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People are pround of being German, Irish, Scottish, etc.

The idea of being proud of being white, i can only assume, comes from the notion of a 'proud black man'. And my only explanation is that history has treated african's with one broad brush (not caring if they are Congolese, S. African, et al.) while making the distinction between the various European descendants.

It must be hard for you, i know.

[ShakeZula06]

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So, I suppose you could be proud of being a white male specifically, but what exactly are you celebrating?


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Building the bulk of Western civilization. That's all.


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You took part in that? Damn, who are you specifically?

[troymclur]

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Being proud of an accident of chance is an incredibly foolish thing indeed. See also; Patriotism and the fish on Party Poker who fill their gutshots on the river and proclaim their poker genius.

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That history is a part of you, genetically and sometimes culturally. There's nothing wrong with being proud of what you come from.

[ShakeZula06]

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As someone already said, we can be proud to have built the most affluent and civilzed societies in the history of man.

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So because your the same color as other people that have helped build said societies you are suddenly included as contributing to it? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[kurto]

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As someone already said, we can be proud to have built the most affluent and civilzed societies in the history of man.

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So because your the same color as other people that have helped build said societies you are suddenly included as contributing to it? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I think it works like this...

I'm heterosexual. Heterosexuals have had sex with Angelina Jolie. Therefore I have had sex with Angelina Jolie.

So... I'm proud that I've tapped Jolie.

[EvanJC]

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i didn't read any responses but obviously the answer to your question is that it's perfectly okay to be proud of that, but that being proud of something you had absolutely nothing to do with is a pretty dumb thing.

if you're using it to justify racism, which is what the tone of your post suggested to me, than you're a dick too.

[EvanJC]

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Your analogy doesn't work because there are lots of people who celebrate race, gender and sexuality who are not straight white men.


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the analogy is fine. it's dumb when anybody does it, not just white males.

[Mickey Brausch]

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We [whites] can be proud to have built the most affluent and civilzed societies in the history of man.

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Why wooldyoo wannta be prroud for something that's got nuthn tado with yoo?

Seriously, do you realize that you being born a white straight male in the 20th century had the exact same probability prior to the event as you being born a cockroach that's been stepped upon by a soldier of Hannibal near Rome?

Think about that.

[pooh74]

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Go join a frat Degen...this topic is pathetic.

[bdypdx]

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Building the bulk of Western civilization. That's all.

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Whether it continues is a different question. That's all.