Hi, Folks -
Well-meaning Reader a. (thanks, a. :) sent me an email in response to this post:
Video: Statistics Prove Which Race Comprises The Most Intolerant Species On The Planet... (views: 706)
Watchman -- Saturday, 24-Jun-2017 10:05:53
By way of rebuttal, Reader a. hoped I'd post links to a HuffPo article and to a 'debunking' video. These are the links:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/good-men-project/why-its-so-hard-to-talk-to-white-people-about-racism_b_7183710.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8TmuUraBKc
However, I find these thoughts arise after scanning the article and enduring the video:
I don't think it's useful to post the HuffPost piece or the debunking video. I think this idea might be incorrect: "White Americans must not only talk about racism but they must lead the way in ending it for their own spiritual benefit." - unless, as a white American leading the way, I tell you that I think Morgan Freeman got it right:
When asked in a 60 Minutes interview piece how to solve the problem of racism, he promptly replied, "Stop talking about it!"
The massive amount of energy presently being put into concerns about racism is precisely what is giving life to racism.
A quote from John Stuart Mill: "The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something particularly abstruse and mysterious."
The more we talk about it, the more we "give it a name", the more convinced we become that it really must exist. But it may be a strawman idea, a red herring that draws our attention and energy away from other, perhaps more creative and productive, uses of our energy and necessarily, by definition of 'racism', keeps us continually divided - which, as detailed here in a 30-min video, is exactly what the Frankfort School Marxists intended:
History of Cultural Marxism and how it has now spread- MUST SEE VIDEO (The Architects of Western Decline) (views: 96)
RumorMail -- Saturday, 24-Jun-2017 14:10:05
Did the founders of America create and organize a society based on their own ideas and ideals and ways of thinking and viewing the world? Of course they did. As does every culture.
Is there an in-built "white privilege"? I think there probably is not, but let's ask this question at the same time: "What would make anyone think that there IS 'white privilege'?"
My guess would be that the idea of 'white privilege' was arrived at by observing that there are disparities of outcome in society, and, from the starting point of such observations, then working backward in hopes of finding a cause for such disparities, one that could be addressed to create equality of outcome.
But this is like observing that hubcaps are found at most automobile accident scenes, and deciding to address hubcaps as the supposed cause of most automobile accidents.
Chiefly addressing matters of gender, Stefan Molyneux, in this video:
51-min video: Stefan Molyneux - "EQUALITY?"
hobie -- Saturday, 24-Jun-2017 01:50:45
...mentions that one can have equality of opportunity or equality of outcome, but not both. He offers the example of pitting an overweight American man or woman against a well-exercised Kenyan of the same gender in a foot race. They may start in the same place with equality of opportunity, in which case the Kenyan will likely be the winner at the outcome. Or, the overweight runner can be given a considerable starting advantage, in which case there may be equality of outcome. But you can't have both.
Individuals are individual. Given equal opportunity in any area, some will excel, some will be in the middle range, and some will not do as well as most of the others. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing there to be fixed, and no exterior cause for it that needs to be found and addressed.
Let's heed Morgan Freeman and stop talking about it.
That said, if you have something well-considered to say about this, whether in agreement or disagreement with what I've written, let me know. I don't promise I'll post whatever you choose to say, but I might.
Blessings.
--hobie
**************************************************************************
