Quote:You're right. We must talk about these things openly, because if we don't we're doomed. No need to panic, but when some of these policies were enacted on people until the 1980s, it can get a bit close to the bone. Telling them to just get over it can be a tad insensitive. How would you feel if you were removed from your family at birth because of your skin tone?
By "get over it" I was not referring to those affected by the Stolen Generation. I was saying that we need to get the bugger over being afraid to talk about race. The Stolen Generation was not broached within that paragraph at all.
Quote:I think Westerners are very insecure about their superiority and need others to be superior over.
You're partially right here, but the second part of this statement is incredibly wrong. Westerners -- White people -- are indeed incredibly insecure about themselves. They have been encumbered with an incredible onus that they believe with the most sincerest of conviction; that they are responsible for all of the evils in the world today. It is wrong to suggest that any racial group tends to exhibit general, behavioral characteristics; every group that is, except for white people themselves. White people, or as many more bumptious Aboriginals like to designate them, the white dogs, the white front bottoms, have left behind them a trail of destruction, death and suffering whereever they have been known to have existed throughout history. Through seeming wizardry, the white dogs have utilitzed primitive 19th century extractive technologies to denude entire continents of their natural resources and left these continents nugatory soils as the backbone of their economies after granting them independence. The white dogs are responsible, and
only responsible, for the enslavement, conquest and genocide of noble and innocent peoples. There is something innately wicked about the white dogs, in the minds of some of the most extreme whites. For that there is nothing to be proud of and everything to scrutinize and reject. Cultural heroes -- bigots. Cultural practices -- insensitive, antiquated, not suitable or 'pluralist' enough for the new, multicultural society. Bloodline -- immaterial or non-existent. Breed it out.
Yes, this may be hyperbole, but in many respects, it is true. Whites are really the only people in the world who have not only forgotten that the rest of the human race (not including themselves) is essentialy at its core duplicitious, self-interested and parochial, but that their own dispossession, or in the most extreme cases, their own destruction via miscegnation, is something not only to celebrate but to accelerate. I would like to remind you that this is unprecedented in the entire history of the world. Staggering and incredible, it is like the Frankish Knights at Tours laying to the soil beneath their feet their shields and allowing the Moorish cavalry to hack them to shreds, all while painted with beaming, cheerful countenances.
Whites are insecure or indifferent where other peoples would rise from their chairs in outrage. You're right. Insecure and needing other people to feel superior to, however? No. For some, there is a feeling that they are in fact the best, but it is not motivated by any underlying insecurity. It's normal. Feeling as if your people are the best and your culture is the brightest is fundamentally human. Some whites feel this way, but many, many more Japanese feel this way than most whites do. Even peoples who have never truly achieved anything of any significance feel this way; and attempt to create flimsy justifications for why they do. The 'discipline' of Afrocentrism is basically founded upon taking credit for the achievements of non-African cultures that happened to have been located in Africa. Egyptians? Black! That old myth of Egyptians landing in Greece and founding Greek civilization? Yeah, because the Egyptians were Black thus, Blacks were responsible for the creation of Western Civilization! You would be amazed at how many Black people actually believe this, but the point is it is an example of a people -- even one so bereft of any meaningful impact upon history -- attempting to assert that they are in fact the chosen ones, the greatest ones. What you are describing is normal. However, what you fail to recognize is that white people are at present the least guilty of this 'shortcoming'. Even for a few you would most greatly suspect to be, what they usually are
really saying (obviously in a much less respectful fashion) is that "we like our culture the way it is and don't really think it's that much of an enrichment to see women walking around with veiled faces because it is alien, discomforting and something we feel we could never really adjust to (or want to)" or "all other peoples in the world have or currently demand the right to have their own culture evolve as they see fit. Why is it not okay for us to want or have the same?"
Even if that is not the case, the previously discussed shortcoming isn't really a shortcoming. Even if you live in some sh!t hole-in-wall, you can be sure you'll still be on the side-lines at some inconsequential local football match trying to beat you chest harder than the other side, asserting that, where you live, and that your team, is in fact, the best. Don't forget what you are. I for one embrace my primate heritage.