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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\"/>\n<h1><center>Female HypoAgency &amp; The Male Biological Imperative</center></h1>\n<p>Meet the mimic octopus (1.5 min video)...</p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/t-LTWFnGmeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n<h2>Introduction</h2>\n<p>Two years ago, just after the<em> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a> </em>campaign got started, I wrote a somewhat long and feisty article titled: <a href=\"https://steemit.com/mra/@mdkberry/female-hypoagency-pink-patriarchy-our-orwellian-big-sister\"><em>Female HypoAgency: Pink Patriarchy, our Orwellian Big Sister [steemit article]</em></a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hypoagency\">Female HypoAgency</a> was a new concept to me at the time, and I was investigating everything I could to understand what was going on between men and women that was creating such a volcanic reaction. I was also trying to understand my own position in the #MeToo revelation, as I am sure many of us were. I felt men were being unfairly targeted, but could not understand why. On the surface it looked genuine, but it felt wrong.</p>\n<p>Now the initial <em>#MeToo</em> furore has died down, I wanted to revisit the subject again, because it seems that the underlying forces at work have completely failed to surface in a way that makes it better understood. There has been no solution, just vengeance reaped.</p>\n<p><strong><em>Female HypoAgency</em></strong> and <em><strong>The</strong> <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong></em> are two forces that work together and need to be understood, if we are to unravel <em>#MeToo</em>, make good changes, and ultimately progress. Men and women have their part to play.<br /><br /></p>\n<h2>TL;DR</h2>\n<p><em><strong>Female HypoAgency</strong></em> allows women to switch between being an <em>Object (Victim)</em> or an <em>Agent (Independent &amp; strong woman)</em>. In short they can play victim in one moment, and play powerful woman the next, all based on how it suits them at the time.</p>\n<p>This switchable ability gives them <em>Deniable Plausibility</em> by default. For example a woman does not have to give consent, it is the man's job to get it. If he fails, he is held responsible for sex. If they are both drunk, he is considered the perpetrator and she the victim if she failed to give consent but went ahead anyway. Males are by default given the burden of being the responsible adult, a woman bears no personal responsibility. This applies to sex, education, workplace, and clothing, or the lack of. </p>\n<p>Men can only ever be Agents (Perpetrators), they are never thought of as Objects (Victims), most especially in a dynamic which involves a woman. Interestingly, if men become Trans, they can get access to HypoAgency. This then entitles them to play victim, and one wonders if it is partly why they choose it.<br /><br />Another common example of the value of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is in how we perceive women hitting men as okay, if not actually quite funny, while men hitting women is considered Domestic Violence.</p>\n<p>Yet another example is men raping women which is called <em>rape</em>, while women raping men is called <em>\"having sex with\"</em>, there is not even a word for it, in fact many Feminists claim it does not happen, but it does, and a lot. Female teachers often target children sexually. Yet legally a woman cannot rape a man, or child, there is no law against it. Rape only applies to men (Agents) <em>doing something to</em> women (Objects), and yet we know countless women are caught raping minors, but the word is never used in the media or in law because the act does not currently exist for women. Yet another example of Female HypoAgency.</p>\n<p>To add to the problem...</p>\n<p>When <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meets <em><strong>The Male Biological Imperative </strong></em>(the male urge to sacrifice oneself to protect women and children) it creates an amplified condition that has a dark side - women can then play on men's desire to rescue them, they can <em>play</em> victim. Our culture even has a saying to support it - <em>\"women and children first\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Men will sacrifice themselves in an instant to rescue women, because all men are driven by the <em>male biological imperative</em> to protect women for the greater good of the species. It is programmed into us, to sacrifice ourselves for the species. We even feel good doing it! This feeling of reward is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that we do not see ourselves engaging in it. </p>\n<p>Culturally we have started to become aware of it though, and the Urban dictionary has jokingly come to call women taking advantage of HypoAgency to call it \"using the <a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pussypass\">Pussy Pass\"</a> but it is a very real dynamic.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately these two complementary dynamics <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> has taken a dark turn in our culture, in part because men are no longer needed to protect women against a potential threat of war. As a result Feminism has risen to take power, and this rise has happened in direct correlation with peace-time. Unfortunately, due the compounding nature of Peace, HypoAgency and the MBI, this has led to Feminist tyranny started to take over in modern society and target <em>Alpha Males</em>, while emasculating men into more subservient <em>Beta Males</em>.</p>\n<p>Let's look at Female HypoAgency, and a great 15 minute video explanation from Karen Straughan can be found at the end if you don't have time to read the rest of this article...</p>\n<h2>What has changed in two years?</h2>\n<p>The first thing I noticed, is that it is easy to find definitions and examples of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a>, I doubt there is a person alive that has not heard of it. We all followed the ensuing dramas of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_allegations\">Harvey Weinstein</a> and the fall of <a href=\"https://www.glamour.com/gallery/post-weinstein-these-are-the-powerful-men-facing-sexual-harassment-allegations\">many other famous men</a> since, but interestingly, it is still far from easy to find a good definition of the opposite behaviour involved, that of <a href=\"https://definithing.com/hypoagency/\">Female HypoAgency</a>. The only way to do so, is by venturing into the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement\">Men'sRightsActivism</a> areas, and who want's to do that, right? Even they don't really get it either, they are often too busy being angry or feeling denied their right to be a victim.</p>\n<h3>What does this tell us?</h3>\n<p>Firstly that no one actually much cares about what is driving the dynamics between men and women, but we sure do enjoy a good sexual drama on the News.</p>\n<p>and secondly, as a result of this disparity, hardly anyone actually acknowledged what <em>is</em> behind the dynamics.</p>\n<p>Investigation of #MeToo still seems to stop at \"<em>blame the Patriachy\"</em> and the presumption that - <em>\"it is all men's fault\"</em>. In this regard, nothing much has changed, but for those in the know there has been a gradual shift towards better understanding, and <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meeting <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> is beneath a lot of it.</p>\n<h3>What has changed from a male perspective?</h3>\n<p>Other men have started sharing their experiences, the good and the bad, we have started to talk to each other and to listen. So in that respect it has been progressive for us, even if in part that has been simply to protect ourselves from the less salubrious women out there.<br /><br />For myself, the last two years have been spent trying to understand my position, and why I was so immediately and instinctively against #MeToo from the start. I was disgusted by it, to be honest. I experienced sexual abuse from men and women growing up, and I have dated some absolute bitches (as well as some lovely women of course), and I did not agree with the #MeToo campaign at all, because I knew it completely ignored the complicity of women in their actions. It made out that only men were to blame.</p>\n<p>That made no sense, but I lost a lot of friends for expressing my position, and I was constantly berated by women for mentioning my point. I was constantly told that I was not listening to women, but from my perspective, I was not being listened to. The more I observed this, I soon realised that this dated back much further than just #MeToo, and that actually my entire life had been spent being told I need to<em> listen to women</em>, while actually not being listened to by<em> them</em>.</p>\n<p>Feminism has made men's experiences un-important and <em>less than</em>, while women's experiences have been elevated to essential listening. This is something we have been hearing for at least the last 50 years. That was an unexpectedly curious revelation.</p>\n<h3>Guilty as charged, your honour</h3>\n<p>I also had to accept that I have not been as innocent as I would like to think I have been, I have perpetrated all sorts of trickery in an attempt to get laid. #MeToo applies to me too.</p>\n<p>I certainly do not do it now, and I consider the #MeToo campaign to have drawn a line in the sand for all of us (both genders) because it marked the point beyond which any of us could use the excuse that we did not know what we were doing. It is now our duty to learn, and to take responsibility.</p>\n<p>In terms of finding people guilty for past behaviours, <em><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presentism\"><strong>Presentism</strong></a></em> should also be considered before judging anyone, <em>post</em> #MeToo. but sadly that is rarely of interest to those involved in an attempted hanging, since they usually want an outcome and to see someone swing from the gallows, and it is always aimed at creating a clearly defining a victim, and a perpetrator to hang, but is it all really that simple? <em>No, it is NEVER that simple!</em></p>\n<p>What ever happened before #MeToo, should be judged on it's own merit, while what happens now, can certainly be judged more diligently according to the rules left behind by the #MeToo campaign, but not without an honest look at the dynamics involved on both sides. I do not believe that is happening yet, not at all. The <em>blame-it-all-on-the-men</em> narrative remains doggedly prevalent and it just highlights the willing ignorance shown by people who are actually more interested in power-play, than in the truth. It is high time <em>that</em> was being called-out too. Women have been completely complicit and so far, that revelation has avoided scrutiny.</p>\n<h3>Communication from both sides before sex</h3>\n<p>There is no longer an excuse not to communicate about sex, but that includes women too.</p>\n<p>It is not an excuse to make men do all the work of getting consent, while playing dumb to their part in letting it happen. You just can't expect to get away with that <em>wall-flower</em> approach anymore, and this has obviously presented a problem, because to do that requires admitting responsibility for female sexual desire and women's demand for sex.</p>\n<p>Turns out #MeToo was a double edged sword, because women are simply not allowed to demand sex in our culture, they get tarnished if they do. To do so would also take away the ability to be an <em>Object (Victim)</em> and stick her firmly in the <em>Agent (Perpetrator)</em> camp.</p>\n<p>Who would risk that, especially given how vicious women are to one another when one of them is sexually overt and promiscuous<em> (The Sisterhood is also a myth, but again, another post for that debarcle)</em></p>\n<h3>Women want sex, but they risk their status to admit to it</h3>\n<p>Unfortunately admitting to sexual desire, or acting on it, impacts women's status negatively in our culture. And not just from men, but from other women. That is the root of the problem as I see it, because it encourages women to avoid taking responsibilty around the act of sex with men.</p>\n<p>But #MeToo has happened. There is responsibility to be had now, otherwise it will backfire on the women that it should be helping. This was in part why I was so against it, because I could see how it was going to remove the opportunity for women to remain passive in the engagement, they would no longer be able to get men to approach them in a dominant way, because we now risk legal issue later to do so.</p>\n<p>There is no pretending that false accusation's can destroy a man's life even before it goes to court. We have seen the damage it has done and we have heard women being righteous about that. We have been tried, and found guilty in the public domain by the mob. If I was a young man today, there is no way I would go near a woman now without some kind of proof that I did not force myself upon her. It is not worth the risk. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a total failure because men can't be safe to approach women anymore, if we do, we'll risk losing our jobs and going to prison on the whim of a woman's invented comment. We are guilty until proven innocent, and even when proven innocent, our lives will have been destroyed anyway. It's the Ultimate Power and it is in the hands of women, not the Patriarchy, and yet, apparently the patriarchy is the problem? pffft.