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Actually, white people have contributed quite a lot
American Thinker ^ | August 5, 2018 | Russ McSwain

Posted on 08/05/2018 2:12:27 PM PDT by EveningStar

Putting aside the hateful, despicable slurs on Sarah Jeong's Twitter feed, here are some that caught my attention.

have you ever tried to figure out all the things that white people are allowed to do that aren't cultural appropriation. there's literally nothing. like skiing, maybe, and also golf. white people aren't even allowed to have polo. did you know that. like don't you just feel bad? why can't we give white people a break. lacrosse isn't for white people either. it must be so boring to be white.

basically i'm just imagining waking up white every morning with a terrible existential dread that i have no culture.

This is a standard left-wing view.  It appeals to people who've been taught to ignore what they call the dead white males who built Western civilization.

White people created just about all the good things we all enjoy.  Here are few of my favorite things that white people didn't appropriate...

I take no credit for the achievements of the people I've written about. I don't think of them as white – they are among the many people who have built our shared civilization – but people like Sarah Jeong force me to think in racial terms. Instead of treating people as individuals, Jeong and her supporters pit groups against our civilization. We have to stop them. I am not advocating curtailing their freedom to say dumb things. We have continue to point out that they are really dumb.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
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To: EveningStar

But we didn’t create rap or hip-hop, so white people suck.


21 posted on 08/05/2018 2:45:47 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I will now culturally appropriate a quote from a black American athlete.

Fans don’t boo nobodies

Reggie Jackson


22 posted on 08/05/2018 2:48:41 PM PDT by xp38
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To: EveningStar

White man invented the printing press. Consider that irony.


23 posted on 08/05/2018 2:49:59 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: grania

Gee, you sound as tho U have not seen
The HANGING GARDENS of TUTSILAND,
or visited the GREAT LIBRARY of HUTULAND,
or seen the PARTHENON in Swazililand../sarc


24 posted on 08/05/2018 2:51:53 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I came across one of the comments on this article that provided an interesting list:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-says-arrogant-france-risks-becoming-no-1-172859262.html

5 hours ago
Whites are only 10% of the world’s population (and creating only 7% of the babies), yet are the most industrious and innovative race the world has known.

Whites unlocked the secrets of DNA and relativity, launched satellites, created automation, discovered electricity and nuclear energy, invented automobiles, aircraft, submarines, radio, television, computers, medicine, telephones, light bulbs, photography, and countless other technological miracles.

Whites were the first to circumnavigate the planet by ship, orbit it by spacecraft, walk on the moon, probe beyond the solar system, climb the highest peaks, reach both poles, exceed the sound barrier, descend to the oceans depths... Blacks cannot even feed themselves.

Whites have to provide food, medical, financial, and engineering aid to virtually every Black nation. Blacks cannot survive without White charity.

No pre-contact Black society ever created a written language, or weaved cloth, or forged steel, or invented the wheel, or plow, or devised a calendar, or code of laws, or system of measurement, or math, or built a multi-story structure, or sewer, or drilled a well, or irrigated, or created any agriculture, or built a road, or sea-worthy vessel. They never domesticated animals, or exploited underground natural resources, or produced anything that could be considered a mechanical device.

Blacks were still living in the Stone Age when Whites discovered them just 400 years ago.

Blacks are the oldest race, so they should be the most advanced — but they never advanced at all. Blacks lived alone in Africa, a vast continent with temperate climates and abundant resources for 60,000 years so they cannot blame slavery, racism, colonialism, culture, environment, or anything else for their failures.

Simply, life is an IQ test.


25 posted on 08/05/2018 2:52:44 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: Socon-Econ
You're fishing for a link to "The Old Negro Space Program" aren't you?
26 posted on 08/05/2018 2:53:58 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: SoCal Pubbie

How about vaccines for polio, smallpox, anthrax, plague, and typhoid fever, among others?


27 posted on 08/05/2018 2:55:29 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: AlanGreenSpam
OK Mr. Smart Guy!

Where do you think we got peanut butter, huh?

28 posted on 08/05/2018 2:57:39 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: AlanGreenSpam

Betcha U flunked a class in PCness ? ///LOL

U sure beat my short iist just B4 your posting....


29 posted on 08/05/2018 2:59:33 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: EveningStar
By all means, let's ban cultural appropriation:


30 posted on 08/05/2018 2:59:49 PM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Please, we created western civilization and continue to do so

We created the Stradivarius and the Stratocaster ... along with the entire artistic, craft, and industrial background without which neither Stradivariuses nor Stratocasters would make any sense.

31 posted on 08/05/2018 3:01:40 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: EveningStar
I'm pretty sure white people invented the prelude and fugue for organ, the piano, and peaked with symphony orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l3-jscNVHA Civilization has been on a downslope ever since.
32 posted on 08/05/2018 3:02:00 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
Electricity.

