Racism

"Racism" as an idea has come under heavy criticism in this blog. Its just another example of people not thinking at all.

Quite a few races have people who think they are superior: Jews and Whites being the best examples. But "being better" is just nonsense in general. It all depends what metric you use. Some races on average are faster, taller, more intelligent etc but who cares anyway.

The real issue of race comes down to territory. And this is where the nonsense really kicks off.

So they say that all people came from Africa. Some races want to believe they are different and have their own origins. It doesn't really matter, the point is people have migrated over time. The Chinese say never die in the village you were born. We move.

The point becomes problematic when people start to "belong" and be "defined" by a place. In the UK we have the ridiculous situation of lots of people who are born in UK, who are British who would join the army and fight for their country, take part in Olympic games under the British flag and yet call themselves African or Indian or Chinese. How can someone who calls England their home be Chinese? Its actually impossible. What does it mean?

Now the real nonsense starts. They may say "I look Chinese." What! You look like a country? They mean the people from this country look like this. Which means even some Chinese think they are not from England and then quite rightly the English say well why not go home? Its not a nasty question its just a fact. Someone who thinks they are "Chinese" belongs in China. Now they may say I want to be British in which case why this "I am Chinese" stuff, just forget about China it far way and irrelevant to you.

So they may have the habit of eating with chop sticks while the broad custom in UK is to use a knife and fork. Well just see how that goes. Pointless trying to buy chop sticks in a UK supermarket, the person who wants chopsticks is just going to have to get knife and fork. Not difficult. Now they may really be accustomed to chop sticks and perhaps start up a trade in chop sticks. It won't do very well not may people use them. Perhaps they will start a massive advertising campaign to change UK customs. But then they will face the same resistance that they have to using a knife and fork but it will be larger and in reverse. Its easier just to use knife and fork. After all that is what all UK people have to learn to do. Now its possible that UK customs will change to chop stick but it takes centuries for things like this to happen. For the immigrant its easier to change themselves, after all they do live in a different country now no point in pretending they do not. So what is the point of talking out China it makes no sense if they want to live in UK.

To put that another way an immigrant who DOES NOT want to change needs to recognise the other half of this that the communities of that country are NOT going to accept them with EQUAL FORCE. Its a give and take situation. Why, the locals will argue, should we change to accept this person if they will not change to accept us. Newton's 3rd Law of motion, and we are talking about people's motion here. And once the locals of any country start to see a resistant people turning up who do not care for their customs and ways of life then you are going to see the spread of hostility. And when people turn up who are obsessed with their own countries and identify with them, it will only encourage the locals to become obsessed with their country and identity more strongly with it. In UK the local people are normally blamed with racism, but actually the immigrants must be EQUALLY racist. SO what is called "racism" actually starts with immigrants not making the transition to their new country and trying to hold on their old identity. This fuels the locals to do the same and division and distrust starts. There is a calculus of human psychology here no-one and everyone is to blame.

But then you get the nomadic people like the Bedouin, Gypsies or Jews who have no land. For true nomads they have no fixed location or identity from the land, their tribe is within. The Jews claim to be wandering like Moses but really they have formed territories before but for whatever reason they have always been enslaved or invaded. And G-d promised them the land of Israel which seems to have been a place in the Bible. Everything would be fine, but the Jews it seems are a bit two faced. On one hand they say they have no desire for physical land, but on the other they have Zionism. I think Anti-Jews have been primarily motivated by a fear of Zionism. And this morphed into Anti-Communism which is essentially the same. The fear from people who have a land is that the Jews (or anyone) will undermine their country and society and take it over. This is exactly what the Americans thought of Communism and its an idea that is identical to National Socialism. The Russian Revolution was closely linked to Jewish communities in Russia. Marx was a Jew. Now quite where you draw the line between a reasonable fear of sedition and treachery and actual racial prejudice is difficult. But Zionism in the 19th and 20th Century certainly did nothing to help the Jewish cause. Which is ironic since now The Holocaust is used to justify Zionism, despite Zionism starting decades before Nazism ever existed.

So there is a mess. People make no sense. No one wants to think about it. Everyone else is to blame. And as a result nothing really improves and everyone is confused. I suppose just through sheer necessity all people will one day start to actually think about this subject, rather than just use it to leverage power against other races like currently happens.

