In reply to a commenter at Comment is Free, who wrote of the interests of the various races and peoples in Britain, and of the officially-disgraceful interests of those Englishmen who wish to preserve their homeland, another commenter had this to say:
“I guess you are ignorant of the fact that genetics tells us Homo sapiens originated in Africa?.....“Silly me, of course you are.” [1]
It has the usual smugness which surrounds politically-inspired stupidity. I am yet to hear a good reason why anyone believes that a genetic origin of Homo sapiens in Africa has any significant bearing on present racial-political matters. Yet it is used to imply that everyone in the world — or, more selectively, everyone European — is of “African” origin, an implication relying on a dumb equivocation between present-racial and original denotations of that word. Is it too hard to understand that one hundred thousand years ago, in what is now called Africa, members of Homo sapiens were not African or European or Chinese? Is it beyond the meanest comprehension to grasp that Europeans and Chinese are not descended from Africans in any present-racial sense? To believe otherwise would be little more rational than to believe that two of three brothers are descended from the third because they all share the same father and because that other brother still lives in the paternal home. Yet, by a grand political legerdemain, taking advantage of the mental dimness by which recent categories cannot be distinguished from ancient ones, it might be fancied to be seen that all the peoples of the world — the Chinese, the Europeans, the Middle-Easterners, and so on — ought not to preserve themselves, their lands, and their cultures against the claims of all and sundry, or rather against “common humanity” — except it seems that only the European race has been so stupefied as to fancy so.
[1] “rickb”, commenting of Sunny Hundal, “The Hope We’ve Gained from the BNP”, Comment is Free (The Guardian’s weblog), 8th June 2009. (Corrected quotation: removal of additional definite article and of the capitalisation of “sapiens”.)
[1] “rickb”, commenting of Sunny Hundal, “The Hope We’ve Gained from the BNP”, Comment is Free (The Guardian’s weblog), 8th June 2009. (Corrected quotation: removal of additional definite article and of the capitalisation of “sapiens”.)
4 comments:
Given the things that genetics keeps turning up, you'd think that Guardianistas might keep shtum on the topic.
No doubt "we" are out of Africa, but we are not out of the Bantu. Genetic mapping finds the oldest distinct peoples remaining on earth to be Bushmen, who are most certainly not Bantus. Bantus later evolved within Africa, Asians and Caucasians in the Stepps.
Australian Aboriginies are clearly the unmixed and surviving first wave out of that unfortunate Continent. Just part of the hazards of taking a wrong turn, or staying at home.
It has the usual smugness which surrounds politically-inspired stupidity. I am yet to hear a good reason why anyone believes that a genetic origin of Homo sapiens in Africa has any significant bearing on present racial-political matters.
I can bring no further wisdom to the discussion. I can only agree with this.
Always better than bringing wisdom to a discussion with the socialist mindset is, instead, translating the private need within every assumption.
Commenter has a craving for equality; or perhaps more so a terrible fear of inequality. Commenter is secretly certain he is far more intelligent than Africans, and he probably is--more's the pity. But if we really are all Africans now, his nightmare becomes more palatable.
Commenter really understands only his instincts well, and he does not like them. He us unable to consider that others would be any better.
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