Be non-racist, not anti-racist!

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Self-declared "anti-racists" often claim that "there is only one race, the human race". One has to be careful to avoid false claims, even based on good intentions. I hate nothing more than identity politics and consider that every person should be treated as an individual, judged only based on his or her own actions.

Treating people decently does not preclude the recognition of different races and ethnicities. Denying the existence of race and ethnicity is counter-productive.

We are one species, not one race. Members of a species are genetically compatible. But racial differences can be quite significant, physically and mentally. People from different cultures often have a totally different view of reality as well - they don't just have different languages, clothes, food and music, they really think differently about all sorts of issues. It is also obvious that we have very different temperaments and skills.

It is obvious that people strongly associate with their own race, ethnicity and culture and hence I've always approached people by expressing appreciation for the positive things about what forms their identity and background, avoiding criticism of negatives.

The claim that humanity is "one race", became popular for a while, but it shattered on the rocks of reality - it's specifically medical and genetic research which brought this delusion to a fall.

Race and healthcare

People from different races sometimes need race-specific medication for various illnesses. Among others, it turned out that people of black African descent suffer from more issues with their cardio-vascular system and that medication developed for white people did not work well for them. So they developed medication that works much better for black people of African descent:

Racial Differences in the Association of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentration With Coronary Heart Disease Events 

It turns out that Germany had to constitute blood reserves from "migrants" (Africans, Arab etc.), as European blood is apparently not compatible - it can lead to rejection and even death - imagine that!
NRW-Forscher suchen Blutspenden für Migranten 

Race does play a role in longevity, too - and these numbers ridicule any attempt at making this about "racism" - Hispanics and Asians actually live longer, on average, than white people, in the US, and I'm pretty sure that it is not because Latino-Americans have a healthier lifestyle:

https://www.simplyinsurance.com/average-us-life-expectancy-statistics/#section-2

The fact that white people commit suicide twice as often as blacks does not really support claims about the US being a "white supremacist" country...

Here is a very specific race and age-specific healthcare issue:
"The Relationship of Age, Race, and Ethnicity with Survival in Dialysis Patients"

There are major health issues associated with mixed-race children:
"Prematurity and Low Birth Weight as Potential Mediators of Higher Stillbirth Risk in Mixed Black/White Race Couples"

Being of mixed race can make it much harder to find a compatible donor for specific health issues:
A half-Nigerian, half-German woman is desperately searching the world for a stem-cell donor

Now countries such as France that have fanatically anti-racist legislation have a problem: pharmacists and doctors don't know how to label race-specific medication or race-specific blood reserves without violating the laws that prohibit the mention of race.

Race is based on genetics

It is misleading to claim that individual genetic differences are greater than genetic differences between races. There are genetic codes that form stable clusters that are race-specific, which is what makes people from different races so recognizable.

When asked to identify a racial group they feel close to, people self-sort themselves into those groups that match identifiable genetic clusters.

Even ethnicity can be quite pronounced. It is often possible to recognize someone as French, Italian or British, although they are all white Europeans, yet they kept apart for so long that specific genetic clusters formed that give them quite a distinct appearance.

People throughout Europe can often trace their ancestors over centuries within the same small perimeter with virtually no demographic admixture.

Mixed-race individuals often suffer from their inability to associate with a specific group. A friend who has mixed-race (white-black) children told me that members from both families always first see what is different about the children. While white Europeans first see their black African heritage, their African family first see their European heritage.

Interestingly, mixed-race individuals almost always associate more strongly with their non-white ancestry. Obama, although half white, claims to be black. So does Kaepernick and pretty much every mixed-race celebrity. Which totally destroys the myth of "white privilege". There is nothing to be gained from being white, but lots from being non-white - to the point where entirely white individuals claim NOT to be white, e.g. Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Dolezal, Shaun King etc.

Elizabeth Warren got a free scholarship based on her false claim about being American Indian (the correct term - cf. "Office of American Indian affairs", not "Native American"), which is also how she got her job at Harvard. If she had admitted to being white, which she is, she would have had to pay for her own studies and would not have been hired by Harvard.

Never lower standards

I guess the worst that has resulted from anti-white racism is the attempt to lower standards to "help" blacks, worst of all in education. I don't see how Oxford expects to educate black scientists and mathematicians if they don't have to demonstrate the same competence in solving hard problems as white, Asian and Jewish students:

In Germany, the self-declared "anti-racist" Green (Marxist) party demands that math and other difficult mandatory branches be removed from the school curriculum - and they use a black girl to illustrate their campaign. Which could not be more racist ... they are basically saying that blacks cannot get their school degree if they have to pass the math tests.

We know where this ends based on this hair-raising example from South Africa, as a "student" says that "science must fall", because she has no clue about science and thinks that magic works:

Jaywalking laws may be debatable, but to decriminalize jaywalking because blacks do it more often, leading to more police confrontations, is absurd:

Jaywalking decriminalization because blacks do it more often

Based on their argument that tries to turn blacks into "victims" because they are caught jaywalking would mean that murder should be legalized, because blacks commit a disproportionate number of murders and end up in prison for it - here the statistics for NYC from 2018: 61.8% of all homicide suspects were black!

