"If it's provable we can kill it."
Or, sucker it ain't what you think it is
Published on December 9, 2007 By EmperorofIceCream In Politics
The final solution?

Treat every citizen as a citizen without regard to skin color, ethnic heritage, sexual orientation or practice, gender orientation - or any other of the various designations used to seperate Americans into their respective ghettoes. Treat religion as a matter of private conscience - which means removing every trace of religious practice or dogma from the life of the Federal State. Every trace; no exceptions, no favoritism, no pandering to the Muslims, the Jews, the Christians or any other sect.

Treating citizens as citizens means treating them with complete equality before the law - and the law ought to be blind to such precious and at the same time unutterably petty concerns as skin color and who you have sex with (as a legal adult). By treating citizens simply as citizens you would at once dispose of the evil nonsense of 'affirmative action'. You would at a stroke remove the grotesque spectacle of American sexual paranoia from the Public Square and return it to where it properly belongs - the bedroom. And by removing the question of religion from the Public to the private realm, you would make good the claim that there is real separation between religious dogma and politics in this country, a claim which at present is no more than hysterical hypocrisy.

By treating citizens as citizens, and actively encouraging citizens to see themselves in that light instead of as representatives of their particular ghetto, you would overcome the racial and ethnically-inspired paralysis in government that so bedevils questions of border control. The issue could be addressed directly and rationally, rather than being filtered through the terror of losing racial-bloc votes, which is the real issue behind the failure of both Republican and Democrat parties to do anything meaningful at all in regard to illegal immigration.

By treating citizens as citizens and making voting an entitlement solely of citizens, the question of how many illegals will vote in any election becomes meaningless. If they can't vote you don't have to worry about alienating them. By preventing illegals from voting and denying them a voice in American politics you give them a real incentive to become citizens. By denying them recognition as being in any way entitled to provision by the State, you prevent them from parasitizing both health care and education, and you once again provide a serious disincentive to illegal immigration, as well as a positive incentive to legal immigration.

By treating citizens as citizens, equal before laws that take into account only whether you are a) a citizen and guilty of an offence (not why you did it but whether you did it), you draw the sting from the culturally poisonous American obsession with 'ethnic heritage' - and with it the so-called debate over 'reparations for slavery'. Your ancestors were slaves - but you are a citizen. Your ancestors are dead and can receive no reparations - you have the benefits of citizenship and do not suffer in any way that requires reparations. Nor can you receive reparations on behalf of the dead, because you were never a part of the experience for which you claim reparations should be paid, and while there may be a heritage of memories associated with that experience in which you participate, that experience and those memories can never be yours except vicariously.

Those who claim that reparations should be paid to the decendants of dead slaves are self-pitying frauds who have no understanding that citizenship is itself a proper and sufficient 'reparation'. You have what was denied to them and you have it by right. And if that's not enough, too bad.

America claims to be a Republic created through law and governed by law. The final solution to the 'race problem' in America, as it is to many others, is to make that claim real.

Comments
on Dec 10, 2007
I doubt will become reality in my lifetime


Or in mine or my children's even!


A great article! [applause]

on Dec 10, 2007
It's not an impossbility. The tools exist and are to hand. It would take no more than each American citizen demanding that his or her representatives be true to the Constitution, and for each American citizen to...

Ahhh what am I saying? American immigrants become aware of the Constitution, their rights and obligations under it, because they have to. They're tested, their knowledge and understanding is examined, and if they wish to become full citizens they must pass that examination. In other words, they have an incentive.

But what incentive is there for the ordinary citizen? None at all. Just as there was no incentive for me, as a citizen (subject) of the UK, to make myself aware of the privileges (not rights) I possessed as a consequence of that status.

You're all right, of course. And while what I proposed is the most straightforward and simple way to address some of America's most pressing problems, it's also almost certainly the last way that will be tried.

Which is a deeply depressing thought.
on Dec 10, 2007
B-b-But, if we don't give certain people special recognition and treatment under the law, we are discriminating against them! ;~D
on Dec 10, 2007
there is only one race. the human race.
on Dec 11, 2007
Only one race? That makes you a racist. Actually, I doubt the existence of anything that could be remotely called human. Let alone a 'human race'.
on Dec 11, 2007
Only one race? That makes you a racist


fine then i am a racist against all of the so called races.


which by definition makes me a non racist.
on Dec 11, 2007

there is only one race. the human race.

Human is not a race, just a species.  Technically anyone that acknowledges race is a racist...but that's a whole biology/anthropology topic.

In regards to the article...I doubt we'll ever see the day when people don't pay attention to the differences between them.  The masses are too stupid, too petty, and too greedy to count themselves as equals in the whole of humanity.  They have persecution complexes out the ass when it comes to race, class, religion, gender, etc.  It's nice to dream, however, this one will probably never come to be until everyone has screwed everyone to produce a fairly even complexion throughout the population...but then you still have gender and religious differences and other seemingly unimportant things for people to segregate themselves with.

~Zoo

 

on Dec 11, 2007
Human is not a race, just a species. Technically anyone that acknowledges race is a racist...but that's a whole biology/anthropology topic.
In regards to the article...I doubt we'll ever see the day when people don't pay attention to the differences between them. The masses are too stupid, too petty, and too greedy to count themselves as equals in the whole of humanity. They have persecution complexes out the ass when it comes to race, class, religion, gender, etc. It's nice to dream, however, this one will probably never come to be until everyone has screwed everyone to produce a fairly even complexion throughout the population...but then you still have gender and religious differences and other seemingly unimportant things for people to segregate themselves with.




you can't change the world over night. you have to do it one person at a time.

so as i said before there is only one race the human race
on Dec 11, 2007
...and you're way behind in that race, daniel, way the fuck behind.


so
on Dec 12, 2007

so as i said before there is only one race the human race

Unless you play an RPG then you have dwarves, elves, orcs, etc.

~Zoo