Posted on 07/19/2018 12:02:42 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Every time I see another disparagement of American history and American white males, I am poked to compose a list of their accomplishments that put everyone on the left to shame. The left's contempt for America is total – suggesting that leftists see nothing redeeming in who we are. This list should be burned into our memory to counter the left's fifty-year slander of American history. The advances on this list are the result of a unique degree of freedom blended with the Founders' exceptional knowledge of history that created a trickle-down effect in moral influence that no one can match.
Read 'em and weep:
1. Flawed white American males founded America, the apex of Western civics that established unmatched liberty, equality, and meritocracy based on service to all the people rather than service to the one percent. This was their core belief, made far better than anyone ever had, and this experiment has shown the world the magical rewards, the unique power, that come expressly from freedom.
2. Flawed white American males wrote the Constitution, and did so in such an artful way that the unavoidable, and notorious, compromise on slavery, the three-fifths clause, moved state after state to voluntarily abolish slavery even before the Civil War.
3. Flawed white American males made the Constitution reflect and exceed Western civics and Christian values – the values of equality among men, and between men and women, that were clearly a step ahead of the rest of the world, where men were not viewed as equals, and where women were property, as proven by the practice of polygamy all over the world, which the West abandoned in the 5th century.
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5. With the freedom that powered America's industrial revolution, flawed white American males brought together more millions of diverse peoples in more prosperity than the world had ever seen, and those diverse peoples always lived better here than they did at home.
6. In World War One, a four-year deluge of death that killed 45 million people and showed no signs of stopping even by 1918, flawed American white males went in singlehandedly and, in just six months, put an end to a scourge that in no way affected their own lives.
7. In the1930s, while Japan killed an estimated 9 million Chinese and 800,000 in only three days during the infamous Rape of Nanking, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic American white males stood alone among governments, enforcing an embargo of materiel to the Japanese war machine. (Japanese anger over this led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.)
8. In World War Two, flawed American white males fought a two-front war in order to stop this five-year conflagration that cost 72 million lives and save everybody in the world from a) speaking German, Japanese or Russian to their governors from those same nations and b) renting themselves out to those governors for 50 cents a trick.
9. During the Cold War, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist white American males stood alone against the socialism, communism, and Marxism that had murdered 115 million people worldwide since 1917. They even let leftist ideas burrow deep into America because flawed American white males were open even to this degree in hope of finding better ways to cure poverty.
10. Since 1965, 75 million people have immigrated to the U.S. – the largest migration of human life the world has ever seen, despite the fact that far too many of those immigrants have agreed to take part in fostering the left's slander against the flawed American white males who, in the first place, generously let them in.
11. Since 1965, flawed American white males established by far the most generous welfare system in history, totaling now an unprecedented 22 trillion dollars – a fortune representing more wealth than much of the world combined, a fortune made possible exclusively on our unique level of freedom, that the left saws away at like an irremediable dunce perched on the same limb.
12. Today, America heroically takes on socialism's pernicious bigotry and hate-mongering against freedom in the Democratic Party and the MSM in a head-to-head battle in front of all humankind, trying to put a nail in the coffin of the Left's return to rule by oligarchs. The left champions corrupt elites like Hillary and Bill Clinton, and Bernie Sanders, and their super-rich donors, who the left agrees should be above the law, the IRS, FBI, NSA, CIA – with these institutions even helping to break the law and hide the proof
We don’t get paid to think!
That’s racist!
There is a wonderful little clip on YouTube of some SJW interacting with (I think) Ben Shapiro.
She’s going on and on about the evils of white culture and what a terrible place America is, and how MAGA is a terrible goal because white people are so bad.
Shapiro (or whoever) says, “America is the greatest country ever! Name a place which is better than America!”
She has a little trouble with this challenge, but eventually offers that many European countries are “obviously” better than America.
Shapiro says, “But they’re whiter than we are! Your view is racist! You don’t like America and you prefer countries that are whiter than America! Have you thought about your position at all?”
Gee how bout all those great inventions by we Flawed White Males?
After all, the Universities and libs always say ‘change the world”
And Flawed White Males did . . . for the betterment of all
Thanks Altura...
bkmk
While there can be made a good argument for white supremacy, that is too much of a trigger for the snowflake generation. I prefer to support the concept of white exceptionalism. As the list shows there is no argument to be made in denying the absolutely astounding social and technological advances made by whites on this planet and especially whites in the USA. To date, no other race even comes close.
Planes
Trains
Automobiles
Submarines
Telephone
Telegraph
Cell phone
Smart phone
Penicillin
Polio vaccine
Beethoven
Mozart
Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff
Plato
Aristotle
Marcus Aurelius
Newton
Archimedes
White guys ... how ‘bout you just say “Thank you.”
Well, which is it? Or does the 800k refer to dogs and cats?
“4. With the Civil War, flawed white American males established the only time in human history when enslavers fought among themselves to free their slaves. “
In the UK they managed to abolish slavery in 1833 without fighting among themselves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
13. Water treatment and disinfection.
14. Sewage conveyance and treatment.
15. Electricity
I shared the author’s frustration. All points are true and valid. This list needs to be rewritten in a matter of fact manner without any political arguments and even many Democrats would would find themselves accepting its logic.
Air Conditioning
Skyscrapers
Computers
Ben Shapiro is absolutely outstanding. He articulates Classical Liberalism, Constitutional Originalism and American exceptionalism.
Numbers 13 and 14 have more than doubled the human lifespan.
“Flawed”?
Looks like virtue signaling to me.
From what I understand, British abolition of slavery was more of an economic decision than a moral one. Regardless, the majority of Britain’s slaves did not live in Britain but in their colonies. Also, Britain instituted slavery of its own accord, unlike the United States.
So, I think it was a much easier decision for them as their economy did not depend as much on slave labor because the industrial revolution was in full swing there.
Of course even if someone wanted to eroneously give Great Britain more credit than America, white men also controlled that country.
The 9 million refers to the number of Chinese killed in the war as a whole (started by the Japanese).
Ben is a sharp guy and great debater, and supports conservatism. But he’s still a NeverTrump and he would do really well to work on that. His radio show is on for an hour here in Houston, and when he goes after Trump (typically as bad as Maxine), that’s it for me and probably 90% of the listeners on the otherwise pro-Trump station. I suspect that he won’t last the year here.
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