JASON MILLER: White and Might Make Right

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Morality is in the Eye of the Oppressor

by JASON MILLER -- World News Trust

We of the privileged Caucasian* race have been dancing without paying for centuries. And the piper is seriously pissed.

Rudyard Kipling encouraged America's fledgling empire when he wrote The White Man’s Burden. However, by that time the United States had already committed genocide against the Native Americans, engulfed half of Mexico and turned Hawaii over to a handful of wealthy White plantation owners. White Americans were already "bearing the burden" of ruling those who were "half-devil and half-child."

In the early 20th Century, confidence in their moral superiority and Manifest Destiny spurred Americans to slaughter tens of thousands of civilians in the Philippines, prevent a sovereign nation from emerging in Cuba, and negate Puerto Rico the autonomy it had negotiated with Spain.

As one of the most brutal European imperialists, Spain played a significant role in the ongoing oppression of the Filipinos, Cubans and Puerto Ricans. When the United States defeated them in the Spanish-American War, they essentially sold the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico to their new masters in Washington.

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[msongs]

1. thank goodness people of color have never done this kinda thing eh?

your attempt to attribute this to race is only valid if no other races have ever conquered and killed or done any of the same things.

the characterstics you describe are applicable to all human beings.

The Hawaiians were very good at mass slaughter of each other long before the first christian came along. and mexico stole its lands from someone else, as did the "native" americans.

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[Igel]

2. Superior technology = greater opportunities to do harm.

Says squat about motivation or proclivities.

Indo-Aryan invasion of N. Indian was no picnic--just whites with better technology than the natives.

The Arab despoiling of the ME and North Africa (into N. India and beyond), a more Nitzschean will to power versus a divided and weakened set of states, later aided by better technology; it's what enabled the trivial Roman trade in black slaves to become a widespread ongoing economic activity. But presumably they're "Caucasians", so it still involved white slave-traders. Only in the 20th century did all Arabs stop being "white".

The defeat of the E. Slavs by the Horde (after being weakened, of course, by repeated slaver raids in the south of Kievan Rus' by ... Arabs and Turks) ... greater will, and possibly better tech.

The Bantu expansion, and the near extinction of the San ... better technology.

The Han expansion in China ... and elsewhere ... greater will, and probably better tech.

The Polynesian expansion across the Pacific ... finally one that entailed no serious genocide ... better tech.

BTW, the "Caucasian" business ... so late 19th century. Not really used before that--"white race consciousness" just didn't exist as such--and not a popular idea these days.

Sigh ... assuming that the lack of melanin somehow confers distinctive moral and intellectual traits on a variety of humans ... so 19th century, so out-dated.

[classysassy]

3. Race

when will we learn to live together instead of bringing up past mistakes or the evil that men have done?.