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Racism
2015-01-07
I was dragging out of bed this morning when my wife asked if I'd read about the attack in Paris. I grunted something while I went to brush my remaining teeth. Two things popped out in my mind between that first taste of Pepsodent and the final rinse and spit: "Charlie Hebdo" and "I'll bet Merkel's feeling stupid about now."

"Charlie Hebdo" was pretty much instinct, because we've been doing this for a long time. It wasn't the Eiffel Tower, so they were next on the list. If it had been Denmark, it would have been Jyllandsposten.

The Angela Merkel thought may or may not have any accuracy. She's a politician who plays to her base and the Eurobase is a snotty, wimpy bunch that seemingly doesn't mind being colonized. Sweden seemed to have handed over the keys and agreed to be out by the end of the month. I guess the Ostrogoths' neighbors felt kind of the same way. The later Roman Empire was fond of the rule of law, which meant you could get what you wanted out of the system if you had the money.

There's a group called PEGIDA that's been holding demonstrations against the colonists. They're "racists" because they don't want to have their history and culture displaced. I believe there's some lingering vestige of wanting their wives and daughters to be safe from being sold off into slavery. They've noticed how The Natives are "groomed" from early ages around Moslem neighborhoods.

The staid Burghers are catching on. The Eurocentric political parties are growing. It's become a race between them catching on and the hipster innalekshuls learning how to properly pronounce "Allahu Akbar." The tide can be stemmed for awhile by hollering "racism," which makes everybody on the receiving end feel uncomfortable.

Then there are the Jews, everybody's favorite piñata. Goebbels' Ghost knows how to handle that setup.

Why would native Euros -- Frenchies, Fritzies, honest Walloons and Phlegms, Brits, Spaniards and Italianos -- want to replace their own cultures with something utterly alien?

Che, baby.

It is, like, so trendè to be a Revolutionary. Question Authority® and all that stuff. If you're going to tear down your own society Arabian culture makes a nifty weapon. Western culture has more in common with today's Japan, China, and one Korea. Euro culture can understand the Russians better than they comprehend Islam -- the proof is that Russians integrate better into European societies.

Once you're a true-green Allahu Akbar revolutionary you get to be fearsome. You get to wear a face mask and M.C. Hammer pants and tote a gun. You get to chop people's heads off, just like Genghis Khan did. Hell, you may even get to explode!

We're supposed to welcome these guys with open arms. Really. They're no different from the rest of us.

To quote the recently deceased editor of Charlie Hebdo: "I'd rather die on my feet than to live on my knees,"
Posted by:Fred

#7  Good stuff Fred.

Hammer pants, heh. I think a lot of them wear Bieber pants IYKWIM.

When my since High School companions called me a racist for not being totally in the bag for K. Sebelius' second term, I became immunized from its meaning.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2015-01-07 16:15  

#6  Old man Pruitt can still go long when necessary.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-01-07 15:48  

#5  And so the paper still goes on.

Posted by: JohnQC   2015-01-07 13:54  

#4  editor of Charlie Hebdo does
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-01-07 13:27  

#3  It seems our own Champ is a bit snotty too.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-01-07 11:40  

#2  There's plenty of "snotty that seemingly doesn't mind being colonized" in all Western nations including the US. ("Islam is peace!", "The future must not belong...")

I'm not trying to defend the European mainstream, nor am I gloating. This is an alarming diagnosis.

I don't believe that cowardice is behind this mindset though. The enemy is weak, so weak that it can't be said to exist as a military power. Hence asymmetrical warfare.

What plagues Western elites seems to be zero cultural self-confidence and, for lack of a better word, masochism.

Restoring deterrence after 9/11 would have been easy and cheap for the West, and painful for the Arab-Islamic world, the leaders and the people.

Our betters decided that this wasn't the way to go. Now we're paying the price.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-01-07 11:24  

#1  Well stated Fred!

"I'd rather die on my feet than to live on my knees" Amen to that.

However, the leftists are in search of a culture, so they don't seem to feel as Charlie Hebdo does.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-01-07 11:09  

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