Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
A colleague at work is a Liberal who buys into all the progressive talking points. I keep wanting to ask: “So, when’s your last day?”
Look, if you didn’t earn your job but instead it was handed to you on account of your race, then you don’t deserve to keep it. And in a country with such a shameful history of racial injustice, surely a person of conscience would have the self-dignity to resign so a less qualified but more morally deserving person have the job.
I’ll do you the courtesy of assuming you are an honorable person who has the courage of your convictions and will act on them. Because if not, then you’re just a hypocrite mouthing platitudes to signal your virtue while actively working against everything you claim to believe.
So, when’s your last day?
Conscience is so very very malleable these days…
some progressives I must unavoidably socialize with are big proponents of the “Native Americans are victims of racist genocide at the hands of white people who stole their land” narrative. I’ve been having great success with asking them if they are deeding their property back to one of the tribes when they die? I then go further and point out that they could deed their property back now with a lease provision that allows them to live out their life there before the Native Americans take full possession. My question is never answered in the affirmative and my proposal is never greeted with enthusiasm.
Pig, whenever some leftist twaat tries to strap the “Indians were here first” twaddle on me, I agree; the Indians got fucked, big time and without the courtesy of a reach-around.
They welcomed immigrants whose customs, culture, traditions and lifestyles were completely incompatable with a society of nomadic gatherer/hunters.
They paid for muh diversity with everything they had. If the could have a do over, with the advantage of hindsight, they’d have defended their borders, probably.
It is well that Moderation is hell, lest we come to love it.
You know, that “Indians were here first” thing is a big so-what. There is serious research that the Indians were not here first and that they may have killed and or interbred with the preexisting inhabitants.
Regardless, the Indians occupied both continents as a number of tribes that exhibited all the expected activities of tribes. Some were warlike, some not, some tribes hated each other, some were allies, some were violent and bloodthirsty (Aztecs), some were not, some grew into huge cultures (Mississippians, I think), some were wiped out… the point being these are not some mythical wonder people that only wanted to live in peace and maintain the Earth as pristine as possible (they ran herds of buffalo off cliffs, for chrissakes).
And for all they did and invented (not much), when they encountered the Europeans, the deficiencies of their cultures were made manifest. In short, the Euros, as just another tribe, beat the Indians in ways the Indians had never encountered before. They lost big time and apparently in losing became better people… geez, it sounds like NeverTrumpers.
Heh.
big proponents of the “Native Americans are victims of racist genocide at the hands of white people who stole their land” narrative.
While I don’t doubt atrocities were committed against the Indians, it wasn’t like the conflict was one-sided: My ancestry includes a relative who was kidnapped at age 12 by some “peaceful” Indians while picking beans with his mother. His mother was killed, as was his infant baby brother, who was smacked against some boulders because he cried. He was raised by the Indians and reunited with his older brother 22 years later. I like to bring that up with my leftist colleagues who believe that all tribes were peaceful, and watch them backpedal and sputter. I once angered an acquaintance when I stated that if you go far enough back in anyone’s family tree, you will find both “oppressors” and the “oppressed”.
The victim mentality stems from incomplete historical research. It also always applies contemporary values to people living in a different time. Who knows how we’ll be judged by our descendents 50-100 years from now?
Ha! Funny how that works, isn’t it, Ian?
I have said the same things to my liberal friends. And, they really lose it when I state; “if your ancestors came to this country before 1920, at least one of them has likely committed an atrocity.”
Regarding warfare going both ways, I had the privilege of going to a conference with a group of young men from the Crow reservation back around 1993, and one thing that struck me is how many of them had blue eyes. I asked their pastor about that, and he looked at me incredulously and said something to the effect of “you know about kidnapping, right?” I had to admit that, despite a lifelong interest in history, that was something I didn’t know.
And somehow this comes to mind….along with Walter Williams’ declaration of forgiveness for the wrongs of the past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ8ZCs4jY
When they complain about the American Indians, I always point out “see what can happen with unrestricted immigration”? Silence.
and one thing that struck me is how many of them had blue eyes. I asked their pastor about that, and he looked at me incredulously and said something to the effect of “you know about kidnapping, right?”
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Sen. Warren’s 1/1024th Indian ancestry came from a kidnapped ancestor? Wonder how the Dems would spin that?
Never mind, the media would quietly bury an inconvenient facts like those.