Sunday, May 17, 2009

Why Whites Are Destroying Themselves

By Guy White

There is always some concept that society determines is good. It may be female chastity. It may be religion. It may be a political idea.

As soon as the idea is determined to be good, people compete to “out-good” each other. At times, people go overboard and embrace extremism to show how “good” they are.

Thus, ‘be modest’ turns into a vow of poverty. Don’t expose yourself turns into a burqa. Christianity is good turns into the Inquisition (or Judaism/Zealotry; Islam/Islamic terror). Equality turns into Stalinist purges. Patriotism becomes Nazism.

Eventually, people realize that they’ve gone too far and everyone denies that they ever supported this extreme ideology. But in the midst of the witch hunts intended to prove how “good” one is, people just think they are being “better” than others by being more extreme.

United States made progress towards black equality from its beginning. It was made a crime to physically abuse slaves or to trade them. Then slavery was made illegal. There had been steps taken towards increased black equality in America even prior to WWII, as evidenced, for example, by the rapidly dropping number of lynchings and the equality they were receiving at state levels.

WWII was a major event, however. Without it, we would not have had the impetus to compete with one another to become “more egalitarian than thou”.

The death of 50 million people was a great shock to the Western man. Europeans were simply too tired to fight. You can only stick you hands into the fire so many times before you begin to fear fire even for useful purposes.

Europeans stuck their hands into the fire twice in a quarter century, 1914 and again in 1939. They just couldn’t afford more destruction like that. Serious people must’ve thought, “what if we fight 2-3 more wars in the 20th century, and each consecutive war is more destructive than the previous one?” Even the bravest, the most cold-blooded warrior must’ve had a sick feeling in his gut.

Americans weren’t impacted as much as as Europeans, but in a world of rapidly improving weaponry, there was a serious possibility that New York would one day become the next Stalingrad or even the next Hiroshima.

Just as importantly, there was the revulsion to what Adolf Hitler did. Seeing 55-pound grown men stand near a pile of dead bodies was not something that most wanted to see repeated.

United States was fighting a war against evil. And evil was defined as anything smacking of Germany or Nazism.

Take a look at the helmets worn by US troops today. They look much less like the old American helmets and a lot like the German helmets. But they were changed in a few ways to make our boys not resemble Germans, even though the German helmets – still the best designed helmets any military produced – were used long before Hitler.

World War II was against Nazi evil. And those who were different from the Nazis were therefore good.

Nazis stood, in part, for racism. America would stand for the opposite. “What if one day we will do to blacks what the Germans did to Jews?” was a question that was seriously asked. Germans were (and are) a highly civilized nation that produced world-class scientists, musicians, athletes. In 1880, nobody thought Germans would be responsible for two world wars (they weren’t responsible for the first one, but the Allies chose to blame them) and a genocide.

And so the idea of being anti-Nazi and anti-racist made sense.

President Harry Truman de-segregated the military. President Dwight Eisenhower used the military to de-segregate schools. LBJ passed the Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Acts, as well as immigration reform that made green cards a civil right. Richard Nixon instituted Affirmative Action on a mass level.

We weren’t going to be like the Nazis. We would be the opposite. The complete and total opposite. The more different, the better.

Never mind that the proper response to being thirsty is not to drown yourself in the ocean. That’s precisely what people are doing because most aren’t going to concern themselves with details. “No soda? No problem! We’ll just throw you off the boat and then you can have all the water you need. Wow, I am so nice and so good!”

Cultural and social equality was now “good”. The more extreme one’s views, the more “good” one would be. The biggest radical was the best person who would have the high moral ground over everyone else.

And as evidence that equal rights wouldn’t lead to equal outcomes began to pile up, we could no longer discuss topics like IQ, testosterone and crime, etc. Science was now declared “bad”. After all, the Nazis abused pseudo-science, so now any science that lead to any “undesirable” conclusion would be declared “fascist pseudo-science”.

[By the way, you know who coined the term "fascist pseudo-science"? Joseph Stalin, in reference to genetics. Environmental explanations were "socialist science" and genetics were "fascist pseudo-science." Even the fake communist scientist Trofim Lysenko argued that environment-only is an explanation that could be used for agriculture only. But Stalin "felt" that it could be applied to humans as well.]

When I started this blog, I thought I would never discuss intelligence. It would make me seem racist. IQ is beyond the pale, I thought. But then how do you explain black failure in the US and globally? If their IQ is not significantly different, then the only cause of their problems could be racism. If blacks don’t have higher testosterone levels or if T doesn’t cause higher crime rates, then what else can explain persistent black crime, even among millionaire athletes and rappers? And so, a month after I started the blog, I had no choice but to address IQ differences.

It is the only way to explain black success and failure. As soon as they got a chance to play professional sports, they began to dominate the NBA, NFL and to a lesser degree the MLB. But equal rights in education – and even affirmative action coupled with free tutoring and racist scholarships – did not lead to positive results.

Could we mention it? No. Why? Because people wanted to be the “un-Nazi”, and the more extreme one was [in that respect], the more “good” one would be.

People want to be good. It gives them self-esteem. You can’t always make a lot of money or have a job where you are respected or know the answers or play sports well.

But you can be “good”.

And so non-discrimination turned into “I can’t see race”. Really?! Are you freakin’ blind?

The odds of being punished by affirmative action were uncertain and not immediate. But the reward of being “good” could be achieved right now!

Next time you are having a Thanksgiving dinner with your family and friends, say you support uplifting programs for blacks and how you are sure that if only we helped them, they surely will do well. Mention that the smartest person you know is black. Talk about what a shame it is how the white man always mistreated all others. You will immediately be treated as “good”.

Those who disagree will sit there quietly. Those who agree (or normally have no opinion) will laud you for being open-minded, and will also mention a ghetto kid they know who grew up on welfare without a father but is extremely bright and has so much potential. Everyone will have a sad look on their face to show how nice they are to feel bad that this kid has had such a hard life.

Now try saying that blacks are responsible for their own fate. Kids are one thing but adults can improve their lot.

Most people will sit there in stunned silence. Some will yell at you and then storm out of the room. All will dismiss you as a loon.

You will be quickly conditioned that if you want to be seen as “good”, you better talk about black crime and poverty as white failure.

So why does everyone else do it, why does everyone choose to sell the white race for the sake of a quick compliment? For the same reason you do it. It’s sort of like a clock where each part keeps moving because all the other parts are also moving.

So the last 70 years has been a race to be the biggest egalitarian. Sure you may eventually get hit with taxes and affirmative action. But that’s abstract. That’s the future. That may never happen.

Right now, sitting at the Thanksgiving table, everyone will like you if only you’ll say that whites are responsible for all the black problems. So you open your mouth and say it.

When they came to discriminate against college applicants, I said nothing.
When they came to sue corporations, I said nothing.
When they came to abuse whites, I said nothing.
When they came to malign men, I said nothing.
When they came to destroy my life, there was nobody left to say anything.

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