None of this is about white supremacy, none of it is about race - it is about destruction of a culture so independent and free, it gives the left no political advantage.
Michael, you can't talk about Western civilization without mentioning its very foundation: Judeo-Christianity, which ended tribalism amongst so many other transformations in the darkness of, well, tribalism! Before God, every single one of us is equal; He loves each one of us equally, because He created each one of us. Judeo-Christianity is what riles the wokesters.
The Christian part accepts everyone into it. You can simply declare yourself a Christian. It preaches equality before God, and also the fallibility of all people. You would think Socialists would love it. But it also says follow God, not other false Gods. Which definitely would include the Government. It also says to stand up for righteousness. Another no-no in Socialism.
What is Western cultural but the culture of the European peoples? We couldn't talk about Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese or Mohican culture independent of those distinct nations, yet we abstract Western civilization away from the European. Different peoples have different cultures. Of course many of the great achievements of European men in human rights, economics, mathematics, science and technology are not owned by Europeans and can be adopted by anyone. In fact, I would argue that they should. In this sense all nations can share aspects of Western civilization. But it isn't incorrect to call Western civilization "White culture" since it is the cultures of the European peoples.
I suspect the reason the left calls it "white culture" is to frame it in such away that even squishy conservatives and proud patriots will reject all things White as 'white supremacist' and "Eurocentric". It's the attempt to force White people to hate their own ancestry, history and traditions. Since being called 'racist' is the worst possible thing one can be called today, even the supporters of Western civilization will disconnect it from the people who shaped and formed it. This is where the idea of a "proposition nation" comes from. It's the idea of America as an abstract idea completely devoid of the European and particularly Anglo people that founded it. We are told America is a "civic nation" where anyone, from anywhere -- people from any nation, culture, tradition and religion -- are just as American as the ancestors of the American colonist. Since a nation is a people sharing the same ancestry, history, tradition and culture, what a "civic nation" amounts to is not a nation at all, but multiple nations at war with each other fighting for political power in the interest of their respective nations. Calling Western civilization "white culture" is simply a Democrat rhetorical trick.
Michael, you can't talk about Western civilization without mentioning its very foundation: Judeo-Christianity, which ended tribalism amongst so many other transformations in the darkness of, well, tribalism! Before God, every single one of us is equal; He loves each one of us equally, because He created each one of us. Judeo-Christianity is what riles the wokesters.
Good point, Jane.
The Christian part accepts everyone into it. You can simply declare yourself a Christian. It preaches equality before God, and also the fallibility of all people. You would think Socialists would love it. But it also says follow God, not other false Gods. Which definitely would include the Government. It also says to stand up for righteousness. Another no-no in Socialism.
What is Western cultural but the culture of the European peoples? We couldn't talk about Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese or Mohican culture independent of those distinct nations, yet we abstract Western civilization away from the European. Different peoples have different cultures. Of course many of the great achievements of European men in human rights, economics, mathematics, science and technology are not owned by Europeans and can be adopted by anyone. In fact, I would argue that they should. In this sense all nations can share aspects of Western civilization. But it isn't incorrect to call Western civilization "White culture" since it is the cultures of the European peoples.
I suspect the reason the left calls it "white culture" is to frame it in such away that even squishy conservatives and proud patriots will reject all things White as 'white supremacist' and "Eurocentric". It's the attempt to force White people to hate their own ancestry, history and traditions. Since being called 'racist' is the worst possible thing one can be called today, even the supporters of Western civilization will disconnect it from the people who shaped and formed it. This is where the idea of a "proposition nation" comes from. It's the idea of America as an abstract idea completely devoid of the European and particularly Anglo people that founded it. We are told America is a "civic nation" where anyone, from anywhere -- people from any nation, culture, tradition and religion -- are just as American as the ancestors of the American colonist. Since a nation is a people sharing the same ancestry, history, tradition and culture, what a "civic nation" amounts to is not a nation at all, but multiple nations at war with each other fighting for political power in the interest of their respective nations. Calling Western civilization "white culture" is simply a Democrat rhetorical trick.