It is absolutely moral and right to take pride in your race. Just as it is moral and right to take pride in your family. People are NOT atomized individuals, they are parts of a much vaster, and much more sublime, whole. If people could only take pride in themselves, then they would never get past Robinson Crusoe level survival. EVERYONE RELIES ON OTHERS TO ACHIEVE WHAT THEY DO.
Can a worker take pride in a product no one buys? Can a soldier take pride in protecting nothing? Can a doctor take pride in curing no one? The existence of other people is a precondition for 99% of the good we do in the world. Without them, what are we proud about? If you are a businessman you rely on your workers, your customers, and thousands of other businesses up and down the supply chain. To claim that you produce, single-handedly, a car, or an airplane, is absurd. You can only take pride in .0001% of the finished product.
However, if you consider yourself, (correctly) a part of a group, you can identify with said group, and take pride in its collective accomplishments. As a corporation, you can take pride in your product. As a parent, you can take pride in your child. As a white, you can take pride in your race.
What did you do to deserve the borrowed light of your group? Simple, you loved and supported said group. By loving it, you made it happier. By supporting it, you made it stronger. In both cases, you made it more able to achieve what it did.
Furthermore, collective pride is fair for another reason: We are all baskets of probability. For one Newton to be born, tens of millions of whites must bear children and raise them well in the hopes of producing a Newton. Why should Newton get the entire credit for the efforts of millions of families, across thousands of generations, trying over and over again to hit the jackpot of genes that is Newton? Obviously everyone who participated in the effort of Newton creation, deserves as much credit as Newton, who was simply the lucky winner. Newton exists only in the context of a white culture he didn't produce, and a white genome he didn't produce. Every single person who ever contributed to, or was part of, that cultural and genetic matrix, should take pride in Newton's existence, because they are as much a part of Newton's achievement as he is. He could not have done it without everyone else. If you realize that every generation carries with it a sacred trust to preserve and enrich our cultural and genetic heritage, passing it on to the next generation being our primary duty and greatest achievement possible in life, why can't you take pride in the fact that you have done so? That newton's genes and newton's discoveries live on in you, and in your kids, and in your grandkids, is the only reason Newton achieved anything. Without us, what was Newton worth? Just a flash in the pan, 50 years come and gone. But in us, he can be immortal. Isn't that worth something?
To be honest, I have no idea why you would even post on Amren, if you don't take pride in your race. If you have no pride in your race, if you feel no attachment to your race, if you think you, and your race, have nothing to do with each other -- then why would you possibly care what happens to it?
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Diamed, I could swear that your writing style and mine are like two drops of water. Would I then be flattering myself if I said I enjoy your writing? Unlike you, I'm not a big fan of government but this post about pride in one's group is spot on. As a matter of fact, I once had a friendly debate with a black co-worker about the subject. He claimed that conservatives on talk radio were "racist" because they referred to whites, in general, as "we". I explained that there is nothing wrong with considering yourself part of a greater whole. That, as a matter of fact, this is commendable and that even sports fans do this when they refer to "their" teams as "we". He contemplated this for a moment, admitted that even he does this, and then conceded this point to me. Those conservatives were not "racist" after all.
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