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Originally Posted by Marulus
To reduce culture and civilization to "race" or to exaggerate the role of race therein smacks of egalitarianism, as Menydh also remarked several times. Race fetishists often point to achievements of civilization (rarely to culture) to prove some alleged racial superiority, thus concealing their own inferiority. Thus some "white" from lower strata of "Western society" and with very small intellectual abilities, would brag about "the achievements of the white race", for something the great majority of "whites" never contributued to in any meaningful sense, for example, about the fact that a "White man" like Ian Fleming invented penicilline. Makes this less-than-average "white" feel that he is at the same level as Fleming. Though the fact is that Fleming discovered what he did, not because he was a "white man", but first and foremost because he was an outstanding individual, operating in a society the moral habitus of which tended towards the appreciation of such achievements. To make just one example....
If "white" or Europid race is so superior in every aspect, how come then that it attained all those great achievements in the last several hundred years only and not before that? In all those tens of thousands of years it existed...
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I agree. In passing, outstanding individuals are so engrossed in their work they probably don't even know what "race" they belong to.
If you read some of the rubbish on the supremacist sites, even the ancient Egyptians and Indians were really "white" (unbeknownst to themselves!). By this preposterous argument, every civilisational advance has been brought about only by white people (with a grudging admission that maybe the Chinese made some inconsequential contributions).
As you say, the self-congratulation is coming from sub-par whites and for obvious reasons (I may not be great, but I am part of a great "race," and hence some it rubs off on me by virtue of membership).