This is a serious thread. So much of the discussion today is about all the horrible things the Marxist left imagines whites have done, and then whites that still have any positive regard for their own race, defends and explains why these things are not as bad as the Marxists are claiming. But you still end up with a net negative as people triangulate truth these days instead of using reason to clear their mental decks of all the Marxist lies.
Then you have the folks who inexplicably think that everything whites have made was stolen from someone else. Even some conservatives I talk to today think this nonsense is true
So I would like to see a thread that mentions of some things that have been good and a boon to humanity done entirely by white people. If we are going to push back on the anti-white racism the Marxists espouse we have to keep these unequivocal things in mind.
So I will start with three categories; science and technology, entertainment and culture and political reform and liberty. I'm leaving military advances out of this one as it is arguably not a universal boon to mankind.
Science and Technology; Modern calculus, heliocentric model of the solar system, the atom, the transistor, the automobile, the computer, the airplane, the television, and the metal ship. Geometry, Relativity and all moon landings. Roman arch and aqueducts, and indoor plumbing. Nuclear fission and fusion.
Entertainment and culture; Opera, most modern musical instruments like the piano, the electric guitar and the organ. Professional Sports Leagues, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, fictional literature, and card game Bridge and chess. the top selling books, of history 'The Bible', of fiction 'Atlas Shrugged', nonfiction 'the Gulag Archipelago' and 'the Diary of Ann Frank'. Realism painting, Impressionism, and photography.
Political Reform and Liberty; Magna Carta, US Declaration of Independence, Rights of Man, Democratic Socialism, Burkean conservatism, Platonic School of Reason, democracy and the division of power. Das Kapital, the Enlightenment, Parliamentary representation, the banishment of slavery, the united Nations.
That ought to get things rolling. Please leave out racist nonsense here and take it to some racism forum like Storm Front, if you dont mind.
Also, if Marxists would kindly refrain from listing their anti-white rhetoric that would be appreciated.
If you want a serious discussion about this topic you may need to sharpen up your understanding of Marxism and the concept of race. Marxist and leftist are not synonyms. The term "left" comes from the French Revolution, some fifty or sixty years before Marx began to write. While Marx's theories of economic history have been particularly attractive to the left, not all leftists are Marxists and vice-versa. I gather you are neither a leftist nor a Marxist, but using either term as a form of abuse precludes the sort of serious discussion you want to have.
Race is not a scientific term. There is no DNA/RNA pattern that divides humans in to separate genetic categories. The term "blood" as in "one drop of black blood" is similarly without biological or scientific foundation. Both terms come from pre-scientific understanding of human heredity.
The white race (or the black, red, yellow, Arab etc. race) is a political term, not a genetic one. People began to speak of the white race when Europeans came into frequent contact with Africans. Prior to that time, "race" was used as a synonym for what we think of as nationality. People spoke of "the French race," "the English race" etc.
Race became important in the dawn of the modern era when Portuguese slave traders began to sell African to Europeans. With the rapid expansion of race slavery, race became a civil status. Africans could be enslaved, Europeans could not.
Your idea that the so-called "white race" is the creator of various scientific, technological and cultural developments is, I"m sorry to say, both naive and factually incorrect, although it seems obviously true to the uneducated.
I would like to participate in your serious discussion; however your axiomatic assumptions are false and I have no wish to be an unpaid high school tutor. I suggest you narrow the focus of your inquiry and get your facts straight so we can have a smooth, friendly start.