[MathDoc]

1. Excellent points.

2. You leave out the loser dynamic. Even those who are proud of European and American culture already see Europe as lost. They look at the growing 5% to 10% muslim minority in Europe and simply give up. That's like a football team ahead 70-0 giving up as soon as the other team scores one touchdown. Our side may have demoralized itself, but that is not an excuse to give up and forfeit the game.

Why not start taking pride in Western culture?
Why not resume having more than 1-2 children and resume teaching them about all the good in our history and traditions?
Why not take teaching jobs in the schools to expose other children to the idea that our history and culture are overall good things?

[dr_lew]

None of this is meant to exonerate the crimes of the white-man, but rather to put them in context by indicating that all people -- white, black, yellow, red, whatever -- are the same; they war, and, when capable -- keyword -- go on the offensive in search of conquest and hegemony.

Here he contradicts himself. In fact, the very usage of the expression, "crimes of the white man", represents a submission to the liberal view that the article rails against. And then on top of that, as a matter of form, he rejects the notion that all of his exculpatory rhetoric can exonerate him. "Take up the white man's burden --"

[wintertime]

Okay....So?..What is the real underlying problem here?

Answer: Marxism.

It is the goal of the Marxist movement to demoralize and undermine Western Culture. They have slowly eating away at the foundations of our culture for more than a 100 years.

Marxism is our nation’s most serious threat. Schools are the Marxists’ most important and powerful weapon.

[SantosLHalper]

Although all humans of all races are bigoted in some form I truly do not consider myself racist.

However I find it hard to believe that the world would be better off if the white man had never left Europe.

Consider if you will the state of Africa or Asia today , which by the way were drug into the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries kicking and screaming by Europeans.

True, we did introduce firearms to them, but eventually someone, somewhere would have figured it out.

Thank God Almighty that my ancestors where greedy, adventurous pioneers because I get to live in the greatest nation the WORLD has ever known.

Whenever I argue this point with my liberal friends/co-workers they always change the subject because they have no rebuttal, public school and all ya' know.

FLAME AWAY TROLLS.

[SkyPilot]

White Guilt.

[ronnie raygun]

Aren’t the elitists pompus liberals, lacky politicians in governement and the whore media in this country trying to convince us that the muslim religion is a religion of love and compassion?

[tarawa]

quite interesting. Thank you for posting this.

[rickmichaels]

In fact, the main reasons that make the hero of the story, this same young Viking grown into manhood, agreeable, are his "liberal-therapeutic" tendencies. He has "daddy-issues" (his father beat and abandoned him for not being "man" enough) and is "confused" about his "identity," finally sloughing off his violent Viking (read: "white") heritage in favor of a sort of "multi-culti" native identity, thus making him the triumphant hero we can all support and identify with.

In other words, the kid is a fag.

[ought-six]

I guess I never got the memo: I’m white and I feel no “white guilt” at all. Just the opposite, in fact. I have great pride in my “whiteness,” as I know the vast majority of human accomplishments have been created and developed by “whitey.” And our women are hotter. :)

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Whose children did not absorb this propaganda from Disney, where Pocahontas spanks John Smith for his white values?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cA9yJBslOU

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article]

Moreover, if either of the two languages should have been rendered into English, logically it should have been Norse, which is at least etymologically related to English and in the same linguistic group.

Not to quibble, but Joseph Greenberg and other scholars showed 20 years ago that all human languages are philologically related. There are 30-odd "Native American" (Amerindian) language families, all related. Old Norse is a language of the Northern Germanic group, English a language of the Western Germanic group, both being part of the Indo-European family of languages. Indo-European languages in turn are part of the so-called Nostratic Superfamily of languages (which includes the Semitic family and some others). Ultimately all language superfamilies are related.

At least that's the current scholarship, as of the last time I looked at a Scientific American or Discover article on it.

[PGalt]

Good post. Better thread. Thanks to all contributors.

[dennisw]

Raymond Ibrahim ... Is a Coptic Christian and mostly posts at Jihad Watch. Very good article

[Eternal_Bear]

Inuit traditions say they got along with their Greenland Norse neighbors most of the time though there were clashes. The Inuit vehemently deny they wiped out the Norse and that other white men (probably English or German pirates) were responsible for that. This is not implausible since the English exterminated the Swedes from their North American colony in the 17th Century.

[Oztrich Boy]

Language manipulation aside, the depiction of Vikings as brutal warriors and plunderers is at least plausible and historic

Vicious slanders spread by malcontented owners of seafront property

[Tallguy]

Had 10th century Native Americans developed galleys for transoceanic travel, or advanced fire arms, or compasses, or organized military structures and stratagems -- or any of those other things that have made the Western way of war supreme -- and had they arrived on the shores of Dark Age Europe, is there any doubt that they would have done the same exact thing?

In fact something like this MAY happen. Recall that the Norse originally settled Greenland as well as Iceland. Eventually the Greenland settlements were abandoned. Part of the reason may have been due to Inuit expansion into Greenland.