This is in response to
spyretto's
post in
Iran's Nuclear Facilities:
For one thing, I’m not even going to try to disprove your notion that the Jews control the global economy not only because it isn’t true, but even if it was true your argument in the “Iran’s Nuclear Facilities” thread isn’t completely false, I’ll admit that. In fact, I’ll even go so far as to say your post precisely maps the origin of the common stereotype that Jews control the world economy. I don’t agree that the stereotype is true, however this post is not meant to illustrate why believing this stereotype is bad/good, but rather why the stereotype is there in the first place and why that in itself is problematic.
Let's begin with some common stereotypes Black people have about White people in the States:
-Whites would deal with the devil were there a dollar in it
-Whites are neurotic and mentally weak and that the women especially are prone to insanity
-White men are sexual wimps. (This accounts in part for their cruelty and for the women’s proclivity to go insane)
-White children are spoiled
-Whites are so jaded, they can’t feel anything. That’s why they have to jump out of airplanes and climb mountains. And they just have to force themselves on every thing, every one, and every place
-Whites are sexually kinky, prone to perversions like incest, kiddie porn, and extreme masochism
The list goes on and on.
Some of it sounds just about ridiculous but others (you can’t help but feel) that they have a grain of truth in them just like some of the stereotypes you listed for Jews. But even if I were to post some articles here and there and provide photographic evidence that the person who wrote it, proving these stereotypes are true, is White just so I can declare to the world “I am not a racist,” would you believe all of them? Does that mean one White person represents every White person in the world, or would it help if I got a handful of more White people, perhaps if I referenced 50 White writers agreeing with the statements above, would that sway your opinion, would that sway anybody’s?
If so, why aren’t we hearing random Non-Whites making statements that because Bush is an asshole, every white person is. Or perhaps I should list every evil leader for the past hundred years; Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Milosevic, Rhodes, etc, etc.
Why is it that I constantly hear Jews are in control of the US because of people like Henry Kissinger and Paul Wolfowitz, or the top people in corporations?
Would it be better if it they were White people? Would I be hearing the same criticisms except this time applied to Whites?
Why is it that these White stereotypes aren’t universally known like the Jewish stereotypes, the Black ones, the Hispanic ones, the Asian ones, etc?
The way I see it is that it is meant to reinforce the notion that Whites are the standard and that everything else is just a mere deviation. The standard is that Whites control the world economy, the Security Council, and the fate of virtually every nation in the world because it is natural for Whites to do so. Never mind the fact that Whites do so at a grossly disproportionate ratio to the world’s population because it is only when other races rival the White monopoly on power then it becomes a problem. Only Jews can have disproportionate power, not Whites. And thus, a stereotype is born.
This doesn’t only apply to Jews. Black people, obviously, have felt the White scorn when they began rivaling White athleticism. Asians too when they rivaled White intellect, etc, etc…
You can see how these stereotypes have been formed.
I am not at all implying that all White people, therefore, are innately racist despite how I come off. Rather most are simply displaying something that is perfectly human. Enjoying all of the privileges that history has bestowed on them, White people are realizing that these privileges are slowly eroding due to the leveling of the playing field. There is more competition coming from other groups now that racial barriers are falling and White people aren’t getting things as easily as they used to, it’s a classic example of survival. Had this of happened to any other group of people, be it Black, Jew, Asian, Hispanic, or even Women the very same thing would happen.
Case in point; a couple of years ago a big issue in North America was the declining performance of boys in elementary schools. Writers were arguing that the structure of the classroom, sitting all day in class listening to the teacher, was restrictive to their learning abilities. They argued that the classroom should be more activity-oriented so that boys could learn with their hands. Of course, what they fail to mention was that fifty years ago it was girls that were being neglected, obviously there wasn’t any kind of uproar towards that. And the environment of the classroom, if anything, became more and more activity-oriented during those fifty years. What changed was that the playing field was being evened out; girls were no longer neglected and as a result simply performed better. It was only when girls and even women began challenging men’s monopoly in school and university campuses and later on into professional fields that the controversy began. Soon, campuses were “overpopulated” with women. Professional fields like Medicine and Law were accepting more and more female recruiters. But yet nobody complains when MBA schools still remains as virtually an all-boy’s club.
Another example; The rise of African immigrants and their success rate in the US has established some tension between the African community and the Black community. Africa bashing is becoming very common with Black-Americans.
So on and so forth.
So to get back to your point spyretto, I refuse to rebut your implication that Jews control the world’s economy because then that it would imply that I myself would find something wrong with that. It would imply that I would find it more comforting if White people were in control. And I don’t. That doesn’t mean I would settle for anybody other than a White person. It just means that I want a qualified person, who hopefully has good intentions and acts on them.
I don’t want to negate the fact that Jews aren’t self-interested in only Jewish affairs by stating how Jews were one of the most significant contributors to the Black civil rights movement in the 50’s and 60’s, that they willingly gave their lives being lynched along with Black people in the Southern States, that they were the first and only group in the States that lobbied for US intervention during Bosnian genocide. I don’t want to prove that Jews are angels or have to be angels to avoid stereotypes and that the only people that can be excused for not being angels are White people because that would be anti-White.
I want to point to people like Roy Cohn and Henry Kissinger and Paul Wolfowitz etc and say that they are superior assholes simply because they are and not because their Jewish heritage had something to do with it.
Just as I would to Bush, Hitler, Rhodes, etc.
PS: In case this has not been made clear before, I am not claiming anybody in here of being anti-semtic, including you
spyretto. I am merely refusing to conform to believing in any stereotypes mainstream society has taught me to believe in.