Looking at it that way, Dyson, instead of asking descendants of Europeans for reparations, should be asking for reparations from Africans since they introduced slavery to Africa and then the people in the Middle East since they were trading in slaves from Africa long before Europeans.
And if those 7 year olds work hard, donât die, and manage to pass on their work ethics to the next two generations, their kids can have it good enough to feel guilty about themselves too.
Edit: They should also stop referring to mines as âartisinalâ. That brings to mind in the white people that read these things fancy pickles and cheese made by happy hipsters doing some old timey bullshit with stupid suspenders following their passion.
Short answer - no. Your attitude towards life, work and wealth would be totally nihilistic if, like in the Congo every few years a rampaging invading army/paramilitary group/bunch of mercenaries killed everyone and burned everything down, thereby reducing everyone to the same starting point.
Why think medium-term when in two yearsâ time the reset button will be pushed?
Iâm allergic to blaming the âwhite devilâ for many ills plaguing subsaharan Africa, but man, you could make a compelling point for the Congo.
In the last 100 odd years the Belgian Force Publique hacked to death (not machine gunned nor shot, but hacked to death) around 10 million people in the Congo basin, and it was later a murderous playground for ex-SS mercenaries, CIA and KGB financed paramilitaries (including a certain Ernesto âCheâ Guevara who per his diary entries absolutely enjoyed killing locals by the truckload) and invading armies from literally every neighboring country, leaving heaps of corpses in their wake.
DRC is the discarded draft of the worldâs most gruesome horror novel. Letâs just say when they were adapting Conradâs Heart of Darkness set in Congo and changing the setting to Vietnam, they had to cut out the creepiest parts because it would be too nauseating.
Compared to that, the Chinese that theyâre dealing with now are downright cordial.
There was an African couple with their kids at the kindergarten orientation yesterday. I was actually kind of glad to see them. They were fat, happy, and relaxed. Iâd almost pay to see some SJW try to explain to them all of these superfluous flights of pseudo intellectual fancy and why they should be outraged by what ever flavor of injustice is being served up on any given day.
Followed by the retort âWhere I come from they cut people in half longways and fly people like flags. Thatâs why we left. Its much nicer here!â.
White privilege:
Being 85% of the deaths and 82% of the wounded in OEF.
Being 83% of the deaths and 81% of the wounded in OIF.
Being 79% of opioid deaths in 2016, 82% in 2015, 82% in 2014âŠ
Being 52% of those murdered in 2016
So on and so forth. Point being, death doesnât seem to care about skin color.
If youâre successful itâs, to some degree, because of the invisible hand of racial privilege, if youâre white.
If youâre not successful and youâre white, itâs because of something other than because youâre white. In fact, the optics of your failure is even worse because you benefit from the invisible hand of racial privilege.
If youâre successful and youâre non-white, itâs in spite of the invisible hand of racial privilege.
If youâre not successful and youâre non-white, itâs to some degree, because of the invisible hand of racial privilege.
If you die more than everyone else, on the battlefield, for example, itâs because of something other than race.
Itâs no wonder white people kill themselves something like 3x as often as non-whites.
Blacks commit a GROSSLY disproportionate amount of violent crime, are responsible for @ 44% of police killed in l.o.d., are 8 times more likely to commit murder than all other races combined, etcâŠ
I policed inner city St Louis for a decade. Probably 95% of our violent crime suspects, victims, were black.
Itâs not âracistâ or âprofilingâ to engage in pro active policing that targets behaviors.
Too bad that mythical âwhite privilegeâ doesnât stop blacks from murdering whites at a massively disproportionate rate to the opposite, eh ?
Overall, killings of blacks by whites and whites by blacks accounted for about 12 percent of the roughly 6,000 homicides last year in which police had information about the race of both victim and killer â a slight increase from around 11 percent in 2014. About 15.8 percent of white victims were killed by blacks last year, and 8.6 percent of black victims were killed by whites.
I mean, yeah, I guess. When looking at interacial violence blacks kill more whites than whites kill blacks. However, weâre talking about numbers in the hundreds. The vast majority of the time murder is intra-racial. That is, a white guy is far more likely to be killed by a white.