If you are a white student in college, you doubtless hear daily that white people are evil, the principal cause of everything wrong with the world. Whiteness is bad, white people are bad. We are to blame for everything.
If you believe this, you are being gamed. What you are being told is nonsense. If you have the intelligence and self-respect to think for yourself, ask:
“What have other races and ethnic groups accomplished in the world compared to what we white people have?”
This question will be shocking to you because you have been carefully programmed not to think such things. But ask. I think you will find that the groups who complain the most have accomplished the least. Check for yourself.
A white man’s stick hut. We began building these things in 1137.
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Look around you. Can you find anything with a moving part that was not invented by whites? Anything electronic? Cars, telephones, computers, aircraft, antibiotics, on and on–all sprang from the minds of white people. You are not supposed to say such things, and could be run out of a university for it–but ask yourself, if you have the courage: Is it true? Do not think that because things are commonplace or easy to use that they are not products of fields of extraordinary difficulty.
The Hubble Space Telescope. Twenty-five hundred years of phenomenally complex math, physics, electronics, optics, and chemistry went into the Hubble. It is entirely a white man’s show. Nobody else has come close. Your professors will not want you to think this. They will not want you to think. But you have a mind. Use it.
Look around your university. Who do you see taking the hard subjects–math, chemistry, physics, engineering, philosophy, computer science? Whites and Asians…right? Are they the kind of people who complain constantly about White Privilege? You may notice a pattern here: Those who can, do. The rest bitch and moan.
How about your own classes? You are not blind. If you think for yourself, you can see who the smart ones are, and who are those getting a free ride. Usually, a free ride at your expense. Your professors will not want you to notice this either. The question is whether you have been so profoundly brainwashed that you cannot see the obvious.
Being very young, you will probably have little idea of the vast body of knowledge, won over millenia, behind all the things you take for granted. At your age, I didn’t either. It takes years to get a handle on things. It will be harder for you because your universities will discourage you from looking around you. But glance at the very partial list below (I paste from an ancient column of mine) to get an idea of what the white race has done over the centuries. You will never have heard of many of these things. And that is curious. While your nose is being rubbed into the virtues, often real, sometimes imagined, of other groups, your own race is seldom motioned except to revile it.
Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective geometry. Differential geometry. Calculus: Limits, continuity, differentiation, integration. Physical chemistry. Organic chemistry. Biochemistry. Classical mechanics. The indeterminacy principle. The wave equation. The Parthenon. The Anabasis. Air conditioning. Number theory. Romanesque architecture. Gothic architecture. Information theory. Entropy. Enthalpy. Every symphony ever written. Pierre Auguste Renoir. The twelve-tone scale. The mathematics behind it, twelfth root of two and all that. S-p hybrid bonding orbitals. The Bohr-Sommerfeld atom. The purine-pyrimidine structure of the DNA ladder. Single-sideband radio. All other radio. Dentistry. The internal-combustion engine. Turbojets. Turbofans. Doppler beam-sharpening. Penicillin. Airplanes. Surgery. The mammogram. The Pill. The condom. Polio vaccine. The integrated circuit. The computer. Football. Computational fluid dynamics. Tensors. The Constitution. Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Homer, Hesiod. Glass. Rubber. Nylon. Skyscrapers. The piano. The harpsichord. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, that’s nerve gas, and maybe we didn’t really need it.) Silicone. The automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes. The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et cetera at great length.
If you talk about these things on campus, you will be called a “white supremacist.” This is silly. But calling you a racist is an effective way of making you shut up. Do you want to be supreme over anyone? I do not. Yet other races are proud of their achievements. Why should you not be? Ask where they would be without electricity, sterile water, telephones and–well, just about everything.
You hear from your professors that white people were guilty of colonization, slavery, and oppression. This is true. What your professors will not point out is that such behavior was, and is, universal. Human beings are a sorry species, given to murder, torture, genocide, thievery, looting, conquest, and slavery. This has been, and is, true of Africans, American Indians, Latin Americans, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Japanese, Chinese, and Europeans.
