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well-meaning people have been fooled by....China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique? It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world.
The War on the West Hardcover – April 26, 2022 by Douglas Murray (Author)
In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia? It’s not just dishonest scholars who benefit from this intellectual fraud but hostile nations and human rights abusers hoping to distract from their own ongoing villainy. Dictators who slaughter their own people are happy to jump on the “America is a racist country” bandwagon and mimic the language of antiracism and “pro-justice” movements as PR while making authoritarian conquests. If the West is to survive, it must be defended. The War on the West is not only an incisive takedown of foolish anti-Western arguments but also a rigorous new apologetic for civilization itself. https://www.amazon.com/War-West-Douglas-Murray/dp/0063162024
GUS: DEFENDING THE WEST IS ESSENTIAL IN THE CIVILISATION FRAMEWORK, BUT WE CANNOT DEFEND ITS IMMORAL SUPERIORITY, WHEN WE KNOW THAT MANY OF THE ILLS OF THE WORLD CAME AND ARE COMING FROM THE WEST, RAPING THE REST OF THE WORLD.
MUCH OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE-EAST AND IN UKRAINE IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF WESTERN INTERFERENCE IN “OTHER” PEOPLE’S BUSINESS — WHETHER WITH GOOD INTENTIONS (ON THE DIDACTIC SURFACE) OR AS CONTROL MECHANISMS (UNDER AND OVER THE REALITY OF LOCAL POPULATIONS SURVIVING IN THEIR OWN PROPAGANDA).
THE WEST LATEST VENTURE HAS BEEN GLOBALISATION… THE PREVIOUS VENTURES WERE COLONISATION, WARS AND SLAVERY. IN MANY WAYS, FOR “GLOBALISATION” THE WEST HAD TO SELL ITS SOUL, IF IT HAD ANY, ONE HUNDRED TIMES TO THE DEVIL… WE EVEN HAVE HELPED THE RISE OF TERRORISM IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY OUR AGGRESSIVE RESPONSES AS WELL AS USE TERRORISM AGAINST LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENTS WE “DID NOT LIKE”… THIS OFTEN PUSHED THESE GOVERNMENTS TOWARDS AUTHORITARIANISM THAT IN TURN WE HAD TO “EXPOSE AND DEFEAT”…
SO YES, THE WEST NEEDS TO BE SAVED, MOSTLY FROM ITSELF AND FROM THE GUILT-SOLVING SOLUTIONS THAT ONLY MAKE MATTER WORSE. THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS THUS BECOMES A WEAPON RATHER THAN A VIRTUE...
A BIT OF HUMILITY, LESS BOMBINGS, NO WARS, NO PROVOCATION FOR WARS, NO UNDERHANDED DISRUPTION OF OTHER COUNTRIES VIA REGIME CHANGE — AND AN ACCEPTANCE OF OUR MUDDLED HISTORY…
FOR KAKKA (KAJA) KALLAS FOR EXAMPLE SIDING WITH UKRAINE SHOWS HER LOVE FOR FASCISM AND FOR THE NAZIS. FASCISM AND NAZISM HAVE BIRTHED IN THE WEST. THE PRESENT WESTERN HYPOCRISY ABOUT FASCIST ISRAEL DESTROYS THE ARGUMENT OF HAMAS BEING TERRORISTS. IT BECOMES A GAME OF NUMBERS IN A SHOOTING GALLERY…
CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN CHINA? THIS DISHONEST STATEMENT HAS BEEN DEBUNKED BY MANY AWARE PEOPLE. YES, THERE ARE PRISONS IN EVERY COUNTRIES, WITH THE USA BEING AT THE TOP OF THE LIST FOR THE PROPORTION OF PRISONERS/POPULATION RATIO.
NOT EVERYWHERE IS ROSY, BUT MORE COOPERATION WITHOUT THREATS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA. MUSLIM EXTREMISM IS STILL A THREAT AND NEEDS TO BE ERADICATED (MINIMISED), IN THE SAME WAY AS OUR OWN EXTREMISM — THIS ONE BEING OFFICIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL…. MOST OF THE REFUGEES IN EUROPE AND IN THE USA DO NOT GO THERE BECAUSE THE GRASS IN GREENER, BUT BECAUSE THEIR COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN BOMBED BY THE WEST. THE DESTRUCTION OF LIBYA BEING A CASE IN POINT.
OUR SINS ARE NOT UNIQUE, BUT THE WEST HAS PERFECTED ITS SELF-ABSOLUTION VIA MANY TRICKS OF DECEPTION…
DECEIT HAS BEEN THE WESTERN (AMERICAN EMPIRE) BREAD AND BUTTER OF SUCCESS, BUT IT HAS NOW REACHED A SELF-DESTRUCTIVE MOMENTUM, NOT JUST BECAUSE OF DONALD TRUMP, BUT BECAUSE EVERY PRESIDENT BEFORE HIM, IN CHARGE OF THE EMPIRE, FABRICATED FAKERIES TO DESTROY ANYONE ELSE TO MAINTAIN SUPREMACY.
THE CHICKENS ARE COMING TO ROOST SO TO SPEAK…
WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL, WE NEED TO BULLSHIT LESS AND BE MORE HUMBLE WHILE MAINTAINING OUR HISTORICAL RELEVANCE IN THE ACCEPTANCE OF OTHERS AS EQUAL, NOT AS VASSALS.
SIMPLE.
YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.
Gus Leonisky POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.
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