The Miasma Theory of White Racism
Taki´s Magazine,
by
Steve Sailer
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
2/17/2021 2:31:36 PM
Scientific-minded dissidents frequently compare today’s orthodoxy that the cause of whatever ails blacks is—and, indeed, must be—white racism to discarded scientific constructs such as phlogiston in chemistry and aether in physics. But the most informative comparison might be to the long, unfortunate hold of the miasma theory of disease on medical thought.
In 2021, the conventional wisdom is that while you almost never see white racism, it’s always out there somewhere, everywhere, ruining the lives of blacks, lowering their test scores and raising their murder rates. It’s as if white people implicitly exude a poison from their pores that harms only blacks, due to their being genetically different, although, (Snip) genetic
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Newtsche 2/17/2021 2:54:48 PM (No. 699495)
An interesting diversion on this dark day.
As whites are condemned to impotent navel gazing with no hope of contrition, we are dissected daily, telling us how systemically awful we are. Let's accept that as a given, when will black, brown, rainbow, whatever people have that mirror held up to themselves? Whatever happened to that sin/casting stones admonition?
"You can't handle the truth" isn't a one-way street. Knowing that is the only way forward.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2021 3:04:55 PM (No. 699511)
Good stuff.
FTA:
"Miasma theory was not ridiculous. It tended to merely get the arrow of causation backward, much like The Establishment now believes that stereotypes cause blacks to behave badly rather than that black bad behavior leads to stereotypes. Similarly, the miasma theorists assumed that smells caused rot rather than vice versa."
The reason that we worry about black crime is because the majority of violent criminals are black. Without any effort to figure out the "why" we can correctly identify that if there are three young men walking towards you late at night.....if they are black you are in far more likely to be in danger than if they are white. Even Jesse Jackson admitted as much in a moment of weakness where he told the truth.
Black problems are caused by black people, black culture, black attitudes and maybe other things. But these things are obvious to any intelligent observer. When "acting white" means getting an education and a job, being polite, and speaking standard English --- and is widely excoriated by blacks, you know that they are dysfunctional.
No my fault, and I will protect my self from violent people, without respect to their race. But I do know, when assessing risk, a group of young blacks are a lot more dangerous, statistically, than a group of young whites. Hard facts, not in legitimate dispute.
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skacmar 2/17/2021 3:10:08 PM (No. 699518)
Many minority communities are treated like little kids who want to be treated like adults. They demand to adult treatment but do not want to act like adults. When called on to be adults or own up to their mistakes, they revert to child like status and have temper tantrums. They blame everyone and everything else for their problems. The problem is that all these minority communities really need to do is look into the mirror to see the root of most of their problems. Grow up, accept responsibility for your own problems, and stop blaming White people and racism for all of Your self inflicted problems.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mathman 2/17/2021 3:25:56 PM (No. 699540)
This is too good to pass up. My parents bought a house in 1945 which had been built in 1935. The house had a sleeping porch. It was screened in. Clearly in 1935 the contractor who built the house believed in the miasma theory of disease. A friend later told me that her parents had always slept outside, even if it was below freezing.
There are also many examples of beds which are surrounded by curtains, which were supposed to keep out the bad air.
The author is correct that we have a miasma of white supremacy. It is all about why white people exude some sort of effect which keeps other people down.
My memory (I am white) is of years reading, writing, doing assignments, and sitting in classrooms. This is not how Africans acquire knowledge. I learned at Howard University that Africans learn by stories. Their parents and grandparents tell them stories about how things come to be. Books are of no use. As a result of the dependence on stories, persons of African ancestry do very poorly on the free response portion of the SAT. We were shown examples of how a student would take a single word from a text being analyzed and create a story using that word. Of course their responses were wrong. They could not read the entire passage and use that for information. That is not how they learned. That was not their habit or custom. Lack of scientific progress in Africa is precisely because of this method of learning.
In Jewish and Asian cultures, children are expected to read, learn, and listen. No wonder they do so well in school.
We are talking about a massive cultural divide. Books, ancestors, learning passed on from generation to generation, an enormous culture, set against what individuals have imagined for themselves. That is why cancel culture wants to do away with ALL ancestors.
Good luck with that.
Oh, by the way. All the wind generators in Texas failed. The story was that Green Energy would provide power for all. Failed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 2/17/2021 4:10:47 PM (No. 699583)
#4 put his finger on the same thing I learned from Wheel of Fortune, which is a show I seldom miss. I marveled for almost a decade as to how poorly African-Americans performed on that show, even failing to complete simple popular phrases with only two or three letters missing. Then it suddenly dawned on me: Black culture does not place a premium on WRITTEN but on SPOKEN language, which is, as #4 points out, how they learn, a difference that may account for much of the great gulf between the two cultures.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
4Justice 2/18/2021 3:27:49 AM (No. 700044)
Just as I have always said, race is not a real thing. We are all basically the same genetically. Race was simply a concept created by sociologists and anthropologists to study humans based on culture, language, and family traits. Physical characteristics developed for survival reasons in the various climates and geographical environments. Melanin developed to protect the body from the sun and UV rays...Eyefolds developed to protect against snowblindnes, and so on. Also, most people did not travel much until the last couple of hundred years. So, there wasn't a lot of mixing of cultures, languages or genes until recently. Now, travel is common, people adopt new languages and cultures all the time, and intermix. Even if race ever had any relevance (even if just for study), it certainly does NOT anymore.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
4Justice 2/18/2021 3:42:28 AM (No. 700045)
I forgot to add....societies built upon superstition and tribalism are slower to develop than those built on reason. The Age of Enlightenment helped boost European societies faster than others who depended more on superstitions and who separated themselves from other groups. I believe this also has something to do with the mention of literacy being important to growth. These are cultural issues, however. Not racial. In the U.S., however, we all do better when we are in unity and adopt one culture...the American culture which developed from many. I blame the power hungry Democrats for setting blacks back and holding them down at a time when they finally won full independence and equal rights in the 60s. Their policies (as well as the radical rantings of the Marxists) destroyed the once strong black nuclear family and created an new atmosphere of separatism at a time when integration could have made a big difference.
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Miasma. Unpleasant atmosphere. Vapor.