</p>\n<h3>You want sex? Get me a lawyer first</h3>\n<p>So, women need to become more overtly sexual, more overtly communicative about wanting sex, or, you'll simply have go without because it is not worth the risk to us men. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>So the sharp, double-edged nature of the #MeToo sword now requires that women need to stop acting like speech-incapacitated victims (Objects), or pretend that sex is only ever <em>done</em> <em>to</em> them. #MeToo has removed your right to fall back on that as an excuse. If you want us, you are going to have to come and get us, and bring a lawyer along with you. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>But wait, of course you can still deny responsibility - <em>Female HypoAgency to the rescue.</em></p>\n<h3>The sexual dynamic: Dominant/Submissive </h3>\n<p>The hardest part of it all that people still completely fail to grasp, and the area that has seen far less change, is in understanding the dynamics and power-play behind the passive person's involvement in any sexual interaction.</p>\n<p>Women are still considered the Object (victim) in almost all sexual interaction by default. Their Agency in engaging in sex, attracting it, driving it to happen, seems to still be considered minimal. It is done <em>TO</em> them. Women get to retain <em>deniable plausability.</em> This is the power of <em>Female HypoAgency.</em></p>\n<p> #MeToo and Feminism, has also now ensured the right of women to provoke sexuality from men, all without being questioned on that behaviour, and this deliberate drive seems to have increased exponentially since #MeToo began. Women are now shoving it in our faces. It is now called being <em>the independant, brave woman, and men best accept it.</em> But there are some startlingly ignorant aspects in that role. Take Yoga pants as a really good example...</p>\n<h3>Yoga pants are the overt sexual harassment of men</h3>\n<p>They have become common place in public, designed now to accentuate and draw attention to the vagina and buttocks, while the cultural standard seems to have become obtuse denial of this fact, apparently it is done for her alone, not us at all. (more Female HypoAgency in action). If you could put language to it, it would go something like this.</p>\n<p><em>\"Look at me, look at me! I am an independant woman, fearless and brave and here is the outline of my vagina and ass to prove it. LOOK AT ME!\"</em></p>\n<p>but when you do, this is now followed promptly by, </p>\n<p><em>\"What the fuck are you looking at, RAPIST!\"</em></p>\n<p>Or at least that is how it feels as a man dealing with the <em>Agency</em> of women who pretend to be innocent <em>Objects</em> of our desire, while at the same time are deliberately provoking sexual attention from us, demanding it aggressively, then attacking us for it. </p>\n<p>There is another rule - we are not allowed to mention this. But yes, absolutely, men <em>are</em> being targetted with this overt Yoga pant wearing behaviour and especially by younger women who think they have the right to do that without consequence. In fact even this discussion on Yoga pants is not permitted, simply because I am a man. To mention tight-fitting Yoga pants being worn in public makes me a perpetrator and borderline rapist.</p>\n<p>This, is not a good change. In this regard female independance has become vicious, deliberate, and sexually antagonistic towards men, while at the same time teasing us, and then starving us, of what the feminine has control over. Where once I might have wolf-whistled, to women wearing Yoga pants in public I now say,</p>\n<p><em>Woman, kindly take your snatch-stretched yoga pants and fuck off somewhere else far away from me with that shiz.</em></p>\n<h3><strong>Corporate Feminism: because Vagina</strong></h3>\n<p>Corporate, industrial-level, Feminism has now crept powerfully into the very arena in which the majority of men were targeted by the #MeToo campaign - <em>Hollywood</em>. Is this a coincidence? I think not. The whole point was a Feminist take-over, so the targeted males no longer have any power in the media realm. It's been a coup.</p>\n<p><em>Political Correctness</em> in Corporate world has also stealthily become something of a dictatorship, it now requires that women be given roles that they have not necessarly earned, simply on the merit of having a vagina. This is actually discrimination, but that concept is sure to fall on deaf ears because of the belief that the Patriarchy is in control, run by men, and needs to be over-thrown by women at all costs. (This is actually baloney if you had not realised it yet).</p>\n<p>Never mind Oprah and her part in feeding Harvey Weinstein his alleged victims, or their part in meeting the man in a hotel room despite likely knowing full-well what they were walking into (unless women don't talk to each other? That would be a first.) They were meeting him in a hotel room...Why? Well, the clue is in the question.</p>\n<p>But despite all this old-school feminine method of career-climbing by using sexuality to get ahead while denying it, it is still <em>all men's fault</em> that it occurs or exists<em>, </em>and that single assumption permits targeting those men in power, ousting them, and putting someone with a vagina in charge instead. Any man who dares to get in the way of that, or does not vocally fully support it, can now easily be targeted too. It is genius really.</p>\n<p>The only required qualification to get ahead today - is possessing a vagina. That is why <em>the future is female.</em> Women are never at fault, because it is always men to blame.</p>\n<p>This is all just the work of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and men falling foul of <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> to support women. Wakey wakey men, you are being duped.</p>\n<p>Do you remember that moment Oprah stood up to support Harvey? No nor do I. Why? Because they would have taken her out too.<em> Power.</em> That is the game behind #MeToo really, and the sooner people see that, the sooner we can have a proper conversation about what has been going on to get ahead in Hollywood, or to get some head in Hollywood, depending on which side of the Hotel door you were on before she decided to enter in. No one forced them, but I bet Oprah encouraged them wholeheartedly. He are some pretty pictures of that. #MeToo, women were complicit 50/50 if not more because it's how the power game works.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-793\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" /> <img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-794\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah-too.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"219\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<h3>Women do<em> 'being men'</em> better, obviously</h3>\n<p>The last two years has seen huge changes in movie scripting and directing. <a href=\"https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/why-so-many-feminist-leaning-movies-now-maybe-because-its-time-1203104112/\">[Variety magazine article on it from January 2019]. </a></p>\n<p><em>Oceans 8</em> and films like it are all about women trying to do \"men\" better, and presenting the idea that they can do it <em>much</em> better.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, I don't think many women can actually grasp what a man even is, and yet they say we do not understand them.</p>\n<p>Anyway, time will tell, but I think there is a danger in promoting this ridiculous idea that women do it better, because it is rooted in female fantasy and the perception of female powerlessness. Feminine power is found by being outside the circle of activity, controlling it, without doing anything. Give that covert control up, try to become a man, and you will definitely experience powerlessness. This is what is happening as Feminism takes over overt control. I predict that it's going to end in tears.</p>\n<p>Women do NOT do men better at all, if you have any doubts just look at the gender statistics of the dangerous jobs in the world. Women are not even close to doing it better. It should be obvious enough what men do, but no, women do it all better, not in real life, but on film and in Feminist slogans, while in reality they don't do it at all.</p>\n<p>Though I also fully understand the reactive necessity of it, given women have been kept out of <em>the men's locker room</em> until now, and they want in, because they feel powerless. But when they get in there, they will just be <em>women in the men's locker room</em>. That is something else. But I get it, sure let them in for a while, though I am not pretending that I think it is a workable idea in the long run. If anything, #MeToo has taught me that there is a value in gender segregation, at least in some aspects.</p>\n<p>There is an inevitability about all this too, it's a wave of female emotional reaction that is doomed to fail in the end when the truth comes out. Certainly it will be supported while it is a new thing, but there will also be an inevitability in it's decline, because actually women do not do \"men\" better, how on earth could they?</p>\n<p>Men do men best, and that won't change ever, even if you take HRT until kingdom come. Just like Trans women are not actually women, they are men  who chopped their penises off, enjoy role-playing, and now have to take hormone drugs to maintain their bitch-tits, but they are not, and never will be, women.</p>\n<p>It makes one wonder why on earth women are not happy with feminine roles in life. The female sense of  powerlessness is a curious thing and maybe something to look at for another post.<br /><br />The Corporate Feminist take-over of Hollowood has already begun to show signs of weakening, Elizabeth Banks has been exhibiting an excellent example of Female HypoAgency by blaming the failure of her Charlie's Angels feminist teenage romp on... <em>men's failure to attend the cinema when women are the action heroes.</em> <a href=\"https://www.screengeek.net/2019/11/18/charlies-angels-failure-elizabeth-banks-blames-men-comic-book-movies/\">[link to her interview here]</a></p>\n<p>meh, could it just be that your film is crap? no, it must be men's fault.</p>\n<p>We have been hearing this for a long time, eternity in fact. But <em>\"It's all men's fault\"</em>, is going start to get tiresome to hear at some point, even for the women who have doggedly supported Feminism all along. Why not just let the men be men, because we do it really rather well when allowed to, and with no need of help from female expertise on the rules of it. When you are done playing at being men in the men's locker room, would you mind shutting the door on the way out. Thanks.</p>\n<h3>A world war would sort this all out in minutes</h3>\n<p>This could also all quite easily be sorted out by the return of a nice big and bloody war, the rise of Feminism dogma and #MeToo outrage, all remains curiously correlated to the advent of peace in our first world cultures, but I won't go into that today.</p>\n<h3>The Patriarchy is a convenient <em>\"it's all men's fault\"</em> myth</h3>\n<p>The whole <em>\"blame patriarchy\"</em> concept is ridiculous and always has been. It is a byproduct of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and the need for women to<em> deny responsibility </em>because they have to in order to maintain female status.</p>\n<p>The Patriarchy has also been deliberately encouraged as a concept by the billion dollar industry that is <em>Feminism</em> and has been driven into the very teachings of our culture since the 1960s if not earlier, which is why no one stops to question it, we all grew up hearing it, and took it to be truth, but it isn't truth, it's the doctrine of a propaganda driven cult that has targeted traditional family roles. Though<em> <strong><a href=\"http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-10.htm\">Erin Pizzey</a> </strong></em>was aware of it being a problem as it got started, and her work with early Feminism is insightful into just what went wrong and why.</p>\n<p>But <em><strong><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia\">Camille Paglia</a></strong></em> puts it best in a few of her quotes which I share below, and at some point we are all going to have to wake up to the fact that the so called Patriarchy was mutually designed and built by men and women together. It is not the work of men alone, nor was it made to oppress females, if anything it has oppressed men into slavery to work dangerous jobs for his family unit, because society, technology, family, home, and the so-called Patriarchal system was made FOR women, to protect and nurture women, and designed at their behest and their demand.</p>\n<h3>The Male Biological Imperative: protect women, die trying, feel valued.</h3>\n<p>Our culture has always sought to protect, serve and cater to women - and children too for that matter. It is the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> of our species to protect women and children and to put them first. That <em>biological imperative</em> is deeply rooted within every man, and you can see it best on <strong><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/fightporn/\">Reddit r/FightPorn</a></strong><em> (If you can stomach it, be warned, it aint pretty)</em>. In every single example you find on there you will see the same dynamic play out - whenever a woman punches a man no one does anything, but if a man even just pushes a woman, he is taken down instantly by all the other men around, their minds do not even register what they are doing, it is instinctive. This is the <em>Male Biological Imperative</em> to protect women, rooted in the need to save the one that can propagate the species. It is an immensely powerful force, and hard to even spot unless you are looking.