"N. Glen Dickey" wrote:
> To my ear it sure sounds like you don't think the Nigerians don't bear much
> resonsibility for themselves and from my point of view that opinion is
> rascist. Why should I hold the Nigerians to less of a standard than I hold
> myself and my own countrymen? They don't seem to have problems like this in
> Texas and certainly not in California. If you don't live as man in your own
> country who do you have to blame but yourself? Arete? Duty to Self? Some
> things are worth dying for, some things are worth killing for, and some things
> are worth moving for.
Glen,
so your point is: oppression does not exist; or in other words, blame on the
oppressed. Why aren't they fighting and dying for their freedom? They must
really have no backbone. Also, if a government is corrupted, blame the people.
Why aren't they fighting against their government and dying for a better one? As
above.
You also seem to claim that if you state that a population is being oppressed,
you are a racist.
I find your position almost incredible. I hope you will give this all a second
thought.
Amongst *billions* of other things:
a) people behave in a way that much depends on their culture. The texans'
culture is not the nigerians' culture (fortunately?).
b) people behave in a way that much depends on their awareness. What makes you
think the nigerians are aware of what happens in their country? How do you know?
Nigerians, methinks, don't spend their evening watching TV or reading a
newspaper or a good book from the bookstore on the corner.
c) people behave in a way that much depends on their possibilities. Even if the
nigerians were aware of their situation, the texans' possibilities are not the
nigerians' possibilities (unfortunately).
d) the usual argument of a racist (as found in dictionaries) is that some races
have less (or should have less) because they are worse than others and hence
deserve so. Your view on the nigerian state of facts actually matches this
definition much more than Marco's.
A
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