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#RNCinCLE Facts Are RAAAAACIST!

Posted on | July 20, 2016 | 63 Comments

 

CLEVELAND
A typically absurd three-day long “controversy”:

Rep. Steve King is still trying to explain what he meant with his comments earlier in the week in which he initially suggested that “white people” had done more for civilization than any other “subgroup” and later said he meant “Western civilization.”
The Iowa Republican, speaking at a Washington Post event on Wednesday, criticized media coverage of his remarks as lacking the proper context in which he had made them during a panel discussion on MSNBC.
Fellow panelist Charlie Pierce, of Esquire, had said on Monday: “If you’re really optimistic, you can say that this is the last time that old white people will command the Republican Party’s attention, its platform, its public face,” adding, “That hall is wired by loud, unhappy, dissatisfied white people.”
“Now, that’s disparaging a group of people, and ‘old white people’ — can you trade that language out by adding any other group in there as an adjective?” King said Wednesday. . . .
“And by the way, Charlie Pierce is not a young white guy,” King quipped.

The original spark between Pierce and King:

“This ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie,” King said. “I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you’re talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”
Hayes asked: “Than white people?”
“Than, than Western civilization itself,” King said. “It’s rooted in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the United States of America and every place where the footprint of Christianity settled the world. That’s all of Western civilization.”

This is simply a fact of history. You can trace a line of Western culture through millennia from Mesopotamia to Greece to Rome, and then up to Gutenberg’s invention of movable type in the 1400s. From there, via various influences, you arrive at Philadelphia in 1776. This history is a matter of documented fact, not opinion or speculation, and Charles Pierce’s deliberately insulting sneers about “old white people” are what should be truly controversial, rather than anything King said in response.

Does “equality” mean that white people are required to ignore insults? This is the same distorted idea of “social justice” that feminists exploit to claim that they are victims of oppression. Rich girls who attend elite colleges are constantly shrieking about “male privilege” and demanding “safe spaces” to protect them against “microaggressions.”

The whole world must be tilted to one side to accommodate this victim mentality, and it’s the same way with race. Because nobody is ever allowed to say anything bad about any group other than white people, therefore everybody takes turns slagging white people (e.g., “The white race is the cancer of human history,” to quote Susan Sontag) as if no white person in the world ever did anything useful. Yet if anyone ever objects to this slander, as Congressman King did, suddenly it’s a huge controversy.

Just remember, there are 5 A’s in “RAAAAACISM!”





 

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63 Responses to “#RNCinCLE Facts Are RAAAAACIST!”

  1. Adobe_Walls
    July 20th, 2016 @ 7:30 pm

    Any rational discussion of civilization begins with the premise that White people particularly White, men have contributed the most to civilization period, full stop. Any rational discussion of civilization begins with the further premise that Western Civilization is by far the greatest, waist head and shoulders above all others. Oh sure there have been some other passable civilizations that don’t trace their roots to Western Civilization but none survive save those which came into contact with Western Civilization. Because we helped fix those civilizations they survive and a few actually do well. Whenever anyone attempts to discuss civilization without being willing to stipulate the aforementioned premises it’s because they’re an ignoramus, a communist or a dangerous lunatic. At that moment the conversation becomes irrational and pointless.

  2. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    July 20th, 2016 @ 7:42 pm

    I did not know this was an issue, but since Western Civilization is based out of Europe (mostly) and the vast majority of people there were white(ish), well it is what it is.

    It is those Neanderthal genes you have (I am proud of my Auroch genes).

  3. MikeT53
    July 20th, 2016 @ 8:22 pm

    Well said!

  4. Jeanette Victoria ?????????
    July 20th, 2016 @ 9:43 pm

    Further it is white CHRISTIAN men that brought us Western Civilization.

  5. CrustyB
    July 20th, 2016 @ 11:30 pm

    When I point out the hypocrisy and racism of anti-white remarks by liberals, they often defend themselves by saying “But it’s true.” If I point out that, in 5,000 years of recorded human history, untouched black culture hasn’t developed a written language, built anything above one story tall, or made a single advancement in medicine, is it racist or is it simply true?

  6. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 1:20 am

    OK, maybe you see this as trivial Walls, but most men throughout Western Civilization had the helpmate that God promised them at their side. And while scrubbing a dude’s shorts, cooking his gruel, keeping his household and rearing his progeny may not seem as “sexy” or contributive as having one’s name associated historically to some cool invention, I argue that most of these men would not have accomplished as much as they did without their God-created partner.

    In fact, without the civilizing influence of women, you guys would’ve killed each other off millenia ago, and then how would today’s feminists ever have been born…oh…wait…

    Edit: And another thing. Who’s to say how many inventions came about due to the direct influence of women? For example:

    “I feel like I’m 14 months pregnant and I have to pee every 15 minutes! I’m tired of traipsing to the outhouse all night. Can’t you make something in that lab of yours that I can sit on in the house, and that also rinses itself when I’m done?”