</p>\n<p>This <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong> to protect women and children was put there by Nature herself in order for our species to fight to survive. Man's only real role in life is to be a sacrifice for women and children. <strong>That is the real definition of the Patriarchy - <em>men sacrificing themselves for women and children, and in context of a real-life situation, working for their families.</em></strong></p>\n<p>For people to now pretend the Patriarchy is somehow loaded against women is a travesty of absolute ignorance, and frankly it is disgusting to engage in such a blatant dismissal of what men have sacrificed tirelessly through the ages to build a better world for those that came after. Men died constantly for the rest of us to live in the peaceful, technologically advanced Utopia that we have today. Shame on anyone who dares to turn that into a <em>blame-men</em> slogan for Feminazi propaganda. Those that do, should be sent somewhere to start over and see what it looks like. Maybe send them to another planet, and the best of luck with that. Call it Planet Clementine Ford and maybe she can be sent in the first mission.</p>\n<p>Lest we forget...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/war.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><em>\"One of feminism’s irritating reflexes is its fashionable disdain for “patriarchal society,” to which nothing good is ever attributed. But it is patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<p><em>\"It is capitalism that has given me the leisure to sit at this desk writing this book. Let us stop being small-minded about men and freely acknowledge what treasures their obsessiveness has poured into culture\" - Camille Paglia<br /><br /></em><em>\"Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself\" - Camille Paglia</em><br /><em><br /></em><em>\"What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<h3>Yet #MeToo still allows for women to play victim</h3>\n<p>For most people, sexual conquesting still remains a male driven arena, so it is easy to blame men as sole Agents, and it is still well underway to do so while claiming only ever being an Object as a female.</p>\n<p>But this should not be possible after #MeToo if it had been successful, or right, in the first place. If it had been right then women should now be able to vocalise, speak, ask, and recieve sex. But they can't. Why? Because they will still be shamed for it, so, nothing has changed since #MeToo, except more men are in prison and out of jobs, and we now know that a large section of the female population are dangerous and can't be trusted.</p>\n<p>If we bother to stop and consider the dynamics at work in any sexual connection, actually the feminine, passive role is a powerful one. The passive role is perfect for HypoAgency, because it allows for <em>denial of responsibility </em>later.</p>\n<p>Women can always play the victim card, but men can NEVER play that card. (Another aspect of HypoAgency and why it is mostly females that get to use it, though it makes you wonder if that is why men are trying to become women.) This is because playing victim functions well to make use of the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> men have to protect women and children. I am sure you see where I am going with this by now.</p>\n<p>This biological imperative in men is actually what is being used <em>against</em> men by women via the #MeToo campaign. Let's have a look at a good example of that...</p>\n<h3>Asia Argento, the perfect case</h3>\n<p>There is a certain irony in the fact that Asia Argento - the very person who started the entire #MeToo snowballing after her outburst at a Cannes event - then went on to be proven to be a sociopathic, sexual predator. She tried to deny it, and did so very convincingly because it seemed like an obvious attempt at a smear campaign, but then when pictures surfaced of her with the boy that she targeted, there was no room left for denial. But she still tried to wiggle out of it, not to admit it, instead she said she did not know he was that young, does he look old to you?</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-810 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/argento.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"599\" /></p>\n<p>Then it turned out that Asia was not so much raped by Harvey Weinstien, as blew him willingly in order to get ahead in Hollywood. Of course she maintains that...<em> <br /><br />\"She later had consensual encounters with Weinstein, she said, though she really felt \"obliged\" to comply, for fear he'd harm her career. \"  </em></p>\n<p>(The career she had progressed by blowing him, willingly, in a hotel room, voluntarily. Yet he is up for prison. Does that not seem weird?)</p>\n<p>Here is a picture of some women being tormented by their rapist...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-780 size-large\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/281-1024x839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"803\" /></p>\n<p><br /><br />and from Argento's original speech at Cannes...</p>\n<p><strong><em>\"we know who you are and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.\"</em></strong></p>\n<p>Well, quite so, and it probably came as a shock to her to discover that works both ways.</p>\n<h3>How is this still happening?</h3>\n<p>This is where <em>Female HypoAgency</em> comes in, and it is not just some fancy bit of jargon, it defines the very power dynamic at work between men and women. It is the power play used by those willing to deny responsibility for their their actions, and in some ways, hide their predatory nature just like the mimic octopus in the featuring photo of this blog.</p>\n<p>Asia has provided us with the perfect example of that creature in human form. She is completely in charge of all her situations, she is the absolute Agent, while totally played the Object from start to end every time. She still plays it even after being caught out, almost sociopathically believing she is the victim. This is so common it is uncanny.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a fiasco. No one seems to realise just how much it is just a tool for narcissistic women who use it to power-blugden men. It's literally a game of spot the predatory woman, because she will be claiming Object victimhood, while being the absolute Agent of her own life and targeting men to get ahead. The clue is in the victim position, she will never admit fault even when an Agent of her own choices. That is the clue, because she is lying. Mimicking, while hunting for her next actual, genuine victim.</p>\n<p><em>Female HypoAgency</em> is especially prevalent in any sexual interaction, this is because sex functions between the person who is<em> Dominant</em> and the other who is going to be more<em> Submissive</em> in the sexual dynamic, Sex energy increases between these two energetic, dynamic states of being. This then tends to lead to role play. Sex energy works like that, it is animated and excited by the engagement between those two opposite forces, but they are strangely complementary and they flip too. Dominance and Submission.</p>\n<h3>In BDSM, the Submissive runs the show</h3>\n<p>In BDSM world, it is well known that the person that controls the BDSM scene is the Submissive. This is a crucial truth if we are to understand the dynamics at work in #MeToo also. The Submissive is in control, and that is actually how it should be really, because that is how BDSM stays safe. But think about that, the Object, is in control, in Female HypoAgency, the victim is really the Agent who is running the show. Asia, the queen of the #MeToo campaign, plays it perfectly.</p>\n<h3>Plausible Deniability</h3>\n<p>Women can use <em>Female HypoAgency</em> to get ahead in all areas of life, they can play passive, while actually controlling the situation from that position, and yet all the while seeming not to. That is the fine art of the feminine to do this well. <em>Plausable Deniability, </em>is a woman's essential weapon and tool in life, or it can be, certainly not all women engage in it with the aggressive ferocity of someone like Asia Argento.</p>\n<p>Women actually have no choice but to use it with sex, because to act overtly would then get them targeted by other women as being promiscious and dangerous to them, it also might put men off. Men get scared when women act out of character. This is something for men to learn too.</p>\n<p>The problem comes when people like Asia Argento start to use it to wield power in public, and get ahead, and once it backfires on them, then they use it to take down the men around them, try to cover their tracks, while endlessly claiming to be the victim themselves.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is this, on a grand scale, and it is ingeniune in the extreme because it denies female culpability where there is plenty. Beware a woman who does not question #MeToo. She is probably using it.</p>\n<h3>Sociopathic claim to victimhood</h3>\n<p>The one thing that stands out every time with a sociopath running Female HypoAgency, is that they believe they are the victim even when it is proved beyond any doubt that they are not, and you can always tell by the language they use because they will continue to blame someone else even after being caught out. Asia reveals this behaviour perfectly for us to learn from. It's a great revealer because she has been so badly busted all round.</p>\n<p>Rose McGowan, who attached herself early on to Asia, is no better and interestingly they are now at war ever since Rose tried to distance herself from the Asia car crash. That's the level of support there.</p>\n<p>Men are mostly completely unaware of this happening to them when these kind of women target them, Anthony Bourdain almost certainly was caught out by it with Asia, and ultimately with disastrous consequences for him. The women who engage in it are absolutely ruthless, and it is why I used the Mimic Octopus in the main picture of this blog to represent it. A predator is looking for a result.</p>\n<p>The mimic octopus is an incredibly artful predator and fools its target by mimicking something that it is <em>not</em>, in the case of <em>Female HypoAgency</em>, a woman mimics being a victim while actually being the Agent, and she engages the male in his <em>Biological Imperative</em> desire to protect and support her. He then feels he is doing something good, for the greater good, when actually <em>she</em> is controlling the situation, and him, with a deliberate intent while pulling on his strings. Poor old Anthony got mugged by a mimic octopus.</p>\n<h3>White knights, or just poor clueless bastards</h3>\n<p>This mimicing behaviour is actually very common in Nature with the female predator, there are others that mimic fireflies for mating then eat the male, or the male tarantula that has spurs on his legs which could effectively stop the female from eating him. Does he ever use them? No. What is also common is the male's utter obliviousness to it all and failure to rescue himself from his own blindness. </p>\n<p>Female HypoAgency is in our blind spot, so we have to learn how to spot the signs that lead to confirming it.</p>\n<p>Males that are suckered by it, start to exhibit <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=White%20Knight\">white knight behaviour. </a>and then make fools of themselves doing the bidding for the woman that they think they are rescuing/ supporting/ saving/ or loved by.</p>\n<p>Like when Anthony Bourdain paid off Asia's young conquest in an attempt to stop his revelations harming her reputation and what he perceived to be the rescue of other #MeToo victims. Somehow he saw it as worth it, and not as Asia playing the hell out of him. The poor clueless bastard.</p>\n<p>Men rarely naturally become aware of how <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is used upon them, and women who use it will hunt for those kinds of men to prey on. For the most part those men only learn the hard way, even then they often can't believe it is real even after it is proved to them. This is because it goes against their <em><strong>Biological Imperative </strong></em>and the need to sacrifice themselves to save women. They fail to see how something as delightful as a woman can ever be that calculating. Nature programmed them that way so that they would sacrifice themselves when required.</p>\n<p>For this reason alone it is essential that <em>Female HypoAgency</em> be fully understood by men - and women too so we can talk to you about it - in order for us all to start to work out how to get along better. Not just to stop the #MeToo campaign, or the Corporate Feminist Take-over from running away with itself and becoming either a fiasco of male abuse, a victim stigma for irresponsible women to hide behind, a blatant leverage for power using the vagina to force entry, or simply a weapon with which to hate on men with. MeToo did not really help women, it hurt them. It was started by a sociopathic predator, so the clues are there.</p>\n<p>We need to work together to figure this out, and it is going to require some honesty, painful truths, and most of all, understanding how the symbiotic chemical reaction found between <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em>, underscores the entire dynamic of our modern first-world culture.</p>\n<h2>So, what is Female HypoAgency?</h2>\n<p>It's likely the only people who will ever care to know about it, are the very people who already know what it is, or have fallen victim to it and no longer able to deny their experience but can't yet understand what happened, or why it happened, to them.