mothra wrote on Mar 29
th, 2024 at 5:44pm:
Sam Kerr they lose their ever-loving minds over ... this, not so much.
Interesting juxtaposition. Pertinent.
Why is it that people shrug, sort of, when blacks are called nigglers but get touchy when whites are called stupid or supremacist or whatever the variety of niggler terms there are for whites? Why IS there a mutual antipathy, distrust, deprecation?
It can't be slavery as the nigglers don't hold the Arabs or other nigglers in the same contempt even though they were traded to the whites by other nigglers and Arabs.
With the Aborigines, some are ministers, professors, MP - others still live in sorcery, magic and tribal retribution, with a mobile phone.
My suggestion - and it's no more - is that the more primitive people are the more difficult it is for them to admit it, and to leave the primitive behind.
Sophisticated cultures have no difficulty adapting to modern Western- invented civilisation. Tribal, primitive cultures do. They cannot self-repudiate, they cannot recognise the primitiveness, so they hang on to it even if it kills them.
Tribal societies frozen in the aspic of their unbending arch-conservative ways are unable to adapt, change, outgrow because that requires an admission that they WERE frozen in unbending timeless conservatism.
You call a horse face man a dog face, he laughs with you. Call him horse face, he will hate you forever. The same with primitive people. Admitting backwardness is devastating so primitive people will put Pascoesque lipstick on anything as long as they do not have to admit the obvious - obvious to everyone else.