This Green and Pleasant Land
episode 184
UK people, your comments about what’s going on in your country are especially welcome.
-The United Kingdom has gone full George Orwell. The prime minister, chiefs of police, and the Crown Prosecution Service are arresting people for thought crime. They're arresting them for posting "innacurate" information on their own Facebook pages. The caliphate is almost here.
-The battle of the sexes is worse than at any time in living memory, perhaps worse than at any point in history. How did we get so out of balance? Why do so many women continue to claim they're oppressed by "misogynist men" when it is men who lose their reputations and livelihood for not buckling down to women's demands?
-Potpourri du Moquerie! Featuring Kam-Kam, corpse brides, and they/thems at the Olympics.
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Liked the way you told the UK government to piss off. Need more to do same.
I was in the seventh grade when the federal government mandated integration of the schools. Where I lived, that meant blacks were bused in. Throughout junior high and high school, my teachers would lecture us about the injustice of prejudice against someone because of the color of their skin. I was just a kid, but it made sense to me.
Now the definition of racism has expanded to mean any negative observation about any individual of another race or the race itself. It doesn’t matter whether the observation is true. Worse, now only white people can be racists.
I don’t know how whites decided to brainwash so many other whites to hate themselves. For the record, the British stopped the global slave trade. In America, 350k whites died to end slavery. In the entire history of the world, when else has one race in such large numbers given their lives to free another race?
In America, 16 states and five territories had no slaves, per the 1860 census. Even in the states that made up the confederacy, 76 percent of the households had no slaves. Of the 31 million people who lived in the US, only about one in thirty lived in a household with slaves. After the Civil War, nearly 30 million Europeans immigrated to the US. They and their off spring never owned slaves.
The the vast majority of the 60 million hispanics who have immigrated to America are not descendants of slave owners.
Why is everyone guilty of a crime their ancestors never committed? Are people with native American ancestors all guilty of cannibalism because of that practice by the Aztecs?
I am tired of the disrespect, discrimination, and violence my people are subjected to. We are far from perfect, but I am proud of our achievements in science and the arts.
And no, I don’t feel the least bit guilty.