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by mbrudd 2685 days ago
Before buying a copy of Prime Obsession, please learn more about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire

I bought and read his book some time ago, and now I regret supporting him with my purchase.

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> There have of course been some blots on the record, but I don't see how it can be denied that net-net, white Europeans have made a better job of running fair and stable societies than has any other group.

If colonialism, WW2 and USSR are 'blots' he might have to reexamine his definition of 'blot'.

White supremacists hold themselves up as people willing to speak difficult truths. But their logic tends to be pretty question begging. It's like atheists who claim religion is the root of violence, all the while ignoring the genocidal atheists regimes of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Which group did better than white Europeans?
The groups that didn't start global wars or genocidal regimes that wiped out hundreds of millions of people?

Another odd thing is that these white supremacists act like Judeo-Christian culture (which is what they are really praising) sprang fully formed from the Caucasian race. However, the white Europeans were just warring tribes until they were colonized by the Romans. And, Judeo-Christian culture was founded by Jews (Jesus was a Jew), whom the white supremacists tend to dislike. It'd be interesting if they could name some significant aspect of Judeo-Christian culture that came entirely from white Europeans. White supremacists come off as bumbling ethnocentric historical revisionists.