03-18-2022, 03:54 PM
Indeed, we need to look out for people other than 'our own'. Looking out only for 'our own' at the expense of others is tribalism, and those who would divide and conquer for foreign conquest or the despotism of a narrow clique deserve to know that they would be defeated. Fascists and communists have seen American diversity as a lack of cohesion -- failing to recognize that when we recognize the validity of others we make our lives safer. i can recognize the validity of other ethnic and religious cultures in solving their problems by rejecting the anything-goes attitudes of America at its worst. So if Muslims make Dearborn the sort of place unwelcome to the pushers, pimps, whores, addicts, and drunks of neighboring southwest Detroit because such is contrary to Muslim values of a big part of the population of Dearborn... better the mosque than the strip club. I could never be a Chinese-American, but most seem good enough. Could I have married one? Sure -- and any children that my wife had given birth would be raised as Chinese-Americans because women are typically more influential on their children's culture. If I had white children contemplate marrying someone of the black bourgeoisie I would have given only one warning: your children will not look much like you, and if you can accept that you have my blessing. At least the black bourgeoisie seems to care about poor blacks, which is far more than I can say of the white middle and upper class of poor whites.
Maybe as I know my own group I better know its vices. I would never promote those vices.
Maybe as I know my own group I better know its vices. I would never promote those vices.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.