</p>\n<p>Everyone else, feminists especially, will not be interested in discussing it. Why? Because it reveals their behaviour.</p>\n<p>Here is the best explanation on Female HypoAgency (30 minutes long), provided by the person who helped me understand it two years ago, the incredibly insightful, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmnLu5cGUGeLy744WS-fsg\">Karen Straughan</a></p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KBgcjtE0xrE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> </p>\n<p>Every man should watch this video, and re-watch it until it is fully understood. I have been seeing it at work in our culture all over the place for the last two years. If men do not start to understand this dynamic and how it works, it is not likely going to get any better for men, or women, any time soon.</p>\n<h3>Links</h3>\n<p>If anyone reading this feels like they have been the victim of Female HypoAgency and #MeToo campaign and targeted unfairly, then I highly recommend contacting James Barnett of Barnett Survivors Limited, based in UK. He has done work internationally to help victims of false accusations and understands better than anyone the dynamics at work, and the legal issues involved in fighting for justice, against the damages caused by a false accusation. He can be found through any of the links below.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en\">https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors\">https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors\">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors</a></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/female-hypoagency-the-male-biological-imperative/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\"/>\n<h1><center>Female HypoAgency &amp; The Male Biological Imperative</center></h1>\n<p>Meet the mimic octopus (1.5 min video)...</p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/t-LTWFnGmeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n<h2>Introduction</h2>\n<p>Two years ago, just after the<em> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a> </em>campaign got started, I wrote a somewhat long and feisty article titled: <a href=\"https://steemit.com/mra/@mdkberry/female-hypoagency-pink-patriarchy-our-orwellian-big-sister\"><em>Female HypoAgency: Pink Patriarchy, our Orwellian Big Sister [steemit article]</em></a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hypoagency\">Female HypoAgency</a> was a new concept to me at the time, and I was investigating everything I could to understand what was going on between men and women that was creating such a volcanic reaction. I was also trying to understand my own position in the #MeToo revelation, as I am sure many of us were. I felt men were being unfairly targeted, but could not understand why. On the surface it looked genuine, but it felt wrong.</p>\n<p>Now the initial <em>#MeToo</em> furore has died down, I wanted to revisit the subject again, because it seems that the underlying forces at work have completely failed to surface in a way that makes it better understood. There has been no solution, just vengeance reaped.</p>\n<p><strong><em>Female HypoAgency</em></strong> and <em><strong>The</strong> <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong></em> are two forces that work together and need to be understood, if we are to unravel <em>#MeToo</em>, make good changes, and ultimately progress. Men and women have their part to play.<br /><br /></p>\n<h2>TL;DR</h2>\n<p><em><strong>Female HypoAgency</strong></em> allows women to switch between being an <em>Object (Victim)</em> or an <em>Agent (Independent &amp; strong woman)</em>. In short they can play victim in one moment, and play powerful woman the next, all based on how it suits them at the time.</p>\n<p>This switchable ability gives them <em>Deniable Plausibility</em> by default. For example a woman does not have to give consent, it is the man's job to get it. If he fails, he is held responsible for sex. If they are both drunk, he is considered the perpetrator and she the victim if she failed to give consent but went ahead anyway. Males are by default given the burden of being the responsible adult, a woman bears no personal responsibility. This applies to sex, education, workplace, and clothing, or the lack of. </p>\n<p>Men can only ever be Agents (Perpetrators), they are never thought of as Objects (Victims), most especially in a dynamic which involves a woman. Interestingly, if men become Trans, they can get access to HypoAgency. This then entitles them to play victim, and one wonders if it is partly why they choose it.<br /><br />Another common example of the value of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is in how we perceive women hitting men as okay, if not actually quite funny, while men hitting women is considered Domestic Violence.</p>\n<p>Yet another example is men raping women which is called <em>rape</em>, while women raping men is called <em>\"having sex with\"</em>, there is not even a word for it, in fact many Feminists claim it does not happen, but it does, and a lot. Female teachers often target children sexually. Yet legally a woman cannot rape a man, or child, there is no law against it. Rape only applies to men (Agents) <em>doing something to</em> women (Objects), and yet we know countless women are caught raping minors, but the word is never used in the media or in law because the act does not currently exist for women. Yet another example of Female HypoAgency.</p>\n<p>To add to the problem...</p>\n<p>When <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meets <em><strong>The Male Biological Imperative </strong></em>(the male urge to sacrifice oneself to protect women and children) it creates an amplified condition that has a dark side - women can then play on men's desire to rescue them, they can <em>play</em> victim. Our culture even has a saying to support it - <em>\"women and children first\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Men will sacrifice themselves in an instant to rescue women, because all men are driven by the <em>male biological imperative</em> to protect women for the greater good of the species. It is programmed into us, to sacrifice ourselves for the species. We even feel good doing it! This feeling of reward is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that we do not see ourselves engaging in it. </p>\n<p>Culturally we have started to become aware of it though, and the Urban dictionary has jokingly come to call women taking advantage of HypoAgency to call it \"using the <a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pussypass\">Pussy Pass\"</a> but it is a very real dynamic.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately these two complementary dynamics between the genders has now taken a dark turn in our culture, in part because men are no longer needed to protect women against a potential threat of war, as a result Feminism has risen to take power, and this rise has happened in direct correlation with peace-time, but that is a subject for another post.</p>\n<p>Let's look at Female HypoAgency, and a great video explanation from Karen Straughan can be found at the end if you don't have time to read the rest of this article...</p>\n<h2>What has changed in two years?</h2>\n<p>The first thing I noticed, is that it is easy to find definitions and examples of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a>, I doubt there is a person alive that has not heard of it. We all followed the ensuing dramas of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_allegations\">Harvey Weinstein</a> and the fall of <a href=\"https://www.glamour.com/gallery/post-weinstein-these-are-the-powerful-men-facing-sexual-harassment-allegations\">many other famous men</a> since, but interestingly, it is still far from easy to find a good definition of the opposite behaviour involved, that of <a href=\"https://definithing.com/hypoagency/\">Female HypoAgency</a>. The only way to do so, is by venturing into the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement\">Men'sRightsActivism</a> areas, and who want's to do that, right? Even they don't really get it either, they are often too busy being angry or feeling denied their right to be a victim.</p>\n<h3>What does this tell us?</h3>\n<p>Firstly that no one actually much cares about what is driving the dynamics between men and women, but we sure do enjoy a good sexual drama on the News.</p>\n<p>and secondly, as a result of this disparity, hardly anyone actually acknowledged what <em>is</em> behind the dynamics.</p>\n<p>Investigation of #MeToo still seems to stop at \"<em>blame the Patriachy\"</em> and the presumption that - <em>\"it is all men's fault\"</em>. In this regard, nothing much has changed, but for those in the know there has been a gradual shift towards better understanding, and <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meeting <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> is beneath a lot of it.</p>\n<h3>What has changed from a male perspective?</h3>\n<p>Other men have started sharing their experiences, the good and the bad, we have started to talk to each other and to listen. So in that respect it has been progressive for us, even if in part that has been simply to protect ourselves from the less salubrious women out there.<br /><br />For myself, the last two years have been spent trying to understand my position, and why I was so immediately and instinctively against #MeToo from the start. I was disgusted by it, to be honest. I experienced sexual abuse from men and women growing up, and I have dated some absolute bitches (as well as some lovely women of course), and I did not agree with the #MeToo campaign at all, because I knew it completely ignored the complicity of women in their actions. It made out that only men were to blame.</p>\n<p>That made no sense, but I lost a lot of friends for expressing my position, and I was constantly berated by women for mentioning my point. I was constantly told that I was not listening to women, but from my perspective, I was not being listened to. The more I observed this, I soon realised that this dated back much further than just #MeToo, and that actually my entire life had been spent being told I need to<em> listen to women</em>, while actually not being listened to by<em> them</em>.</p>\n<p>Feminism has made men's experiences un-important and <em>less than</em>, while women's experiences have been elevated to essential listening. This is something we have been hearing for at least the last 50 years. That was an unexpectedly curious revelation.</p>\n<h3>Guilty as charged, your honour</h3>\n<p>I also had to accept that I have not been as innocent as I would like to think I have been, I have perpetrated all sorts of trickery in an attempt to get laid. #MeToo applies to me too.</p>\n<p>I certainly do not do it now, and I consider the #MeToo campaign to have drawn a line in the sand for all of us (both genders) because it marked the point beyond which any of us could use the excuse that we did not know what we were doing. It is now our duty to learn, and to take responsibility.</p>\n<p>In terms of finding people guilty for past behaviours, <em><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presentism\"><strong>Presentism</strong></a></em> should also be considered before judging anyone, <em>post</em> #MeToo. but sadly that is rarely of interest to those involved in an attempted hanging, since they usually want an outcome and to see someone swing from the gallows, and it is always aimed at creating a clearly defining a victim, and a perpetrator to hang, but is it all really that simple? <em>No, it is NEVER that simple!</em></p>\n<p>What ever happened before #MeToo, should be judged on it's own merit, while what happens now, can certainly be judged more diligently according to the rules left behind by the #MeToo campaign, but not without an honest look at the dynamics involved on both sides. I do not believe that is happening yet, not at all. The <em>blame-it-all-on-the-men</em> narrative remains doggedly prevalent and it just highlights the willing ignorance shown by people who are actually more interested in power-play, than in the truth. It is high time <em>that</em> was being called-out too. Women have been completely complicit and so far, that revelation has avoided scrutiny.</p>\n<h3>Communication from both sides before sex</h3>\n<p>There is no longer an excuse not to communicate about sex, but that includes women too.</p>\n<p>It is not an excuse to make men do all the work of getting consent, while playing dumb to their part in letting it happen. You just can't expect to get away with that <em>wall-flower</em> approach anymore, and this has obviously presented a problem, because to do that requires admitting responsibility for female sexual desire and women's demand for sex.</p>\n<p>Turns out #MeToo was a double edged sword, because women are simply not allowed to demand sex in our culture, they get tarnished if they do. To do so would also take away the ability to be an <em>Object (Victim)</em> and stick her firmly in the <em>Agent (Perpetrator)</em> camp.</p>\n<p>Who would risk that, especially given how vicious women are to one another when one of them is sexually overt and promiscuous<em> (The Sisterhood is also a myth, but again, another post for that debarcle)</em></p>\n<h3>Women want sex, but they risk their status to admit to it</h3>\n<p>Unfortunately admitting to sexual desire, or acting on it, impacts women's status negatively in our culture. And not just from men, but from other women. That is the root of the problem as I see it, because it encourages women to avoid taking responsibilty around the act of sex with men.