Why We Must Forever Stow Away 87.3% Of White Male Western Writers, Historical Figures, Art, Media, and Thinkers, Over 2 Decades Gone.
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Being a white male myself, I have the ability to speak for all white men, now, and those from whenever. Thank you white men for that honor. It is a similar honor you have bestowed many millions of times on the only person of color in a classroom with 29 white classmates, i.e. to speak for everyone of their color. With these reins bestowed on me to stow away the pale ancients, I have the power of a billion white sons, all the way to great, great, great, and a thousand more generations of white great grandsons. I would ask you to kneel, but I do not want to overstep my massive authority.
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Some may consider my idea as that of burning books; I would rather have it compared to burning heretics at the stake. If you white men think about it for a second (which you likely haven’t), white men have been doing all kinds of terrible things for millennia. That makes what I am proposing a performance of justice. Justice delayed as long as we have done it, is justice we white men have been denying to smite our injustices, which we white men will just keep covering for, if not stopped. Basically, I would recommend that we white men cease and desist our whining now, engage an attorney, or call 9–1-1 to dispatch a pyre fire truck.
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There are colonial culpability, christian cleric, and contractual control reasons to rid ourselves of most white men of the past. Wipe clean their stuffiness and excessiveness from our daily lives, book shelves, and altars of history accessories just as they whitewashed people of color, kiboshed the LGBTQ community, and tossed women out of anything like a proportional say in our past, and flossed a lot out today as well. That said, it will take me a while to get to those good, sound, and evidentiary reasons, but until then it will be fun to have your brain spun from some scorching sarcasm very well done.
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White men could pillage, rape, spread disease, and slaughter. Those feats we must relive since they are so important to perpetuate the sadism and narcissism that built this world. Of course, they did good things, yet we have only learned more about those good things because learning about what they did the most would mean 95.71% of the learning would have been about the sadistic and punitive things they did to anyone who got in their way, or the narcissistic and misogynistic assaults against the gender they had their way with. Yet, these were great men, but pigs and devils most of the time. Hard to prove me wrong, when white men wrote their own histories.
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Alas, Poor Yorick, Poor Jud Must Die.
Photo by Julia Kadel on Unsplash. Of course, there are many white guys who were kind, caring, and not slave owners. The problem is those feminist, non-racist pale faces were one in 100 from what I have read. Calling more than a percent of them good christians is like wandering around a horse shit loaded field of hypocrisy. For example, St. Augustine had a mistress on both arms. Shoot, Martin Luther was an anti-semite. George Washington whipped his slaves, and separated their families. John Adams, the vast majority of white male framers, and the Constitution, rejected out of hand, the fundamental rights of women and Blacks. The catholic popes, well, their good christian (misogynist) moods came at any time of the month…
Pope Leo X made a bill decreeing that all those convicted of witchcraft were to be executed.
In 1679, Pope Innocent XI also weighed in by condemning “marital sex exercised for pleasure alone”.
Reform was looked down upon by the church, female-led communities were routinely condemned and destroyed, sometimes massacred, and land confiscated. An orthodox community that adhered to Catholic teachings — the Beguines — were condemned because their order was begun as a response to the needs of the people but not initiated by the Church. They were living as nuns, serving their community, holding all possessions in common, living a life of poverty and service to others. Heresy people! Really bad stuff, as bad as a government helping its citizens. So of course the Beguines were disbanded..
In 1431 Joan of Arc’s pyre fire execution served notice to women for nearly half a millennium that resistance was feudal, and futile. She is a shining star in our memory mostly because she was set afire. If she had died in battle, more of her history would have been lost. If she was not killed in war, or by pyre purification, and got married, a larger portion would have disappeared due to a husband’s control over the remainder of her life. That’s if she survived child bearing.
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Because women raise our children, they are meant to succumb to the background, never having the standing to live the life they want. Of course, that is not true. Nearly every man of antiquity was there to be her partner, her equal, and see her be a full participant in what the world can offer, rather than a second class citizen, or disposable baby-making machine. In an alternate universe, every man of iniquity was for inequity, whether it was towards women or people of color, so they could rape, plunder, blunder, and put anyone asunder without their wives and community ever knowing what they were up to, or up into. Which white male universe should we perpetuate?