The Larrge Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator at CERN, in Switzerland, a massive instrument for research in subatomic physics. It is one of the greatest and most challenging projects of humanity. The Japanese could do this if they wanted to badly enough and soon, perhaps, the Chinese. They didn’t. The technology is a white man’s show, starting from Athens 2500 years ago. Are you sure you should be ashamed of this?
You might reasonably be proud of these things. Any other race would be. Your people invented virtually the entire modern world. But that is not too important. The important thing is understanding that intellectual advance comes from some groups and not others. This may not seem fair, and you are not supposed to notice it, much less talk about it. Yet it is obvious. You might prefer that it not be true, but it is true.
Think of the above as a white man’s cave paintings.
The current hostility on campus to white people is stupid. The human race faces many serious problems. Trying to cripple the group most likely to solve them is good neither for you, the United States, nor the world. We need a cure for cancer. For reasons involving science that you have probably not heard of, we are getting close. If I were cancer these days, I believe I would go into hiding.
When some team pulls the cancer rabbit out of the hat, it will very likely be a team of white people. The second best guess, and an increasingly good bet, is the Chinese. Third? Japanese or Koreans, but his is not likely. After them, nobody is in the running.
Recognizing the phenomenal achievements of your own race is no reason for arrogance. Arrogance usually betrays inner doubt. The successful do not need it. No, success does not justify you in looking down on others. It does suggest that you need not allow yourself to be scorned. You, as a member of way-and-gone the most successful and creative race and culture the planet has seen, should not put up with it. Don’t brag about our achievements. But know of them..
As a man of appalling age, I have lived in Thailand, Taiwan, Mexico, Vietnam, and Cambodia, traveled in a great many other countries, and both like and respect their peoples. They are not stupid. May they flourish. And yet for whatever reason–the reasons are not clear–they have not approached the accomplishments of the whiter race. There you have it.
It is chiefly in the United States that those who can’t, haven’t, and aren’t likely to, constantly attack those who can and have. Note that while they rail and fume and grouse, they depend utterly on a world created by the people about whom they rail and grouse. To them you might reasonably say, “Come back and talk to me when you have done something worth talking about.” A great silence would follow.
If America doesn’t get rid of Affirmative Action and return to being a Meritocracy, it will become as backwards as deepest darkest Africa.
Want to rid yourself of black friends? Just show them this article.
I am getting a bit tired of the worn trope of “mud hut vs. Gothic cathedral”.
A hut is a home. Compare it to a teepee, a yurt, a Cape Cod or a log cabin, but not to a work of architecture.
Domiciles are a form of nest, cathedrals are works of art. It would be better to compare the cathedral to nothing since Africans have yet to come up with architecture, but their homes are in every way as efficient and utile for their use of locally available materials and innate function as a New England salt box and in many ways superior to a particle board, soul crushing, cookie cutter condos of suburbia which resemble human Habitrails.
Just sayin’.
“since Africans have yet to come up with architecture”. That’s the whole point.
Good points. Also the dudes living in yurts conquered the dudes living amidst architecture whether military or otherwise.
I’m cool with down votes, but it would help me out if someone could articulate where I am mistaken.
You are mistaken because America is the best ever, Americans live in the best possible way ever and there can be no arguments made.
Also, many of us have had our souls crushed by being surrounded by particle board and gypsum 24 hours a day, yet we have chosen to surround ourselves with particle board and gypsum and anyone who argues against particle board and gypsum hurts our brains and causes us to lash out.
Suburbia Rules!
ok…lets look modern day. How often have you been throw the southside of LA, riding the blue line and getting strange looks cause you are the only white person on board as the sheriffs board to check for tickets and simply pass you by (white privilege? lol) Any black neighborhood you traverse is almost entirely rundown, trash in the streets and have places that even the cops wont venture into. This isnt unique to LA, but in St Louis, Chicago (all I have traveled…sometimes a bit fearful) Sure white neighborhoods do exist that are trashed, but tell me a time you heard a white goal was to move into a black neighborhood because it would be safer? And now vice versa?