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So what is the solution? if I do some thinking. There are a few options:

(1) People are not allowed to identify with countries. This means that there are no English, Chinese, Indians, Africans. No Black or White. Everyone must treat each other as human beings and equals. Picking out ethnic regional features becomes a hate crime. So an African calling themselves African or Black is actually a hate crime because it implies they are different from someone who is White and English. And once these divisions occur then people are inclined to not see each other as equals. An African Black is more likely to feel affinity for another African Black and less for an White English. That is a hate crime when based upon ethnic regional differences. It doesn't mean we have to like everyone, but if you like someone just because they share your ethnic features or come from your country that is pure hate of others.

(2) This seems a shame. People do have identity with their places of origin, or their ethnic tribes and characteristics. In UK we have the MOBO awards which celebrate music of Black origin. This is entirely Racist as it excludes music of White origin on pure racial grounds. But it seems harsh to ban the MOBO awards. But it does then mean we needs a MOWO awards that celebrates music of White Origin. And it means that England is celebrated as a White country and people who are not White in the UK know that they are immigrants from countries like China and India and Africa. I believe this is really what everyone wants. Blacks love to celebrate their Blackness and Whites love to celebrate their Whiteness. But as we have seen in history this can lead to problems. England is a White country and Black are immigrants. And it is quite right that many Blacks actually feel more affinity for Africa than they do UK. So what they really feel in their heart is that Africa is home. So when a White person says "Go Home" they know perfectly well what it means, it means listen to your heart. The mistake the White person may make is to think that all Black people feel strong affinity for Africa. But this is the mistake that MOBO awards make that plenty of Black people make White music and your skin colour actually has nothing to do with the music you make or like. Soul music is often thought by Blacks to be Black music but what nonsense is this. Music can't have a colour and anyone can learn any music. "Blacks have rhythm" is actually a racist thing to say, but many Blacks themselves effectively believe and promote this racial stereotype. Its going to be a long and tough struggle when everyone is as racist as everyone else. Hard for a Black to appeal to "racism" when they to their core are as racist as the next person. "Racism" is nonsense there is no such thing. If we want to freedom to respect racial and ethnic differences them immigrants must also acknowledge that they are immigrants in a country that does things differently. If something is Black and African then something is White and English. And if you live in England then you live in a White country. There are two sides to everything.

So in summary there are 2 ways to go about this. (1) is to focus on equality and ban the promotion of racial and ethnic differences. This means MOBO Awards get banned. Music is just music and everyone can appreciate everyone's music without reference to anything ethnic or racial. The music of England is just the music of the people in England it is no longer African or Welsh or Classical. But the moment people want to appeal to ethnicity or region then unfortunately White England becomes a feature too and immigrants become different from their mother country. If they are happy to accept that they are foreigners with a different culture from another place then this makes sense, but the moment that people from other countries and cultures want to someone think that this is more important than the country and culture they live in then there is going to be obvious friction. Why the local people will argue should be accept you if you will not accept us. I think this is essentially the problem the Jews have. They think its fine to move to a country and just set up little Judah without any reference to the land in which they settle. But the local people will say if you do not have any respect or regard for and our ways of life then why should we respect Judah?

This is actually an act of war. When an invading people seek to bulldoze the local people out of the way and just replace them with their own world view they will meet extremely strong armed resistance. This is war. Normally when you immigrate to a country you engage in a complex interaction with the local people which changes you and them. Everyone plays the game, everyone respects everyone, everyone is interested in everyone, everyone cooperates. But the moment an immigrant groups refuses to change or interact then they will be repelled. Again if you won't change then why should we. So the resistance the Jews always experience is really just  reflection of the intensity and stubbornness of their own identity. Its been such a problem of the centuries that the only solution the Zionists can think of is just to isolate themselves in a country and kick out everyone else. Not an unfamiliar solution if we look at what the Nazis tried to do.

So really the only way forward is for everyone to have a bit more respect for everyone else. Not cry "racism" the first time anyone stereotypes you negatively. If everyone who thinks they've experienced racism is honest they will realise that this just reflects their own strong attachment to their own identity and their secret rejection of other people. If you reject other people, they will reject you. You may think its harmless to lock yourself away in some community but that rejection of other people is the seed from which your persecution will come. It's quite logical. You reject other people, they will reject you. A community is a complex thing requiring give and take.

I'm not sure the current climate here in UK is really improving things. All I can see is people becoming ever more obsessed about their racial and ethnic identity. One day this is going to extend to the White English majority and when they start making programs about Whites and the English I think the immigrants are going to start to feel very disempowered and regret their obsession with their difference.