Posted on 06/11/2016 4:47:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
When I was a kid, I lived in a small town and I didn’t know any Jewish people. Of course, because I didn’t know any Jewish people, my Jewdar was so bad that Mr. Goldberg could have invited me over to enjoy some matzo ball soup and I would have still had no idea he was Jewish (No, really, I’m not kidding).
Because I had no experience with Jewish people as a kid, I was particularly perplexed by anti-Semitism. Obviously, a lot of people in the world hate Jews and very occasionally, I’d hear an anti-Semitic comment. The reason I did not understand this was every stereotype I’d heard about Jews was positive. It was like, “Those Jews! They’re so frugal! They’re always working hard and reaching the top of their fields in banking and entertainment! In fact, they’re so crafty and Machiavellian, they’re practically super human!” Granted, some of the compliments were delivered in a backhanded manner, but to me, Jews sounded great. Bizarrely, now that I have gotten older and have had a chance to meet quite a few Jews, I often find them to be wonderful and competent people, but if anything they don’t live up to the nearly superhuman stereotypes of the people who hate them.
Back then, it was outside my reality to imagine that a group of people could be hated for being successful. Yet, what I’ve learned since then is that people or groups that tend to do better than the people around them are often hated for it. We’ve all seen this with celebrities who are richly despised by many people for no good reason other than that they’re famous. It happens this way with groups as well. As the great Thomas Sowell has noted, “middleman” groups that have done better than the native population by being successful in professions like retailing and banking are often despised and persecuted. Not just the Jews, but the Chinese in Vietnam, the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the Lebanese in Sierra Leone, the Japanese in Peru and the Indians in Burma among other groups have been mistreated and even massacred for the crime of being successful.
Here in America, there are no massacres happening and white men are certainly not a minority, but white men are regularly passionately smeared, attacked and degraded in our country. White people (men included) are the only group in the country that is discriminated against via Affirmative Action by official government policy. In all fairness, Asians are also discriminated against by universities that often wave them off in favor of less qualified applicants from different racial groups, but there’s no widespread cultural assault against Asian Americans. To the contrary, when it comes to white men, outright hatred based on our skin color is commonplace. Just look at some of the stories we’ve covered at Right Wing News over the last couple of months.
Christian Church Has Advice For White People – “10 Ways You Can Actively Reject Your White Privilege”
Straight White Men are Banned From an Equality Conference
Rap Video Shows White Cop Being Tortured, Hanged, But Rapper Claims He’s Not “Inspiring Violence”
Obama’s Lackey Tells Students “There Are Too Many Whites In Top Government jobs.”
VIDEO: Racist Activist And Friends Issue Filthy Threat if Whites Won’t Pay Reparations…
College Celebrates People Who Want To “Breed White People Out Of Existence” [VIDEO]
Teacher: Minorities Don’t Have to Show Up or Hand in Assignments on Time Because of “White Privilege”
Actress Patricia Clarkson: White Male Actors Should “Shut Up and Sit in the Corner”
It’s not like we’re looking for these stories or covering every one that comes down the pike; there are just so many hateful attacks aimed at whites in general and white men in particular that they’re bleeding into the news.
When you’ve spent your whole life believing that everyone should be judged by the content of his character and the merit of his actions, not the color of his skin, it’s a little shocking to find out that almost no one seems to believe in this idea any more except for mostly white conservative Americans.
Ironically, some of the most virulent hatred towards white men comes from white female feminists. Most people don’t ever stop to think about what a bizarre situation this happens to be. Imagine you have a white woman with a white father and a white brother, going to a college founded by a white man, using an Internet created by a white man to rail against white men and call them potential rapists because she’s not a happy person. Rather than just dealing with it or making some changes, the liberal feminist decides white men are responsible for her coming up short of her dreams. If you want to feel sorry for someone, feel sorry for the male children of a woman like that.