</p>\n<p>But #MeToo has happened. There is responsibility to be had now, otherwise it will backfire on the women that it should be helping. This was in part why I was so against it, because I could see how it was going to remove the opportunity for women to remain passive in the engagement, they would no longer be able to get men to approach them in a dominant way, because we now risk legal issue later to do so.</p>\n<p>There is no pretending that false accusation's can destroy a man's life even before it goes to court. We have seen the damage it has done and we have heard women being righteous about that. We have been tried, and found guilty in the public domain by the mob. If I was a young man today, there is no way I would go near a woman now without some kind of proof that I did not force myself upon her. It is not worth the risk. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a total failure because men can't be safe to approach women anymore, if we do, we'll risk losing our jobs and going to prison on the whim of a woman's invented comment. We are guilty until proven innocent, and even when proven innocent, our lives will have been destroyed anyway. It's the Ultimate Power and it is in the hands of women, not the Patriarchy, and yet, apparently the patriarchy is the problem? pffft.</p>\n<h3>You want sex? Get me a lawyer first</h3>\n<p>So, women need to become more overtly sexual, more overtly communicative about wanting sex, or, you'll simply have go without because it is not worth the risk to us men. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>So the sharp, double-edged nature of the #MeToo sword now requires that women need to stop acting like speech-incapacitated victims (Objects), or pretend that sex is only ever <em>done</em> <em>to</em> them. #MeToo has removed your right to fall back on that as an excuse. If you want us, you are going to have to come and get us, and bring a lawyer along with you. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>But wait, of course you can still deny responsibility - <em>Female HypoAgency to the rescue.</em></p>\n<h3>The sexual dynamic: Dominant/Submissive </h3>\n<p>The hardest part of it all that people still completely fail to grasp, and the area that has seen far less change, is in understanding the dynamics and power-play behind the passive person's involvement in any sexual interaction.</p>\n<p>Women are still considered the Object (victim) in almost all sexual interaction by default. Their Agency in engaging in sex, attracting it, driving it to happen, seems to still be considered minimal. It is done <em>TO</em> them. Women get to retain <em>deniable plausability.</em> This is the power of <em>Female HypoAgency.</em></p>\n<p> #MeToo and Feminism, has also now ensured the right of women to provoke sexuality from men, all without being questioned on that behaviour, and this deliberate drive seems to have increased exponentially since #MeToo began. Women are now shoving it in our faces. It is now called being <em>the independant, brave woman, and men best accept it.</em> But there are some startlingly ignorant aspects in that role. Take Yoga pants as a really good example...</p>\n<h3>Yoga pants are the overt sexual harassment of men</h3>\n<p>They have become common place in public, designed now to accentuate and draw attention to the vagina and buttocks, while the cultural standard seems to have become obtuse denial of this fact, apparently it is done for her alone, not us at all. (more Female HypoAgency in action). If you could put language to it, it would go something like this.</p>\n<p><em>\"Look at me, look at me! I am an independant woman, fearless and brave and here is the outline of my vagina and ass to prove it. LOOK AT ME!\"</em></p>\n<p>but when you do, this is now followed promptly by, </p>\n<p><em>\"What the fuck are you looking at, RAPIST!\"</em></p>\n<p>Or at least that is how it feels as a man dealing with the <em>Agency</em> of women who pretend to be innocent <em>Objects</em> of our desire, while at the same time are deliberately provoking sexual attention from us, demanding it aggressively, then attacking us for it. </p>\n<p>There is another rule - we are not allowed to mention this. But yes, absolutely, men <em>are</em> being targetted with this overt Yoga pant wearing behaviour and especially by younger women who think they have the right to do that without consequence. In fact even this discussion on Yoga pants is not permitted, simply because I am a man. To mention tight-fitting Yoga pants being worn in public makes me a perpetrator and borderline rapist.</p>\n<p>This, is not a good change. In this regard female independance has become vicious, deliberate, and sexually antagonistic towards men, while at the same time teasing us, and then starving us, of what the feminine has control over. Where once I might have wolf-whistled, to women wearing Yoga pants in public I now say,</p>\n<p><em>Woman, kindly take your snatch-stretched yoga pants and fuck off somewhere else far away from me with that shiz.</em></p>\n<h3><strong>Corporate Feminism: because Vagina</strong></h3>\n<p>Corporate, industrial-level, Feminism has now crept powerfully into the very arena in which the majority of men were targeted by the #MeToo campaign - <em>Hollywood</em>. Is this a coincidence? I think not. The whole point was a Feminist take-over, so the targeted males no longer have any power in the media realm. It's been a coup.</p>\n<p><em>Political Correctness</em> in Corporate world has also stealthily become something of a dictatorship, it now requires that women be given roles that they have not necessarly earned, simply on the merit of having a vagina. This is actually discrimination, but that concept is sure to fall on deaf ears because of the belief that the Patriarchy is in control, run by men, and needs to be over-thrown by women at all costs. (This is actually baloney if you had not realised it yet).</p>\n<p>Never mind Oprah and her part in feeding Harvey Weinstein his alleged victims, or their part in meeting the man in a hotel room despite likely knowing full-well what they were walking into (unless women don't talk to each other? That would be a first.) They were meeting him in a hotel room...Why? Well, the clue is in the question.</p>\n<p>But despite all this old-school feminine method of career-climbing by using sexuality to get ahead while denying it, it is still <em>all men's fault</em> that it occurs or exists<em>, </em>and that single assumption permits targeting those men in power, ousting them, and putting someone with a vagina in charge instead. Any man who dares to get in the way of that, or does not vocally fully support it, can now easily be targeted too. It is genius really.</p>\n<p>The only required qualification to get ahead today - is possessing a vagina. That is why <em>the future is female.</em> Women are never at fault, because it is always men to blame.</p>\n<p>This is all just the work of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and men falling foul of <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> to support women. Wakey wakey men, you are being duped.</p>\n<p>Do you remember that moment Oprah stood up to support Harvey? No nor do I. Why? Because they would have taken her out too.<em> Power.</em> That is the game behind #MeToo really, and the sooner people see that, the sooner we can have a proper conversation about what has been going on to get ahead in Hollywood, or to get some head in Hollywood, depending on which side of the Hotel door you were on before she decided to enter in. No one forced them, but I bet Oprah encouraged them wholeheartedly. He are some pretty pictures of that. #MeToo, women were complicit 50/50 if not more because it's how the power game works.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-793\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" /> <img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-794\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah-too.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"219\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<h3>Women do<em> 'being men'</em> better, obviously</h3>\n<p>The last two years has seen huge changes in movie scripting and directing. <a href=\"https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/why-so-many-feminist-leaning-movies-now-maybe-because-its-time-1203104112/\">[Variety magazine article on it from January 2019]. </a></p>\n<p><em>Oceans 8</em> and films like it are all about women trying to do \"men\" better, and presenting the idea that they can do it <em>much</em> better.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, I don't think many women can actually grasp what a man even is, and yet they say we do not understand them.</p>\n<p>Anyway, time will tell, but I think there is a danger in promoting this ridiculous idea that women do it better, because it is rooted in female fantasy and the perception of female powerlessness. Feminine power is found by being outside the circle of activity, controlling it, without doing anything. Give that covert control up, try to become a man, and you will definitely experience powerlessness. This is what is happening as Feminism takes over overt control. I predict that it's going to end in tears.</p>\n<p>Women do NOT do men better at all, if you have any doubts just look at the gender statistics of the dangerous jobs in the world. Women are not even close to doing it better. It should be obvious enough what men do, but no, women do it all better, not in real life, but on film and in Feminist slogans, while in reality they don't do it at all.</p>\n<p>Though I also fully understand the reactive necessity of it, given women have been kept out of <em>the men's locker room</em> until now, and they want in, because they feel powerless. But when they get in there, they will just be <em>women in the men's locker room</em>. That is something else. But I get it, sure let them in for a while, though I am not pretending that I think it is a workable idea in the long run. If anything, #MeToo has taught me that there is a value in gender segregation, at least in some aspects.</p>\n<p>There is an inevitability about all this too, it's a wave of female emotional reaction that is doomed to fail in the end when the truth comes out. Certainly it will be supported while it is a new thing, but there will also be an inevitability in it's decline, because actually women do not do \"men\" better, how on earth could they?</p>\n<p>Men do men best, and that won't change ever, even if you take HRT until kingdom come. Just like Trans women are not actually women, they are men  who chopped their penises off, enjoy role-playing, and now have to take hormone drugs to maintain their bitch-tits, but they are not, and never will be, women.</p>\n<p>It makes one wonder why on earth women are not happy with feminine roles in life. The female sense of  powerlessness is a curious thing and maybe something to look at for another post.<br /><br />The Corporate Feminist take-over of Hollowood has already begun to show signs of weakening, Elizabeth Banks has been exhibiting an excellent example of Female HypoAgency by blaming the failure of her Charlie's Angels feminist teenage romp on... <em>men's failure to attend the cinema when women are the action heroes.</em> <a href=\"https://www.screengeek.net/2019/11/18/charlies-angels-failure-elizabeth-banks-blames-men-comic-book-movies/\">[link to her interview here]</a></p>\n<p>meh, could it just be that your film is crap? no, it must be men's fault.</p>\n<p>We have been hearing this for a long time, eternity in fact. But <em>\"It's all men's fault\"</em>, is going start to get tiresome to hear at some point, even for the women who have doggedly supported Feminism all along. Why not just let the men be men, because we do it really rather well when allowed to, and with no need of help from female expertise on the rules of it. When you are done playing at being men in the men's locker room, would you mind shutting the door on the way out. Thanks.</p>\n<h3>A world war would sort this all out in minutes</h3>\n<p>This could also all quite easily be sorted out by the return of a nice big and bloody war, the rise of Feminism dogma and #MeToo outrage, all remains curiously correlated to the advent of peace in our first world cultures, but I won't go into that today.</p>\n<h3>The Patriarchy is a convenient <em>\"it's all men's fault\"</em> myth</h3>\n<p>The whole <em>\"blame patriarchy\"</em> concept is ridiculous and always has been. It is a byproduct of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and the need for women to<em> deny responsibility </em>because they have to in order to maintain female status.</p>\n<p>The Patriarchy has also been deliberately encouraged as a concept by the billion dollar industry that is <em>Feminism</em> and has been driven into the very teachings of our culture since the 1960s if not earlier, which is why no one stops to question it, we all grew up hearing it, and took it to be truth, but it isn't truth, it's the doctrine of a propaganda driven cult that has targeted traditional family roles. Though<em> <strong><a href=\"http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-10.htm\">Erin Pizzey</a> </strong></em>was aware of it being a problem as it got started, and her work with early Feminism is insightful into just what went wrong and why.</p>\n<p>But <em><strong><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia\">Camille Paglia</a></strong></em> puts it best in a few of her quotes which I share below, and at some point we are all going to have to wake up to the fact that the so called Patriarchy was mutually designed and built by men and women together. It is not the work of men alone, nor was it made to oppress females, if anything it has oppressed men into slavery to work dangerous jobs for his family unit, because society, technology, family, home, and the so-called Patriarchal system was made FOR women, to protect and nurture women, and designed at their behest and their demand.