Posted on 11/23/2007 4:28:58 AM PST by rhema
The title of this week's column was a student protest chant started by Jesse Jackson at Stanford University in the 80's. The idea was to throw out the university's required courses on Western Culture because they were filled with "European and Western male bias" and replace them with courses that teach non-Western cultures and "works by women, minorities, and persons of color." Jackson was successful - today almost all colleges and universities stress A.C.B.W. (Any Culture But Western) courses and ignore the classic teachings of Western civilization's "white men." Looking back now, over two decades later, we can see the results of Jackson's efforts. How do you like it?
Anti-Western civilization is what's cool. Third world is wonderful, Western civ is bad. "Multicultural" is all inclusive, right? Wrong. Anything called "multicultural" never includes the American culture. Colleges and universities have been teaching anti-Western dogma for years; popular music has been rapping that tune for a couple of decades; media like the press and TV and movies push it, and you even see it in the edgy names of big chain retail stores.
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I have to believe that the worship of the third world and the under cultures is due because people, especially people under the age of 35 or 40, have been taught that white Europeans were the bad guys that kept the "people of color" down. . . .
So farewell to Plato, Galileo and Isaac Newton. Goodbye to St. Paul, Gutenberg, Columbus, da Vinci and Michelangelo. So long St. Augustine, Homer, Voltaire, Francis Bacon, Beethoven and Johann Bach. See ya, Einstein, Pasteur, Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell. Adieu to George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. Ta,ta Wright brothers, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. And rest in peace Judeo-Christian worldview.
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Universal peace and love will be achieved when the Earth is cleansed of the English language and the Caucasoid race.
I like an idea I heard a couple of years ago. If Western Civilization is going to be blamed for so many evils, we should get revenge by charging civilizational royalties. We should announce that anytime someone uses something invented by people from another civilization, he has to pay royalties to the creating civilization for its use.
A car for example. Each time Jesse Jackson uses a car, he should have to pay royalties to the West for use of the vehicle, for the use of gasoline, for the use of the motor, for driving on a paved road, for using the car’s radio or CD player, etc.
Hell, I’ll agree to pay reparations in return for civilizational royalties. I’ll get back thousands of dollars for every dollar I pay out.
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"This is your brain on liberalism..."
Both a black African and a black slave have the same name, abd. The historical reason for this is that African slavery was so important to Islamic economics. Language reflects history. Islamic legal history is filled with the complaints by African Muslim jurists about how Arabic Muslim slave traders captured African Muslims and sold them on the auction block.
History records around 11,000,000 Africans being sent to the Americas and about 13,000,000 being sent to Islamic countries for a total of 24,000,000 African slaves. To get one slave, many others have to be killed for the tribe to surrender to enslavement. The old, sick and children are left behind to starve. These collateral deaths are conservatively estimated to about 5 to 1. So that implies that over 1400 years, 120,000,000 million Africans have been killed to furnish Islam with its profits.
The accepted history of race in the U.S. is that white men captured Africans, brought them to the U.S. and sold them as slaves. This is wrong. When the white slavers showed up on the west coast of Africa, they didnt capture Africans. They looked them over in the pens, gave the Muslim slave traders their money, took their bills of sale, and loaded their purchases into their boats.
This is just a little sample of history that Jesse, Al, and Charlie should reflect upon when whining about the evils of Western Civilization.
I have come to the conclusion that ‘Multiculturalism’ is actually a form of hatred of the Gospel: there is one non-Western culture that is sneered at an vilified by the ‘multiculturalists’ with vitriol sometime surpassing that they fling at America: Eastern Christian civilization, whether East Roman, Russian, Serbian, Romanian, . . .
Now some might argue that Eastern Christendom is ‘Western’ in that it has Judaic and Greco-Roman Roots, but it has been ignored or sneered at in Western Civ courses since Gibbon invented the lie that the Roman Empire fell in 476, and that the Christian Roman Empire that continued until 1453 was a different ‘Byzantine’ Empire. And it is non-Western in another sense, not having been shaped by the conflict between the German Emperor and the Pope of Rome, nor by the Reformation and wars of religion that followed, nor by the ‘Enlightenment’ that was in part a reaction against them, save as the import of exotic ideas to the courts of the Tsar.
In all fairness to Bill, I wouldn't get that close to Hillary either without some heavy duty pharmaceuticals.
INTREP
Paging Mr. Gramsci. Paging Antonio Gramsci. Mr. Gramsci, please take that long march through our institution to the nearest courtesy telephone. Paging Mr. Gramsci.
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