Paying for what Ancestors did?
Mar 14, 2024 7:39:28 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Mar 14, 2024 7:39:28 GMT -5
Paying for what Ancestors did?
In the United states, whites seem to be considered responsible for what slave owners did during slavery. Because of this viewpoint, as is repeatedly shown in videos showcased on Twitter and on you-tube, some are sometimes attacked physically.
Now, there are two very significant problems in morally trying to justify such physical attacks:
For example, there are millions of white people in the United States descended from whites who never participated in the slave trade. Some, such as the Irish, were persecuted themselves, and were even temporarily tagged as being subhuman. Others arrived as immigrants after slavery had long since been abolished.
Still others, especially those living up north, dedicated their lives to helping blacks attain emancipation. At considerable risk to themselves, they provided what was to be known as the underground Railroad, as system of escape via which many slaves were led to freedom.
In short, looking at a person's skin and tagging the person as a descendent of some racist cruel slave-owner is just plain dumb. But even if it were true, it would still be dumb to punish an innocent descended for something that a guilty ancestor did. Furthermore, the victim might not have slave-owner ancestors.
After all, there were plenty of Anglo Americans and others whose ancestors either had absolutely nothing to do with slavery, or else were against slavery, and who even went out of their way to help the slaves to reach freedom in the North. Moreover, many whites arrived in the USA many years after slavery was abolished and had kids.
Here is one example of an innocent ancestor: Should his descendants be beaten as well?
Ironically, beating racists up only serves to encourage them, since they will feel that all their negative opinions were confirmed by the beating they received. So will their racist family members, or if their family members were not racist before the beating, then the chances that the will become fanatically racist after the beating of a family member are very good.
In short, this reaction to present and past racism just doesn't make any logical nor practical sense.
Now, there are two very significant problems in morally trying to justify such physical attacks:
1. Not every white person in the USA, nor anywhere else, is a descendent of USA whites who owned slaves, was connected to slavery, or who treated them unfairly.
For example, there are millions of white people in the United States descended from whites who never participated in the slave trade. Some, such as the Irish, were persecuted themselves, and were even temporarily tagged as being subhuman. Others arrived as immigrants after slavery had long since been abolished.
Still others, especially those living up north, dedicated their lives to helping blacks attain emancipation. At considerable risk to themselves, they provided what was to be known as the underground Railroad, as system of escape via which many slaves were led to freedom.
In short, looking at a person's skin and tagging the person as a descendent of some racist cruel slave-owner is just plain dumb. But even if it were true, it would still be dumb to punish an innocent descended for something that a guilty ancestor did. Furthermore, the victim might not have slave-owner ancestors.
After all, there were plenty of Anglo Americans and others whose ancestors either had absolutely nothing to do with slavery, or else were against slavery, and who even went out of their way to help the slaves to reach freedom in the North. Moreover, many whites arrived in the USA many years after slavery was abolished and had kids.
Here is one example of an innocent ancestor: Should his descendants be beaten as well?
2. Attacking someone physically increases racism!
Ironically, beating racists up only serves to encourage them, since they will feel that all their negative opinions were confirmed by the beating they received. So will their racist family members, or if their family members were not racist before the beating, then the chances that the will become fanatically racist after the beating of a family member are very good.
In short, this reaction to present and past racism just doesn't make any logical nor practical sense.