As a "Genocidal Conservative"; I think this just goes to show that the government cannot mandate or regulate social behavior or morality. It's been tried and failed at each and every attempt.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > *"Herewith another and yet worse confession: I do not see, or care, why it > is thought my duty to like, or dislike, groups because of their race, > creed, color, sex, sexual aberration, or national origin. Nor do I think it > their duty to like me. I especially do not understand why the federal > government should decide with whom I ought to associate." * > *"So what?" * > *How do you like them apples? *By Fred Reed > April 22, 2014 > > I am puzzled as to why racism is thought to be a terrible thing, rather > than entirely natural and often reasonable, and why people allow themselves > to be brow-beaten about it. Maybe we should stop. Domestic tranquility > would follow in torrents. > > As nearly as I can tell, a racist is one who approves of rigorous > education, good English, civilized manners, minimal criminality, and > responsible parenthood, among other things. I am, then, a racist. I see no > reason to grovel about it. > > I decided long ago that if, while I was doing a radio interview, a > caller-in told me, “You a *racist!”* I would hesitate as if puzzled, and > say “…So what?” This would add immeasurably to the planetary supply of > stunned silence. The expectation is that anyone so charged will fall on his > knees and beg for mercy. It would be a lesser offense to be caught sexually > molesting autistic three-year-old girls while attending a Nazi torch-rally. > > Herewith another and yet worse confession: I do not see, or care, why it > is thought my duty to like, or dislike, groups because of their race, > creed, color, sex, sexual aberration, or national origin. Nor do I think it > their duty to like me. I especially do not understand why the federal > government should decide with whom I ought to associate. > > But back to “So what?” Among its charms is that there is no answer to it, > other than huffing and puffing and indignant expostulation. All of these > amuse me. Used frequently, “So what?”would shut up people who badly need to > shut up, or else force them to think. Not likely, as most apparently cannot. > > Let us, improbably, glance at reality. A characteristic of human groups is > that they do not like each other. The greater the difference between the > groups, the greater the dislike; the closer the contact between them, the > more open the friction. Note that before the advent of mass immigration, > Americans of whatever politics had no dislike of Hispanics. > > Thus separation increases the likelihood of amity. Is this not obvious? > The instinctive rancor between disparate groups accounts for most of the > world’s problems. Moslems and Christians dislike each other, Tamils and > Sinhalese, Cambodians and Vietnamese, blacks and whites, Americans and > Frenchmen, men and women, homosexuals and the normal and, as Tom Lehrer > famously sang, “…everybody hates the Jews.” > > Except that in America Jews are so assimilated that most of us don’t > remember to hate them. They aren’t different enough. I’ll have to make > myself a note. > > Humans like to be among their own kind. This can mean many things. It can > be political. In Washington, white liberals cheerlead for diversity while > spending their time exclusively with white liberals and execrating > Southerners, Jesus Creepers, genocidal conservatives (understood to mean > all conservatives), Catholics, racists, owners of guns, rednecks, and so > on. No dissenting voices are heard because, like conservatives, liberals > choose to be among their own. Similarly, if in any of Washington’s dives > you know that one person in a table of six has an IQ in excess 130, it is a > good bet that all do. It isn’t snobbery. Smart people enjoy the company of > smart people. Their own kind. So what? > > If left alone, people will naturally and peacefully form such associations > as seem to them desirable. If left alone. So what? > > The Chinese cluster together in China Towns because they want to be among > their own. So what? Jews have yeshivas because they want to preserve their > culture. So what? On campus, black students want separate fraternities and > dormitories. So what? When men can find a pretext for being among other > men, they do. So what? > > In all of this, I am a bit of an outlier, having lived among many cultures > and generally liked them. Some can do this. Yet as a white American of > European extraction, I too want to preserve my culture. This involves (or > did) respect for law, studiousness, the production of children within > marriage, self-reliance, honesty, sexual restraint, and so on. Another part > of my cultural package is the literature of Milne, Milton, Twain, > Galsworthy, Gibbon, and others at length. I want my children to read them > > However, I do not want to impose my values and culture on others. American > blacks for example are truly *African *Americans, and quite reasonably > may have as little interest in European history as I do in African. > Rationally this would argue for separate schools where each could study > what and as it chose. For reasons impenetrable to me, to suggest this is > thought worse than genocide. > > A reason for letting people associate as they choose is that, while groups > naturally do not like each other, they overlap in curious ways. Left to > themselves, people sort these matters out like water reaching its level. > When I lived in Washington I used to spend afternoons over a Bass and > several of its friends at the Cafe Asia, on Wilson Boulevard just across > Key Bridge into Virginia. The Asia was then staffed by Asian girlsMalays, > Chinese, Vietnamese, and a lovely Japanese woman who managed it. The > clientele ran to young white professionals. > > Their unanimous opinion held of these women by white men was highly > favorable. Why? Well, these young ladiesthey *were* ladies–were sleek, > pretty, classy, never toilet-mouthed, and smart. Smart: One was doing > graduate work in computer security, another was a wide-area network > engineer, a third had been unable to find work after a master’s in biochem, > and so was in dental school. > > Here we have an example of people, being* left alone*, deciding *for > themselves* who to hang out with. The young white professionals had > decided, probably not consciously, that the Asian women had enough in > common with us, and enough not in common but appealing, that we really > enjoyed them. > > Where is the fly in this ointment? I suppose we were racists, as we were > assuredly discriminating racially: We thought Malays pretty. The horror. No > doubt we were sinners all. > > Today of course we are federally admonished not to choose our own friends > and neighbors as if our lives were our own business. No. Instead we must > follow the social directives of the Potomac Soviet, whether anyone wants to > or not. Few do. In Washington, on the Hill, upper Connecticut, the inner > suburbs, the outer suburbs, everywhere, clubs and restaurants are either > almost perfectly white or perfectly black. Whites happily patronize Latin > American restaurants intended for the general trade, yet in mini-barrios > many venues tacitly are for browns only. So what? It is how people want > it. If freedom of association is racism, I am for it. > > So what? > > http://www.fredoneverything.net/LaudableRacism.shtml > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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