White Supremacy

No. 2,548

What exactly is “white supremacy”?  Has it anything to do with race? Has the BLM any grounds for making the accusation that whites have suppressed blacks  because of their “innate” racisim?

Like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

“RACISM”

The Virtue of Selfishness,  

 Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage — the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.

Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. 

“RACISM”

The Virtue of Selfishness, 

To judge by Rand’s definition, the BLM is guilty or racism, not the liberal whites who willingly raise their hands in confession and kneel to black thugs in mass absolution and deference for their  “crimes” against blacks, as can be seen in many pictures. How  many people are billing to abase themselves before the BLM extortionists? Too many who are ignorant and clueless about the blackmail being foisted on them.  

White supremacy is based on the premise that Western civilization is innately superior to the cultures of other nations. The term is bandied about as though its meaning was self-evident and not open for discussion or doubt.

It may well be, but why? All the political and social values that comprise that civilization and make it possible, reason, logic, and their ancillary, philosophic allies, happen to arise mainly from the Greco-Roman culture of thousands of years ago. That culture was mostly “white.” Western concepts of freedom and liberty did not originate in Timbuktu, or in Bagdad, Egypt, Bora Bora or Islam.. Western civilization has been distinctively “white.” But why?  Did the climate contribute to the development of Western concepts?  Or at least encourage their development, by being conducive to calm reflection and studied ponderance?. Were Caucasians in the northern Mediterranean Innately predisposed to philosophy, and science?

I don’t think so. I have not encountered an essay that delves in any depth into the subject of why our civilization owes its existence to mainly “white” accomplishments.

Kyle Smith penned an interesting and revealing essay about the white “guilt” inculcated in many whites by the exhortations of black extortionists, and emphasized that the white “guilt” is a cult.

. CAry, n.c., June 7. Amidst nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, a black man and woman are seated on a park bench while a white woman wearing a sweatshirt that reads “LOVE” takes to her megaphone. “We repent on behalf of, uh, Caucasian people,” she says. A small crowd of white people comes to kneel before the two seated black folks, who are co-pastors of a local church. Some of the kneelers wash the feet of the black people. A white man with an English accent solemnly intones, “It’s our honor to stand here on behalf of all white people, . . . repenting, Lord, for our aggression, Lord, repenting for our pride, for thinking that we are better, that we are above.”

Kyle Smith further observes: Anti-racism is the most critical element of a broader new Woke Orthodoxy whose other elements include environmental apocalypticism, feminism, and a severing of sexual identity from genetic indicators.

“There is more dogmatism in this ideology than in most of contemporary American Catholicism,” writes the Catholic columnist Andrew Sullivan. “And more intolerance. Question any significant part of this, and your moral integrity as a human being is called into question.”

The BLM wants to punish whites for their alleged racism of the past, or of their ancestors, and elevate black supremacy with the destruction of ‘”white” society, together with the wholesale obliteration of a civilization. And  of capitalism..And of  freedom, and freedom of speech.

I find the concept of “white supremacy” invalid and distracting , diversionary and a stalking horse. It is itself a racist term, because it ascribes the actions and policies of the ancestors of one group to heinous consequences of another. It is not “white” supremacy that the BLM wants to counter and defeat and wring some justice or compensation from whites. . It is the supremacy of the mind, of its capacity to think, and to reason. The BLM wants to swap "white" supremacy for its own Marxist brand.

The capacity to think is an attribute shared by men of all races. Why our culture is based on the policies of our ancestors – who happen to have been white – may be an accident of climate or geography. It is the subject of a possible work in culture anthropology.