Re: Intellectual Racism(Why Not Admit The Bell Curve Rings True?)

From: VtSkier (VtSkier_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:42:29 -0500

Rob Duncan wrote:
> "Les Cargill" <lNOcargill@cfl.Arr.com> wrote in message
> news:9YeMd.14821$JO2.14334@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>
>>Rob Duncan wrote:
>>
>>><srprozak@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:1107237814.369692.12290@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't see what part of nationalism requires us to discuss other
>>>>races. We care about our own, and we want to be only with our own, as
>>>>that's what is required for us to have our ethnoculture intact. I don't
>>>>even want to talk about black people, and not from disrespect for them,
>>>>but simply because for me, culture and ethnicity are important and thus
>>>>I am 100% focused toward my own. If this attitude had been prevalent,
>>>>not only would the grotesque history of slavery not have occurred, but
>>>>race-mixing would have never been even considered.
>>>>All IMHO, of course.
>>>
>>>
>>>Perhaps this is the first time youve learned this... but racism isnt the
>>>reason for slavery. ALL cultures have ALWAYS had slavery. ALL, ALWAYS.
>>>Racism played no part in it. Although Christian abolitionists managed to
>>>convince Lincoln to end it. "Racism" was invented by the buyers, slave
>>>traders, and owners of that era.
>>>
>>>
>>>Rob
>>
>>No.
>>
>>Racism was invented in reaction to the horrendous practices
>>that evolved after slavery ended in the U.S.
>>
>>These practices were based on a bunch of phrenologists
>>extrapolating Dawrin's theory well beyond the breaking point,
>>to rationalize the exploitation of the freed slaves.
>>
>>"Racism" as a concept was developed as the flimsy and
>>pernicious justifications for Klanism, Birchism and
>>Jim Crow were stripped away, layer by layer.
>>
>>But it was not until the Holocaust that there was
>>universal, undeniable and incontrovertible evidence
>>of just how far it could go.
>>
>>--
>>Les Cargill
>
>
> No. Slave traders started to decry the humanity of the owned slave, long
> before the war started, in attempts to stave off the moral outrage that one
> man had a right to own another. It was christianity that brought slavery to
> an end in America. Nothing else. You can argue amongst yourselves on just
> who it was who supported slavery the most.
>
>
> Rob
>
>
Harrumph! Christianity indeed. I think you'll find
that the strongest abolitionists were good old New
England Unitarians. Their belief in a Christian God
has always been suspect. I think you'll find the
American slave owners were good God-fearing
Christians to a man. At least they said they were.

By the way, I thought this was a backcountry/
outdoorsy kind of newsgroup.

VtSkier

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