tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post2515063767415042354..comments2023-07-01T00:33:55.165-07:00Comments on Ben Efsaneyim: The Fulcrum Of White SupremacyBen Efsaneyimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16001682865274251483noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-17068016257107496092013-02-25T23:09:27.246-08:002013-02-25T23:09:27.246-08:00I think that ostensibly that seems to be the case...I think that ostensibly that seems to be the case and it is a strong case. But I think that if we are looking for motivations for Euro expansion (which is the beginning of de facto white supremacy) hatred or fear of Africans doesn't explain it. <br /><br />In some ways racism against Africans is something of a tragic accident that evolved a culture of justification via philosophy and science - Africa was in the worst location once the Americas were colonized - but I don't think that history supports the idea that any kind of prejudice against Africans was the driving force behind the first wave of European imperialism during which justifications for European rule were further expanded upon. <br /><br />The motivation was purely and simply to control Asia, steal its wealth, and confront the existential threat that Asia was - and still largely still is - perceived to be. Anti-black racism could be said to have developed as an expansion of this European history, culture, and philosophy, that saw Asians as inferior, but I don't see how the opposite could be the case.<br /><br />Ben Efsaneyimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001682865274251483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-9839117374190940402013-02-25T11:23:54.572-08:002013-02-25T11:23:54.572-08:00Third time reading this article. It's thought ...Third time reading this article. It's thought provoking to say the least. Like Nakagawa, I always saw European supremacy as a Euro-non Euro problem and not as an East-West issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-10206002848909827082012-11-02T22:44:11.873-07:002012-11-02T22:44:11.873-07:00Hi Nait
Welcome! Thank you! It is amazing to real...Hi Nait<br /><br />Welcome! Thank you! It is amazing to realize how ancient and ingrained these ways of thinking are in western culture. Ben Efsaneyimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001682865274251483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-91481660036367726542012-11-01T18:34:00.900-07:002012-11-01T18:34:00.900-07:00a very interesting and IMO insightful article.
th...a very interesting and IMO insightful article.<br /><br />thank you for showing us the continuity of the idea of White supremacy vis-a-vis the Orient right from its Greek beginnings millenia ago. (:xolanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12921453061763949428noreply@blogger.com