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2006-03-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tipper 2006-03-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Interesting. Just a small tale; a portuguese journalist was not much years ago in the Cabinda Enclave. (North of Angola) he then picks up is satellite phone and talks to his wife. Some peasants near ask what was all that thing. He explains how it works and that he was talking to his wife in Lisboa (Lisboa the capital of Portuguese Empire usually called in colonies "the metropolis" that once you needed weeks to get there) then one peasant with admiration said this: "You whites are near Gods."
So hesperophobia isnt a clear in everyone and i bet that most have a double feeling that can be used by any political clever guy, for good and for bad...

Posted by Cralet Thraing9228 2006-03-03 01:09|| 2006-03-03 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I can't stand Derbyshire. Do yourself a favor and don't read past the excerpt posted on rantburg. Next month's article by Derbyshire - The Reasons Why The White Male Should Make Slaves of the Inferior Brown Folk.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-03 03:39|| 2006-03-03 03:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I forced myself to get to the end of this article before posting this, in case he actually came to some sort of valid point.

But let me say this: So what if he is right? So what if it is true that different races have different strengths and weaknesses? I'm an American. Some of my ancestors were here at Jamestown. Some crossed the plains in covered wagons. Some came from Ireland. We keep moving west. But I'm no less American, (hmmm.. in some ways, maybe less so), than the guy who came here yesterday for opportunity - like my ancestors.

America is the land of opportunity. So back to my point of so what if Derbyshire is right? So what if blacks are more athletic and Jews tend to be doctors/lawyers/artists, so what if Mexicans tend to be ...I don't know...whatever. Isn't that what makes America great? That we all contribute something different? Don't you know "whites" who could fit into any category that I could name about any other group? We are a melting pot, a matrix, hybrids, mutts. Damn, I love that about us. I so tire of the Derbyshires who want to be somehow superior through birthright. Ain't gonna happen Derby, this is a "what have you done for me lately" kind of country. That's what makes it great.

As for his poo-poohing democracy. Well, it's late, I'm tired, and Screw him. Everyone deserves the chance to control their own destiny. Even the Paleos may learn from their election of Hamas that perhaps there is a better way.

Hey Derbyshire - Screw you. No one is special. Eveyone is special. Deal with it. We hold these truths to be self evident, all men are created equal.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-03 04:01|| 2006-03-03 04:01|| Front Page Top

#4 The human genome project will, at some point, deeply inform the nature/nurture argument. Until we have all the facts, it is pure speculation to say that there are (or are not)significant genetic variations regarding social abilities and behavior. Anyone who says this is (or isn't) the case is speaking only from their own anecdotal experiences.

So I'll qualify my own thoughts on this issue as speculation based upon my own observations in life.

Yeah, there probably are measurable differences in behavior that hold true for ethnic groups in some cases.

And no, it ultimately doesn't matter, because people can learn and adapt.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-03-03 06:41|| 2006-03-03 06:41|| Front Page Top

#5 You said it nicer than I did. Well said.

Posted by 2b 2006-03-03 10:12|| 2006-03-03 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Dang.

From the headline I thought it might be a discussion of "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Longfellow.

Instead I find a silly article by a long-winded fellow. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-03-03 14:53|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-03-03 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 #2: I can't stand Derbyshire. Do yourself a favor and don't read past the excerpt posted on rantburg. Next month's article by Derbyshire - The Reasons Why The White Male Should Make Slaves of the Inferior Brown Folk.
Posted by: 2b|| 2006-03-03 03:39 ||Comments Top||

Intriguing admonishment and oblique reference to rascism. I have seen much here of late, labeled in a similar manner.

Posted by Visitor 2006-03-03 15:08|| 2006-03-03 15:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Oblique?! One wonders what Visitor would consider direct.

Rascism, the last refuge of a rascal?

I have seen much here of late, labeled in a similar manner.

Now that's oblique!

Posted by SLO Jim 2006-03-03 16:07|| 2006-03-03 16:07|| Front Page Top

#9 This isn't about race - it's about culture.

But that said, the line is pretty fuzzy and Visitor is quite right about that.

I can't stand him either, Visitor - one of the things we have in common. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2006-03-03 16:13|| 2006-03-03 16:13|| Front Page Top

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