</p>\n<h3>The Male Biological Imperative: protect women, die trying, feel valued.</h3>\n<p>Our culture has always sought to protect, serve and cater to women - and children too for that matter. It is the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> of our species to protect women and children and to put them first. That <em>biological imperative</em> is deeply rooted within every man, and you can see it best on <strong><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/fightporn/\">Reddit r/FightPorn</a></strong><em> (If you can stomach it, be warned, it aint pretty)</em>. In every single example you find on there you will see the same dynamic play out - whenever a woman punches a man no one does anything, but if a man even just pushes a woman, he is taken down instantly by all the other men around, their minds do not even register what they are doing, it is instinctive. This is the <em>Male Biological Imperative</em> to protect women, rooted in the need to save the one that can propagate the species. It is an immensely powerful force, and hard to even spot unless you are looking.</p>\n<p>This <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong> to protect women and children was put there by Nature herself in order for our species to fight to survive. Man's only real role in life is to be a sacrifice for women and children. <strong>That is the real definition of the Patriarchy - <em>men sacrificing themselves for women and children, and in context of a real-life situation, working for their families.</em></strong></p>\n<p>For people to now pretend the Patriarchy is somehow loaded against women is a travesty of absolute ignorance, and frankly it is disgusting to engage in such a blatant dismissal of what men have sacrificed tirelessly through the ages to build a better world for those that came after. Men died constantly for the rest of us to live in the peaceful, technologically advanced Utopia that we have today. Shame on anyone who dares to turn that into a <em>blame-men</em> slogan for Feminazi propaganda. Those that do, should be sent somewhere to start over and see what it looks like. Maybe send them to another planet, and the best of luck with that. Call it Planet Clementine Ford and maybe she can be sent in the first mission.</p>\n<p>Lest we forget...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/war.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><em>\"One of feminism’s irritating reflexes is its fashionable disdain for “patriarchal society,” to which nothing good is ever attributed. But it is patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<p><em>\"It is capitalism that has given me the leisure to sit at this desk writing this book. Let us stop being small-minded about men and freely acknowledge what treasures their obsessiveness has poured into culture\" - Camille Paglia<br /><br /></em><em>\"Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself\" - Camille Paglia</em><br /><em><br /></em><em>\"What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<h3>Yet #MeToo still allows for women to play victim</h3>\n<p>For most people, sexual conquesting still remains a male driven arena, so it is easy to blame men as sole Agents, and it is still well underway to do so while claiming only ever being an Object as a female.</p>\n<p>But this should not be possible after #MeToo if it had been successful, or right, in the first place. If it had been right then women should now be able to vocalise, speak, ask, and recieve sex. But they can't. Why? Because they will still be shamed for it, so, nothing has changed since #MeToo, except more men are in prison and out of jobs, and we now know that a large section of the female population are dangerous and can't be trusted.</p>\n<p>If we bother to stop and consider the dynamics at work in any sexual connection, actually the feminine, passive role is a powerful one. The passive role is perfect for HypoAgency, because it allows for <em>denial of responsibility </em>later.</p>\n<p>Women can always play the victim card, but men can NEVER play that card. (Another aspect of HypoAgency and why it is mostly females that get to use it, though it makes you wonder if that is why men are trying to become women.) This is because playing victim functions well to make use of the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> men have to protect women and children. I am sure you see where I am going with this by now.</p>\n<p>This biological imperative in men is actually what is being used <em>against</em> men by women via the #MeToo campaign. Let's have a look at a good example of that...</p>\n<h3>Asia Argento, the perfect case</h3>\n<p>There is a certain irony in the fact that Asia Argento - the very person who started the entire #MeToo snowballing after her outburst at a Cannes event - then went on to be proven to be a sociopathic, sexual predator. She tried to deny it, and did so very convincingly because it seemed like an obvious attempt at a smear campaign, but then when pictures surfaced of her with the boy that she targeted, there was no room left for denial. But she still tried to wiggle out of it, not to admit it, instead she said she did not know he was that young, does he look old to you?</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-810 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/argento.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"599\" /></p>\n<p>Then it turned out that Asia was not so much raped by Harvey Weinstien, as blew him willingly in order to get ahead in Hollywood. Of course she maintains that...<em> <br /><br />\"She later had consensual encounters with Weinstein, she said, though she really felt \"obliged\" to comply, for fear he'd harm her career. \"  </em></p>\n<p>(The career she had progressed by blowing him, willingly, in a hotel room, voluntarily. Yet he is up for prison. Does that not seem weird?)</p>\n<p>Here is a picture of some women being tormented by their rapist...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-780 size-large\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/281-1024x839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"803\" /></p>\n<p><br /><br />and from Argento's original speech at Cannes...</p>\n<p><strong><em>\"we know who you are and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.\"</em></strong></p>\n<p>Well, quite so, and it probably came as a shock to her to discover that works both ways.</p>\n<h3>How is this still happening?</h3>\n<p>This is where <em>Female HypoAgency</em> comes in, and it is not just some fancy bit of jargon, it defines the very power dynamic at work between men and women. It is the power play used by those willing to deny responsibility for their their actions, and in some ways, hide their predatory nature just like the mimic octopus in the featuring photo of this blog.</p>\n<p>Asia has provided us with the perfect example of that creature in human form. She is completely in charge of all her situations, she is the absolute Agent, while totally played the Object from start to end every time. She still plays it even after being caught out, almost sociopathically believing she is the victim. This is so common it is uncanny.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a fiasco. No one seems to realise just how much it is just a tool for narcissistic women who use it to power-blugden men. It's literally a game of spot the predatory woman, because she will be claiming Object victimhood, while being the absolute Agent of her own life and targeting men to get ahead. The clue is in the victim position, she will never admit fault even when an Agent of her own choices. That is the clue, because she is lying. Mimicking, while hunting for her next actual, genuine victim.</p>\n<p><em>Female HypoAgency</em> is especially prevalent in any sexual interaction, this is because sex functions between the person who is<em> Dominant</em> and the other who is going to be more<em> Submissive</em> in the sexual dynamic, Sex energy increases between these two energetic, dynamic states of being. This then tends to lead to role play. Sex energy works like that, it is animated and excited by the engagement between those two opposite forces, but they are strangely complementary and they flip too. Dominance and Submission.</p>\n<h3>In BDSM, the Submissive runs the show</h3>\n<p>In BDSM world, it is well known that the person that controls the BDSM scene is the Submissive. This is a crucial truth if we are to understand the dynamics at work in #MeToo also. The Submissive is in control, and that is actually how it should be really, because that is how BDSM stays safe. But think about that, the Object, is in control, in Female HypoAgency, the victim is really the Agent who is running the show. Asia, the queen of the #MeToo campaign, plays it perfectly.</p>\n<h3>Plausible Deniability</h3>\n<p>Women can use <em>Female HypoAgency</em> to get ahead in all areas of life, they can play passive, while actually controlling the situation from that position, and yet all the while seeming not to. That is the fine art of the feminine to do this well. <em>Plausable Deniability, </em>is a woman's essential weapon and tool in life, or it can be, certainly not all women engage in it with the aggressive ferocity of someone like Asia Argento.</p>\n<p>Women actually have no choice but to use it with sex, because to act overtly would then get them targeted by other women as being promiscious and dangerous to them, it also might put men off. Men get scared when women act out of character. This is something for men to learn too.</p>\n<p>The problem comes when people like Asia Argento start to use it to wield power in public, and get ahead, and once it backfires on them, then they use it to take down the men around them, try to cover their tracks, while endlessly claiming to be the victim themselves.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is this, on a grand scale, and it is ingeniune in the extreme because it denies female culpability where there is plenty. Beware a woman who does not question #MeToo. She is probably using it.</p>\n<h3>Sociopathic claim to victimhood</h3>\n<p>The one thing that stands out every time with a sociopath running Female HypoAgency, is that they believe they are the victim even when it is proved beyond any doubt that they are not, and you can always tell by the language they use because they will continue to blame someone else even after being caught out. Asia reveals this behaviour perfectly for us to learn from. It's a great revealer because she has been so badly busted all round.</p>\n<p>Rose McGowan, who attached herself early on to Asia, is no better and interestingly they are now at war ever since Rose tried to distance herself from the Asia car crash. That's the level of support there.</p>\n<p>Men are mostly completely unaware of this happening to them when these kind of women target them, Anthony Bourdain almost certainly was caught out by it with Asia, and ultimately with disastrous consequences for him. The women who engage in it are absolutely ruthless, and it is why I used the Mimic Octopus in the main picture of this blog to represent it. A predator is looking for a result.</p>\n<p>The mimic octopus is an incredibly artful predator and fools its target by mimicking something that it is <em>not</em>, in the case of <em>Female HypoAgency</em>, a woman mimics being a victim while actually being the Agent, and she engages the male in his <em>Biological Imperative</em> desire to protect and support her. He then feels he is doing something good, for the greater good, when actually <em>she</em> is controlling the situation, and him, with a deliberate intent while pulling on his strings. Poor old Anthony got mugged by a mimic octopus.</p>\n<h3>White knights, or just poor clueless bastards</h3>\n<p>This mimicing behaviour is actually very common in Nature with the female predator, there are others that mimic fireflies for mating then eat the male, or the male tarantula that has spurs on his legs which could effectively stop the female from eating him. Does he ever use them? No. What is also common is the male's utter obliviousness to it all and failure to rescue himself from his own blindness. </p>\n<p>Female HypoAgency is in our blind spot, so we have to learn how to spot the signs that lead to confirming it.</p>\n<p>Males that are suckered by it, start to exhibit <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=White%20Knight\">white knight behaviour. </a>and then make fools of themselves doing the bidding for the woman that they think they are rescuing/ supporting/ saving/ or loved by.</p>\n<p>Like when Anthony Bourdain paid off Asia's young conquest in an attempt to stop his revelations harming her reputation and what he perceived to be the rescue of other #MeToo victims. Somehow he saw it as worth it, and not as Asia playing the hell out of him. The poor clueless bastard.</p>\n<p>Men rarely naturally become aware of how <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is used upon them, and women who use it will hunt for those kinds of men to prey on. For the most part those men only learn the hard way, even then they often can't believe it is real even after it is proved to them. This is because it goes against their <em><strong>Biological Imperative </strong></em>and the need to sacrifice themselves to save women. They fail to see how something as delightful as a woman can ever be that calculating. Nature programmed them that way so that they would sacrifice themselves when required.