Topic: Noam Chomsky: White fear of revenge is ‘deeply rooted in American culture’ (Read 659 times)

They submit because they really believe that it is unfair to discriminate or speak hurtful words or actions. The men have been indoctrinated to think like females. Politeness is politically required on all speech.

Two more examples:


And Liberland is supposed to be a Libertarian paradise, yet they are accepting applications from Somalians, Egyptians, etc.., so how will they ever maintain a Libertarian culture 

And the application process requires political correctness:


They seem to have this delusion that they can keep political correctness censorship and maintain respect for private property. 

As Armstrong has pointed out, it was the discrimination against immigrants who did not assimilate with English and our capitalistic values, that made the great melting pot work as unified high economy-of-scale economy and culture. Once we ended that with anti-discrimination laws, we destroyed the melting pot economy. This is why the USA will breakup into regions.

Europe is culturally destroyed... USA following in footsteps but will disintegrate instead...

Chomsky or the highway as he likes to think of himself!

Read recently he believes that one person had the gift of being able to string words together and they had siblings with the same feature. This in his head is how we evolved to be able to talk and rationally think about stuff. Imagine he thinks we are all inbreeds at least thats how I read the article. Was in this weeks economist.

Link if anyone is interested:
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21695371-theories-worlds-best-known-linguist-have-become-rather-weird-noam-chomsky

Yeah, my teacher told me that Noam Chomsky is an expert on linguistics, so I'm getting confused when this thread said that Chomsky told about history. I thought he wasn't Chomsky my teacher said, but I was wrong then.

I also think it's wrong area to idolize Chomsky in this conversation.

Chomsky is a self admitted tool of the elites. He is just an expert on linguistics, yet he is treated like a liberal deity. Stop worshiping this false idol.

The prison population seems to echo the issue and is a interesting dynamic when you think about racial walls keeping a segment of the population down. I always look at the crack epidemic in the 80s and how gangs flourished hand in hand. Both activities helped bolster the prison population
and keep the house full. Its really hard for me to fully grasp due to being a outsider looking in and not actually experiencing the situation or being effected by it.
America dues seem to need to come together and figure out the racial dynamics to become a more unified Country.

I grew up to age 15 in New Orleans and Baton Rouge and due to poverty I attended schools which were all negro students other than myself and my sister.

I can confirm that racism was an issue 20 years ago. I used to argue with my grandmother about her racism towards African Americans.

However, this has to a large extent been eroded by the youth who interact cross-racially and cross-culturally.

There is nothing really the State needs to do. Popular culture such as rap and R&B music erode the barrier between the races and cultures.

Note several years ago I debated existential philosophy with Chomsky in email. He was very chatty and cordial.

I've been warned that Chomsky is a mouthpiece for the banksters who fund grassroots "Astroturf" movements in order to control the people.

American culture is imbued with fears that African Americans will someday repay the violence and oppression that has marred their history in this country, according to linguist and cultural critic Noam Chomsky. Speaking with philosopher George Yancy about the roots of American racism, from Native American genocide to anti-black discrimination, Chomsky emphasized the ongoing impact of black enslavement and subjugation in the U.S., saying “fears that the victims might rise up and take revenge are deeply rooted in American culture, with reverberations to the present.”

Chomsky was speaking with Yancy as part of an ongoing New York Times series of discussions around race. Early in the conversation, Yancy noted that contemporary American conversations about terrorism often omit “the fact that many black people in the United States have had a long history of being terrorized by white racism.” Chomsky cited the fact that slaves had arrived in the colonies 400 years ago, and were largely responsible for America’s early economic strength.

“We…cannot allow ourselves to forget that the hideous slave labor camps of the new “empire of liberty” were a primary source for the wealth and privilege of American society, as well as England and the continent. The industrial revolution was based on cotton, produced primarily in the slave labor camps of the United States.”

Slaves were highly efficient producers, Chomsky states, and “[p]roductivity increased even faster than in industry, thanks to the technology of the bullwhip and pistol, and the efficient practice of brutal torture.”

With the end of slavery came an immediate need to criminalize African Americans to ensure a bustling—and free—labor force. Chomsky notes “that blacks were arrested without real cause and prisoners were put to work for these business interests. The system provided a major contribution to the rapid industrial development from the late 19th century.”

More recently, Reagan helped drive this process of profiteering off the criminalizing of black bodies through the war on drugs. Chomsky says the policy “initiated a new Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander’s apt term for the revived criminalization of black life, evident in the shocking incarceration rates and the devastating impact on black society.”

Chomsky also discussed America’s long history of atrocities toward its native population, and the historical revisionism of figures such as Teddy Roosevelt, who pretended that white colonizers had been benevolent invaders. He noted that in reality, America’s native peoples had been “extirpated” or “expelled to destitution and misery.”

“That’s only a bare beginning of the shocking record of the Anglosphere and its settler-colonial version of imperialism, a form of imperialism that leads quite naturally to the ‘utter extirpation’ of the indigenous population, and to ‘intentional ignorance’ on the part of beneficiaries of the crimes.”

The refusal to acknowledge this history of oppression, violence and genocide may be the most disturbing and terrible tendency of America’s dominant culture. “Perhaps the most appalling contemporary myth is that none of this happened,” said Chomsky. He added:

“There is also a common variant of what has sometimes been called ‘intentional ignorance’ of what it is inconvenient to know: ‘Yes, bad things happened in the past, but let us put all of that behind us and march on to a glorious future, all sharing equally in the rights and opportunities of citizenry.’ The appalling statistics of today’s circumstances of African-American life can be confronted by other bitter residues of a shameful past, laments about black cultural inferiority, or worse, forgetting how our wealth and privilege was created in no small part by the centuries of torture and degradation of which we are the beneficiaries and they remain the victims.”

Chomsky and Yancy touched upon Ferguson, Gaza, and the similarities between the two, and Islamophobia in the post-9/11 age. As they closed, Yancy asked Chomsky about possible ways of putting an end to racism.

“Racism is far from eradicated, but it is not what it was not very long ago, thanks to such efforts,” Chomsky said. Cautiously hopeful, he added: “It’s a long, hard road. No magic wand, as far as I know.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/noam-chomsky-white-fear-of-revenge-is-deeply-rooted-in-american-culture/