Granted, white men are far from perfect. White men were responsible for slavery…and ending slavery. For denying women the right to vote….and giving women the right to vote. For the best and worst actions of U.S. soldiers, for the best and worst actions of U.S. Presidents, for the best and worst actions of heads of industry. Why are only the negatives supposed to be relevant? We live in the strongest, most powerful, most prosperous nation in human history and if we’re being honest, white men probably deserve 95% of the credit for that. That may be unfair because women and black Americans weren’t given the opportunity to significantly contribute for most of our nation’s history, but it is true.
That being said, you don’t hear white males saying, “You can’t talk about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That’s appropriating our white heritage!” All most white men want to do is just live their lives to their fullest potential, just like everybody else without being smeared as the devil because of our skin color and our gender.
The standard response to this is something like, “Oh yeah, like all these attacks and discrimination are really hurting white men! Pish! Look how well they’re doing!” Of course, many white men AREN’T doing that well. For every Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, there are a hundred thousand guys eking out a living while they’re continually chastised for the color of their skin as opposed to anything they’ve actually done wrong. Yet and still, some people say that because white men have been successful in American society overall, it must be biased in their favor. However, if one racial group isn't performing as well as another, why assume racism instead of encouraging people to mimic what works? That seems much more likely to produce a good outcome than spewing racial hatred and falsely claiming to be a victim. Unfortunately, there’s a lot more money to be made convincing people that they aren’t responsible for their own failures while you point the finger at a convenient bad guy
When “These United States” became The “United States” of America.
Had a second cup yet? Edison was a p****!
Fine, they don’t like whites, they can leave western civilization, move into hunts, and snuffle in the muck for food.
Mexico is too hispanic
Bingo
Man up sure! When I grew up no sweat. These younger white males and even females have to make the highest GPA (grades) plus SAT scores to compete for the top colleges/universities while affirmative action which has been around since 1970 or earlier in the military gives blacks a guaranteed percentage of slots. Add Hispanics and even Native Americans. Hell, it appears it includes all but White now. Look at Pocahontas Warren.
It is difficult to pin down a date but I think it began somewhere around this time.
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene..
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all..
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the State..
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks...
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong..
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles...
But the Ten Commandments . are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen
To paraphrase the immortal words of baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson ... "Nobody boos a loser."
I see the growing cacophony of complaints about white males as nothing more than a cultural acknowledgement that the groups complaining about them can't match their historical, cultural and academic accomplishments.
The U.S. is the only country in the world where a female and/or a minority can become as wealthy as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, or Larry Ellison.
And yet they haven't. The fact that all of these three people I listed are white males pretty much tells the story.
White men became the target when the lunatic left finally realized white men are responsible for the success of western civilization in general and America in particular.
“It is based up Judeo-Christian principles.”
Yep! Replace “white” with Christian and you have your answer.
Obama/liberals have a 180 different view of Exodus 20:3 - “You shall have NO other gods before me”.
That’s it. You hit the nail square on the head.
“When Did White Men Become The Bad Guys in America?”..........
The day the first slaves (brought here by blacks themselves) landed on the US shores. Odumbo just re-kindled the fire.
November 7th, 2008.
That's my guess.
Begun - GN
Edison invented the electric light bulb among others as long as one discounts similar discoveries by other at relatively the same time. He also invented DC current, but not AC which was discovered/invented by Tesla who intensely studied JM Clerk.
Have no idea what p**** means.
Drinking Espresso here.
Before 1492, the people of the Americas were the terrorists.
They lived in a near constant state of war, and human sacrifice and cannabalism was common.
The difference after 1492 was that new tribes, with a higher levels of technology entered the arena. The new tribes were from further away, so they carried germs the tribes in the Americas did not have.
Every inch of soil in the Americas was conquered and reconquered many times before any significant number of Europeans ever set foot in the Americas.
I got a quick lesson, PRs DO NOT like to be called Meskin.
No one ever wonders why Africans literally had no real technological development whatsoever, while Asians, Europeans, and even the Americas had far advanced past them?
They didnt even have one society that even had ocean-worthy ships!
(Egypt doesn’t count)
It is bizarre.
When Democrats discovered they could win with minorities if they painted the WHITE MALE as being evil.
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