Intolerance – you iz it.

So…. I saw this blog post today. While my known views on censorship says, it should not be removed – they also include that it should be, well shouted down.
I haven’t read anything so filled with thinly-veiled racism as this in years, and choice phrases like “low-class” and “uncivilized” just hammer it home.
I mean “low-class” – not only does this person seem to hanker back to the days when cultural supremeism was acceptable, she seems to actually hanker back to the days of the class system. I guess it’s easy to think what surname you were born with should determine your destiny if you were born wealthy and white right ?!
Well, I was too- and I don’t approve of it. The thought that somebody is somehow special by virtue of his birth (rather than say, his efforts) fills my stomach with bile. But I suppose I can see the point… after all the class system was a such a huge success right ?

But I suppose it just goes to show, intolerance come with ignorance. Now let’s just say some things outright. Ask any actual scientist and they will outright refute the concept of “primitive cultures” – there aren’t any. There haven’t been for a thousand years. Those “other cultures” are just as advanced as ours, as they too – live in 2009. When we got here, they were also just as advanced as ours were then. They’re development had taken a different course, but they were exactly as developed as we were. It’s against the laws of physics for it to have been or ever be any other way.

If you were to work by “when was the culture established” to calculate age… that made them about one hundred years more “advanced” of course, but let’s not cloud the issue, or even get into the simple genetically verifiable fact that everybody on earth descends from black people in (Southern I may add) Africa.

In short every single philosophical premise on which her complaint is based has been utterly and completely proven false over the past few centuries, and yet she clings to them with the desperation of one who utterly needs to justify her sense of superiority. I can only assume that she has done nothing in her life to take any pride in, otherwise – she wouldn’t feel the need to seek her pride in culture or race (things she didn’t do anything to deserve)…
If she’s a Christian, perhaps we could venture that she should consider the phrase “there but for the grace of God…” but frankly, these kinds of believers will find superiority in even that, as if the fact that God’s grace DIDN’T put her there is somehow a reflection of herself rather than of Him…

Well the reality is Anne, that your lack of tolerance for other cultures and your lack of respect for other peoples ways – and your insistence on forcing your own cultures norms, morals and manners down everyone’s throaght makes you inferior in my book -nothing more than a target for mockery. Not because of your birth, but because of your behavior and deliberate self-induced ignorance. In other words, while you perceive others as inferior based on their birth, I perceive you as inferior based on your actions. To put it even more succinctly: unlike the people you write about – you DESERVE to be labelled inferior. You actually DID things and SAID things to deserve it.
You chose to cling to dead ideas, you chose to judge people by the value system of a culture other than their own- and then feel smug when they didn’t live up to it… of these things are wars and inhumane crimes made… of these things were holocaust made.

It’s been said that you have the right to your own opinions but not to your own facts. A saying I often quote and find very dear. Well Anne, I answered your ridiculous and insulting opinions with facts to prove them wrong – and a straight assessment of why holding them is an inditement on yourself. The good news about people like me, who judge by actions, is that the judgement of scorn and mockery you earned can be reversed. If you show an openminded willingness to consider how terribly wrong you are, I will praise you for it with the same fervor and vigor with which I scorn your current close-mindedness… the choice Anne, is entirely up to you.