against and some of the thinkers who we credit in the west as being people they came up with the concept of rationalism and reason in france, david who in the united kingdom and many more what is it about this complete clearing away of the intellectual terrain. in my experience of people who attack all of the dead white male philosophers you would expect at the very least would ve read all the prominent people of color authors but i find often that is not true for example have the read martin luther king s essay my pilgrimage to nonviolence where he lays out who he got his philosophy from and who does he name plato, aristotle, hobbes, bensalem, big section on marx
paintings any longer because there is no black chinese nature paintings from the 17th century. only the west is an obsession this is an untried experiment in human history what happens when you raise children and give them nothing to be proud of. the perversity i would argue and you talk about this as well and your final chapter. forget to talk about this let us have a provisional ledger of what western culture gave us. everything in this room all the materials and electricity the engineering is the western product became out of the beauty of the scientific revolution but classical music all gone beethoven because of the color of their skin a preposterous
blackness been horrible. we would understand any group would understand that as an attack on the individuals of the identity. many white people understand that that way. this relates to systemic racism. the point of systemic racism allegedly when you read these books such as racism without racist which is a big crt book a system can be racist without any person in the system being a racist, the resistance in the system is not the people. how comes it always ends up in a witch-hunt that targets and fires industries individual people it has nothing to do with people somehow all these abstractions ends up persecuting individuals. not individuals now but individuals from the past the greatest heroes of the west winston churchill is now the
place to begin, try to have these conversations go to your school board talk to people around you, start there. get beauty into your children s head early on so they have this were gonna rub your nose into ugliness and dysfunction but i would say don t be afraid of being called a racist, speak the truth and do not accept that white is an epithet and we have to be more honest about the reasons for racial disparity in this country. i do think that is the driver, take that out and a lot of this goes away. heather macdonald, thank you very much. this is war on the west.
you hear the word war what comes to your mind? any particular nation? no, you understand what has happened on every continent that people have been going to war since the dawn of humidity. war does not seemed like a particularly western sin if you know anything about the history of war and conquest. when here about slavery in america and the west we think of one country essentially. or we think only of european and general. most kids have no idea that the arab world and say 14 million african starting around the eighth century, they have no idea about the history in russia or the history of slavery in china and korea and the aztec empire. in a most every other empire for the past 10000 years.