    Or:

    “I’m sick of dragging your pants down to the river to pound the skid marks out of them with rocks and lye soap! Can’t you make something that would do that for me? If you did, I’d be more in the mood to potentially have more children for you, wink wink, nudge nudge.”

    Indeed, would our host have become the man he is today without the influence of Mrs. TOM? I’m going to say no.

  7. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 1:32 am

    You know, in no privileged white kid’s school ever, were white people exclusively singled out in terms of contributions.

    Even hundreds of years ago, when I was in skool, everyone knew who George Washington Carver and Harriet Tubman were, for two of many examples. And everybody knew that the Chinese invented fireworks and the abacus.

    The difference was, important contributions were discussed, and if the contributor was white, well, that’s just the way the fact cookie crumbles. And nobody was forced to worship the pedophilic contributions of Harvey Milk, either.

    It’s not white people’s fault that Thomas Crapper invented the ballcock for flush toilets instead of Ahmed Mohammed. Ahmed could’ve done it, but he didn’t, did he?

  8. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 1:36 am

    Your facts are raaaaacist, patriarch. Your rationality and logic are incoherent, because I say so. And if you disagree, you are a rape apologist. Don’t they teach you anything in privilege school, cracker?

  9. Joe Joe
    July 21st, 2016 @ 1:40 am

    I am going to agree with you here.

  10. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 2:41 am

    You’ll probably be the only one. =)

  11. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 2:45 am

    Funny how Jesus’ influence over His followers seemed to have beneficial outcomes, huh? Who’da seen that coming, amirite? Not your evil “fan club”, that’s for sure.

  12. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 3:42 am

    “18,512 Dollars”? Nothing Engrishy about that.

  13. Daniel Freeman
    July 21st, 2016 @ 5:06 am

    I don’t know if it was so direct, but I believe that a people’s civilization is essentially a love letter from its men to its women. “Look at what we made for you! Is it not beautiful?”

  14. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 6:20 am

    Well, Daniel, who has time or inclination to build without a support structure? But I agree…I like that you called it a love letter. That’s very meaningful. And I think that clean underwear, dinner on the table and scads of well-behaved kids is a love letter in the other direction. =)

  15. NeoWayland
    July 21st, 2016 @ 8:16 am

    Pardon, but humans borrow what works.

    There’s nothing that ties that to skin color or a particular belief system.

    We like to claim credit even though our specific tribe or bloodline may not have had much to do with things.

    Just as one very obvious example, Christianity originated with Semitic peoples, not “whites.”

  16. Jeanette Victoria ?????????
    July 21st, 2016 @ 8:50 am

    Have you looked at “touched” Black culture? With the exception of the Ethiopia (who are are also a mix of white and Semitic) there is no such thing as a competent non-corrupt Black government; it simply doesn’t exist. Just another “HateFact!”

  17. Jeanette Victoria ?????????
    July 21st, 2016 @ 8:51 am

    And I agree and I’m only a Half-Cracker

  18. marcus tullius cicero
    July 21st, 2016 @ 10:40 am

    …Whitey had enough with lies and abuse and they are going to shoot back!

  19. Greg
    July 21st, 2016 @ 11:10 am

    Apparently, everyone has a McLaren except me…

  20. Greg
    July 21st, 2016 @ 11:14 am

    Please. These crackers never even invented the fucking WHEEL.

  21. Jeanette Victoria ?????????
    July 21st, 2016 @ 1:33 pm

    LOL I’m a McMillian

  22. Quartermaster
    July 21st, 2016 @ 2:59 pm

    On this blog, most probably do, they just don’t post that agreement.

  23. Joe Joe
    July 21st, 2016 @ 3:11 pm

    “Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ 5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?”

    Matthew 19:4

  24. slp
    July 21st, 2016 @ 3:46 pm

    What ethnocentric BS.

    China had a highly developed civilization 5,000 years ago.

  25. dance...dancetotheradio
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:05 pm

    Jerusalem.

  26. daialanye
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:06 pm

    You needn’t be pale to be Caucasian. Europeans, North Africans, Semites, Indians (East) and others are all Caucasoid, regardless of skin color. In fact, “whiteness” seems merely to be a Caucasoid adaptation for peoples who live in cloudy northern climates.

    Thus not only Christianity but Judaism, Islam and Zoroastrianism all seem to have originated among Caucasoid peoples, not to mention many far stranger supernatural beliefs.

    But somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 A D—give or take a few centuries—something occurred that put European civilization on a faster track than, say, East Asian. Figure out what it was and why, and you’ll deserve an honorary doctorate in history.

  27. dance...dancetotheradio
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:08 pm

    Ahmed couldn’t have done it.
    His religion forbids the scientific method because his god is a capricious bastard.

  28. dance...dancetotheradio
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:09 pm

    And what did they do with it?

  29. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:21 pm

    Well, I suppose if you want to get technical about it. =)

  30. dance...dancetotheradio
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:22 pm

    What does your avatar mean?

