Us whities can be quite brutal ourselves when we get it wrong. God will distinguish us on a case by case basis.
Ah yes, the bottom line. One can see what "tribalism" leads to, in Africa.
Good point. It was only a couple of centuries ago that a 10-year-old boy caught stealing a loaf of bread in England would face the gallows. And look at the example of Germany, one of the most civilized of nations, and their descent into madness and barbarism.
We are all corruptible humans with a streak of evil. Our civic culture has enabled most of us to overcome that evil. It is a valuable gift bequeathed to us by the sweat and blood of our ancestors. The fact that Western civilization was developed by white people is irrelevant. Experience proves it is the best example for all of mankind. We need to plant that culture everywhere, without shame or apology, whenever we can.
-ccm
Us whities can be quite brutal ourselves when we get it wrong. God will distinguish us on a case by case basis.
It isn't a matter of melanin level. All humans are capable of obscene brutality and divine compassion. I really comes down to the culture you are surrounded with, and what your shared values are.
If a culture tolerates, nay, encourages hate and evil, then the people immersed there will feel justified in doing evil. They will see it as the norm.
It is for this reason that the idea of cultural relativism is one of the most destructive concepts to come out of Academia. The Nazis, the Aztecs, the Khymer Rouge, the Hutus, the Taliban; all are so manifestly inferior to American culture in sheer terms of the value of human life that there can be no rational defense of cultural relativism.
The very fact that we look back on our past and abhor what we did to minorities in this country puts us light years ahead of the sinkholes of humanity that exist in Africa today. There, the ruling classes still accept that ones innate tribal affiliation is a unquestioned justification to enslave and murder those of a different race or tribe.
Western Democratic Civilization is not perfect. But it's better than anything else going, by orders of magnitude.