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[–] Gringoyim 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Fuck you, man. I'm trying to keep my "enlightened" tolerance over here.
I hate seeing shit like this. Stuff from different angles that all points to a deficiency that transcends time, place, or culture. Shit like finding out that African kids can't recognize their own reflection till they're like 6. Or that in the Congo they destroy their own roads so that they can extort travelers by charging to help them get their trucks out of the mud. Or that the Egyptians stereotyped Nubians as violent and lazy. (I also just now discovered that during their brief period of ruling Egypt (after taking it over by force), they revived the trend of building pyramids (only shittier), which hadn't even been a thing for 1000 years. Talk about adopting absurd pretensions). Or reading shit like OP, which which turns what I thought was an arbitrarily modern conceit into a centuries old truism. Narcissist, hedonist, irresponsible, and unable to anticipate the future. In a word: immaturity. Too much shit keeps pointing in that direction and it's pissing me off. I need Bebe's Kids to be a fucked up eddy in the current of culture, not a fucking milestone in black history.
There are a few things that keep me away from the blackpill though.
One, there are too many people of every other race who exhibit the same retardation. It's a marxist thing to believe that everything unequal is unfair, that everyone deserves everything, and whenever you don't get it it's because THE MAN is keeping you down. There are huge swaths of retarded white millennials who probably had hippie parents and based grandparents. The inability to comprehend personal responsibility certainly seems to be transmittable culturally and academically, and not hard wired.
Two, civil rights era black people. Have you seen those classy motherfuckers? Eloquently and peacefully standing up for themselves like gentlemen to protest mistreatment. Look at those sit-ins where the white dudes are the ones chimping out as a handful of black guys literally just sitting quietly at a counter. What the fuck happened to the guys like that? What happened in 1970 that turned black culture into a crab bucket with a pimp hat?
So yeah, that makes the two vanguards in the fight against racism Martin Luther King Jr and Vanilla Ice. Go figure.
Finally, more often than not, the variation within groups is a lot bigger than the variation between groups. The responsible and rational thing to do is judge people how they act as individuals. Whatever heuristic value you squeeze out of racism, for most things you have to go deeper anyways to make a defensible judgement. So what are you really getting from it?