Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Why Racism Is Dishonorable

Tags: ethnic studies, networking, spirituality
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There's a Simpsons episode in which Mister Burns is trying to kill grampa Simpson
in order to obtain a fortune in stolen art.

It goes something like this:

-I'll get those paintings, Simpson.

-Over my dead body.

-THAT'S EXACTLY THE POINT!

Everything in the post makes perfect sense to someone outside the distorting bubble of racist attitudes,
but racism is a belief in the innate superiority of one's particular ethnic group;
a feeling most accurately summed up in the statement that
free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.
So to tell a racist that their belief denies the equality of free people
will elicit the response,
"That's exactly the point!"

Adherents of Asatru see themselves as a European/white equivilent
of the Chinese as Middle Kingdom;
intermediary beings between Heaven and Earth,
Godly persons in a world of foreign devils.
While Chinese may be speaking metaphorically,
in Asatru Theology, this idea is taken seriously and personally.

Word of warning:
If I were to present this post to an Asatru faithful,
I would--at best--be labeled a race traitor
promoting "Zionist inspired lies of mud people"
(or, more likely, "Nigger-jew lies")
and if the circumstances allowed it,
I would be dealt with violently.

Racism is very much a matter of pack mentality,
and if you're dealing with a racist face-to-face,
keep that in mind. Such thinking as goes on in the mind of a racist
is akin to whatever thinking goes on in the mind of a rabid dog.
Racism is mental illness at its worst and most dangerous.
Racism isn't actually part of the Asatru religion, any more than genocide is part of Christianity. It's just something that a bunch of zealots happen to like. Sometimes you can pull people's head out of their ass. It's worth a try.
If one proceeds with caution, yes.