It sure gets old, doesn’t it? This isn’t just happening in America, and not just because we have a half black/half white president. In fact the Grievance Industry, which is welded onto the chipped shoulders of the Political Industry and bears fruit under the Social Justice Industry amidst hysterical slanders of Racism, has been in Europe and Scandinavia longer than they’ve been here. Since they’re such a thriving industry in the United Kingdom, we can see evidence of it in Canada.
It gets real old real fast. Here a couple of tiresome PC situations and a couple of biting responses.
Kate at SmallDeadAnimals is not sympathetic to an Indian who participated in a flag honor ceremony before a pow wow by turning the Canadian flag upside down during the ceremony. He justifies it by saying he’s not happy with Canada and evokes the worn-out Colonialism Card.
The reality is it is time to become the best we can possibly be and follow through with the certainty that we are Nations within a Nation. Part of that is denouncing the imposed identity that we are Canadian. My friend Jodi Kechego articulated it well when he stated “My bloodline is inherently separate from Canada in that my ancestors have been here for literally thousands and thousands of years- as apposed three or four generations”.
Kate, who wins every battle of wit, snaps back:
Dude, ten thousand years ago our ancestors were stone age peoples, too. We decided we didn’t like it. But if that’s what you want, that’s cool. You can drop by on the weekend to return our wheel, metallurgy, electricity, antibiotics, and the internal combustion engine.
You can keep the horse.
As one commenter noted, actually the Europeans brought the horse to Canada.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/we-are-all-trea-2.html
Fred Reed at Taki’s Magazine is no less testy. He recognizes the evils of slavery. He wants to settle the issue of reparations and guilt, and who owes what to whom once and for all.
For example, as a white American, I think that African Americans and Indians should pay us royalties for the use of our civilization. I do not propose a great exaction, but only a reasonable fee for enjoyment of contributions that whites have made and that others use. I mean things such as telephones, air conditioning, flush toilets, democracy, civil rights, antibiotics, running shoes, and the machines that read EBT cards. Also paved roads. Cars. Computers. Electricity. Clean water. Those sorts of things.
I have in mind something like a software license, with one price for the entire bundle. Surely there should be some reward for our 2,500 years of onerous research in mathematics, physics, politics, engineering, from fifth-century BC Athens through Rome, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and Silicon Valley, with countless brilliant men going where no one had gone before, even Captain Kirk.
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Truthfully, you don’t hear a lot of that 1970’s talk from blacks anymore about going back to ‘Mother Africa’ and leaving the evil racist United States to build a better, more open community in Africa.
Reed’s article is cleverly written satire and is well worth a few minutes of your time to link and read the whole post. Bonus points: he takes on Al Sharpton.
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