Posted on 11/27/2007 5:27:15 AM PST by rwbusa50
While I was a teenager and still enthralled with my own generation, the Boomers, I truly believed that we were heralding a new and better human nature. We were going to stamp out prejudice, discrimination, and every other foul practice in the hemisphere. No more bashing folks of color. No more negative stereotyping for females. No more blonde jokes, fat jokes, handicap jokes, divorce jokes, gay jokes or Polish jokes. Human nature be damned. We could all be nice to each other if we tried hard enough, if we just had enough determination.
Here we are forty years later, and it seems to me that all we've really accomplished is an exchange of all of our old prejudices for a new one. The demographic group that now gets it full on the chin at every turn, in every public sphere, is the lone, white male. Christians, especially the Catholic Church, are also an approved target, but that topic is for another article.
So we haven't gotten any better as human beings. We simply changed targets.
note, see link for more
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
After living over 5 decades, I have seen many changes. Some are good, but the tendency in some segments of society to lower the image of the male Caucasian is not good. It is not fair. And, as the article indicates, gives no good lesson to the people around us or the upcoming generations.
Along with the beer remark at the end, the one thing I personally would change in the article is to use the the word "Caucasian" in the article. The reason being, it is my opinion that usage of stark, contrasting words sets the stage in too many minds for a realm of conflict. White - black sounds like a contest. We are all people with definite roots.
See what she has to say.
Whine, whine, whine; you are a white male and have had the world handed to you on a silver platter. What do you have to complain about? Your life is easy. Try being a Mubabe tribeswoman on the plains of Dakratoa. Then you can complain.
. . . Now I have bashed a white male today! Whew. I feel better. But wait, there’s more! Since I am a white male I am going to bash myself . . .
I get so tired of the commercials on TV and radio that use the “white male idiot” as the comic part. Over and over again the Madison Avenue types use this to sell me stuff. Well, guess what? I make it a point to NOT BUY stuff from someone who calls me an idiot................
Perhaps we could form a circle and bash ourselves mercilessly. Show'em how it's done!
not yet. Something else to add to the to-do list.
ROTFLMAO
The author fails to mention the ‘Unmentionables’ - the truly Untouchable Caste:
White Male Cigarette Smokers
(Can I say that without getting banned??)
Here, let me say it, and the left can CHOKE on it for all I care:
What made America great and successful was the Western (who happens to be predominately causasion), Christian, Male being supported by and supporting a Traditional Family Unit with Traditional Western Cultural Values within a Free Market.
” Since I am a white male I am going to bash myself “
We all do it — but we mostly don’t talk about it....
Shoulda pinched his butt and winked at him. That would’ve been the kicker. ;-D
I must admit there was a funny one on the other night. for KMart I believe.
The guy was trying to untangle the rat’s nest of Christmas lights while his wife headed off to go shopping. When she came home she marveled at the nicely decorated neighbors house, while her husband was putting up their lights.
It was still a tangled rat’s nest, but tacked up on the house.
Having fought with such lights (quite recently even), I found it funny even if they were making fun of the incompetent husband. Usually they have the wife fix the husband’s mess, but in this case she just looked crestfallen.
I take the bashing good-naturedly. If it gets too rough, I can always flash my 401K statement. End of discussion. :-)
shifts eyes from side to side and awaits.
Now that was an ignorant thought.
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Yeah, like a circle jerk of bashing! No wait, that doesn't sound quite right...
Every TV show has a fat stupid white guy married to a hot wife. Every commercial has a stupid white guy who makes a fool out of himself and the hot girl usually is with an "ethnic" guy.
The shows my youngest daughter watches on Disney even has every minority in them and the idiot of the group is usually the "caucasian" ... be them male or female.
I don't even watch TV anymore because I am sick of how people like me and my family are portrayed.
ML/NJ
Make no mistake, human nature plays a big part in this but there are other forces afoot. There are those that want to turn this country into a socialist haven and to do that all organizations have to go, including religious organizations and the majority (Us 70% Christian) need to be made to feel unworthy.
The divide between the races, genders and classes have to be magnified to create the illusion of chaos. Then and only then will the conditions be right for a new political order.
More info on conditions to create political change....
10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto
Nikita Kruschev’s Commie edict, “We will take you over without firing a shot.”.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
According to the Communist Manifesto, all these were prior conditions for a transition from capitalism to communism
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