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I know, everyone is imperfect. They merely did what their fathers did, and what the overall culture expected at the time. Either way, how could they have become feminists before the 1900s? They couldn’t have. They were not very smart. Brain damage was common in white men of the day. For most men to think women were more than fleshy, child nursing mannequins, kitchen keepers, and clothes washing serfs was not even genetically possible until those damn Nazis and Margaret Sanger eugenically did it. Hey, I finally figured out how Rushdoony Limpaw came up with his term, feminazi.His kind is the type of lowest common denominator that thoroughly missed out on the genetic upgrade, and keeps downloading ancient white supremacist and misogynist shit on modernity.
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Before a conservative runs around screaming, I am equating Nazis with Sanger, they must realize I was employing a form of sanctimonious sarcasm. While it may have stepped over the line, I know it is not as stupid as coming up with reasons why slavery was actually good for most Black Americans who lived through it, or to defend that it is the duty of most women to attempt having 27 births, and to be submissive, silent, and waste no sperm. Don’t enjoy the pleasure of sex, unless baby making is in the cards, but still don’t enjoy it, if possible, says a white male interpreted dogma. Sacred, scarcely-any-sex sad face.
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Restricting women, and destroying people of color should not make us waiver from keeping the white male in prominence for another millennia or two. We can continue to whitewash and female quash them from view and thought because our deeds were so much better, especially due to never allowing those groups, to any great extent, have a book or a school until near a century ago, give or take. Obviously, if “those groups”would have been as crafty and shitty to most everyone as we white males were, their prowess and ideas would be featured in every nook and cranny like ours are. Therefore, they must suffer through our arrogance quite a while longer..
Female/Male Equality: A Stolen Opportunity.
Some historical background…
Photo by Tristan Colangelo on Unsplash. It is legitimately plausible that a woman created the wheel, started the first campfire, and clubbed the first asshole, a man of course, into unconsciousness.
This man like thing was caught sitting by the campfire dumbfounded, agape, and drooling, wondering how it happened that the mastodon he had found dead, killed by falling rocks, two miles away, got all the way to “his” man cave and camp, and how was it smelling so good as it cooked over the (ouch!) flaming thingie.
He asked her, how did it get here, and is it going to be any good after burning? All he heard was… “You lazy, dumb, ass hat”, before his head hurt, and he hit the ground.
After waking up (i.e. regaining consciousness), he ate the piece of meat she left him, before she headed off to do all the work he was too lazy to do most days, plus her own work, while nursing two kids, and managing seven more. That’s when the man saw the round things under his travois. Asking himself, what are those?They were hooked to his travois; he then flipped the travois over, and the two round rock things spun around. He used one to sharpen his clunky stone club so he could use the sharper edge to poke at mastodons, and other hairy beasts, to make sure they were not alive. (He had found them killed by falling rocks, or dead from a zoonotic communicable disease).
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When his female mate came home, he threatened her with the club rock, he sharpened on the wheel, i.e. her wheel. Telling her that from here forward, every night she must get wood for a fire, and make him supper. He also said, (in an oblivious and arrogant tone) she could use the hard round rolling things that sharpened stuff to move his travois around. He said, “You just flip it over, and the roundy things make my travois move nicely over ground”. She looked at his slack jawed face, feeling sorry for the idiot, mumbling something about it being her idea, and just about clubbed him again.
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A few months later she used his club now spear, to kill a dear, but let it slip that she killed the deer using his sharpened rock. The cro-magnon male also stole her hunting AND killing idea. (He hardly ever used his lazy, and lame finding roadkill idea anymore). Then he began mumbling to himself about getting all decked out in new camo duds, and going in for an overpriced new travois with a custom spear rack, as well as how the other guys would now have more accessory shit, and other things to be envious about, like who could steal the most ideas from women, and who had the most stylish yet practical hunting attire.
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If it weren’t for his muscle aggression advantage, anger management issues, and his arrogant, grifting, lying, ass hatted-ness, the nattering, neanderthal would never have had a chance to make war on carrion flies, much less against multitudes.
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NOTE: The true story above was translated from a mostly burnt black stone tablet, chopped in half by an overly aggressive male, possibly using the first spear ever made, some 35,000 years ago. It was etched by a woman, bemoaning vacuous, lecherous, larcenous, and treacherous male beasts. So the first written image was made by a woman as well.Interesting.
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There is nothing wrong with men getting the upper hand here or there. Yet, as I have just shown, white men particularly and insidiously, did it in almost every case until fifty years ago, by suppressing, subjugating, and scamming. The white male culture should be able to do it now, since at a time period, it was the culture of that time. My pa did it, so I can be the same kind of ass hat to women and people of color.
