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The Problem with Group Supremacist Thinking

Posted on the 22 February 2015 by Calvinthedog

pepperoncini writes:

Robert, I have mentioned this before: Amren is supposed to be about White Nationalism and primarily about America yet they trawl through World news picking out stories that will portray non American Blacks and Africans as negatively as possible. They have posted unflattering news about other races and Muslims but less frequently.

I know. White nationalists are supposed to be about how great Whites are, but instead they are all about how much the other races suck. If your race is so great, why don’t you focus on that.

I suppose the real attitude here is Supremacism. If you think your race is great, let’s face it. You think it is better than all the other races. So while you can spend say half of you time at most talking about how great your people are, they are always only great in comparison with the others. Nobody is ever doing great on any metric when they have no competitors to compare their achievements to. Think about it. Things are only superior when they are compared with competing entities that are inferior. So even during the half the time you will be extolling the greatness of your race, a lot of that time will be spent with comparisons of your race to other races and how you measure up better.

This half of the time could be called Why My Race Is Superior Compared to the Other Races.

The the other half of the time I suppose you will spend dissing the other races and trolling the world looking for stories about the other races misbehaving or failing as compared to Whites. Usually no one brings up Whites during these talks, but the understated attitude is typically that Whites do not act this way.

This half of the time will be called Why the Other Races Suck Compared to My Race.

So really the main problem with any sort of attitude that your race is better is that it is going to lead into Racial Supremacism. For instance, Amren is a White Supremacist site.

The reason this is so much of a problem in human societies is that ethnic supremacism – tribal supremacism, national supremacism, state supremacism, religious supremacism, and racial supremacism tends to be hardwired into human beings. That does not mean we are stuck with it, but it means we might have to work to not drift into that natural mode thinking.


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