Race is an uncomfortable topic, and most of the time, we are best off not talking about it. So many things--many of them confounding--are associated with race, and the more we obsess about it, the more conflict we generate without making things better.
There are a lot of reasons for this, not the least of which is that, for historical and societal reasons, white people are, on average, more financially well off, commit fewer crimes, have more intact families, and their experience with economic and social discrimination is further back in history than is true of black people.
Add to those facts the reality that Europeans, since the invention of the scientific method and capitalism, have built a society that dominates the world economy, and we have arrived at a point where whites, and now Asians, who have adapted to Western ideas, are vastly more successful than people of other races.
Until recently, the result has been that the more successful cultures have looked down on the less successful, and associated things like skin color or even location with inherent inferiority. My instinct is to believe that the differences between regions and other social markers like crime have their roots in culture more than in inherent potential, and I certainly believe that in all practical matters there is no moral differences between the races. We are all God's children, with the capacity for good and evil.
But ever since the moral revolution in the mid-20th century, Westerners (and in this, I sense that Asians have not followed us into this abyss, but that is merely an impression) have been trying to atone for past sins by race-swapping their moral hierarchy. Rather than accepting that people of all races are morally equal, our cultural elite have wallowed in racial guilt and tried to rewrite history to make people of other races the good guys, the ones who achieve, and most of all, cast being white as a moral crime.
This leads to absurdities like this:
Go ahead and scoff, but I've survived dozens of swimming pool ass-grabbings by angry huge Teutonic ginger hausfraus https://t.co/jGTgPjs40L
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 3, 2025
Anybody who has followed the disaster caused by mass migration from "South Asia" to Europe knows that, along with hordes of unwelcome people, crime and social decay have exploded. Sexual and violent crimes are rampant, and the perpetrators are mostly from Muslim countries.
In 2023, only 17% of BART riders feel safe.
— Frank DeScushin (@FrankDeScushin) May 10, 2023
In 2017, BART officials covered-up crime on the trains to avoid “racist” stereotypes.
Avoiding race stereotypes and hurt feelings was prioritized over public safety and truth, a madness that has since grown and made cities less safe. https://t.co/swEYdly6rR pic.twitter.com/q0EzPZIZjy
This is an uncomfortable reality, so white people in Europe are race-swapping the criminals, just as in America, many police departments and prosecutors are collecting statistics that are juked by classifying minorities as "white." In San Francisco, the BART police quit releasing footage of crimes because, in their own words, doing so would further prejudice.
Just this week, four Syrian migrants were arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least nine underage girls, aged between 11 and 17, at the Barbarossabad swimming pool in Hesse.https://t.co/EBqS95UsJo…
— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) July 2, 2025
Two more Syrian men are being investigated for the assault of a…
The opposite phenomenon happens as well. Our cultural elites are busy race-swapping and sex swapping heroic characters. Jane Austen now has black characters, and English kings were black. I remember the fad of portraying Egyptian pharaohs as black, when in fact they were first North Africans and then Greeks.
The resemblance is uncanny. Yes, the last Yorkist king, the last Plantagenet king of a dynasty that lasted 330 years was an angry Black woman. I’m so tired of this. pic.twitter.com/tO7vqQdVmg
— Chrissy’s Pop Culture Corner (@realpopchrissy) July 3, 2025
Entire new histories are being invented to create a moral universe more satisfying to liberals. Rather than recognizing that cultural and historical contingencies have shaped the distribution of wealth and well-being at different times and places, new tales must be told to elevate some people and cultures and denigrate others.
Yes, the show *My Lady Jane* on Amazon Prime is real, released in 2024. It portrays King Edward VI as black, gay, and disabled in a fantastical reimagining of 16th-century England, based on YA novels. https://t.co/V1RSsktZMg
— White Men Are Stupid In Commercials (@StupidWhiteAds) May 24, 2025
Why did civilization apparently begin in the Middle East? The contingencies of location, culture, climate, and accident are probably. Why did the Roman Empire dominate Europe, the Middle East, and China in the Far East? Culture, location, and historical accidents are most likely.
Inventing new narratives doesn't create the better society we all want--one in which everybody has equal opportunities, justice, prosperity, and peace. More often than not, it does the opposite. We wind up misrepresenting reality, creating resentments, discouraging self-improvement, and dumbing down the very social institutions that allow everybody to achieve.
A reminder that 'Adolescence' claimed the victim on the right is the violent criminal element in British society. Despite overwhelmingly statistical evidence to the contrary. https://t.co/rmQ8kRTetA
— John Duffield (@jfwduffield) July 1, 2025
Recognizing that certain groups commit more crimes or have lower academic achievement doesn't harm people from those groups. Failing to do so leads to not addressing why that is happening. Dumping the SAT, or dumbing down curricula, doesn't help underachieving kids by fooling everybody into thinking they are doing well; helping them do well helps them.
Perhaps the best example of this is how we have undermined marriage and stable families by destigmatizing the self-destructive practices of sex without consequence, single parenthood, divorce, and even sloth. We destigmatize drug use through "harm reduction," and hand out money to people for having kids out of wedlock or failing to support themselves when they can.
In other words, we are inverting the values of what is good and bad. Is it any surprise that people are responding to the Narrative by becoming more self-destructive?
Looking reality in the eye isn't racist. Facing reality and finding ways to actually improve it helps everybody. If black kids are underachieving--they are--then we need to put in place policies to rebuild families and use what means we can in schools to instill the values that lead to success.
I don't think that blacks, or Middle Easterners, Latin Americans, or Russian Slavs are inherently inferior. But their cultures are self-destructive. Denigrating Western values harms us, harms them, and makes the world a worse place.
Sure, there is a lot to improve in our own culture. Self-criticism is a good thing.
But self-denigration? Nope.
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