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Then there’s Number One father, to knot up some very multicultural intellectual knickers:
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“For instance, there has not been one slave trade, but three: an Arab, an African and a European. The first two were more enduring and trafficked more people than the western variant.”
The author forgets the long established slave trade among all the North American aboriginal peoples. Slavery was the basis of the economy on the West Coast of what is today British Columbia and slavery was the raison d’etre for war among Central and South American civilizations like the Aztecs.
The current political correctness that permeates society means that the truth of history cannot be told lest the holier than thou morality of current aboriginal leadership be diminished.
This means it is fine for aboriginals to claim entitlement to anything and everything and restitution for all crimes real, perceived and invented while making it impossible for them to be called out for perpetuating centuries of inhuman slavery against their enemies.
And the current political class provides cover for this crime of history.
If only we could have a Reconciliation Commission for the slave victims of British Columbia.
Bruckner says: “Nations should celebrate their heroes and victories while acknowledging their stains” and I can tell you exactly what those on the left will do, they will cite their “heroes” against RACISM, including such luminaries as Castro, Guevara, Mao, Chavez, Mugabe and lump them in with MLK, Mandela and Tutu. They are incapable of mentally wandering off the plantation of racism because it means HARD WORK, buckling down and doing what is right in YOUR OWN LIFE. The omnipresence of racism as an excuse is easy.
It amuses me how so many American blacks shucked their “slave” names and embraced Arabic sounding names to demonstrate they had dumped the plantation mentality and become Afrocentric. Arabs were and still are a major invasive slave taking force,under islamification, in Africa,
You’re right Fred, .There are stories of shipwrecked Japanese ending up as Slaves and in some cases, Marrying in to the tribe,There is a story of a British navy blacksmith, captured and enslaved to teach metal working although it may well have been a major step up after Royal Navy life.
Leftist white oppressor syndrome is a machination of leftist revisionist history. “Junk history” as it were. Another off-shoot of “junk science” which also permeates leftist dogma.
In my Dad’s day they’d say these western culture guilt people were just suckers for a sob story or an outright fable. These days I tend to concur with the author of the the book in citing them as masochists.
Another review here.
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“Always to blame
by Brian C. Anderson
A review of The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism by Pascal Bruckner,Steven Rendall
Shortly after taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama declared America’s need to “restore” good relations with Muslims, forging a new way forward “based on mutual interest and mutual respect.” Many critics, including the columnist Charles Krauthammer, read the president’s comments as an unwarranted apology for American actions in the struggle against Islamic radicalism. The United States was at least partly to blame for the Islamic world’s anger, Obama seemed to imply; the rage and threats of obliteration directed at Americans, the death-dealing terror—our actions must have provoked them. When President Obama later bowed before the Saudi King Abdullah (among other world leaders), it reinforced the impression: we needed to change our ways.
President Obama’s blame-us-not-them approach would come as no surprise to the French philosopher and novelist Pascal Bruckner: it is a mild form of the cultural masochism that the Left has often exhibited before modern democracy’s despisers. In a brilliant work from the mid-1980s, Tears of the White Man: Compassion as Contempt, Bruckner exploded the myths of “Third Worldism,” showing how Western intellectuals romanticized underdeveloped nations, whatever barbarities they committed, while pouring scorn on the basic decencies of democratic societies. In The Tyranny of Guilt, first published in France in 2006 and updated for the fine English translation by Steven Rendall, Bruckner provides a vigorous, powerfully written sequel.
The indisputable failure of “regimes thought to incarnate the new revolutionary Eden,” Bruckner notes, has resulted in a nihilistic turning inward by many Western intellectuals. “We hate ourselves much more than we love others,” he observes. “The malaise, ceasing to be supported by a political project, gnaws away at Western consciousness from within.” This remorse, almost completely disconnected from historical reality, “has become a dogma, a spiritual commodity, almost a form of currency.” Bruckner anatomizes the malaise with precision, condemns it as a “moral decay” sickening the West (Europe especially), and proposes an intellectual remedy.
The tyranny of guilt tightened its hold after September 11, as the democratic world’s encounter with Islamist fanaticism became unavoidable. As illustrative of the guilty mind, Bruckner quotes the philosopher Jacques Derrida seeking to erase any moral distinction between America and its terrorist attackers. “We are wrong to suppose too easily,” Derrida pronounced, “that all terrorism is voluntary, conscious, organized, deliberate, intentionally calculated: there are historical and political situations in which terror operates, so to speak, by itself, through the simple effect of an apparatus, through established power relationships, without anyone, any conscious subject, any person, being consciously aware of it or taking responsibility for it”—and as Derrida went on to make clear (or as clear as he could, given his hermetic prose), those apparatuses and power relations were the democratic institutions surrounding us. In sum, for Derrida, we’re all terrorists. “To one degree or another,” Bruckner sarcastically responds, “we sow death the way Monsieur Jourdain spoke prose, without knowing it!”
Bruckner examines case after case of such self-hatred, with most of his examples drawn from European debates, though American readers will recognize the pattern.” http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Always-to-blame-5338
Just a parenthetical note re: the Charlie Chan photo.
The Chinese are very specific in their words for relationships. Whereas any of my mother’s sisters are my “aunts” in English, in Chinese, they would differentiate, not only in age, but in which side of the family the relationship comes from. There is a different combination for “second aunt, mother’s side” than there is for “third aunt, father’s side”. And, with children, there is definitely “number one son”, “number two son”, “number one daughter”, etc. Simply by greeting someone, everyone in the room is immediately aware of the filial relationships.
“For instance, there has not been one slave trade, but three: an Arab, an African and a European. The first two were more enduring and trafficked more people than the western variant.”