</p>\n<p>For this reason alone it is essential that <em>Female HypoAgency</em> be fully understood by men - and women too so we can talk to you about it - in order for us all to start to work out how to get along better. Not just to stop the #MeToo campaign, or the Corporate Feminist Take-over from running away with itself and becoming either a fiasco of male abuse, a victim stigma for irresponsible women to hide behind, a blatant leverage for power using the vagina to force entry, or simply a weapon with which to hate on men with. MeToo did not really help women, it hurt them. It was started by a sociopathic predator, so the clues are there.</p>\n<p>We need to work together to figure this out, and it is going to require some honesty, painful truths, and most of all, understanding how the symbiotic chemical reaction found between <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em>, underscores the entire dynamic of our modern first-world culture.</p>\n<h2>So, what is Female HypoAgency?</h2>\n<p>It's likely the only people who will ever care to know about it, are the very people who already know what it is, or have fallen victim to it and no longer able to deny their experience but can't yet understand what happened, or why it happened, to them.</p>\n<p>Everyone else, feminists especially, will not be interested in discussing it. Why? Because it reveals their behaviour.</p>\n<p>Here is the best explanation on Female HypoAgency (30 minutes long), provided by the person who helped me understand it two years ago, the incredibly insightful, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmnLu5cGUGeLy744WS-fsg\">Karen Straughan</a></p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KBgcjtE0xrE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> </p>\n<p>Every man should watch this video, and re-watch it until it is fully understood. I have been seeing it at work in our culture all over the place for the last two years. If men do not start to understand this dynamic and how it works, it is not likely going to get any better for men, or women, any time soon.</p>\n<h3>Links</h3>\n<p>If anyone reading this feels like they have been the victim of Female HypoAgency and #MeToo campaign and targeted unfairly, then I highly recommend contacting James Barnett of Barnett Survivors Limited, based in UK. He has done work internationally to help victims of false accusations and understands better than anyone the dynamics at work, and the legal issues involved in fighting for justice, against the damages caused by a false accusation. He can be found through any of the links below.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en\">https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors\">https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors\">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors</a></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/female-hypoagency-the-male-biological-imperative/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\"/>\n<h1><center>Female HypoAgency &amp; The Male Biological Imperative</center></h1>\n<p>Meet the mimic octopus (1.5 min video)...</p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/t-LTWFnGmeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n<h2>Introduction</h2>\n<p>Two years ago, just after the<em> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a> </em>campaign got started, I wrote a somewhat long and feisty article titled: <a href=\"https://steemit.com/mra/@mdkberry/female-hypoagency-pink-patriarchy-our-orwellian-big-sister\"><em>Female HypoAgency: Pink Patriarchy, our Orwellian Big Sister [steemit article]</em></a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hypoagency\">Female HypoAgency</a> was a new concept to me at the time, and I was investigating everything I could to understand what was going on between men and women that was creating such a volcanic reaction. I was also trying to understand my own position in the #MeToo revelation, as I am sure many of us were. I felt men were being unfairly targeted, but could not understand why. On the surface it looked genuine, but it felt wrong.</p>\n<p>Now the initial <em>#MeToo</em> furore has died down, I wanted to revisit the subject again, because it seems that the underlying forces at work have completely failed to surface in a way that makes it better understood. There has been no solution, just vengeance reaped.</p>\n<p><strong><em>Female HypoAgency</em></strong> and <em><strong>The</strong> <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong></em> are two forces that work together and need to be understood, if we are to unravel <em>#MeToo</em>, make good changes, and ultimately progress. Men and women have their part to play.<br /><br /></p>\n<h2>TL;DR</h2>\n<p><em><strong>Female HypoAgency</strong></em> allows women to switch between being an <em>Object (Victim)</em> or an <em>Agent (Independent &amp; strong woman)</em>. In short they can play victim in one moment, and play powerful woman the next, all based on how it suits them at the time.</p>\n<p>This switchable ability gives them <em>Deniable Plausibility</em> by default. For example a woman does not have to give consent, it is the man's job to get it. If he fails, he is held responsible for sex. If they are both drunk, he is considered the perpetrator and she the victim if she failed to give consent but went ahead anyway. Males are by default given the burden of being the responsible adult, a woman bears no personal responsibility. This applies to sex, education, workplace, and clothing, or the lack of. </p>\n<p>Men can only ever be Agents (Perpetrators), they are never thought of as Objects (Victims), most especially in a dynamic which involves a woman. Interestingly, if men become Trans, they can get access to HypoAgency. This then entitles them to play victim, and one wonders if it is partly why they choose it.<br /><br />Another common example of the value of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is in how we perceive women hitting men as okay, if not actually quite funny, while men hitting women is considered Domestic Violence.</p>\n<p>Yet another example is men raping women which is called <em>rape</em>, while women raping men is called <em>\"having sex with\"</em>, there is not even a word for it, in fact many Feminists claim it does not happen, but it does, and a lot. Female teachers often target children sexually. Yet legally a woman cannot rape a man, or child, there is no law against it. Rape only applies to men (Agents) <em>doing something to</em> women (Objects), and yet we know countless women are caught raping minors, but the word is never used in the media or in law because the act does not currently exist for women. Yet another example of Female HypoAgency.</p>\n<p>To add to the problem...</p>\n<p>When <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meets <em><strong>The Male Biological Imperative </strong></em>(the male urge to sacrifice oneself to protect women and children) it creates an amplified condition that has a dark side - women can then play on men's desire to rescue them, they can <em>play</em> victim. Our culture even has a saying to support it - <em>\"women and children first\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Men will sacrifice themselves in an instant to rescue women, because all men are driven by the <em>male biological imperative</em> to protect women for the greater good of the species. It is programmed into us, to sacrifice ourselves for the species. We even feel good doing it!</p>\n<p>This feeling of reward is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that we do not even see ourselves engaging in it. Culturally we have started to become aware of it though, and the Urban dictionary has jokingly come to call this the <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pussypass\"><strong>Pussy Pass</strong>,</a> but it is a very real dynamic.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately these two complementary dynamics between the genders has now taken a dark turn in our culture, in part because men are no longer needed to protect women against a potential threat of war, as a result Feminism has risen to take power, and this rise has happened in direct correlation with peace-time, but that is a subject for another post.</p>\n<p>Let's look at Female HypoAgency, and a great video explanation from Karen Straughan can be found at the end if you don't have time to read the rest of this article...</p>\n<h2>What has changed in two years?</h2>\n<p>The first thing I noticed, is that it is easy to find definitions and examples of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a>, I doubt there is a person alive that has not heard of it. We all followed the ensuing dramas of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_allegations\">Harvey Weinstein</a> and the fall of <a href=\"https://www.glamour.com/gallery/post-weinstein-these-are-the-powerful-men-facing-sexual-harassment-allegations\">many other famous men</a> since, but interestingly, it is still far from easy to find a good definition of the opposite behaviour involved, that of <a href=\"https://definithing.com/hypoagency/\">Female HypoAgency</a>. The only way to do so, is by venturing into the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement\">Men'sRightsActivism</a> areas, and who want's to do that, right? Even they don't really get it either, they are often too busy being angry or feeling denied their right to be a victim.</p>\n<h3>What does this tell us?</h3>\n<p>Firstly that no one actually much cares about what is driving the dynamics between men and women, but we sure do enjoy a good sexual drama on the News.</p>\n<p>and secondly, as a result of this disparity, hardly anyone actually acknowledged what <em>is</em> behind the dynamics.</p>\n<p>Investigation of #MeToo still seems to stop at \"<em>blame the Patriachy\"</em> and the presumption that - <em>\"it is all men's fault\"</em>. In this regard, nothing much has changed, but for those in the know there has been a gradual shift towards better understanding, and <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meeting <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> is beneath a lot of it.</p>\n<h3>What has changed from a male perspective?</h3>\n<p>Other men have started sharing their experiences, the good and the bad, we have started to talk to each other and to listen. So in that respect it has been progressive for us, even if in part that has been simply to protect ourselves from the less salubrious women out there.<br /><br />For myself, the last two years have been spent trying to understand my position, and why I was so immediately and instinctively against #MeToo from the start. I was disgusted by it, to be honest. I experienced sexual abuse from men and women growing up, and I have dated some absolute bitches (as well as some lovely women of course), and I did not agree with the #MeToo campaign at all, because I knew it completely ignored the complicity of women in their actions. It made out that only men were to blame.</p>\n<p>That made no sense, but I lost a lot of friends for expressing my position, and I was constantly berated by women for mentioning my point. I was constantly told that I was not listening to women, but from my perspective, I was not being listened to. The more I observed this, I soon realised that this dated back much further than just #MeToo, and that actually my entire life had been spent being told I need to<em> listen to women</em>, while actually not being listened to by<em> them</em>.</p>\n<p>Feminism has made men's experiences un-important and <em>less than</em>, while women's experiences have been elevated to essential listening. This is something we have been hearing for at least the last 50 years. That was an unexpectedly curious revelation.</p>\n<h3>Guilty as charged, your honour</h3>\n<p>I also had to accept that I have not been as innocent as I would like to think I have been, I have perpetrated all sorts of trickery in an attempt to get laid. #MeToo applies to me too.</p>\n<p>I certainly do not do it now, and I consider the #MeToo campaign to have drawn a line in the sand for all of us (both genders) because it marked the point beyond which any of us could use the excuse that we did not know what we were doing. It is now our duty to learn, and to take responsibility.</p>\n<p>In terms of finding people guilty for past behaviours, <em><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presentism\"><strong>Presentism</strong></a></em> should also be considered before judging anyone, <em>post</em> #MeToo. but sadly that is rarely of interest to those involved in an attempted hanging, since they usually want an outcome and to see someone swing from the gallows, and it is always aimed at creating a clearly defining a victim, and a perpetrator to hang, but is it all really that simple? <em>No, it is NEVER that simple!</em></p>\n<p>What ever happened before #MeToo, should be judged on it's own merit, while what happens now, can certainly be judged more diligently according to the rules left behind by the #MeToo campaign, but not without an honest look at the dynamics involved on both sides. I do not believe that is happening yet, not at all. The <em>blame-it-all-on-the-men</em> narrative remains doggedly prevalent and it just highlights the willing ignorance shown by people who are actually more interested in power-play, than in the truth. It is high time <em>that</em> was being called-out too. Women have been completely complicit and so far, that revelation has avoided scrutiny.</p>\n<h3>Communication from both sides before sex</h3>\n<p>There is no longer an excuse not to communicate about sex, but that includes women too.