Here is a typical text written by a white supremacist:
"Everything we have before us today in the way of human civilization, the products of art, science and technology, is almost exclusively the fruit of the creative activity of the Aryans. This fact leads to the conclusion, and not without reason, that they alone were the founders of a superior humanity and, consequently, that they represent the original type of what we understand by the name of "man".
And here's a text written by the Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop :
"The Negro ignores the fact that his ancestors, who adapted to the material conditions of the Nile valley, are mankind's oldest guides on the road to civilization; that it was they who created the arts, religion, literature, the first philosophical systems, writing, the exact sciences (physics, mathematics, mechanics, astronomy, the calendar, etc.), medicine, architecture, agriculture, etc., at a time when the rest of the world (Asia, Europe: Greece, Rome, etc.) was plunged into barbarism."
The first text, by Adolf Hitler, is universally identified as racist. The second, by Anta Diop, is generally regarded as anti-racist in inspiration. This is enough to make us aware of the extreme confusion in which we wade when we speak of racism and anti-racism.
Let's not forget that the axiom on which the neo-antiracist gnosis is based is the following: there is only white racism. It follows that anti-white racism does not exist, or, more precisely, that it can no more exist than black racism.
Pseudo-antiracism has trivialized a model of unequal evaluation of racial visions. When Gobineau, Chamberlain or Hitler assert that the "white" or "Aryan" race is the creator of "civilization", they are clearly racists, and rightly condemned as such. When Diop and other Afrocentrist theorists support the thesis that the "black race" is the creator of "civilization", they are not perceived as racist, and are even sometimes celebrated as masters of truth. "White" authors are denounced as racist, while "black" authors are supposedly not.
How can this absurd type of "anti-racism" be taken seriously?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.If I didn't know who wrote those texts, I would've dismissed them both, thinking that both writers had limited knowledge about civilizations, considering the time when they wrote the texts. I also wouldn't have instantly associated the texts with racism, again considering the time when they were written. In those times, in the West, people thought that their civilization was the greatest, in the East, people also thought that their civilization was the best, and so on, simply because they were insular.
Ryo1
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Oct 24, 2023
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A black man can tell the truth, a white man can tell the lie that contradicts, and the white man will be believed because he is white. Racism on display.
Switchcraft
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Oct 24, 2023
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Who believes today that the "Aryan race" has invented civilization (except some idiots on the far right)?
On the other hand, Anta Diop is one of the leading figures of "Afrocentrism", the strange idea that is was the Black man who created what we call today civilization. Of course both views are wrong, because there is no race which invented civilization - but Afrocentrism is taught at universities in the US and Europe, as part of the so-called postcolonial studies, so it's the black man who is believed, which one can call inverted racism
Ryo1:
Can white people experience racism? Of course, they can.
The other day, during a Rugby World Cup semi-final, a black South African player, Mbonambi, called a white English player, Curry, 'white c...'. When Curry told this to the referee, "Sir, Sir, if their hooker calls me a white c*** what do I do?”, the referee replied, "Nothing please." He then added “I will be on it”, although it isn't clear if this in reference to Curry's complaint, but he took no action against Mbonambi. (The conversation was picked up on the microphone.) Mbonambi also refused to shake hands with Curry at the end of the game.
Imagine this incident was reverse. The referee would probably have taken action against Curry immediately, and there would have been an outcry over this.
@Thibaud70 it makes sense that a race did not create civilization, though I believe human civilization is apparently thought to have been founded somewhere between N.E. Africa and Western Asia. That would not account for the indigenous people of the Americas or many other parts of the world. ???
@Switchcraft The question "which race founded civilization?" is pointless because there are and always have been multiple civilizations, founded by different "races": in Egypt, in Mesopotamia, in the Indus valley, in ancient China, in Meso-America by the Aztecs and Mayas, in ancient Greece and so on. All I know is that white supremacy is not best fought by some type of "black supremacy".
@Thibaud70
To my knowledge, there is only 1 "race" ... the human race, Homo Sapiens.
Unless you are Homo neanderthalensis, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo floresiensis, etc, THEN you are a a different race of Homo.
The pigment of your skin doesn't make you a different race.
@AtheistInNC Well, It wasn't me who invented this 'race' stuff...
Today it's above all the 'progressive' Left who is constantly using the word 'race' and its derivatives: racial, racist, racism... If you want to ban the word 'race', which word do you prefer when people talk about 'white' and 'black' persons?
(By the way.... Homo sapiens is not a race, but a species. In biology there are no races.)
@Thibaud70
"Homo sapiens is not a race, but a species."
No shit. That's why I put quotes around "race".
Why talk about white or black? Why not treat every fucking human with dignity and help all the poor and uneducated get a decent job and an education? Why do Qupublicans hate that idea?
Here's why: they are racist scumbags, and want to feel superior, because they know that they are INFERIOR.
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