This DoD-commissioned report on "Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism" makes for interesting reading. For example: "The Chinese see multiculturalism as a sickness that has overtaken the United States, and a component of U.S. decline."
Although the report is almost 10 years old, it calls attention to the "anti-racist" CRT-inspired propaganda that was already so pervasive in U.S. entertainment and education. (The author is praising this effort, in contrast to China).
To his credit, the author acknowledges that racism, xenophobia, and ethnocentrism are evolved, and adaptive - rather than something dreamed up by wicked colonizers in 1619. But he laments to failure of China to adopt the western "civil rights" perspective.
The report traces historic and cultural influences contributing to Chinese ethnocentrism and the concept of race - from ancient times to the 20th century - including Sun Yat-sen who viewed the Chinese as "a single, pure race" and stated that "the greatest force is common blood."
Under Mao, the communists pushed the now-familiar anti-white view that only westerners could be "racists" and that even the Russian communists were suspect due to their "whiteness." But tensions with Africans undermined calls for non-white solidarity.
In contrast to western countries, China maintains a strong sense or racial identity and pride. Unlike westerners, the Chinese can see themselves as part of an extended family, descended from common ancestors.
The report asserts that racial stereotypes are common in China - including negative views of other Asians - views likely to horrify any western liberal.
While white male Americans are persona-non-grata at home, they may be encouraged to know that Chinese women have a different perspective.
According to the report, other foreign races are viewed less favorably.
The Chinese are perplexed by America's pivot to "multiculturalism" - "the United States is explicitly rejecting the principles that made the country great, and united it."
"... all of this conspires to cause the breakdown of American society and the lack of purpose in life ..."
The report speculated that racism would hurt China's reputation in the Third World (My comment: this does not seem to have had much of an impact). The report notes that "There were major riots by African students at Chinese universities in 1962, 1979, 1980, 1986, 1988, and 1989."
Worldwide, Chinese clannishness and networking is thought to promote their success. But this generates resentment. Shame on you if this brings to mind any parallels.
Reluctantly, the report acknowledges important strategic advantages of Chinese "racism:" The Chinese have a sense of unity, idently, community, and confidence.
The report also looks at ethnic tensions in Xinjiang. In brief, Uighurs feel overwhelmed by Han migration. The Han view the Uighurs as backward, and ungrateful for the economic development. (Comment: Another example of how economic growth does *not* ease demographic strife).
Covering the unrest in Tibet, the report mentions that the Chinese are experts at "using their educational system to indoctrinate the population, even among minority peoples and dissidents." Let's hope that never happens here!
The 2013 report argued that the U.S. had a significant "soft power" advantage in that "it is not a racist state."
Unfortunately, the U.S. ruling class spent most of 2020 - 2021 proclaiming that the U.S. definitely *is* a racist state - so this advantage may have been lost.
Report's recommendation:
> "Hey world - look how racist China is"
Actual U.S. policy:
> "Hey world - look how racist *America* is!"
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Yankee-Irish conflict and the Boston Draft Riot of 1863: Refugees from the Great Famine caused Boston’s Irish population to explode - rising from a mere handful, to over a third of the city’s population.
One Yankee complained that Boston had become the “Dublin of America." 🧵/26
The city simply could not cope with the deluge. Poverty stricken and unskilled, the new arrivals were packed into crowded tenements. Disease and unsanitary conditions took a terrible toll. During a cholera epidemic, the life-expectancy of Irish males fell to fourteen years. 2/26
Not surprisingly, this tidal-wave of poverty-stricken Catholic immigrants did not receive a warm welcome from the Puritan-descended Yankees of Boston. The “shattering of Boston’s ethnic homogeneity” created an intense anti-Irish, anti-Catholic backlash. 3/26
White Flight from the Bronx – 1950 to 1980:
> The borough saw an explosive increase in crime, drug traffic, and arson during its demographic transformation.
🧵1/9 (h/t @Steve_Sailer )
The advent of NYC public transportation transformed the borough from farmland to a “streetcar suburb.” The population exploded with ethnic immigrants – Mainly Jews, but also Irish and Italians. Even during hard economic times The Bronx had been a safe place for families. 2/9
As late as 1950, The Bronx was still about 90 percent White, and the residents were enjoying life in their tranquil neighborhood. But The Bronx residents saw a rapid increase in crime and drugs as demographic change transformed life in the borough. 3/9
Historian William Henry Chamberlin discussing the post-WWII ethnic cleansing of ethnic-German civilians from Eastern Europe: “some fourteen million in all … driven from their homes … where their ancestors had lived for centuries …”
Short 🧵
"... perhaps as many as three million may have perished either as a result of outright massacre or from cold, hunger, and disease."
The horrific experience of an East Prussian woman was typical: Expelled from her home, and then robbed of food and clothing; traveling in train cars “littered with corpses.”
Years before the disaster of Forced Busing demolished Boston’s public school system, there were already warning signs of what was to come. The neighborhoods of Mattapan and Hyde Park got a preview of what “racial balance” integration would look like. It did not look promising. 🧵
In the mid-1960s Lewenberg Middle School in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood looked like an incredible success story. In addition to a stellar academic reputation, the school had also been one of the few in Boston to achieve some level of racial balance.
Attempting to appease civil rights complaints, Boston began allowing "open enrollment" transfers into Lewenberg in 1965, offering Black families a chance to attend the elite school. But as the racial balance tipped, alarmed parents saw standards declining, almost immediately.
Part II - Black-Jewish conflict in Boston as neighborhoods transitioned in the late 1960s. In April of 1968 Black radicals threatened to burn down the once-stately Mishkan Tefila temple complex unless it was turned over to the “Black community” free of charge.🧵
By the 1950s, most wealthy Jews had abandoned Boston for the suburbs, and the temple had been purchased by a Lubavitcher sect, who lacked funds to maintain it. They soon found themselves under siege in a neighborhood that was now overwhelmingly Black and increasingly hostile.
Some Jewish leaders hatched a plan to transfer the deteriorating temple complex to a Black community group led by Elma Lewis - hoping this might improve the increasingly strained relations between Boston’s Blacks and Jews.
In 1967, Federal Agencies and a group of mostly Jewish businessmen attempted to rehabilitate the deteriorating housing in Boston’s overwhelmingly Black neighborhood of Roxbury. The attempt ended in anger and disappointment, highlighting the precarious nature of the “alliance.” 🧵
Over the decades, Roxbury had experienced waves of ethnic transition - from Yankee protestant, to mainly Irish Catholic, to Eastern European Jewish. But the transition from Jewish to Black would be the most turbulent. Crime skyrocketed; there were riots in 1967 and 1968.
Ambitious Great Society programs were designed to improve housing. But despite the torrent of federal funds and idealistic rhetoric, only a tiny percentage of slum housing had been reclaimed.