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
Yes there are.
Really?
No indoor plumbing, sewage, or clean water in Portugal or Europe in 1500?
Hmmm...
By 100 A.D., the Romans had constructed indoor plumbing, paved roads, central heating, sewers, and aqueducts into every corner of their European Empire, including Portugal.
And, unlike the alleged great, but allegedly destroyed, cities of Africa, the ruins of the Roman Empire still exist, and can be visited and seen by anyone, and actually read about in books written by the Romans who lived there.
The writer could not even defend white men w/o adopting another liberal meme - “White men were responsible for slavery”. Good grief!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_the_Muslim_world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
Slavery was unfortunately, always present. But in the last 1.5 millenniums, Islam spread Slavery far and wide. It is the White Men's World that outlawed it. Know your history and you will be set free.
Really. See “Ancient African Kingdoms” Margret Shinnie; Mentor Books, New American Library,1965.
and:
“A Short History of Africa” Roland Oliver & J.D. Fage; Penguin Books, 1965
The late 1400s were a long way from Rome ... and the Dark Ages were just ending, however some put the actual end much later - into the late 18th.
Portugal was the super power of its time.
After the failure of the "victories" of the civil rights movement. What was promised in the 1954-1965 period has not occurred, in many ways, quite the opposite has happened.
One psychologically appealing explanation is white racism.
There are others.
They are having problems in my area as American taxpayers evacuate the NYC metro area; there is less and less money to pay for their schooling etc.
Definitely trending in the wrong direction for blacks; a sharecropper could scrimp and save to put his children through school so they could enter the middle class, and that mobility is basically gone now for most of them - illiterate, no work ethic, high chemical dependency...
When we refused to do what was necessary to stop hippies, women, the more violent minorities and the media from outright misbehaving and sabotaging the culture.
And yes I’m lumping them all together for a reason.
When we refused to do what was necessary to stop hippies, women, the more violent minorities and the media from outright misbehaving and sabotaging the culture.
And yes I’m lumping them all together for a reason.
Say what?!
Slavery has been around since pre-history, and starts in Africa about the time apes began walking upright.
It continues today in the very same place.
White people who lived in Europe enslaved their own populaces through feudalism and monarchism, and chattel slavery was just an extension of that.
The Black Africans, the Arabs, the Asians, the Hottentots...everyone. They have all practiced some form of slavery for a million years.
It was White Christians who ended it violently out of principled opposition. The entire nation of China is to this day a massive slave state where Chinese thugs enslave other Chinese who are murdered if they resist. Where is their virtuosity? Where is their nobility?
The best word to describe white men is “reticent”.
Chicks have come home to roost.
bttt
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