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Kid Berwyn

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21. Expressions of pre-eminence mask fears of Righteousnes.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:20 PM

Mar 30

A few Europeans with gunpowder conquered one hemisphere and a big chunk of the other, killing and enslaving many hundreds of millions of people they considered inferior in the process. That’s the main point “Western civilization” wrought upon the continent and world through an insidious “Manifest Destiny” mindset that spread after 1776.

Jewish people survived racial hate and kept relatively safe and fit in, due to their skin pigmentation. Then came Hitler and IBM.

Today the descendants of racists worry the non-civilized people will realize they are better than they are and will band together to apply righteous indignation like that time in Haiti. The just know they deserve it.

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Forget all the religious doctrines on the planet for this question - [View all] malaise Mar 30 OP

"Religious Doctrine" a.k.a. The Rejection Of Critical Thinking And The Embrace Of Delusional Suppositions MayReasonRule Mar 30 #1

Profound malaise Mar 30 #6

Even atheists embrace their own version of "religion" Kaleva Mar 30 #16

Religion Is The Rejection Of Critical Thinking MayReasonRule Mar 30 #17

The aforementioned people weren't critical thinkers Kaleva Mar 30 #18

Mark Twain? Ping Tung Mar 30 #20

Was he a supremist? Kaleva Mar 30 #22

Mark Twain was not a white supremacist. Ping Tung Mar 30 #23

They have a very narrow view of the world. cachukis Mar 30 #2

They mean to give themselves the authority to make life and death decisions for "others" ... marble falls Mar 30 #3

Spencer's Social Darwinism - God put them here to rule. bucolic_frolic Mar 30 #4

So it is all wrapped up malaise Mar 30 #8

I believe that white supremacists have a warped view of world history. Lonestarblue Mar 30 #5

You cannot claim to discover anywhere when you find others malaise Mar 30 #7

White supremacists have very small minds PJMcK Mar 30 #9

Love your response to that man malaise Mar 30 #10

They're the kind of people who hang up the most Christmas lights on the block to prove they're the most Christian. Ping Tung Mar 30 #11

LOl malaise Mar 30 #12

The Bible Believing Baptists around here leftyladyfrommo Mar 30 #14

It means they deny the accomplishments of the rest of the world. travelingthrulife Mar 30 #13

It mostly just means they have been washed leftyladyfrommo Mar 30 #15

Projection. However they were born white, choice, providence or chance, they would feel the opposite if they weren't. usonian Mar 30 #19

Expressions of pre-eminence mask fears of Righteousnes. Kid Berwyn Mar 30 #21