2020-05-26 - Veritas liberabit vos (response to jynx)
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Discovered today that my response to tfurrows was utterly
disgusting, and that it portrayed the white race as the root of all
evil.
Worth pointing out, the phrase "Whitey on the Moon" isn't mine, it
belongs to Gill Scott-Heron. I'd direct the complaint in his
direction, but seeing as the man has been dead these past ten
years, I'd imagine he's past caring.
As to myself, I used Scott-Heron's poem to illustrate a point; that
the Exploration of Space and the Apollo Program in particular were
incredibly expensive projects undertaken at a time when economic
inequality was running rampant in the United States. Scott-Heron's
experience of that inequality was as a black man living in that
country; he wrote his poem as a expiation of that experience, and
its lessons are still valid today.
Reading the voluminous and pustulent screed, I am perplexed at a
number of points, but will take just a few for further examination,
in particular the idea that I said anything at all about "holding
back other races" or "But they [meaning white people] have the
power."
I never said either of those things. My personal political and
economic philosophies don't admit to holding such beliefs. I've
never stated that the average working stiff is the *opponent* in
anything. The struggle is against the billionaire kleptocrat class
who derive their power from the exploitation of the masses and
their enablers.
That does not mean, however, that my personal praxis allows me to
overlook bullshit when its piled ten foot high and steaming. To
quote from the diatribe:
> As 8% of the world, we are the global minority. Our [white]
> homelands (the lands in which we are the *indigenous* peoples)
> are being invaded, our numbers drop continually.
I hardly know where to begin with this crock of shit. First of all,
I *love* the claim that "white" people are 8% of the population of
the earth. Given that most accounting of the planet's demography
places Caucasian numbers at something approximating 16-20% of the
total, that means there's a whole load of people being left out in
this particular accounting. I can take a few guesses at who, by the
way; I'd imagine the very white populations of Central and South
America are being cut as "below par" or "not properly white".
I'm also wondering which white homelands are being invaded? Given
the fact that (with a few small populations aside, like the Irish)
almost all colonial / invasion activity since the Reconquista has
been carried out _by_ White Europeans _of_ Non-White Native
Populations, I'm really curious which Indigenuous White People have
been decimated by disease, starvation and simple mass slaughter.
After all, fair's fair.
Given that, I'm desperately curious to know: what are the "White
Homeland Nations"?
> If you are white, stop your self loathing. If you are not, then
> your subversive bullshit is even more unnerving, and is what I
> would consider to be evil.
So, depending on the colour of my skin, the same conduct can either
be excused -or- categorised as evil? You know, there's a word for
that type of thinking, don't you?
> I fully expect this person [me!] to come back, predictably, and
> call me a *racist*.
Lets see, gotta pull out the old checklist here.
- Looks like a duck? Check.
- Swims like a duck? Check.
- Quacks like a duck? Check.
Yup, you're a fucking racist.
What's more, you wrote that at the end of your crappy racist screed
*because* you *know* you're a racist. Me calling you racist was
inevitable, not because of any perfidy on my part, but because you
are.
I am sorry you're out of work, I am sorry that you took shit from
other kids when you were a kid. None of that excuses the hateful
shit you've written in your post. You say "Fuck you"; I say "I pity
you". There's no excuse for the type of world which spits out the
type of rage- and hate-filled person you've so clearly become. I
sincerely hope you find the support and the help you so clearly
need, and I hope you can listen to the angels of your better nature
rather than the demons of division and anger.
