the government cannot mandate or regulate social behavior or morality. --- nor can the religious.
the good news! as Americans become more secular the religious will lose political power and influence. On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:12:50 AM UTC-5, KeithInTampa wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>>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. 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