Clearly, the problem must be the racist police for catching all those black criminals ...

Racism is not a black-and-white thing

Africa has the greatest genetic diversity - and also a history of extreme tribal and racial conflict. One of the worst lies is that racism - let alone slavery - in Africa appeared with white people:

"The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…" ~ King Gezo, king of Dahomey (known today as Benin).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter2.shtml

Racism is not ideological. It is very much biological, based on kinship - family first, then clan, tribe, country. Similarity and shared culture generate trust. The more someone looks like us, the less threatening he appears. Non-obstanding the fact that, due to proximity, we always had most of our conflicts with people who were similar to us.

EVEN BABIES DISCRIMINATE: A NURTURESHOCK EXCERPT

Not being racist is a cultural adaptation. It is an innovation that first appeared, systematically and ideologically, in 18th century Europe. It's quite ironic that white Europeans who were the first to develop the concept of human rights and to abolish slavery are now the ones most blamed for racism, oppression and slavery - by people who are extremely racist and tribal themselves.

A common assumption holds that kids will be less racist if they grow up in a mixed-race environment. Reality shows that the opposite is true - a major study found that people who had gone to mixed-race schools had very few, if any, friends of a different race, as adults, while those who had gone to race-homogeneous schools had quite a few friends from other races.

That's only surprising until one realizes that children in a mixed-race environment are practically forced into a situation where they end up associating based on race - with significant race-based conflicts developing between children who have not yet learned the full range of social interaction codes. Schools are a bit like prisons, in that participation is not exactly voluntary, so a pecking order develops, along with hostility along race lines.

If kids can grow up in a homogeneous environment, those race-based conflicts do not show up and as adults, they know how to approach others.

I personally grew up in a totally homogeneous environment and while I had my share of bullies to deal with, it was never about race, hence when I found myself in a extremely multi-cultural environment, for my studies, I never thought that I should feel threatend by someone from another race.

Unfortunately, the worst racists are often self-declared anti-racists. I've never met worse racists than those who claim to be anti-racist. They typically are just anti-white (including and especially white anti-racists, among which I include leftist Jews). Which undermines their position completely.

Not being racist must always be mutual. If movements such as BLM are allowed to spread their racist venom - they are basically the black KKK - then no one should be surprised that racism among white people spreads, too. If you attack people based on their race, then that's what they will have to defend.

Can we kill the entire "racial pride" thing?

I also don't think that one can be "proud" of anything except personal achievement. Hence any "racial", "cultural" or sexual orientation pride are absurd. One can be happy to belong to a given culture and/or country and try to contribute in a meaningful way, which may then give rise to joy over one's own contributions.

Don't get me started on the hypocrisy of celebrating every imaginable "pride", including racial, gay and nationalist pride, except for white people.

Yes, the Nazis were racist, genocidal bastards. So were the Soviets. So was Mao. So is the modern CCP. So were the Japanese. So were and are various Muslim, Hindu and black groups. There's a large faction of the ANC, in South Africa, that calls for the genocide of white people. BLM is extremely anti-white, anti-Asian, anti-Jewish to a grotesque degree, which might well be because black kids were indoctrinated with all that "black pride".

When black people don't get what's "controversial" about saying that they want to murder white people, I guess they've reached the same level of evil as Nazis:

The idea that only white "pride" is bad is in itself evil and absurd. Especially when promoted by Marxists, considering that Marx & Engels were extremely racist and antisemitic.

Just dump the entire "pride" thing! Seriously, what's there to be "proud" about being of a certain race, religion or sexual orientation? Not being ashamed of it is one thing. Being proud of it is ridiculous. It's not an achievement and it's not a personal choice (or are they claiming that one's sexual orientation can be chosen, now?)

Conclusion

Race is real. One cannot deny it. And no matter what we do, it will always be an issue. We should strive to stop supporting any group that is race-based - irrespective of race.

Favoring BLM under the false claim that blacks were always victims and hence have the "right" to be racist is a gigantic mistake - supporting the BLM will directly feed the KKK (not to mention that BLM representatives often behave as if they were Klan members).

Be consistent and always apply the exact same norms to everyone.

Reject any attempt to use race as a political tool. Don't accept any changes to "accommodate" people from an allegedly "oppressed" group. There is no such thing as "compensation" for past wrongs. Any such attempt will only lead to new grievances and hatred.

Remember that all racial difference are ultimately irrelevant - we all face the same kind of issues in life.

Don't be anti-racist, be non-racist, i.e. just accept racial differences as natural and don't use them politically.

Identity politics are evil. They were at the heart of Marxism, Nazism, the USSR, Mao's regime, the KKK and so on. You can't improve the world if you just add a new variant of an old problem. CRT - Critical Race Theory - is just another Marxist ideology that uses racist hate mongering against white people to gain political power. If you support it, you are no better than a follower of any of the previously mentioned ideologies.