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After glancing through Professor Nieli's paper, I realized that several users on this thread have "white guilt", and some have guilt to the point where they believe punishing Asians corrects past wrongs against Blacks.
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Well, it is clear to me that Nieli suffers from bias and has a personal axe to grind. He basically said as much when he recounted his experience as a child. So, I think it premature to use his little paper to substantiate this notion of white guilt. It all sounds like some guy who wants to broad brush an entire group of people in order to try giving his position additional weight. It will not take the most perceptive reader here to see through the ruse.</p>
<p>It is not a matter of white guilt. We have a whole segment of the American population that feels, by nature, that it has been robbed of something, something fundamental, to which it had a right. Apparently some whites understand this and want to correct it. There is no room here for guilt because the whites today havent necessarily caused the problem, though they benefit of it. The goal is to create situations wherein blacks can gain enough education and power to retrieve for themselves what this country has taken. It is only the right thing to do, rather than continue to ignore what will persist against this nation by natural law. What you are failing to see is that there is an economy here, and that it means you cant get something for nothing. If you steal peoples lives and sense of self so that you can get free labor, you will later have to deal with the carnage you have created. And if you refuse to deal with that, you will have to deal with the stench of gutted carcasses and rotting bodies for as long as nature keeps them around. The civilized approach is to work against creating such a mess. But if you create it, you sould stop living in it. To do that, you need first to admit that you are in a mess and that it is a mess someone created.</p>
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Also, some people here believe that they, and only they, are entitled to special treatment. They recognize that other groups have faced discrimination in this nation, but they don't care. They believe that only their group is entitled to preferential treatment.
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Surely other groups have suffered. Even white groups, like the Irish and Italians have suffered. But suffering is not the problem here. None of these other groups, except blacks, are verily defined by having the their identities, and their dignity, even the possession of their own bodies, taken away. It is from this that we have our problems today. The only other group that comes close is Native Americans because, while they were allowed freedom to maintain their identity and dignity, their homes and in many cases their lives were destroyed. Blacks and Native Americans, above all other groups, have legitimate claims against this nation. They suffer to this very day, unlike the other groups, because those claims remain unfulfilled.</p>
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For those who believe that Asians should be punished to correct for past sins, I ask, "How is that not morally wrong?"
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Were Asians here in 1619? No, they were not. They came here so much later, and as a group they entered essentially as entrepreneurs, selling either labor or some other ware for the potential of realizing profits. That simply does not apply to blacks, and it is what makes blacks unique. When you accept a business, you also accept its debt. Asians arent being punished for anything. They arrived in a land of opportunity made possible by stealing millions of black bodies and crushing their souls over hundreds of years. Either those Asians, along with everyone else, are going to pay in a civilized fashion, or they are going to pay in an uncivilized fashion-- with things like 911 and worse. It is very clear to me that eventually, this country is going to pay its debt even if it has to kill itself to do it. Even if we murder every single black person in the nation to try to escape the debt, we will be left with a nation wherein no person will feel safe. There will be no such thing as reading the morning paper, taking a leisurely walk. The whole world will be against you, even if no one lifts a finger to stop you. There is no escaping what America owes by nature. No one is being punished simply because they arrived here seeking opportunity while also assuming the debt this country owes.</p>
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For those who believe that only their race is entitled to special treatment, I ask, "Do you think people of other races who have been discriminated against have had it 'easier' than you?"
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Well other groups obviously have had it easier. None of these folks are defined by having their bodies owned by someone else, right here in The Land of the Free. Surely bad things have happened to other people, but as a group, blacks have had it worse than all. You know, it is fairly meaningless for some guy to come here willingly, seeking opportunity, only to find it tougher than he had bargained for. It is meaningless because the guy was just an entrepreneur who made a bad gamble. That describes the overwhelming majority of Asians in this country, whether their time here has been good or bad. It describes the overwhelming majority of Hispanics, of Indians, of Pakistanis, of Russians, Germans, Dutch, English. Only one group was literally created here, against its will, and then denied the chance to join everyone else. While other groups right now pour across our borders and swarm into our schools because they see opportunity and have the confidence to take advantage of it, blacks has a result of their history, often can hardly even see the opportunity. Millions even think the nation is hostile to them, that it created AIDS to murder them. History caused this sentiment because this nation has attacked this people repeatedly, and by a variety of means. Throwing a few bucks at this for a handful of years means nothing at all. The moral imbalance of history will still persist.</p>