Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
carolina73 (10-14-2021)
The invention of whiteness...A little more than a century ago, in his essay The Souls of White Folk, the sociologist and social critic WEB Du Bois proposed what still ranks as one of the most penetrating and durable insights about the racial identity we call white: “The discovery of personal whiteness among the world’s peoples is a very modern thing – a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed.”
...If you asked an Englishman in the early part of the 17th century what colour skin he had, he might very well have called it white. But the whiteness of his skin would have suggested no more suitable basis for a collective identity than the roundness of his nose or the baldness of his head. If you asked him to situate himself within the rapidly expanding borders of the known world, he would probably identify himself, first and most naturally, as an Englishman. If that category proved too narrow – if, say, he needed to describe what it was he had in common with the French and the Dutch that he did not share with Ottomans or Africans – he would almost certainly call himself a Christian instead....
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
RMNIXON (10-14-2021)
If you ever read papers or articles on the origins of any group of people on the planet, you will see the word haplotype used repeatedly. Read enough of these papers and you will know, without a doubt, there is no such thing as race. Every human being is a combination of groupings of alleles passed on over thousands upon thousands of years and they all indicate great migrations of people from one part of the world to another, no doubt for reasons of food shortage, environmental conditions or wars. The fact that people were often locked into regions of the planet during mini ice ages, accounts for the superficial appearance of race (phenotypes), but it is no different than what happens when we breed livestock or any other animal for specific physical characteristics - if you have a static population, they will eventually start to look like one another.
The real differences between the peoples of this planet are cultural. Even among Europeans, the only real similarity between northern Europeans and southern Europeans from the Mediterranean is Christianity, otherwise, people from the Mediterranean, whether from the European continent or not, are actually more culturally similar to one another. They are also more genetically similar. The people of Great Britain or the UK are really not culturally similar to northern Europeans, despite their genetic origins, due to thousands of years of isolation.
However, the only thing that maintains culture is isolation, so as the world shrinks due to technology and travel, cultures are changing, homogenizing. They are now celebrating Halloween i.e. Trick or Treat in Europe, something they picked up from N. America. American fast food restaurants are found all over the world. So is pizza. Music is another area of cultural fusion as are movies, videogames, comic books...
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Captdon (10-15-2021)
After the early part of the 17th Century, Englishmen began to have contact with non-Europeans. It was precisely then that the world began to rapidly expand for Englishmen and it was precisely then that the category of Whiteness began to emerge among Englishmen. Coincidence?
In any case, the Spanish settlers of New Spain and Peru were thinking in racial categories at least as early as the 16th Century but the term mestizo ("mixed") dates from the 13th Century. Mulatto dates from the late 16th as far as I can tell.
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Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Captdon (10-15-2021)
It doesn't mean anything to me.
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
I think we seem to define race by outward color. The Russel Wilson's, Kap's, MaHommes of the world are considered black men. But they are really blends. I would note that at least IMO, mulatto women have a special kind of beauty .
Maybe the carmel blending will eventually end the race tension.
But humans will find something to hate one another over, count on that.
Now_What (01-23-2022)