White people are finding it
"difficult to adjust" to becoming a minority, goes the premise of a
new AP history textbook – with the implication that this reflects some kind of
character defect. Responding to this, conservative writers have
generally denied the claim, sometimes calling
it a "Marxist lie." But a different point should
be made.
Imagine that a history book presented European colonization of
North America by asserting, with the same character-defect implication, that
Indians found it "difficult to adjust" to becoming a
minority. Would people be left scratching their
heads? Might this even be called offensive? I think the
only response really necessary would be "duh."
So a question for libs: Can you
cite for me one group, in all of history, that was happy about becoming a
minority in what had been its homeland? Just one. I'll be
waiting.
Did the Ainus, the Japanese islands' original inhabitants, jump
for joy when being overrun and say, "Yay, now we can become a
minority! Maybe we'll even be subsumed!" (which did happen, for
the most part)?
Did the Formosan aborigines cheer when the Chinese began
outnumbering them and exclaim, "Yippee! Perhaps one day we'll
be just two percent of this island's inhabitants" (which they are now)?
Did the population of Byzantine North Africa, faced with
seventh-century Muslim invasion, declare, "Oh, joyous
times! Maybe we can look forward to the day when these lands are
entirely Arab and Muslim!" (which came to pass)?
We could go on forever. European history alone is
replete with tribes – Alamanni, Franks, Angles, Vandals, Gepids, Burgundians,
Lombards, etc. – that no longer exist as distinct peoples.
Now, I always fancied myself as having a keen grasp of man's nature,
but maybe I'm out of touch. Perhaps all these groups really did make
merry over coming minority status or, even, exult at possible extinguishment. I've
never heard of such a case, though.
Why would a group not be alarmed at the
prospect of being reduced to minority status? Leftists themselves
never tire of stressing how minorities have ever been persecuted;
"progressive" histories are narratives of minority struggle against
majority oppression (though liberals love impugning the West on this score,
they do sometimes speak of the same phenomenon occurring elsewhere).
As usual, the reality is
precisely the opposite of what leftists claim: sleepwalking into cultural and
demographic irrelevancy, there has never been a group less concerned about
movement toward minority status than whites.
This is partially explainable by the fact that there has never
before been a civilization as just as the West. For example, whites
probably weren't the first to practice slavery.
But they certainly were the first to end it.
Whites might not have been the first to violate human rights.
They are, however, the only reason we even talk about such
violation – because they birthed our whole modern concept of human rights to
begin with.
The West is unique. There simply has never
been a civilization that has secured so much prosperity and so many rights for
all its citizens, including minorities. In fact, it now often
subordinates majority well-being to minority whim (e.g., that of the sexual
"devolutionaries"). Thus, you truly might see no reason to
fear becoming a minority if the modern West is your only frame of reference.
Yet this is an area where we actually should listen to the left
and be mindful of their warnings about minorities' historical
plight. If whites were more concerned about being reduced to
minority status, their nations – gradually losing their Western character due
to multiculturalism and the influx of unassimilable, non-Western foreigners –
wouldn't be so imperiled (though our growing immorality would still plague us).
The reality expressed in
this article eludes most because of conditioning: the double standard, the
prejudice, is ingrained. Whites
are simultaneously portrayed as uniquely inhuman and something more than human,
in that they're supposed to be above normal human concerns (desire to retain
one's own culture, etc.). They're cast as singularly oppressive for
exhibiting the same moral failings as every other group, such as having
practiced slavery, but as strikingly unexceptional despite taking unprecedented
steps to mitigate those moral failings. They're condemned as
"cultural appropriators" merely for using
foreigners' food recipes but given no credit for birthing a recipe for
civilizational success copied the world over (which is why Western technology
and economic practices are ubiquitous).
Lamentably,
though, whites are uniquely successful in another way as well. Those
most effectively peddling the anti-white propaganda – and most efficiently
destroying the West – are white themselves.
Whoever guessed
that modern Westerners' perhaps final triumph would be reaching the very
heights of self-flagellation?
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