Safer? White Genocide?

There have been a lot of themes dancing through recent horrific events, even those which are "just" threats. I just want to touch on a few. Even if I had all the answers, you didn't flip over here to read a book.

First, for those of you who haven't been following my daughter Stephanie's blog, let me steer you to her most recent posting as of today. Check out https://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/2019/03/15/making-me-safer/ . 

I happen to agree with her points. I also think it needs to be taken much further. There's a whole lot of short-sighted stupid out there leading those who believe they are losing their privileged white rule over the world. Yes, demographics are changing. One can acknowledge that without making any kind of moral judgement over what is "right" about what has passed or is perceived to have passed. But those who are acting out against these changes are not only morally repugnant but completely stupid if their goal is to maintain their idea of status quo.

Emphasis on status.

Start with attacks on whichever group is being blamed this time for causing the upset. Muslims, blacks, and Jews are the current prominent targets. Attacking any of them is horrible on its face, and backlash does little to advance the "cause" of white supremacy. The Holocaust advanced worldwide the viewpoint of the moral validation of the Jews, not of their murderers. Black Lives Matter had brought to the public's attention -if they didn't already know or want to know - how unjust laws and enforcement are shaming us as a country and need to be changed. Muslims aren't getting the good press they deserve, but people are beginning to realize their new neighbors are as peaceful and hard-working - if not more so - as they themselves are. Some of us even realize that we've been blaming the wrong people for 9/11, but that message is not getting across due to greed for oil.

Even if we/they can get past the blaming of OTHERS for what's going wrong in their own lives, by continuing to blindly follow those who would "think" for them they continue to stumble down the wrong paths for improving their own lives. ME! NOW! prevents adaption or even mitigation of global forces for change.

Immigration patterns have existed as long as human have. Food supplies are just one factor in why people move. It's not just that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but that we have short-sightedly demolished all the grass on this side of it. All of us are the products of eons of peoples spreading out and looking for whatever looks better then here. In the process, conquerors become conquered. Groups merge, interbreed, and resentments both flare and erode. On and on and on.

Those who adapt and adopt the cultures of the others pave the smoothest paths for themselves. One of the most obvious examples of this is the spread of Christianity. Every time its believers spread into a new culture the church adopted new rituals, co-opting what was there and smoothing their acceptance. Matriarchy led to the deification of Mary. Christmas traditions included solstice celebrations and their trappings. Examples are almost endless. One has to search to find the original message of the faith.

What has strongly evolved within the church is the conviction of superiority along with the need to convert others "for their own sake". Christianity gets shoved down people's throats, and that leads to yet another force pushing fears of "white genocide". Efforts to block the limitations of population growth, now that improved health care means more humans survive to reproduce, end with overcrowding, limited resources, and the need to migrate.

These alone don't lead to "white genocide" fears. The migrants tend to be "those brown people", but that's a product both of Christianity and the misuse of it. The church is supposed to be about charity. Unfortunately that stops at the point where it does more harm than good. Certain forms of knowledge get spread. Again, witness populations growing. Other forms are halted or delayed. Witness prohibitions on birth control and abortion. "Those people" are the ones with rapidly expanding populations, and those are the people looking beyond their traditional borders to find a better life. Witness all our country's moves to supplant home-chosen rulers with rulers who support our needs and desires. Witness... well, introduce yourself to history.

Then there is the recent perversion of Christianity that declares we have the right to acquire wealth, that God wants us to be rich. Of course that's popular. Greed is easy. Me! Me! Now! is universal, but most of us are guided out of it as we leave the toddler phase. Cooperation is what builds societies that survive. It's the why behind taxes, a system that accurately refuses to trust that all in the society will cooperate for the betterment of everybody.

It wasn't so long ago that wiser heads realized that society was becoming a global phenomenon. Wealth, knowledge, resources, peace, all need to be shared. If not, none will last. Recent ideologies have curtailed that. We need all we have for ourselves. Those who have not don't deserve to have, so why should we help? Even if you can't see the moral problems with that philosophy, there are myriad practical problems, including the very ones which cause the "brown migrations" which white supremacists find so troubling. Other people see we have rule of law, food, water, housing, peace, travel rights, education, jobs, freedoms of religion and speech, few of which are available in their own countries. In other words, we give them plenty of incentive for migration. We withhold from them in our own short-sighted greed any incentive to find a better life where they now live.

Perhaps the proposed $8.5 billion for a border wall won't solve all their problems, but if you want to keep this country "white", you reprehensible idiots, wouldn't it be better spent on problems which really do exist and where it can help mitigate some of the demographic changes you do so fear?

And if you think it's bad now, we haven't even started to address global climate change, making whole new sections of the planet unfit for habitation. Where do you suppose those billions will head to?