"Non people of colour"- now there's an awkward phrase to parse- certainly exist as a group. But I don't think they exist as the sort of group you imagine. There's no specifically "white" shared history of culture, not even on America, and certainly not on a global scale. The only common bond is white supremacy, and I take no particular pride in the fact that some of history's biggest bastards happened to share my deficiency in melanin.
See, you're doing it again. "History's biggest bastards" -- you seem to be not just interested in removing racism, but actively
putting down White people as a group. You've could have just as easily said "History's greatest inventors" or "History's greatest thinkers" or "History's greatest civilization builders" but instead you opted for the glass half-empty approach. I choose to take the glass half-full approach, because I believe that is a much healthier way to view oneself.
Whiteness, as a positive identity, is fundamentally reactionary. It is defined by investment in and enthusiasm for white supremacy, and white supremacy serves only to keep the working class divided and powerless. It's a cross-class identity, one which spuriously suggests that workers have more in common with white bosses than with black and brown workers- and there's no greater proof of that than Trump-boosters like yourself presenting a property mogul, the very image of a bourgeois parasite, as the saviour of the white working class.
And
I'm the paranoid one?
Yes, I've never denied that my views are reactionary. A reaction is absolutely necessary at this point in time, so I don't see what's so negative about that. What if I told you white identity wasn't some malicious conspiracy, but rather just a way to feel good about oneself? A reaction to all of the white-shaming that goes on in the modern Western world? An innocent desire to be around people that are similar to you?
What would it take to convince you that there is no conspiracy?
You aren't asking me to identify myself as "European", though, you're asking me to identify myself as "white". "Europe" is a region, one arbitrary set of lines drawn on the map, it doesn't carry any exclusive loyalties. "White" does. A person is white or they are not-white, at least according to people like you. You're in or you're out. It's a monolith, and I know better than to trust monoliths.
Mate it's literally the same thing. Most people understand "White" to mean "European". Your distinction also makes no sense. One is also either "European" or "not European". That's fundamental to any sort of categorization.
But you hit onto something when you say that people have a natural tendency to categorise the world around them. That is true. But that tendency is to create categories in accordance with the utility and significance of the thing being categorised for humans. Humans distinguished dogs and wolves, because that mattered, and they distinguished hunting dogs from herding dogs, because that mattered, but did not clearly distinguish Eurasian wolves from a Mongolian wolf because what difference did it make? Whales for centuries considered fish, because the characteristics of whales that were significant to human observers identified them with fish rather than with mammals. To highlight things such as their lack of gills or their skeletal structure is academic, comes from a different outlook, in which whales carry a different set of significances.
So my question is, what is the utility and significance of "white people"?
Well, nowadays, it seems to be useful as a scapegoat for SJWs. As a group to blame for the problems of the poor innocent "people of color". And it seems that the anti-White hostility is only getting worse the more "diversity" we are "culturally enriched" with. Just a few days ago the ACLU tweeted a photo with a blonde haired, white skinned baby, and were promptly accused of
white supremacy. And then ACLU apologized! It seems that white people themselves are becoming synonymous with white supremacy.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/23/aclu-apologizes-for-tweeting-photo-of-white-baby-with-u-s-flag/
The American Civil Liberties Union is doing damage control after Twitter leftists denounced the group for sharing a picture of a white baby holding an American flag.
In a tweet sent Wednesday afternoon, the ACLU captioned a photo of a blonde-haired Caucasian child wearing a free speech onesie and waving a flag, “This is the future that ACLU members want.”
I mean we are reaching peak levels of anti-White hysteria. All over the country people are desecrating historical monuments to White people.
They are digging up the graves of Confederate soldiers. These are people's ancestors that fought and died at war! How much more disrespectful can you get?
A small Ohio town that
exhumed the bodies of Confederate soldiers and discarded their remains in a dirty lake has inspired Ohio Governor John Kasich to enact legislation allowing other cemeteries to do the same. He signed an executive order this morning waiving the protections granted to the graves and memorials of Confederate veterans in the state.
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In Delaware, Ohio, where the controversial “#exhumeconfederates” grave digging movement started last week when government officials sanctioned the exhumation of Confederate soldiers, it’s been reported that the skeletal remains of several bodies were used as props in public sex acts performed by a group of ANTIFA protesters camping on the property.
So, what are positive uses of "white people"? A sense of tribal belonging. A sense of family. A sense of a shared European heritage. I
care that there are other people that look like me. I don't want to be the only white guy around. I don't want to be blamed for stuff I had nothing to do with because of my race. I don't want my daughter being taught that she has "white privilege" in school while other kids are taught they are "oppressed" by her. I don't want her to grow up in a country where she is a hated minority, a country that her ancestors built.
In your own country it might not be this bad yet, but you are fast becoming a minority too. Maybe you tell yourself you don't care if Britain becomes an Islamic country, but I think deep down you know that it wouldn't be the same. So what are you going to do about that? Are you going to stand by and let it happen because you're afraid to be labelled "Xenophobic", or are you going to stand up and defend your culture and way of life? The clock is ticking fast,
you're already down to two-thirds of the babies.
Yes, I think that stamps are designed by committees of well-meaning manager-types, and do not reflect the nuances of Latin American identities.
My point is that they would not have used "European" instead of "Hispanic" because that would be considered "offensive". This is despite the fact that Hispanics come from a variety of backgrounds just like European Americans. There is a clear double standard at play, even as Hispanics become the majority in this country.
Where in Europe do you think Scotland is, can I check?
Ah. So you're only allowed to be racist against your own people?
Honestly, I tend to feel really uncomfortable in any groups that is more than 80% homogeneous, whether racially, politically, culturally, etc. That just seems unnatural. Groupthink is dangerous.
The fact that 99.9% of humans for 99.9% of history lived this way seems to suggest that it is entirely natural. The fact that despite our best efforts at forcing integration, people still live in relatively segregated neighborhoods. Even Blacks prefer to live amongst themselves, and neighborhoods routinely flip from Black to Hispanic. Inner city gangs, prisoners, kids at school lunch all segregate based on race. In every multi-racial societies there exists racial tension.
Cultures are always dynamic, never stagnant. Trying to preserve any specific cultural heritage only reduces it to a sick parody of itself.
There is a clear middle ground. What happened in America up until the 1960s was a series of gradual cultural changes. There was a period of heavy immigration around the turn of the 20th century, but people realized that it needed to be shut down to preserve their own culture and way of life and so they did. What is happening today not just in America, but almost all European countries, is total cultural and ethnic replacement. There's nothing virtuous about that.
