There is something deeper than the charge of white racism happening. The claim is: “Western Civilization” enables “white supremacy”. It’s a rhetorical con game by lesser cultures to engender white guilt and white dispossession. Many academics teach “Western Civilization,” with its origins in the classical world which they teach supports white identity politics and that concept too must be abolished. Western Civilization is white civilization.
No one can credibly claim to “defend Western Civilization” without defending the white people who created it. “To read about your own culture is a revolutionary act,” said Jonathan Bowden in one of his speeches. In today’s world, there is no greater act of rebellion—for whites—than to defend their own identity. To be a white person is to be heir of a marvelous set of traditions and wonderful, indeed stupendous culture that stretches from the Greco-Roman and Germanic civilizations of the past into the limitless horizons of a potentially glorious future. Yet that future will be ours only if we have the moral courage to defend our right to exist. That battle starts by claiming ownership of our own history. It’s fortunate for all of the lesser cultures, cultures that were never enriched by the study of the most successful of the ancient world that there were white people and cultures that went before them and could point the way to a better future for them also.
What about all of the other cultures? Teach them with truth, not malice. On the individual level everyone counts. Let’s all make sure that means white individuals too.
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