  31. DeadMessenger
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:27 pm

    Good one.

    And, moreover, the word for oneness in the Genesis form of that scripture is transliterated “echad” and is the same word used to describe the oneness of the trinity in Deuteronomy 6:4. I think this is why Jesus stresses its importance, and why the family unit is so powerful that Satan wishes to destroy it.

  32. Quartermaster
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:37 pm

    Blacks are guilty as original sin when it comes to cultural appropriation. Such things as:

    TV
    DVDs
    Movies
    Electricity
    Aircraft
    Medicine
    Refrigeration and air conditioning
    Automobiles
    Railroads
    paved highways
    central heat and air
    carpet
    Walmart
    rule of law

    The list is nearly endless, but you get my drift.

  33. Quartermaster
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:38 pm

    Some other things I forgot on my list of cultural appropriation above was hamburgers, prime rib and Rib Eye

  34. Quartermaster
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:41 pm

    It’s strange hearing a rockified version of that old Brit song.

  35. dance...dancetotheradio
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:43 pm

    I sing it to myself at work.

  36. Matthew W
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:52 pm

    Ahhhhhhh. On vacation at OBX and feel fantastic in missing every single minute of trump-a-paloza

  37. Dash Riprock
    July 21st, 2016 @ 4:58 pm

    “I argue that most of these men would not have accomplished as much as they did without their God-created partner.” DeadMessenger.

    Milo Yiannopoulos in a recent interview (The Bolt Report on Milo’s YouTube) made the observation that homosexuals are over-represented when it comes to great achievements. Perhaps women and family actually holds men back.

  38. robcrawford2
    July 21st, 2016 @ 5:22 pm

    Yes, but we’re talking about WESTERN civilization here.

    Western civilization owes very, very little to the Chinese. Silk… gunpowder — but not guns… the periodic waves of invaders from the Asian steppes…

  39. IckyD
    July 21st, 2016 @ 6:06 pm

    It’s time to stop being worried about the predictable bias from the MSM; from now on everyone should just tell these “journalists” to STFU and walk away from them.

    Stop rewarding their betrayals.

  40. Quartermaster
    July 21st, 2016 @ 7:42 pm

    The Protestant Reformation. It’s not even hard, and that dividing line is quite obvious

  41. NeoWayland
    July 21st, 2016 @ 8:07 pm

    Good song. I think the first time I heard it was in Chariots of Fire. Now that I’ve heard it, I like this version.

    Doesn’t change my point though.

  42. Adobe_Walls
    July 21st, 2016 @ 8:19 pm

    Western Civilization isn’t superior to all others because it was created by white people and you’re correct about the semitic ( generally considered caucasian) roots of Western Civilization, Western Civilization is superior to all others because it’s superior to all others. It’s entirely plausible that any number of races in the right time and place, subject to the same influences and history would have developed an equally as great or even superior civilization. But the fact is that didn’t happen.

  43. NeoWayland
    July 21st, 2016 @ 8:28 pm

    Do you know how many cultures and nations Western Civilization borrowed from? Syncretism, it’s not just for religion.

    It’s not necessary to claim WestCiv as “white.” It’s just necessary to say it’s a collection of extraordinarily proven good ideas that have worked time and time again.

    Claim it as “white” and you’re invoking tribalism and rousing people’s natural defenses. Claim it as “white” and you’re giving permission to join in a very patronizing way.

    Invite people to join because they can make it better works with more people.

  44. Jeanette Victoria ?????????
    July 21st, 2016 @ 9:41 pm

    Isn’t that what is called White man’s burden

  45. DeadMessenger
    July 22nd, 2016 @ 3:39 am

    Milo argues a lot of things. He needs to name names and define words, such as “great,” and name the achievements. Then we can have a conversation about it.

  46. slp
    July 22nd, 2016 @ 4:21 am

    Noodles

  47. CaptDMO
    July 22nd, 2016 @ 7:12 am

    White Privilege? Mansplaining? The Bell Curve?
    “No brag. Just fact.”
    Walter Brennan, “The Guns of Will Sonnet”
    Wisdom? Meh…unintentionally from the mouths of babes.
    “The Usual Suspects” ploy works best on Dunning-Kreuger sophomores that subsequently garner “credentials”, bestowed by the Cabinet of President Dwayne (Nuffin) Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, porn star and five-time ultimate smackdown wrestling champion!!!!

  48. CaptDMO
    July 22nd, 2016 @ 7:19 am

    Yes, but you see, once the heavy lifting is done, ….once the grain is IN the silos, once the fire is OUT….
    Stone Soup.

  49. CaptDMO
    July 22nd, 2016 @ 7:23 am

    Perhaps “OK…OK…will you shut the &%#! NOW!”?
    SEE: The Fisherman’s Wife.

  50. Adobe_Walls
    July 22nd, 2016 @ 3:49 pm

    I don’t care who wants to join or not. Most proggies are white and they hold civilization in contemp. F**k’em.