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Stop!… We must drop the it-was-their-culture trope from any current or future conversations about history. It is one of the most pernicious treatments of history to infect critical thinking. While I realize, there must be some way to reference the activities of the ancient, we must exact any perspective that will justify current societal harms for generations to come! By pretending their continued presence, in such a wide circulation and taking up so much space, is neutral, just makes white male oppression much more difficult to reverse, let alone erase.
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First, of all, almost no part of daily life was written about until five millennia ago; then history started to blossom as a discipline four or five centuries back. As I alluded to in my cro-magnon field work and interviews above. That still means, noted nearly nowhere, is anyone’s disdain for, or pain caused by, this, that, and another done by these bullying, blundering, and belligerent white men. Those missing historical accounts of women, the LGBTQ community, and people of color have undermined our solidarity with diversity, and today, their relative scarcity in the foreground shows the undermining continues. And paradoxically, and unreliably, most of what we do have as a resource, was written by white men. Of course, that seals us in a morass of many more ass hats.
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How much of this anal retentive white male screed work do we still salivate over? Think of that cauldron of out of touch, and some maybe touching each other too much, women avoiding, dudes that we still admire. Did monks not come out of their monastery to stay pure of outside evils, or were they coming out to each other inside, to keep clear of their vengefully homophobic white neighbors? Self-hating their sexuality due to their religion of hate the sinner, hate the sin, and burn the heretic, burn the homosexual out of them. We will never know much about the scary stuff because it was burned up, or hidden like other sexual escapades that are embarrassing to the church. Bless us father for we keep covering up our sins so infallibility and purity is ours to shame others.
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White Man Math: The Numbers Must Be Flipped.
It is time to do the math of the white guy problem. Even though math has been promoted as an island for men, in their history books, etc., they at least got their foundation in math from their moms in ancient times*. Therefore, we trust that 2+2 = 4. (*Since most ancient dads were out poking at animal carcasses all day, not teaching the young ones.) But if I am mistaken, and 2+2 was (supposedly) figured out by a man first, it would likely put my theory into disreputable territory, and all of math. However, Mom always said there will be iffy white male days like this, so I will rely on her judgement, and be confident in my seemingly inexplicable mathematical excursions.
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As of 1970 there were approximately 10,000 books or articles written by white males for every 3 written by women, LGBTQ, or people of color. Before 1900, it was 100,000 to one. Unfortunately, we are not near parity today, but numbers are now 10,000 articles and books produced by white males on average to an average of 4,721 for each of all the other groups (as if percentages of all races, LGBTQs, and women were of equal population). While these figures may haverequired conjuring from whole cloth, they will be serving a very righteous purpose.
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Let us pretend that we have reached parity, and every article and book that is published publicly today is evenly spread by the percentage of every group’s actual population. Yet, if the future written quantities stay equal, or if white male get even lazier for a couple centuries, we will likely continue with our white grandfathered problem. (Note: The pun is purposely gendered.) It comes from the often belabored point, suspiciously and ironically made mostly by white men, that we must continue to read, and learn from, the classics, and other white male, western civilization focused trope falderal. How does everything not look 80 to 90% white male, especially in the U.S., for another f’ing millennium?!
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Merely consider how American students learn in school about our history and most extremely, our presidents. That alone means infamous white men will continue to be highly promoted as far in the future as the eye can see! Abigail Adams is pounding the top of her coffin to bust out so she can shake her husband’s dust into an aerosol ass-hat, for “unequivocally denying her request” that he agitate the expansion of women’s rights! John Adams was wrong. He failed women, Black Americans, and others, like many of his shameful contemporaries. So please quit complaining about the classics not getting taught, or read. The fear you hear in these western civilization apologists is as personally chauvinistic, socially corrupted, and nihilistic toward others not like them, as the murderer, officer Chauvin. White men please don’t be, or defend Derek.
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Concluding White Male Western Civilization Blah
Did George Floyd, Emmett Till, Joan of Arc, Women of the Salem witch trial era, thousands of Black men lynched, people of color redlined, or those destroyed during colonization, the slaughtered inhabitants of Black Wall Street, women thrown in jail, or worse, for trying to attain the right to vote, and so on, ever really benefit from white male, western thought? Not much.
