Posted on 05/30/2023 8:28:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In a recent American Thinker article, Are ‘White People Committed to Being Villains’?, Raymond Ibrahim addresses a very important issue: there is a societal movement to place the blame for the ills of society on white people and racism. The theory is that white people are evil because they are white. Ibrahim argues that when white people behaved as oppressors, it was because they had the power to do so, not because they were white. Per Ibrahim:
Europeans did not defeat and uproot American Indians, enslave Africans, and colonize the rest because whites lived according to some unprecedented bellicose creed innate to whites and alien to nonwhites. Quite the contrary: they did so because they — as opposed to natives, blacks, etc. — were able to do so. That is the fundamental difference.
It is about who has the power. In a perfect world, people in power could decide to be moral and good. Power does not automatically lead to abuse of others.
The problem is an innate depravity of men combined with power. Men are not basically good. Left to their own desires and wants, they will take what they want from others because taking things by power is easier than working for them. It is the purpose and value of religious and moral teaching throughout life to override that default setting and build a desire to be good.
That is the role of “the rule of law” in a successful society. When the rule of law breaks down, the natural depravity rules.
- When laws against theft are not enforced, and there is no punishment for stealing, then some people will steal.
- When society fails to enforce standards for moral behavior through law and other incentives, immorality thrives and the damage to society increases.
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I don't know if you truly appreciate the truth, wisdom, and insight of that statement.
>> In all-white enclaves, far removed from the “urbans”, there is peace and respect and trust.
“Enclaves” don’t need to be all-white to have peace and respect and trust. We are majority white in our peaceful respectful rural area, but there are significant components of black and brown. The key is as you suggest FAR REMOVED FROM THE “URBANS”.
We have lots of churches around here too. Christ-following is helpful. ;-)
>> Russia and Ukraine are the only two truly corrupt “white” countries.
Them??!? Who’da thunk it?
Also: zoomed in at your link to the mideast; pleased, but not surprised, to see that Israel is a refreshing sliver of green in the midst of a sea of red and orange. :-)
Re: immunity corrupts
John Campbell, science fiction author and editor of Analog magazine, wrote an editorial in the subject back in 1970, which unfortunately is not available online. His reasoning stayed with me.
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell
His main point was that it was not power which corrupted. You have people who have enormous power, who are not corrupted, because they are accountable to other people over how they use that power.
Conversely, you can have very little real power, and yet be a force for evil from what little you have, IF you are absolutely immune from consequences. This describes many of our criminal classes who go through life not facing consequences which they would find unacceptable.
We have a crime epidemic because career criminals do not see themselves facing unacceptable consequences.
Similarly, we have a border crisis because illegal aliens face no real consequences for trying to get across, or at least no consequences which they see as worse than having to stay in Mexico.
We could make illegal crossings cease immediately by simply declaring that illegal crossers are considered invaders, and shooting a bunch of them, leaving the bodies as a warning.
And white men bleed and died during the civil war to change things
We’d be happy to find sending all dissatisfied folks back to Africa
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Slavery existed all over the world until the white man put a stop to it.
America, alone in history, fought its bloodiest war to free the black man.
Any debt the USA was paid in the blood of Union soldiers. The Democrat slavers in the south were decimated and paid for their sins. Cities burned.
Slavery kept going basically everywhere else but the Western world. Africa still has a slave trade. The transatlantic slave trade kept going to Brazil long after the USA freed slaves.
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