Those who dont live in these areas and have never been in them can easily voice opinions about what goes on and how they are, but spending years in them you find out how it generally works (and while there are those small numbers of outliers statistically) by and large this article is spot on.
And in regards to your hut analysis… how is that running and filtered water working? Sanitation?
Sure everyone could make something of a tent, but the point is that disease kills and runs rampant in those parts of the world because they still dont understand what diseases are or how they work…they even have trouble understanding that not all medicines are the same; this directly from a public health professor at university…
Really? And what African countries have you lived in?
Africans do not live in carefully constructed homes for a very good reason. In tribal societies the head man allocates what people own. If he fancies your home guess what happens. This kind of communism is on display across the world and the results are always the same-unproductive societies that are retarded in their progress, advancement, and risk taking.
This is another reason that where ever you go in Africa their cities resemble slums.
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In all fairness let’s give credit where credit is due.
A man of African descent invented Peanut Butter.
IT’S A RECIPE NOT AN INVENTION 😉
But yeah, they love to call you a “white supremacist” or whatever because in a lot of ways it’s objectively true and they don’t want you to realize that.
According to Wikipedia;
The use of peanuts dates to the Aztecs and Incas,[3][4] and peanut paste may have been used by the Aztecs as a toothache remedy in the first century of the Common Era (CE).[5][6]
Marcellus Gilmore Edson (1849 – 1940) of Montreal, Quebec (in Canada) was the first to patent peanut butter in 1884.[7] Edson’s cooled product had “a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment” according to his patent application which described a process of milling roasted peanuts until the peanuts reached “a fluid or semi-fluid state”. He mixed sugar into the paste to harden its consistency.
John Harvey Kellogg, known for his line of prepared breakfast cereals, was issued a patent for a “Process of Producing Alimentary Products” in 1898,[6][8] and used peanuts, although he boiled the peanuts rather than roasting them. Kellogg served peanut butter to the patients at his Battle Creek Sanitarium.[citation needed]
Early peanut-butter-making machines were developed by Joseph Lambert, who had worked at John Harvey Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitarium, and Dr. Ambrose Straub who obtained a patent for a peanut-butter-making machine in 1903.[6][9] “In 1922, chemist Joseph Rosefield invented a process for making smooth peanut butter that kept the oil from separating by using partially hydrogenated oil”; Rosefield “…licensed his invention to the company that created Peter Pan peanut butter” in 1928 and in “…1932 he began producing his own peanut butter under the name Skippy”.[6]
As the US National Peanut Board confirms, “Contrary to popular belief, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter.”[10] January 24 is National Peanut Butter Day in the United States.[11]
A white boy did it.
Damn brother. One alleged achievement and you make it vanish like a fart in the wind.
Blacks have made enormous strides in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and S. Africa after killing the white farmers and taking their land.
Indeed, and Jacob Zuma is encouraging and singing about machine gunning the Boers. And not a word from the liberal press about the genocide that is occurring there because, well because it is the result of their actions to let the savages rule.
Too bad we can’t listen to Obama telling us about the Muslin/Black accomplishments.
This article got me thinking about my engineering background. I have two engineering degrees, one from an inner city university in Chicago and one from a public university in the deep south. I cannot recall any minorities, other than Asians, in any of my engineering programs. Added to that is my MBA from a western public university where again, no minorities were anywhere in sight. Plus, I cannot recall stumbling across any minority engineers, other than Asians, in my decades of experience. In fact, the only black who has attended an engineering-related meeting I have held in the last ten years was an EEO compliance officer. Fancy that.
Now I’m not one to normally argue the race angle, but I must ask: WTF? Like Fred said, if whites are so bad, why are they the only ones doing the heavy lifting in engineering, science, and math?
My advise to college students is, if you are not in a STEM degree program, get out, you are totally wasting your money. Actually you are wasting my money since you are probably attending with a student loan. If you are in a STEM program, avoid the liberal arts parts of the campus. Treat them like the outside world in The Walking Dead. They are filled with zombies who only understand Negan’s bat.
Sounds like exactly what my sons did. They all attended the same State U and I never heard anything about PC crap. They treated college like a job: Show up on time, do what you’re supposed to do as well as you can do it, and move on when the job’s complete.