The author forgets the long established slave trade among all the North American aboriginal peoples. Slavery was the basis of the economy on the West Coast of what is today British Columbia and slavery was the raison d’etre for war among Central and South American civilizations like the Aztecs.
The current political correctness that permeates society means that the truth of history cannot be told lest the holier than thou morality of current aboriginal leadership be diminished.
This means it is fine for aboriginals to claim entitlement to anything and everything and restitution for all crimes real, perceived and invented while making it impossible for them to be called out for perpetuating centuries of inhuman slavery against their enemies.
And the current political class provides cover for this crime of history.
If only we could have a Reconciliation Commission for the slave victims of British Columbia.
Bruckner says: “Nations should celebrate their heroes and victories while acknowledging their stains” and I can tell you exactly what those on the left will do, they will cite their “heroes” against RACISM, including such luminaries as Castro, Guevara, Mao, Chavez, Mugabe and lump them in with MLK, Mandela and Tutu. They are incapable of mentally wandering off the plantation of racism because it means HARD WORK, buckling down and doing what is right in YOUR OWN LIFE. The omnipresence of racism as an excuse is easy.
It amuses me how so many American blacks shucked their “slave” names and embraced Arabic sounding names to demonstrate they had dumped the plantation mentality and become Afrocentric. Arabs were and still are a major invasive slave taking force,under islamification, in Africa,
You’re right Fred, .There are stories of shipwrecked Japanese ending up as Slaves and in some cases, Marrying in to the tribe,There is a story of a British navy blacksmith, captured and enslaved to teach metal working although it may well have been a major step up after Royal Navy life.
Leftist white oppressor syndrome is a machination of leftist revisionist history. “Junk history” as it were. Another off-shoot of “junk science” which also permeates leftist dogma.
In my Dad’s day they’d say these western culture guilt people were just suckers for a sob story or an outright fable. These days I tend to concur with the author of the the book in citing them as masochists.
One picture is worth a thousand words…….
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/SlaveTrade/collection/large/Graphic340.JPG
Another review here.
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“Always to blame
by Brian C. Anderson
A review of The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism by Pascal Bruckner,Steven Rendall
Shortly after taking office in 2009, President Barack Obama declared America’s need to “restore” good relations with Muslims, forging a new way forward “based on mutual interest and mutual respect.” Many critics, including the columnist Charles Krauthammer, read the president’s comments as an unwarranted apology for American actions in the struggle against Islamic radicalism. The United States was at least partly to blame for the Islamic world’s anger, Obama seemed to imply; the rage and threats of obliteration directed at Americans, the death-dealing terror—our actions must have provoked them. When President Obama later bowed before the Saudi King Abdullah (among other world leaders), it reinforced the impression: we needed to change our ways.
President Obama’s blame-us-not-them approach would come as no surprise to the French philosopher and novelist Pascal Bruckner: it is a mild form of the cultural masochism that the Left has often exhibited before modern democracy’s despisers. In a brilliant work from the mid-1980s, Tears of the White Man: Compassion as Contempt, Bruckner exploded the myths of “Third Worldism,” showing how Western intellectuals romanticized underdeveloped nations, whatever barbarities they committed, while pouring scorn on the basic decencies of democratic societies. In The Tyranny of Guilt, first published in France in 2006 and updated for the fine English translation by Steven Rendall, Bruckner provides a vigorous, powerfully written sequel.
The indisputable failure of “regimes thought to incarnate the new revolutionary Eden,” Bruckner notes, has resulted in a nihilistic turning inward by many Western intellectuals. “We hate ourselves much more than we love others,” he observes. “The malaise, ceasing to be supported by a political project, gnaws away at Western consciousness from within.” This remorse, almost completely disconnected from historical reality, “has become a dogma, a spiritual commodity, almost a form of currency.” Bruckner anatomizes the malaise with precision, condemns it as a “moral decay” sickening the West (Europe especially), and proposes an intellectual remedy.
The tyranny of guilt tightened its hold after September 11, as the democratic world’s encounter with Islamist fanaticism became unavoidable. As illustrative of the guilty mind, Bruckner quotes the philosopher Jacques Derrida seeking to erase any moral distinction between America and its terrorist attackers. “We are wrong to suppose too easily,” Derrida pronounced, “that all terrorism is voluntary, conscious, organized, deliberate, intentionally calculated: there are historical and political situations in which terror operates, so to speak, by itself, through the simple effect of an apparatus, through established power relationships, without anyone, any conscious subject, any person, being consciously aware of it or taking responsibility for it”—and as Derrida went on to make clear (or as clear as he could, given his hermetic prose), those apparatuses and power relations were the democratic institutions surrounding us. In sum, for Derrida, we’re all terrorists. “To one degree or another,” Bruckner sarcastically responds, “we sow death the way Monsieur Jourdain spoke prose, without knowing it!”
Bruckner examines case after case of such self-hatred, with most of his examples drawn from European debates, though American readers will recognize the pattern.”
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Always-to-blame-5338
“I didn’t doit!”
Bart Simpson
Necessary enlightenment….OMHO………
http://www.ety.com/HRP/slavery/whiteslavery.htm
Thanks sasquatch, and this article on the BBC site by the same author:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_01.shtml
Just a parenthetical note re: the Charlie Chan photo.
The Chinese are very specific in their words for relationships. Whereas any of my mother’s sisters are my “aunts” in English, in Chinese, they would differentiate, not only in age, but in which side of the family the relationship comes from. There is a different combination for “second aunt, mother’s side” than there is for “third aunt, father’s side”. And, with children, there is definitely “number one son”, “number two son”, “number one daughter”, etc. Simply by greeting someone, everyone in the room is immediately aware of the filial relationships.