Tito Purdue #racist

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Yes, but then I am a racist, and have no fear of that word. I hope to see a resurgence of racism, scientific and otherwise, that will prevent the homogenization of the world and salvage the very special assets that have allowed Caucasians, and Caucasians only, to sustain high level civilizations over the last 500 years.
I have never understood the current prejudice against racism, a wise attitude that applies quality control over who is, or is not, allowed to benefit from a society constructed by white people.

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@Passerby

Actually, minor nitpick because you're otherwise mostly correct, but Japan A) was actually pretty backwards for most of history, and B) literally had no influence at all on the West, which basically didn't even know Japan existed until... what, the 16th Century, when some Portuguese merchants en route to China accidentally ended up in the Japanese Islands?

A lot of people don't realize this, I guess because of anime, but for most of history until... what, the Meiji Era? Japan was just some isolated, backwards, xenophobic islands out at the edge of the world. I know it's a minor thing, but it's just so common; people just vastly overestimating Japan's historical power, influence and significance, I guess either because they're confusing Japan with China (which actually is ancient and historically extremely advanced and at least vaguely known about by pre-colonial Westerners), or possibly just because of weeabooism.

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@Passerby

But the thing is, even before the Edo period when they basically went into isolationist stasis, they were still consistently pretty backwards compared to, say, China. Hell, Japan was just getting out of the Stone Age around 500-300 BCE, and any sort of even vaguely unified Japanese kingdom wasn't even a thing until around 250-300 CE, at earliest. And, again, no one in Europe but the absolute wisest scholars even knew the Japanese islands existed before those 16th Century Portuguese merchants accidentally ended up there en route to China.

There were a (very small) few mentions of Japan by Islamic scholars, but even those were vague and fantastical and most likely just based on stories they'd heard by Chinese merchants, but the Japanese never made a habit of going further west than Korea or coastal China AFAIK, and there is literally no mention of Japan in any European text that I know of before the 16th Century or so.

I mean, yeah, Japan's all modern and advanced and relevant to the West now, but that's a very recent thing.

Honestly, Persia, having long been known by the West and having actually contributed a good deal to Western culture, would be a much better example than a country that literally no one in the West even knew existed until a few hundred years ago. Just sayin'.

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This white issue is completely stupid. All races have a rabble at the bottom and a minority of very smart men and women at the top. Even Edward Gibbon wasn't a fan of pure equality and many passages in Gibbon are a brilliant summary of many positions which are today, well, unfashionable. Gibbon recognised the problem with race mixing, state mixing, barbarian mixing.. You get the picture.

Anyway, the problem here is that Tito Purdue isn't one of the elect and so he embarrasses himself with the ridiculous praise to racism. His ancestors were probably white slaves like my ancestors and your ancestors.

Now on to the civilisation issue. Jared Diamond is completely wrong when he argues that the Sudanese or the Congolese are just as clever as the Indo Europeans. All races had genius', but the very top of the pyramid, the John Von Neumam, the Einstein, the Maxwell, Newton, Bach, all those guys were European.

Please look at electricity? We see Japan and Hong Kong, awash with electricity, and it does look like there was a Japanese James Clark Maxwell and Japanese Faraday. It looks like the Japanese invented or discovered electricity, agreed? But it is an illusion. The conquest of electricity wasn't achieved in different parts of the planes, neck and neck, as it where.

So this isn't a race issue. Like I said, all races have a rabble at the bottom. Yes you have higher mathematics in India and higher mathematics in China. Yes the Chinese had factories and great technology before the Europeans. But the very very tip of genius, the Henri Poincare's, the Tesla's, are missing from those races.

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