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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] Information war means using tools of media and internet to manipulate information. For example, to hear some folks tell it, calling white people out for being racist is in itself racist.... But that is exactly what America has been doing for 500 years. Blacks get enslaved and the answer is that they "deserved it" or "did it to themselves", so of course white society and the laws and systems they put into place don't count. Black folks go out to protest and fight for "civil rights" and of course white society says black folks are "acting up" and "asking for too much". As if being oppressed by systematic racial laws and codes is somehow a mere minor nuisance. When black folks rioted in the 60s, to hear white folks tell it, black folks just suddenly got violent and went off for no reason. For why would black folks be upset about being kept in poverty and in slums and subject to constant abuse from all sectors of society and the police? And when black academics point out the racism within white anthropology oh, its the black scholars who are racist.... As if black scholars have gone around the world putting people minding their own business into racial "camps" and then picking who should live and who should not based on said made up racial categories. And when these natives and other folks get up set of course its "their fault" because they were born in an inferior racial category. You know like this book: https://archive.org/details/americasraceprob00amer [QUOTE] THE CAUSES OF RACE SUPERIORITY. Annual address by Dr. Edward A. Ross, Professor of Sociology in the University of Nebraska. The superiorities that, at a given time, one people may display over other peoples, are not necessarily racial. Physical inferiorities that disappear as the peoples are equalized in diet and dwelling; mental inferiorities that disappear when the peoples are levelled up in respect to culture and means of education, are due not to race but to condition, not to blood but to surroundings. In accounting for disparities among peoples there are, in fact, two opposite errors into which we may fall. There is the equality fallacy inherited from the earlier thought of the last century, which belittles race differences and has a robust faith in the power of intercourse and school instruction to lift up a backward folk to the level of the best. Then there is the counter fallacy, grown up since Darwin, which exaggerates the race factor and regards the actual differences of peoples as hereditary and fixed. Just now the latter error is, perhaps, the more besetting. At a time when race is the watchword of the vulgar and when sciolists are pinning their faith to breed, we of all men ought to beware of it. We Americans w T ho have so often seen the children of underfed, stunted, scrub immigrants match the native American in brain and brawn, in wit and grit, ought to realize how much the superior effectiveness of the latter is due to social conditions. Keleti, from his investigations in Hungary, has come to the conclusion that in most of the communes there the people have less to eat than is necessary to live and work, the result being alcoholism, weakness, disease and early death. Atwater, on the other hand, has found that the average wageworker in New England consumes more food than health requires. What a host of consequences issue from this one primary contrast ! A generation ago, in the first enthusiasm over the marvels of heredity, we were taught that one race is monotheistic, another has an affinity for polytheism. One race is temperamentally aristocratic, while another is by instinct democratic. One race is innovating and radical, another is by nature conservative. But it is impossible to characterize races in respect to such large complex traits. A keener analysis connects these great historical contrasts with a number of slight specific differences in body or temperament. For example, four diverse traits of the greatest social importance, namely, progressiveness, the spirit of adventure, migrancy and the disposition to flock to cities, can be traced to a courageous confidence in the unknown coupled with the high plrysical tone that calls for action. Similarly, if we may believe Signor Ferrero, of two equally gifted races the one that is the less sensual will be inferior in aesthetic output, less apt to cross with lower types, more loyal to the idea of duty, better adapted to monotonous factory labor, and more inclined to the Protestant form of religion. It is only by establishing fixed, specific differences of this kind that we can hope to explain those grand race contrasts that enchant the historian. The first cause of race superiority to which I invite your attention is a physiological trait, namely, climatic adaptability . Just now it is a grave question whether the flourishing and teeming peoples of the North Temperate zone can provide outlets for their surplus population in the rich but undeveloped lands of the tropics. Their superiority, economic and military, over the peoples under the vertical sun is beyond cavil. But can they assert and profit by this superiority save by imposing on the natives of the tropics the odious and demoralizing servile relation? Can the white man work and multiply in the tropics, or will his role be limited to commercial and industrial exploitation at a safe distance by means of a changing, male contingent of soldiers, officials, business agents, planters and overseers? [/QUOTE]Same old game. Nothing new. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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