest thing I've read all day. Of course different races exist. And of course most scientists, at least in the relevant fields, would accept this common sense truism. If not, then you have to wonder why they are so scrupulous about making sure that organ and other donors can match recipients - which most definitely depends on race, as well as other factors.

Look, I get it. Cucks don't want people thinking they're "racist," so they spew obvious garbage like the assertion above. But simply acknowledging that, yes, the people on this planet tend to fall into a few fairly well-defined genetic categories that just so happen to essentially be extended, partially inbred families is not the same thing as wearing a Klan outfit. C'mon people, get your heads on straight and be reasonable.

24 posted on 07/12/2019 12:43:44 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: Yashcheritsiy; wardaddy; Pelham; DiogenesLamp; Dick Bachert; GSWarrior; John S Mosby
Yes. Recognizing biological realities, and hereditary traits, is not indicative of some form of evil intent. Quite the opposite.

Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education

Understanding reality is the best approach to solving any body's social problems, assets, needs or advantages.

25 posted on 07/12/2019 12:51:54 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: SeekAndFind
In direct contrast, the real West began, intellectually, with a desire to find unity in all things, despite the particular manifestations of a thing. In terms of thought, the West began with a group of men—soon to be labeled philosophers, lovers of wisdom—in and near the Aegean town of Miletus, the point of intersection between the Occident and the Orient.

Thales, of Miletus, a white man, discovered the integrated mode of thought, which is the West's distinctive principle. Thales was the first man in recorded history to face the bewildering diversity of material objects and then ask: do they all have something in common?

See the source image

26 posted on 07/12/2019 1:25:13 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: SeekAndFind

Caucasian is for those from the Caucasus. Scientifically white is the inclusion of all colors and black is the absence of color. Amazing how facts get in the way of progressive global socialist fascist.


27 posted on 07/12/2019 1:36:57 PM PDT by lecram (Marcel L'Heureux)
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To: SeekAndFind

“In his own extensive and scholarly work, sociologist Robert Nisbet (1913-1996) claimed that racial categories—in any way we recognize—did not exist in the ancient or medieval West. One might speak of city, family, people, or ethnicity, but skin color rarely if ever had anything to do with it.”

Considering that in the ancient and medieval West it would have been remarkable to travel 50 miles from where you were born this isn’t exactly like today’s experience.


28 posted on 07/12/2019 1:41:12 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: antidemoncrat

If we’re ever going to have an honest discussion on it - we’d have to answer that question.

Side Note: Which peoples (RACE) nations have ‘migrants’ flocked to over the past 100 years?


29 posted on 07/12/2019 2:14:38 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: libertylover

Dismiss the buildings, technology, and glittery appearance of China - they still are 3rd world and act like it too.

We have been acting like 3rd World lately FWIW also.


30 posted on 07/12/2019 2:16:46 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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Bump


31 posted on 07/12/2019 2:37:09 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


32 posted on 07/12/2019 3:11:28 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: SeekAndFind

bkmk


33 posted on 07/12/2019 3:11:47 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: antidemoncrat

Excellent point! “Under my Thumb” ( keeping with the rocker theme), Whites said no thanks and moved. Others, still living under that old “ New boss is the same as the old boss”! SMH!


34 posted on 07/12/2019 3:54:14 PM PDT by goodtomato (I'm really, really blessed!)
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To: antidemoncrat
Race? You believe in that 19th century progressive construct called "race"?

I remember an old woman in my church laughing that some fool told her the Irish and the English were the same race, when actually they are four: Scots and Irish and Angles and Saxons.

No accounting for Normans, Danes, and Jutes.

35 posted on 07/12/2019 4:59:53 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (“Do not judge according to appearance, but practice righteous judgment” (John 7:24).)
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To: SeekAndFind

If you want to defeat a racist, just call him a Nazi. It will make the racist weenie break down and cry. Works every time.


36 posted on 07/12/2019 5:20:52 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: SeekAndFind

It nevertheless is overwhelmingly the direct creation of white males.


37 posted on 07/12/2019 5:41:49 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: sparklite2; SeekAndFind
Spark, Bradley Birzer, the author here, never said all cultures are equal.

Author is talking about the irrelevance of race.

Mind that you don't conflate color and race, as he Left does incessantly, and as they're doing right now. They're quite superstitious about it.

I, personally, would rather live surrounded by Conservative Black African Catholics from Guinea than by Leftwing White Atheist Socialists from Scotland or Seattle..

It's the Socialists who are civilization-killers. Has nothing to do with race.

38 posted on 07/12/2019 5:46:36 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (“Do not judge according to appearance, but practice righteous judgment” (John 7:24).)
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To: aquila48
The fact that you're bombarded by something 24/7, doesn't mean it exists.

Most of what we're bombarded with 24/7 is delusional. CNN, MSNBC, LGBTQ. "White" vs "Black" as political categories. Surely you know that?

39 posted on 07/12/2019 5:50:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (“Do not judge according to appearance, but practice righteous judgment” (John 7:24).)
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To: Tell It Right

I basically agree. However, it is simply true that the great majority of contributions in music, art, science, politics, and philosophy were by white males. Historically, most populations were homogeneous, not heterogeneous.

To deny that is to accept the leftist lie that it is somehow racist merely to speak the truth.

Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism: a political weapon to destroy Western Civilization and Biblical Christianity, the twin pillars of personal liberty - hated equally by totalitarian Marxists and Muslims, which is why they are natural allies.


40 posted on 07/12/2019 7:42:01 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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