Uplifting

Ever since the Civil War, some White people have devoted themselves to uplifting the Black race in America. Sometimes it's official government policy, as it was during Reconstruction, on and off later, until the Sixties, when it became permanent government policy. And during all this, even before the Civil War, White individuals and organizations have worked feverishly to uplift Blacks in every way conceivable. All this uplifting consisted of education, especially literacy education, the inculcation of moral codes intended to lead to prosperity and stability, and just about anything any White person ever thought would be good for Blacks. Another technique has been to give things to Blacks that they can't earn for themselves, in hopes that such awards would kick-start their own ambition and determination to one day be able to earn such things for themselves, without the necessity of handouts. A more subtle form of this, called "Affirmative Action," wherein Blacks are given "extra points" for being Black, in order to qualify for admission to educational institutions, grants, and jobs they wouldn't qualify for otherwise.

Unfortunately, all that doesn't seem to have been enough. American Blacks may well be less literate on average now than they were in 1865.

In the following guest post, Armin Hale discusses the idea of uplifting others, and how best to do it:
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There is no inherent problem in talking about uplifting others. And if they *genuinely* can be uplifted this will probably be worth doing. As I pointed out in a previous post, even though it would necessarily reduce the *relative* status of the dominant group (in this case white males) it may be worth it if it reduces envy, tension, conflict, and strife.

But the social justice version of this is parasitic and unsustainable.

They start by PRESUMING that all people are actually equal (which is a lie.)


Then they PRESUME (that every example of inequality is explicable by "oppression" (which is also a lie.)

Then they presume that by badgering, shaming, and bullying, they can induce whites, or males, to transfer wealth, privilege, and power to underperforming groups in exchange for nothing.

But these transfers will be required forever to maintain the charade, because people actually are not equal. And these transfers will have to increase in scale and expense, because when the weak and inferior are allowed to feast on the plundered booty of their bettors, over time, you get fewer of the latter, and more of the former.

The narrative on this is exactly backwards. In the mid 20th century, which I think we can all agree was way more racist than now, the USA was almost 90% white, less than 10% black. The narrative which basically posits that those 90% were living high and living easy on the backs of those 10% is laughable. The math just doesn't work out. White privilege isn't built on the blood, sweat, and tears, of exploited blacks. They largely do have to be excluded, but that is for the simple reason that TOO MANY OF THEM ABUSE THE PRIVILEGE. If you take a fragile, advanced, civilization and just let what in many cases amount to little more than jungle savages run amok, they break things. And you only have to look at Detroit, Newark, Gary, Atlanta, or any number of other places to see that this is the case. Racism is not what produces white privilege. We produce privilege ourselves. Racism is just a defense mechanism.

Now, Europeans weren't always civilized. So it's possible that by similar means, Africans could be too. And those means are principally, eugenic reproductive practices (for example, the nuclear family once imposed the restrain of financial independence prior to reproduction) and aggressive suppression of the criminal classes (in medieval Europe, something like 1-2% of the population was hung, beheaded, burned, or otherwise executed each year.)

So yeah, perhaps they can be uplifted, and this may be worth doing, but it's not going to be easy, and it's not going to be quick (in our case it took hundreds if not thousands of years.)

What the SJWs do is try to lie their way to a shortcut, but that only moves us in the opposite direction, and that only makes what is necessary all the more severe. People are getting wise to the lies, and the reaction is brewing.

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