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发帖数: 30882 | 1 Un-White America: Will Blacks and Hispanics lead the USA to ruin
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=40398
I think ol’ Fred may be on to something here. Does that make me a racist?
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I begin to weary of the endless denunciations of “white privilege;” the
calls to end the dominance of malignant white men; the law suits to abolish
all tests on which white men excel, meaning almost any test of mental
ability; to make universities and police forces and advanced-placement
classes “look like America.” Often appended is the observation that by
2050 the majority of Americans will no longer be white. Invariably this is
presented as a merited comeuppance and a laudable democratization.
Really? No doubt all of this is rousing good fun for the affirmative-action
classes (which is what we mean by “minorities,” not successful minorities
such as men, Chinese, Jews, or geeks.) Yet perhaps we should be wary, all of
us, about this much-sought dermal twilight, about abandoning standards of
merit in favor of political appointment.
The beginning of wisdom might be to note the utter dependence of the US on
white men—men, guys, hombres—who have contributed virtually everything
that keeps the affirmative-action classes from living in grass huts. A few
examples: (from an ancient column):
Euclidean geometry. Parabolic geometry. Hyperbolic geometry. Projective
geometry. Differential geometry. Algebra. 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. Almost 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.
Roads. Buildings. Elvis. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. (OK, those are
nerve agents, and maybe we didn’t really need them.) Silicone. The
automobile. Really weird stuff, like clathrates, Buckyballs, and rotaxanes.
The Bible. Bug spray. Diffie-Hellman, public-key cryptography, and RSA. Et
cetera.
LIKE IT OR NOT, THERE IT IS. WHITE MEN CAN DO THESE THINGS, HAVE DONE THEM,
AND CONTINUE TO DO THEM. THE EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT ALL THE GROUPS RECEIVING
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HAVE NOT DONE THEM AND, BY ALL APPEARANCES, CANNOT—WHICH
IS WHY THEY NEED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Any who have the ability should have
the opportunity, yes. (Bright idea: Why don’t we do things without regard
to race, creed, color, sex, or national origin? Naw, never fly.) History
suggests that there will be few.
Of course, most of the minorities who benefit from these things have never
heard of half of them. (In the ‘hood: “Hey man, cool cell. I guess you’re
into code-division multiple access.”)
The pattern of white men doing difficult things continues. Consider the
founders of companies in information technology (also from an earlier column
):
Google (Sergei Bryn, Larry Page), Intel (Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce), Apple
(Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak), Microsoft (Bill Gates), Dell Computer (Michael
Dell), Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg), YouTube (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed
Karim), Netscape (Mark Andreesen), Yahoo (Jerry Yang, David Filo), AMD (long
list of guys from Fairchild Semiconductor), Twitter (Jack Dorsey),
Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger), Unz.org (Ron Unz), PayPal (Peter
Thiel), Ebay (Pierre Omidyar).
Not quite all white, but nearly so. All are men.
For that matter, anyone who watched the landing of Curiosity, the latest
Mars rover, both Curiosity and the landing being astonishing demonstrations
of engineering virtuosity, will have noticed that Mission Control consisted
overwhelmingly of: White. Men.
I say all of this partly in exasperation at the endless ankle-biting from
affirmative-action minorities. If I were rude, which I emphatically am not,
I would say, “Invent your own goddam iPods.” Yet the question is
profoundly practical. The prosperity of America, its international
competitiveness, depends very heavily on white men. Which means on a
steadily diminishing proportion of the population.
Maybe this isn’t cause for celebration.
If America were the only country on the planet, as many Americans seem to
think it is, then affirmative action might be a supportable inefficiency,
something like a golf handicap. But America is not the only country. Japan,
China, and South Korea among others are full of smart, industrious, and
ambitious people who are absolutely able to compete against the US. They are
not going to cut us any slack. Their percentages of high-end talent are not
falling. They don’t do heartwarming social policy.
Yes, yes, I know. I will get stupid mail from stupider people saying that I
am a white supremacist. No. I am a brain supremacist. If the entire faculty
of Harvard came to consist of Jewish Koreans from Mumbai, I would be
perfectly content, assuming they got there on merit. Or even if they came
from New Jersey.
In pondering the coming unwhite America, it might be wise to consider how
democracy will then work. In America we are accustomed to a rough balance of
contending factions—liberals, conservatives, women, men, blacks, Hispanics
, feminists, hawks, doves, and so on. Values overlap, emphases change.
Elections are often determined by a few percentage points. Any group
potentially can influence the outcome, so politicians have to pay attention
to the desires of all groups.
By contrast, if the electorate consists of two self-aware groups with
utterly incompatible wishes, the smaller group is simply excluded from power
. In South Africa, for example, whites have no hope for national office.
Note that blacks and whites indeed have such sharply differing values.
Further, blacks do not like whites. They are quite as willing to impose
their rule on whites as white once were to impose their rule on blacks.
Consider the following survey, from The Pew Research Center:
“Most notably, 62% of blacks say ‘we should make every possible effort to
improve the position of blacks and other minorities, even if it means giving
them preferential treatment.’ Just 22% of whites agree.
When it comes to the social safety net, 78% of blacks today say ‘the
government should guarantee every citizen enough to eat and a place to sleep
.’”
The idea that the government—which means white taxpayers—should provide
everything suggests a great dimness of mind and poor grasp of the origin of
specie. The belief apparently is that money comes from the government, as
food comes from Safeway and cell phones from Radio Shack. A constantly
dwindling number of whites at the mercy of a predatory welfare class can’t
and won’t carry the rest of the population. If (or as) things get worse for
them, they will simply flee the country.
The crucial question for an unwhite America is what Hispanics will do—
whether they will assimilate to white values or expect to be cared for by
the government. They now make up 17% of the population versus 13% for blacks
, and their numbers rise faster. Should they bloc-vote with blacks, the two
will be able to demand anything at all and get it.
And that, in a competitive world, will be that.
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: Un-White America: Will Blacks and Hispanics lead the USA to ruin
: http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=40398
: I think ol’ Fred may be on to something here. Does that make me a racist?
: ========================
: I begin to weary of the endless denunciations of “white privilege;” the
: calls to end the dominance of malignant white men; the law suits to abolish
: all tests on which white men excel, meaning almost any test of mental
: ability; to make universities and police forces and advanced-placement
: classes “look like America.” Often appended is the observation that by
: 2050 the majority of Americans will no longer be white. Invariably this is
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