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Debunking the lie that corruption is an immutable trait of lighter-skinned folk
American Thinker ^ | 30 May, 2023 | Joe Strader

Posted on 05/30/2023 8:28:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: SauronOfMordor
It’s not that “power corrupts”. It is “immunity from consequences” which truly corrupts.

I don't know if you truly appreciate the truth, wisdom, and insight of that statement.

21 posted on 05/30/2023 9:25:36 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber
In all-white enclaves, far removed from the "urbans", there is peace and respect and trust.

22 posted on 05/30/2023 9:40:09 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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The chart is the "Corruption Perception Index". The most corrupt countries are (generally) in Africa and South America.

The least corrupt are Western European and Asian. Russia and Ukraine are the only two truly corrupt "white" countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
23 posted on 05/30/2023 9:52:15 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

>> 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. ;-)


24 posted on 05/30/2023 11:07:49 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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>> 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. :-)


25 posted on 05/30/2023 11:12:15 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: Nervous Tick
Excellent points.

26 posted on 05/30/2023 1:22:39 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

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.


27 posted on 05/30/2023 1:32:30 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: MtnClimber

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


28 posted on 05/30/2023 3:13:31 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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bump


29 posted on 05/30/2023 6:09:49 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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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.


30 posted on 05/31/2023 6:34:50 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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