Was it going to be more beneficial at some point for everyone, than other ‘progress’ that may have occurred? Maybe.
Were scraps thrown to these people here and there? I guess, if put that way.
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Yet, even attempting to answer those questions, is again using the white male culture made me do it excuse. Like that can be appreciated today by people who are still getting a small to large part of a shit sandwich. Billions of these sandwiches were served to others while a very high percentage of white American men were able to refuse most such lunch counter items for nearly 200 years. Yet, every new immigrant we had to label as lower than the current white Americans. Shamefully we pretend as if we have become enlightened. Though we recently banned Muslims, slowed immigration overall, separated migrant families at the border like George Washington did his slaves, and so on. Where is the white christian light in the eyes of the people responsible for such travesties? Whether it is the light of their savior, or The Enlightenment of the 18th century, Americans have nearly snuffed out all that light.
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Do I actually want to burn white male supremacists at the stake, nearly everything written by white men, or stop teaching 87.3% of their ideas? First, I don’t appreciate being backed into a corner like this. I am writing this, so maybe I should just back off a bit. I guess I can, can’t I? That’s right. Cool…
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The truth is, white men have so much to answer for, to a large extent due to their mostly worst ways of transgressing in the distant past, and their lack of truth espousing, and truthful discovery. Therefore, we assuredly need to clear out what is a high percentage of excess baggage. Realize that only a small part of what they did was truly good, never mind how they did it. Just strip it down to a couple tomes of the actual good things the white guy did or wrote, remove their 1/10 millionth is truth biographies and histories, quit presenting their pale faces hiding a million lies, and horrible racist and misogynist ties. Then stow away the rest of their materials. Mark them with the seal of mostly warmed over claptrap, and just forget about their shit.
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The numbers alone from our white male weighted, western civilization past is very problematic to move into the future with. And the power white men have, and will have, dead or alive, does not bode well for attaining the equal society that is possible, any time in the next many centuries. Even if every white guy became a feminist and anti-racist at a 97.61% level tomorrow, the oppressive weight of inertia and white privileged volume, past and present, would keep perpetuating through the veins of our society unless something is done proactively to thwart it. Therefore, merely waiting for this corrosive inertia to peter out is an act of societal corruption all by itself.
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Additionally, consider the likely fact that much of what has been purported as white male ideas, writings, thoughts, projects, exploits, or creations, could have had some element if not significant help, and-or inspiration from a different gender or race. Some small or large portion of their work was possibly quashed or stolen. No one can disprove, or quantify these white male thefts. The only thing that kept those others from taking the same path, and having the same impact, was the cultural bullshit of the day, not their intrinsic potential. Yet women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community must be forever bombarded by the non-cis-gender and non-hetero-phobic white guys ignominious lies, and plagiarized thoughts and ideas, and purloined escapades and projects?
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Do we truly need 80 to 95% of the things we teach, read, or hear about based on white male productions, and historical figures? Let us every year, or so rid our institutions and media sources of their influence by 10%. Get it down to 25%, more or less. Change most things to not reference white guys, from street signs to building names, or add ten times more that reference females and people of color. Dig through every document that mentions anything about females and people of color who helped these men, and put those names along side the thieves and braggarts, or remove those men altogether.
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I understand that simply thinking about a white male fire sale is a stressful deal for white male horrible holdovers. Yes, some good things may also be forgotten, but if progress is going to continue so slowly, hurting more people, maybe what we have now, in our collective memory is a better way to proceed. Abigail Adams is here to tell us how she would do things over again, something about snippers and steers. But since this essay will also be made into a children’s book, I will note her uncensored comments later on, on Twitter, after the kids have gone to bed.
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Every white guy repeat after me… Ouch!
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Next time peoples.
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PS: My mother graduated high school, and was prepared to attend college to study biology… Then WWII hit, and the local priest suggested she become a nurse. I am not sure how much the church influenced her, but whether it was a ton or not, she did change her mind, and did end up loving her nursing work. However, did the priest approach young men with the same vigor? Were women targeted because they were in a “weaker” position?
No matter the reason, she did not become a science teacher, or go on to develop a groundbreaking substance, or discover a new organism, etc. I wouldn't want the church getting involved like that in our daughters’ lives today. My wife and I wouldn’t get involved like that. What are the “pushes and pulls” that society is utilizing today that undermines all our daughters, and all those sons of color? That is what the larger essay above is trying to slap out of the white culture.
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