All three punch way above their weight class in their professions (comp sci and mech eng.) My middle son just earned his PE (at 28.) They may be “Millennials,” but they have excellent jobs, own houses, are married to nice girls and are raising families….just like we’re told is the right program.
Unfortunately, they have to drag along a growing ARMY of useless mouths to feed, people who never held jobs, whose parents never held jobs, who gripe about everything while they turn out useless, low-IQ copies of themselves like a crappy but fast photocopier.
Pay poor, stupid, useless people for being poor: GET MORE OF THEM.
Who was the moron who thought this would work?
It is working for the people who put it in place. Those who would rather reign in hell….
Trapped,
The US Govt has massively inflated college costs with the still-ongoing loan programs. And gov’t can’t manage or fix anything, ever. I would advise college kids, depending on what they want to do, to consider taking a some courses in their area of interest, then solicit certain companies/organizations to get an unpaid internship to gain experience and knowledge on-the-job. Their deal would establish at the start when they should expect to receive pay for their work.
Alternatively, high schoolers who aspire to University should look into going to college in Hungary, Poland or the Czech Republic. I have a feeling that tuition is much, much cheaper there. And Eastern Europe is beautiful and full of people who know the danger of Socialism/Leftism and who now value freedom more than people in our own country!!
I finally reached my limit sometime last year after hearing yet another story about the lack of potable water in Africa. Luckily I was in good company, because I almost reflexively yelled out “Dig until you hit water, and then don’t piss or shit in it!! Its that fucking simple!!!” And indeed, that is all that is required to establish and maintain a reliable water supply. Yet vast numbers of Africans can’t do it.
I spent some time in darkest Africa a few decades ago. One image vivid in my mind is arriving at a village, maybe 1-2,000 people, in the middle of nowhere, on the shores of a lake, and taking a walk down by the lake. Stepped over a large pipe, taking water up from the lake to the village. 50 yards further and I stepped over another, this one bringing sewage from the village down into the lake.
When I brought it up, people had no idea what I was talking about.
OMG What is the matter with all you racist people? Don’t you know Black is Beautiful? Don’t you know Black Lives Matter? Don’t you know our entire world of bread and circus is filled mostly with wonderful athletic, intelligent never hurt a fly black athletes? Shame on all of you!!! What else would you watch on TV or spend your white hard earned money on clothes and and other sport crap.
THE WHEEL, the inventing thereof
As easy as rolling a log ?
https://www.quora.com/Why-were-the-indigenous-peoples-of-the-Americas-not-able-to-invent-the-wheel
No comment necessary, IMO
SnowieGeorgie
End Affirmative Action Now!
End unequal treatment before the law, based on melanin content or “Spanish-sounding” surname!
DEPORT repeat violent offenders, don’t put them up in the crowbar motel. Institute a Bounty-System, whereby those deported after deportation for committing violent crimes can be turned in, dead or alive, by private citizens for payments based on a sliding scale of the crime(s) committed. We deport you, you show back up, you’re dead. No more “five-time-deportee Manuel Rodriguez, thrice convicted of rape….”
Publish complete statistics on violent crime, complete with race, nation of origin (if less than 4th generation US-born) and religion if Muslim. Let the PEOPLE make up their minds about with whom they want to share the streets, malls and neighborhoods.
Stop giving subsets of people a “pass” just because not all of their members are like that. If 5% of a breed of dogs was documented to be vicious, who in HELL would allow their kids to play near them? Just because NA(pitbulls)ALT doesn’t mean you should be FORCED by statute law to adopt pitbulls into your family.
Why don’t we actually ask the unaskable questions:
1) what percentage of black males with IQ’s below 85 end up convicted of violent crimes?
2) what percentage of Latino (Mestizo) males with IQ’s below 85 end up convicted of violent crimes?
3) what percentage of white males with IQ’s below 85 end up convicted of violent crimes?
We all know the answers. But “!Science!” can eliminate the doubters.
