Wednesday, June 19, 2019
PLAYING THE WESTERN CIV CARD THREE WAYS FROM DAVID BROOKS TO GENERAL BUTT NAKED
Let's say that the General sees his former situation and background as having been caused by generations of Western white male colonialism slavery and imperialism, and but for that, he would have been living in a civilized and enlightened African state where he would have developed very differently indeed!
He thinks he is entitled not only to reparations but also tuition room and board at any elite Western university he should select.
How did General Butt Naked come to see it that way?
He finally found Western Christianity, what he calls the only good side of Western Civilization, and was saved!
Alternatively, he might also turn on his Christian conversion, claim that he really was saved by a virtuous underlying natural law black African heritage that he now at length has found, and that Western Christianity had perverted along with its imperialism, slavery, and oppression.
General Butt Naked can go either way, and still claim raparations, causal Western Civ responsibility, and a place at Yale or Harvard, just like Kashuv!
He can even claim that he is a direct descendant of enslaved Africans shipped to America, and get reparations that way too!
He can claim reparations directly from descendants of African slave drivers in Africa who sold his forefathers to white male slave drivers.
These last two claims undercut his other claims based on white male imperialism and colonialism.
But, for General Butt Naked, as for Rumpole, those are merely fine points of law.
David Brooks: Kashuv remarks: repulsive, blatantly racist and anti Semitic.
Yet, much of Western history, your history, your theology if
Christian, whoever you are, here in the West, has been based in part at least on blatantly racist and anti semitic views.
It has only come to seem repulsive against a background of non Western-looking ideology, a Western secular ideology repudiating Western Civilization itself lock stock and barrel, not merely its incidental racism and anti Semitism.
He can even claim that he is a direct descendant of enslaved Africans shipped to America, and get reparations that way too!
He can claim reparations directly from descendants of African slave drivers in Africa who sold his forefathers to white male slave drivers.
These last two claims undercut his other claims based on white male imperialism and colonialism.
But, for General Butt Naked, as for Rumpole, those are merely fine points of law.
David Brooks: Kashuv remarks: repulsive, blatantly racist and anti Semitic.
Yet, much of Western history, your history, your theology if
Christian, whoever you are, here in the West, has been based in part at least on blatantly racist and anti semitic views.
It has only come to seem repulsive against a background of non Western-looking ideology, a Western secular ideology repudiating Western Civilization itself lock stock and barrel, not merely its incidental racism and anti Semitism.
My hypothetical General Butt Naked argument, ABOVE, is widely held in Africa:
WIKIPEDIA:
In September 2001, the United Nations sponsored the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban South Africa. The Durban Review Conference sponsored a resolution stating that the West owed reparations to Africa due to the "racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance" that the Atlantic slave trade caused.[31] Leaders of several African nations supported this resolution, former Minister of Justice of Sudan, Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin stated that the slave trade is responsible for the current problems plaguing Africa.
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