Sunday, August 2, 2020
IF WHITE WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS BAD THEN ITS LONE ARGUMENT AGAINST SLAVERY ITSELF COLLAPSES
"WHILE SLAVERY WAS COMMON TO ALL CIVILIZATIONS, AS WELL AS PEOPLES CONSIDERED UNCIVILIZED, ONLY ONE CIVILIZATION DEVELOPED A MORAL REVULSION AGAINST IT, VERY LATE IN ITS HISTORY---WESTERN CIVILIZATION."
Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, p. 116.
Postscript incerpt, 8/5/20.
Here was DK, making a point similar to Sowell's, on the issue above:
It had been the white West itself which had objected to slavery, some white religious pundits claining that it was a sin. No negroes had ever claimed such a thing, certainly no negroes in Africa who continued their own slave trade regardless of what white traders thought or did for hundreds of years.
Postscript incerpt, 8/5/20.
Here was DK, making a point similar to Sowell's, on the issue above:
"...Let me take another paragraphs to introduce my own perspective. I became a comparative historian at an early age, not only comparing different countries in the same period of history, but comparing different periods of modern European history. A comparative perspective, it seem to me, is a good antidote to overly positive or negative views of human nature, since its judgments can be based upon reality. Now unless one returns to the most primitive hunter-gatherer societies, there seems to be little doubt that western civilization has been less oppressive, on the whole, than any other developed civilization. That is why movements for racial equality, equality between men and women, and, most recently, gay rights, originated in western civilization, and why such ideas have advanced the most in the most westernized countries..." DK
It had been the white West itself which had objected to slavery, some white religious pundits claining that it was a sin. No negroes had ever claimed such a thing, certainly no negroes in Africa who continued their own slave trade regardless of what white traders thought or did for hundreds of years.
In my view, this Western Civilizational revulsion, connected with other liberal Western political and theological agendas, is a kind of social behavior genetic mutation which has proven disastrous for the white people who carry it and perpetuate it, but which became culturally if not genetically fixed in the white people of the West, and has proved disastrous for the continued dominance of Western civilization itself.
Championing any rights, for anyone not of your own civilization, as an innovation, is a very dangerous game culturally to have played even if your genetic impulses sent you in that direction against the better judgment of some Westerners, and the West has now lost that game for good and forever.
Championing any rights, for anyone not of your own civilization, as an innovation, is a very dangerous game culturally to have played even if your genetic impulses sent you in that direction against the better judgment of some Westerners, and the West has now lost that game for good and forever.
The 1619 Project, continued.
This post is dedicated to Dylan Matthews and Jake Silverstein jointly.
Terms search: grateful, game over, smell the coffee
This post is dedicated to Dylan Matthews and Jake Silverstein jointly.
Terms search: grateful, game over, smell the coffee
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