“As a man of appalling age, I have lived in Thailand, Taiwan, Mexico, Vietnam, and Cambodia, traveled in a great many other countries, and both like and respect their peoples. They are not stupid. May they flourish. And yet for whatever reason–the reasons are not clear–they have not approached the accomplishments of the whiter race. There you have it.”
I have pondered this question for sometime. After all, East Asians have average IQs of 105-110 that exceed the 100 average for northern Europeans yet they are not known for innovation and creativity. Charles Murray’s objective study of human achievement in the arts and sciences, from 800BC to 1950, has shown that over 95% of the major innovations and discoveries were achieved by the European people (“Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950” by Charles Murray). This is quite astounding to say the least. As to why East Asians with high average IQs have not achieved more is a subject of speculation. There is no question that East Asians have a hierarchical culture that stifles creativity which I have observed among graduate students while undertaking collaborative research in China and Japan. Another possibility is that since most of the innovative will come from high-IQ individuals at the upper extremity of the normative distribution curve, the shape of the curve in addition to average IQ is also important. A third possibility, which I personally favor, is that IQ is a very crude measure of total intelligence because it probably does not fully measure the creative spirit and the thirst for discovery that characterizes western man. And it is “man” because despite having an average IQ almost equal to males, females are not very creative as shown by the relatively insignificant contribution they have made to the sciences and arts. Clearly something else is going on here which I would argue is a genetic predisposition of innovation and creativity.
Two other books that I would recommend are: 1) IQ and the Wealth of Nations by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen; and 2) Why Race Matters by Michael Levin. The former shows a strong correlation between average IQ and per capita GDP whereas the latter shows how race impacts not just IQ but most attributes of different racial groups including crime rates and even our overall sense of morality.
I have long had a theory about this. In a word, it’s due to bureaucracy. Bureaucracies, and especially the Mandarin bureaucracy, prize standardization above all else. It makes it easier to manage — you don’t have to keep re-writing the rules. It made it easier to manage taxation if things were kept on an even, predictable keel. All this gave rise to the oriental saying that “the nail that sticks up, gets hammered down.”
This was generally the rule in most of the advanced civilizations, such as the Moghuls, the Persians, the Japanese, and even the Aztecs and Incas to some extent. Some sort of bureaucracy emerged to help the rulers manage things, and if its one thing bureaucrats like, it’s to not be surprised by change. So, change is right out, and creativity was suppressed unless the ruler sanctioned it. Which they seldom did.
So, such was generally the rule around the world — except in one corner: Europe. After Rome fell, what was left was a bunch of regional entities (tribes, initially) that were always at odds with each other: sometimes outright war, sometimes just economically. Today, we call this “competition.” And in a competitive environment, someone is always looking for an edge, a new angle. In time, these tribes and other groupings became states, which organized competition to new levels whether martial, economic, or philosophical/religious. Also, they weren’t afraid to steal someone else’s new idea, so the competition kept escalating. Thus, in a competitive environment, creativity pays off, especially when you introduce the notion that you can make a profit off a new idea. That supercharged the rate of change.
Thus, when the Europeans exploded outward in a frenzy of exploration, they had no competitors who could out-think and out-adapt them. Everyone else was stuck in the same old, same old mentality, and lacked the institutional flexibility to offer effective resistance.
And that’s why Europe came to rule the world.
And as a get-off-the-stage note, the creation of the European Union is an attempt to impose a Mandarin bureaucracy on a bunch of formerly squabbling nations. Have you seen anything really creative or cutting-edge since the EU came about?
What are the factors that have made the Caucasian race more successful in terms of technology and improved living?
One very intellegent person, whom I know, and much respect, theorizes that human memory is not only in the brain, but also in the DNA. Of course there is DNA in the brain also. He believes that the brain is like the CPU processor, and the DNA stores the remembrances. Thus there is some form of memory passed from generation to generation by the DNA.
In Africa, tribalism prevents much intermixing. The isolation of groups does not allow the broad based sharing of knowledge from tribe to tribe. DNA knowledge is not added to the DNA knowledge of other tribes.
