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A refreshing lack of PC
Although some of my own viewpoints will draw strong criticism from you I enjoyed this read. Although I have always maintained that the "we are all born equal" motto is obviously flawed, equality should not be measured by race or creed but by individual merit. There are brilliant and innovative people from all races and religions and downright stupid people representing all these categories too. I will never support ideology and policy based on shape and size and religious preference but definitely based on contribution to the whole. You generalize a tad too easily. I'm a classed as "white male" South African and we didn't give up our land but were forced by the international community (sanctions and terrorism) into a system based on Western models that do not take intellect and knowledgeability into account when it comes to voting and policy making. I did not support the "white supremisist pretend to be christian" government at the time and if I had to choose again I still won't. I do not support the anti-white male labour legislation in South Africa at present either. The situation there was and is much more complex than it may appear to outsiders. I'm sure it is equaly complex in your country too.
posted by
AardigeAfrikaner
on August 29, 2008 at 3:45 AM
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Interesting argument
While there is a lot of truth to some of your points. I think you are loosing yourself in anger here and therefore not taking portions of your argument to the full lengths it deserves, and other portions of your argument going to far to one side, your own.
Being PC was supposed to be a means in which we educate others on different cultures in societies. This is something that was lacking and is still lacking in the Western educational systems in which most kids couldn't name the states in their own country, let alone, point out other countries on a map. It also came from the need for people to understand the various cultures that were coming to the US, not so they could act anyway they want, but rather so that we could be educated enough to go to their countries and do business and create a relative peace. What has instead taken place is, as you stated, a weakening of pride in the US culture, and a shame of being white. What PC has done good is what is missing from your argument. It has allowed other religions to be able to enjoy the same freedoms that Christians have always had. It has allowed women to be treated as equals, which if you look at "third world" countries, the ones that treat women like the "Bible or Koran" suggest woman be treated, are also poor and often barbaric.
Christianity is not being lost, it is being left. Because Christian societies happen to also be the richest societies, and people in those societies are 'waking' up and realizing that, burning witches, killing homosexuals, picketing funerals, and the fact that every major war in the world was fought in the name of religion makes it, well, hypocrisy and bullshit. Thank God. (no pun intended).
John Lennon said it best, Imagine no religion. Because the stoning, honor killings, world wars, and extreme violence are done in the name of religion, always have, always will. That is how people live with themselves when they take thousands or millions of lives. They simply say, well God told me to do it. And if they do anything wrong, well Satan made them do it. Scapegoats for adults and lunatics.
And if you are not religious then you are gay or a potful, which strangely enough, the pedophile problem is most apparent in religion, remember those Catholics, those Jehovah Witnesses, those Muslims that marry thirteen year olds?
Yes the white man is being made out to be a horrible creature, when in fact they have done more for the world then any other race. Period. Yes, we are constantly changing our lifestyles to be PC towards immigrants into the US, which is bullshit. Like most things, PC had a good start, good intentions, it has just been molested and twisted into something it was never meant to be; and people are making millions by exploiting it in the corporate and international world.
Like Rome, the US will destroy itself from within, before it is ever destroyed from without. It's a damn shame, because the neo-conservative Christian movement is getting everyone to focus on Gay marriage, and abortion, when we should be concerning ourselves with getting American back into manufacturing and producing, removing itself from foreign oils and energies, and leading the world in innovation.
posted by
freelance_ghost
on August 21, 2008 at 7:23 PM
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Re: What an excellent and challenging read.......
I extend thanks to both of you.
posted by
mordent
on August 18, 2008 at 10:11 PM
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What an excellent and challenging read.......
cultural communism" I like that phrase.....very apropos!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 18, 2008 at 5:50 AM
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You have tried to stir up a hornet;s nest, Very well written, I like it
posted by
Kayzzaman
on August 18, 2008 at 4:46 AM
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