Radio.

Limited Government.

The Constitution ("Dead White Men").

Nukes.

Nylon.

Scotch.

Vulcanized rubber (tires).

White women /Blazing Saddles>.

The New World.

Refrigeration.

Pasteurization.

33 posted on 08/05/2018 3:03:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: EveningStar
Whatchoo blapeepo doon makin dat snowman??

34 posted on 08/05/2018 3:03:46 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: llevrok
I almost spit out a mouthful of very good Washington state Cabernet.

Yet another product of white culture.

35 posted on 08/05/2018 3:03:55 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: llevrok

And BTW, do you mean he is literally a cuckold, as in someone other than he himself is banging his wife?


36 posted on 08/05/2018 3:04:52 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: skimbell

While George Washington Carver didn’t invent peanut butter,

his work—along with that of peanut butter innovators Edson, Kellogg and Straub—helped establish peanut butter as the nutritious staple ingredient found in 94 percent of American households today.

FWIW........


37 posted on 08/05/2018 3:06:00 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: Mr. Blond

Agreed. I’m not sure who is more to venal - the racist morons who spew this nonsense or the MSM dolts who provide a platform.


38 posted on 08/05/2018 3:06:18 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: EveningStar
Here's 12 more the author missed:

1. Flawed white American males founded America, the apex of Western civics that established unmatched liberty, equality, and meritocracy based on service to all the people rather than service to the one percent. This was their core belief, made far better than anyone ever had, and this experiment has shown the world the magical rewards, the unique power, that come expressly from freedom.

2. Flawed white American males wrote the Constitution, and did so in such an artful way that the unavoidable, and notorious, compromise on slavery, the three-fifths clause, moved state after state to voluntarily abolish slavery even before the Civil War.

3. Flawed white American males made the Constitution reflect and exceed Western civics and Christian values – the values of equality among men, and between men and women, that were clearly a step ahead of the rest of the world, where men were not viewed as equals, and where women were property, as proven by the practice of polygamy all over the world, which the West abandoned in the 5th century.

4. With the Civil War, flawed white American males established the only time in human history when enslavers fought among themselves to free their slaves. The West, and America, led the world in the evolution away from the universal practice of slavery, broadening emancipation until all slavery was finally prohibited. Slavery is still practiced in Africa and the Middle East.

5. With the freedom that powered America's industrial revolution, flawed white American males brought together more millions of diverse peoples in more prosperity than the world had ever seen, and those diverse peoples always lived better here than they did at home.

6. In World War One, a four-year deluge of death that killed 45 million people and showed no signs of stopping even by 1918, flawed American white males went in singlehandedly and, in just six months, put an end to a scourge that in no way affected their own lives.

7. In the 1930s, while Japan killed an estimated 9 million Chinese and 800,000 in only three days during the infamous Rape of Nanking, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic American white males stood alone among governments, enforcing an embargo of materiel to the Japanese war machine. (Japanese anger over this led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.)

8. In World War Two, flawed American white males fought a two-front war in order to stop this five-year conflagration that cost 72 million lives and save everybody in the world from a) speaking German, Japanese or Russian to their governors from those same nations and b) renting themselves out to those governors for 50 cents a trick.

9. During the Cold War, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist white American males stood alone against the socialism, communism, and Marxism that had murdered 115 million people worldwide since 1917. They even let leftist ideas burrow deep into America because flawed American white males were open even to this degree in hope of finding better ways to cure poverty.

10. Since 1965, 75 million people have immigrated to the U.S. – the largest migration of human life the world has ever seen, despite the fact that far too many of those immigrants have agreed to take part in fostering the left's slander against the flawed American white males who, in the first place, generously let them in.

11. Since 1965, flawed American white males established by far the most generous welfare system in history, totaling now an unprecedented 22 trillion dollars – a fortune representing more wealth than much of the world combined, a fortune made possible exclusively on our unique level of freedom, that the left saws away at like an irremediable dunce perched on the same limb.

12. Today, America heroically takes on socialism's pernicious bigotry and hate-mongering against freedom in the Democratic Party and the MSM in a head-to-head battle in front of all humankind, trying to put a nail in the coffin of the Left's return to rule by oligarchs. The left champions corrupt elites like Hillary and Bill Clinton, and Bernie Sanders, and their super-rich donors, who the left agrees should be above the law, the IRS, FBI, NSA, CIA – with these institutions even helping to break the law and hide the proof.

From: David Walls-Kaufman, "American Thinker".

39 posted on 08/05/2018 3:11:00 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: EveningStar


40 posted on 08/05/2018 3:13:34 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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