>"They brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned . . . They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They would make fine servants . . . with fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
Why do white people fail at the basic task of displaying empathy and kindness to other beings? Is it because of the christian notion of the great chain of being?
Italians aren't white
Doesn't everyone have original sin?
I kind of welcome the ecological collapse just because I wanna see right wingers stunned faces when their houses burn down
>>808475Native Americans have lived on the land for 12000 years yet whites managed to destroy the world in less than a couple of centuries
>>808476Look up which countries most pollute the planet.
Capitalism is not a "white" system.
>>808477It is. It's inherently Calvinist.
The us alone has the biggest ecological footprint by far
>Aesthetics: Steak and Potatoes, bland is best
Kek
>>808472From Montaigne's Essays, a contemporary work during the discovery of the New World
>All things, says Plato,—[Laws, 10.]—are produced either by nature, by fortune, or by art; the greatest and most beautiful by the one or the other of the former, the least and the most imperfect by the last.
>These nations [colonized tribes] then seem to me to be so far barbarous, as having received but very little form and fashion from art and human invention, and consequently to be not much remote from their original simplicity. The laws of nature, however, govern them still, not as yet much vitiated with any mixture of ours: but ‘tis in such purity, that I am sometimes troubled we were not sooner acquainted with these people, and that they were not discovered in those better times, when there were men much more able to judge of them than we are. I am sorry that Lycurgus and Plato had no knowledge of them; for to my apprehension, what we now see in those nations, does not only surpass all the pictures with which the poets have adorned the golden age, and all their inventions in feigning a happy state of man, but, moreover, the fancy and even the wish and desire of philosophy itself; so native and so pure a simplicity, as we by experience see to be in them, could never enter into their imagination, nor could they ever believe that human society could have been maintained with so little artifice and human patchwork. I should tell Plato that it is a nation wherein there is no manner of traffic, no knowledge of letters, no science of numbers, no name of magistrate or political superiority; no use of service, riches or poverty, no contracts, no successions, no dividends, no properties, no employments, but those of leisure, no respect of kindred, but common, no clothing, no agriculture, no metal, no use of corn or wine; the very words that signify lying, treachery, dissimulation, avarice, envy, detraction, pardon, never heard of.
>[…] "A long text describing their way of life"
>[…] We may then call these people barbarous, in respect to the rules of reason: but not in respect to ourselves, who in all sorts of barbarity exceed them
>[…] I find that there is nothing barbarous and savage in this nation, by anything that I can gather, excepting, that every one gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. As, indeed, we have no other level of truth and reason, than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the place wherein we live: there is always the perfect religion, there the perfect government, there the most exact and accomplished usage of all things.
>[…] They are savages at the same rate that we say fruits are wild, which nature produces of herself and by her own ordinary progress; whereas, in truth, we ought rather to call those wild whose natures we have changed by our artifice and diverted from the common order. In those, the genuine, most useful, and natural virtues and properties are vigorous and sprightly, which we have helped to degenerate in these, by accommodating them to the pleasure of our own corrupted palate.
>[…] I am not sorry that we should here take notice of the barbarous horror of so cruel an action [regarding cannibal natives], but that, seeing so clearly into their faults, we should be so blind to our own. I’m black and it’s not cool to call white people inherently evil. Stop >:/ I’m 6’2 btw 🥵😈👉🏾👌🏾😜💪🏾😳
no but identifying as white is, so yes
>>808472The most virtuous noble person is the beggar who stabs a patrician giving him alms.