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Spelling It Out
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 Another corporation
has been found guilty of bigotry — that is,
practicing  anthropology
without a license.
American
Airlines had printed a pilot-training manual in which
it took candor to the point of insanity. A section of the manual titled
“Survival in Latin America” cautions its pilots that Latin
American passengers “expect not to depart on time. In fact,
it’s rumored that they will call in a false bomb threat to delay a
departure if they think they’ll be late.” Furthermore, the guide
added, “They like a drink in the plane prior to takeoff. Unruly and/or
intoxicated passengers are not infrequent.”
Well,
wouldn’t you know. This manual fell into the hands of a lawyer, and
moments later it was being broadcast on every radio station in the Western
Hemisphere.
Within
hours American Airlines issued an apology. “We deeply regret ...
American Airlines holds our Latin customers in the highest regard ...
demonstrate our commitment ...” et cetera.
Let me
stress that I find the pilots’ training manual deplorable. All cultures
are pretty much alike. No ethnic group gets drunk or rowdy or shows up late
with any greater frequency than any other ethnic group. In fact, the whole
human race is basically Swedish.
There.
Am I covered? Well, just to be safe, let me add that there is nothing
distinctive, let alone admirable, about the Protestant culture of North
America. If there is a bad ethnic group — and of course there
isn’t — but if there is, it’s white people, especially those
of Northwestern European stock. They possess one ethnic trait: bigotry,
racism, prejudice, whatever you want to call it.
![[Breaker quote for Spelling It Out: The missing achievement]](2006breakers/060928.gif) If
it weren’t for the slavery and
discrimination white people practiced — invented, actually, since these
crimes were unknown on earth until they came along — other peoples
would also have invented automobiles, computers and moon rockets. The
Aztecs, Zulus, and Eskimos would have built their own Empire State Buildings,
possibly with indoor plumbing. Only the white man’s repression
prevented other races (and the white man’s own women) from
emulating these achievements.
Such,
at any rate, is the constant implication of the constant white-bashing, alias
liberalism, that has become the official creed of this country. Nobody spells
it out this way, because it’s too obviously silly. But we’re
invited to assume that the only reason other cultures don’t match the
performance of the Protestant culture is that the Protestants won’t
let them.
After
all, American culture is Protestant. That’s both its strength and its
weakness. The anti-authoritarian core of this culture has released
tremendous scientific and technological power. But it has also prevented the
culture from having strong cohesive or defensive powers. Its life span is
probably destined to be as brief as it has been brilliant.
Cultural Protestants (who may profess any religion, or none)
don’t believe in themselves. They believe in “mankind.”
The moment you accuse them of bigotry, they fold. That’s the last sin
they want to be guilty of, and they’ll go to absurd lengths to prove
they aren’t prejudiced. So it’s easy to make them feel guilty
even when they’re innocent. Naturally, making them feel guilty has
become the nation’s No. 1 racket.
The
cultural Protestant feels guilty even when he notices that other cultures are
different. He is deeply embarrassed by racial differences that seem to
contradict the ideal of a homogenous “mankind.” Even
“mankind” has become “humankind” lately,
because sexual differences are also embarrassing. Religious differences
embarrass him too, so his religion becomes less and less religious and more
and more “ecumenical.” He considers it arrogant to claim to
possess “truth”; he deplores “dogma,” which is
“divisive.”
Needless to say, the rest of “mankind” is
cashing in on this naked, shivering Protestant conscience. Anti-discrimination
laws, lawsuits, anti-white affirmative action programs, flood-tide
immigration, and unremitting propaganda are gobbling up the fruits of
Protestant culture and dispossessing its former proprietors. Whatever that
culture produced is said to have been stolen. And the cultural Protestant can
only plead guilty. His conscience forbids him to defend himself.
We
hear that abject conscience speaking yet again in the American Airlines
apology. This is a culture whose mighty achievements don’t include
self-preservation
Joseph Sobran |
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