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When people both here and elsewhere say that HBD is true but that society should still treat people as individuals or practice colorblindness, I get really mad. I don't disagree with them, but I still get mad
Because what I want to say in response is that that isn't good enough because your premise was supposed to wrong! The edifice that was used to justify anti-blackness for centuries was supposed to be completely discredited, put into the dustbin of history. You can’t enslave, discriminate, oppress, and demean a people based on the assumption that they’re inferior and then…turn out to be right. That’s not fair!
But I can't express that belief because of how obviously irrational it is. It's a demand for cosmic justice, not a real intellectual rebuttal. Yet I can't help it
This is why you should be a 'white supremacist' actually. If you care about the well-being of your own people, you should take to heart the '14 words':
After all, Europeans are the only people that managed to stop the trade of African slaves within the territories they controlled. As soon as they relinquished control of African territories, the slavery returned.
Or perhaps you see equality as a foreign value pushed down by oppressive foreign people, and therefore the self-determining Africans should have a right to enslave each other, practice polygamy and cannibalism, and the rest of their precolonial culture.
Is DEI and affirmative action cosmic justice? Or just paternalistic handouts? How do you feel about Jason Arday? Victim of DEI-enablement or of an unfair witch hunt because black professors could not seriously be held to the same standards as say, the white woman of the 'Brad Pitt in hospital scam' fame?
What do you mean by "Europeans"?
The British managed to stop the slave trade within the territories we controlled (which, by the second half of the 19th century, included the entire Atlantic) and so, belatedly, did the Yankees in the territory they controlled. The other Europeans didn't really bother until the Royal Navy made the trade dangerous and unprofitable.
Eh, France did, and most Latin American countries were white ruled at the time they ended slavery. The Arabs kept slavery for a very long time but Europeans didn't bother.
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I suppose I should say Western Europeans, as it seems the Russians may have fewer qualms about slavery perhaps due to their Mongol/khanate history.
Either way, it appears to me that most African-descended people have historically enjoyed comparatively better living conditions under the rule of white / Europeans than under their own or that of non-Europeans.
Even under Jim Crow America, while there were restrictions, denial of access, inequalities etc in the services provided to African-Americans, they still enjoyed vastly superior access to white-made wonders such as running water, electricity, healthcare, education, the automobile, the railway, etc than in some current day sub saharian African countries.
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