Historically in Europe, and to some extent in Asia, there is much more intermixing of tribes and DNA. The memory, and knowledge, in the genes is shared on a much broader scale. Ideas add up. Life is improved for the many. After all, who would reject something that would improve their life. OK, so maybe some religious zealots might reject new ideas.
So if the DNA memory theory is true, the more the tribes mix, the more memory is passed.
We are all like our ancestors, going way back. It’s more than just what we learned while growing up. Studies of twins, who were separated at birth, show how much they are alike though they were reared in very different environs. It is evidence that the DNA has a lot to do with what we are like.
Now consider the Negro people who have lived in predominately Caucasian societies. After a few generations they have accumulated much knowledge in their DNA. They are more successful than their African cousins. The Africans, in Africa, who have been in contact with the European races are more knowledgeable than the isolated tribes of the interior; though there aren’t many isolated tribes left who haven’t encountered Caucasian influence.
Mixed race people, if studied, may provide some evidence for this theory.
It may show that the Caucasian race is not superior, but that because of the proclivity of Caucasian tribes to intermix, they spread knowledge better than other races; that other races are not incapable of this knowledge dissemination that improves human life.
The, so called, superiority of the Caucasians may be due to more to social tendencies than to being smarter. Then too, there are many other factors that come into the mix; environmental conditions, and available diet, among others. I believe it all comes down through the DNA.
Don’t let this encourage you to go out and mix the races. There are some very good reasons not to mix races that are too lengthy to discuss here. But do share knowledge. Use the good knowledge to improve human life.
Much of what you say is nonsense. If you look at an African working in the USA and compare and contrast his work ethnic, attitude and reliability to an American born black one realizes how wrong you are.
Diet doesn’t doesn’t explain why northern hemisphere peoples and Indians tend to have higher IQs than the people’s of the southern hemisphere. As for tribalism, what society didn’t start out as tribes?
You mean like the industrious Somalis in Minneapolis or Maine whom are sponging off the govmt?
I have a theory on that too. In Africa, the climate is relatively mild, whereas in Europe and Asia, it changes a lot throughout the year. So you have to become rather creative just to stay alive (stay warm, store food away for times of poorer hunting, etc.). But in Africa, the weather is always warm and food is plentiful. So you didn’t have to be as creative to just get by.
Thus, in Europe and Asia, those who learned to survive passed on their creativity to their offspring. Stupid people and slow learners were weeded out of the gene pool.
Serious question: what percentage of this “Caucasian” innovation is actually a product of jews?
These days I think it matters. Jews are quick to distance themselves from whites when it’s to their advantage, and to submerge themselves in whiteness when that’s to their advantage. An example is the vast overweighting of jews in faculty positions in elite universities in the US… they’re just whites there, that’s white privilege, not jew privilege.
Jewish IQ is higher than Caucasian, just as (some) East Asian is. What’s their contribution, outside usury?
Come to think of it, I cannot recall ever running across a Jewish engineer. Strange.
Me either. But many, many MD’s.
Is this the same Fred Reed that’s been shitting on white folk, writing tales of how asians will rule the world due to their higher average IQ, or how mestizos should populate the US because they’re beautiful and vibrant and work hard?
Did I miss the news in the last week that the Earth was sucked through a wormhole and now Trump is T-Hillary, Fred is pro-white, and Jews don’t play puppet-master?
OK, I admit it, the last one went too far, but WTF is going on?
Concussions from all da bombz?
The Hubble is NOT a good example of “White ingenuity”!
http://www.spacetelescope.org/about/history/aberration_problem/
But I generally agree with your point.
What seems to be overlooked in this article and comments is how the ‘grousers’ and great producers alike who now build and maintain these well thought out marvels are paid peanuts. While the non producers of all time, actors and politicians, reap rewards that are not even remotely commensurate with their contributions to society.
If they and their contributions were to disappear today the lights would still come on. The toilet would still flush. The car would still run. And the cathedrals and hadron collider would still be built and maintained. Come to think of it, this seems like a much better way to determine the value of ones contribution. And their compensation for it. Merit.
Too bad this is just more grousing on my part.