</p>\n<p>It is not an excuse to make men do all the work of getting consent, while playing dumb to their part in letting it happen. You just can't expect to get away with that <em>wall-flower</em> approach anymore, and this has obviously presented a problem, because to do that requires admitting responsibility for female sexual desire and women's demand for sex.</p>\n<p>Turns out #MeToo was a double edged sword, because women are simply not allowed to demand sex in our culture, they get tarnished if they do. To do so would also take away the ability to be an <em>Object (Victim)</em> and stick her firmly in the <em>Agent (Perpetrator)</em> camp.</p>\n<p>Who would risk that, especially given how vicious women are to one another when one of them is sexually overt and promiscuous<em> (The Sisterhood is also a myth, but again, another post for that debarcle)</em></p>\n<h3>Women want sex, but they risk their status to admit to it</h3>\n<p>Unfortunately admitting to sexual desire, or acting on it, impacts women's status negatively in our culture. And not just from men, but from other women. That is the root of the problem as I see it, because it encourages women to avoid taking responsibilty around the act of sex with men.</p>\n<p>But #MeToo has happened. There is responsibility to be had now, otherwise it will backfire on the women that it should be helping. This was in part why I was so against it, because I could see how it was going to remove the opportunity for women to remain passive in the engagement, they would no longer be able to get men to approach them in a dominant way, because we now risk legal issue later to do so.</p>\n<p>There is no pretending that false accusation's can destroy a man's life even before it goes to court. We have seen the damage it has done and we have heard women being righteous about that. We have been tried, and found guilty in the public domain by the mob. If I was a young man today, there is no way I would go near a woman now without some kind of proof that I did not force myself upon her. It is not worth the risk. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a total failure because men can't be safe to approach women anymore, if we do, we'll risk losing our jobs and going to prison on the whim of a woman's invented comment. We are guilty until proven innocent, and even when proven innocent, our lives will have been destroyed anyway. It's the Ultimate Power and it is in the hands of women, not the Patriarchy, and yet, apparently the patriarchy is the problem? pffft.</p>\n<h3>You want sex? Get me a lawyer first</h3>\n<p>So, women need to become more overtly sexual, more overtly communicative about wanting sex, or, you'll simply have go without because it is not worth the risk to us men. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>So the sharp, double-edged nature of the #MeToo sword now requires that women need to stop acting like speech-incapacitated victims (Objects), or pretend that sex is only ever <em>done</em> <em>to</em> them. #MeToo has removed your right to fall back on that as an excuse. If you want us, you are going to have to come and get us, and bring a lawyer along with you. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>But wait, of course you can still deny responsibility - <em>Female HypoAgency to the rescue.</em></p>\n<h3>The sexual dynamic: Dominant/Submissive </h3>\n<p>The hardest part of it all that people still completely fail to grasp, and the area that has seen far less change, is in understanding the dynamics and power-play behind the passive person's involvement in any sexual interaction.</p>\n<p>Women are still considered the Object (victim) in almost all sexual interaction by default. Their Agency in engaging in sex, attracting it, driving it to happen, seems to still be considered minimal. It is done <em>TO</em> them. Women get to retain <em>deniable plausability.</em> This is the power of <em>Female HypoAgency.</em></p>\n<p> #MeToo and Feminism, has also now ensured the right of women to provoke sexuality from men, all without being questioned on that behaviour, and this deliberate drive seems to have increased exponentially since #MeToo began. Women are now shoving it in our faces. It is now called being <em>the independant, brave woman, and men best accept it.</em> But there are some startlingly ignorant aspects in that role. Take Yoga pants as a really good example...</p>\n<h3>Yoga pants are the overt sexual harassment of men</h3>\n<p>They have become common place in public, designed now to accentuate and draw attention to the vagina and buttocks, while the cultural standard seems to have become obtuse denial of this fact, apparently it is done for her alone, not us at all. (more Female HypoAgency in action). If you could put language to it, it would go something like this.</p>\n<p><em>\"Look at me, look at me! I am an independant woman, fearless and brave and here is the outline of my vagina and ass to prove it. LOOK AT ME!\"</em></p>\n<p>but when you do, this is now followed promptly by, </p>\n<p><em>\"What the fuck are you looking at, RAPIST!\"</em></p>\n<p>Or at least that is how it feels as a man dealing with the <em>Agency</em> of women who pretend to be innocent <em>Objects</em> of our desire, while at the same time are deliberately provoking sexual attention from us, demanding it aggressively, then attacking us for it. </p>\n<p>There is another rule - we are not allowed to mention this. But yes, absolutely, men <em>are</em> being targetted with this overt Yoga pant wearing behaviour and especially by younger women who think they have the right to do that without consequence. In fact even this discussion on Yoga pants is not permitted, simply because I am a man. To mention tight-fitting Yoga pants being worn in public makes me a perpetrator and borderline rapist.</p>\n<p>This, is not a good change. In this regard female independance has become vicious, deliberate, and sexually antagonistic towards men, while at the same time teasing us, and then starving us, of what the feminine has control over. Where once I might have wolf-whistled, to women wearing Yoga pants in public I now say,</p>\n<p><em>Woman, kindly take your snatch-stretched yoga pants and fuck off somewhere else far away from me with that shiz.</em></p>\n<h3><strong>Corporate Feminism: because Vagina</strong></h3>\n<p>Corporate, industrial-level, Feminism has now crept powerfully into the very arena in which the majority of men were targeted by the #MeToo campaign - <em>Hollywood</em>. Is this a coincidence? I think not. The whole point was a Feminist take-over, so the targeted males no longer have any power in the media realm. It's been a coup.</p>\n<p><em>Political Correctness</em> in Corporate world has also stealthily become something of a dictatorship, it now requires that women be given roles that they have not necessarly earned, simply on the merit of having a vagina. This is actually discrimination, but that concept is sure to fall on deaf ears because of the belief that the Patriarchy is in control, run by men, and needs to be over-thrown by women at all costs. (This is actually baloney if you had not realised it yet).</p>\n<p>Never mind Oprah and her part in feeding Harvey Weinstein his alleged victims, or their part in meeting the man in a hotel room despite likely knowing full-well what they were walking into (unless women don't talk to each other? That would be a first.) They were meeting him in a hotel room...Why? Well, the clue is in the question.</p>\n<p>But despite all this old-school feminine method of career-climbing by using sexuality to get ahead while denying it, it is still <em>all men's fault</em> that it occurs or exists<em>, </em>and that single assumption permits targeting those men in power, ousting them, and putting someone with a vagina in charge instead. Any man who dares to get in the way of that, or does not vocally fully support it, can now easily be targeted too. It is genius really.</p>\n<p>The only required qualification to get ahead today - is possessing a vagina. That is why <em>the future is female.</em> Women are never at fault, because it is always men to blame.</p>\n<p>This is all just the work of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and men falling foul of <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> to support women. Wakey wakey men, you are being duped.</p>\n<p>Do you remember that moment Oprah stood up to support Harvey? No nor do I. Why? Because they would have taken her out too.<em> Power.</em> That is the game behind #MeToo really, and the sooner people see that, the sooner we can have a proper conversation about what has been going on to get ahead in Hollywood, or to get some head in Hollywood, depending on which side of the Hotel door you were on before she decided to enter in. No one forced them, but I bet Oprah encouraged them wholeheartedly. He are some pretty pictures of that. #MeToo, women were complicit 50/50 if not more because it's how the power game works.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-793\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" /> <img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-794\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah-too.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"219\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<h3>Women do<em> 'being men'</em> better, obviously</h3>\n<p>The last two years has seen huge changes in movie scripting and directing. <a href=\"https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/why-so-many-feminist-leaning-movies-now-maybe-because-its-time-1203104112/\">[Variety magazine article on it from January 2019]. </a></p>\n<p><em>Oceans 8</em> and films like it are all about women trying to do \"men\" better, and presenting the idea that they can do it <em>much</em> better.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, I don't think many women can actually grasp what a man even is, and yet they say we do not understand them.</p>\n<p>Anyway, time will tell, but I think there is a danger in promoting this ridiculous idea that women do it better, because it is rooted in female fantasy and the perception of female powerlessness. Feminine power is found by being outside the circle of activity, controlling it, without doing anything. Give that covert control up, try to become a man, and you will definitely experience powerlessness. This is what is happening as Feminism takes over overt control. I predict that it's going to end in tears.</p>\n<p>Women do NOT do men better at all, if you have any doubts just look at the gender statistics of the dangerous jobs in the world. Women are not even close to doing it better. It should be obvious enough what men do, but no, women do it all better, not in real life, but on film and in Feminist slogans, while in reality they don't do it at all.</p>\n<p>Though I also fully understand the reactive necessity of it, given women have been kept out of <em>the men's locker room</em> until now, and they want in, because they feel powerless. But when they get in there, they will just be <em>women in the men's locker room</em>. That is something else. But I get it, sure let them in for a while, though I am not pretending that I think it is a workable idea in the long run. If anything, #MeToo has taught me that there is a value in gender segregation, at least in some aspects.</p>\n<p>There is an inevitability about all this too, it's a wave of female emotional reaction that is doomed to fail in the end when the truth comes out. Certainly it will be supported while it is a new thing, but there will also be an inevitability in it's decline, because actually women do not do \"men\" better, how on earth could they?</p>\n<p>Men do men best, and that won't change ever, even if you take HRT until kingdom come. Just like Trans women are not actually women, they are men  who chopped their penises off, enjoy role-playing, and now have to take hormone drugs to maintain their bitch-tits, but they are not, and never will be, women.</p>\n<p>It makes one wonder why on earth women are not happy with feminine roles in life. The female sense of  powerlessness is a curious thing and maybe something to look at for another post.<br /><br />The Corporate Feminist take-over of Hollowood has already begun to show signs of weakening, Elizabeth Banks has been exhibiting an excellent example of Female HypoAgency by blaming the failure of her Charlie's Angels feminist teenage romp on... <em>men's failure to attend the cinema when women are the action heroes.</em> <a href=\"https://www.screengeek.net/2019/11/18/charlies-angels-failure-elizabeth-banks-blames-men-comic-book-movies/\">[link to her interview here]</a></p>\n<p>meh, could it just be that your film is crap? no, it must be men's fault.</p>\n<p>We have been hearing this for a long time, eternity in fact. But <em>\"It's all men's fault\"</em>, is going start to get tiresome to hear at some point, even for the women who have doggedly supported Feminism all along. Why not just let the men be men, because we do it really rather well when allowed to, and with no need of help from female expertise on the rules of it. When you are done playing at being men in the men's locker room, would you mind shutting the door on the way out. Thanks.</p>\n<h3>A world war would sort this all out in minutes</h3>\n<p>This could also all quite easily be sorted out by the return of a nice big and bloody war, the rise of Feminism dogma and #MeToo outrage, all remains curiously correlated to the advent of peace in our first world cultures, but I won't go into that today.</p>\n<h3>The Patriarchy is a convenient <em>\"it's all men's fault\"</em> myth</h3>\n<p>The whole <em>\"blame patriarchy\"</em> concept is ridiculous and always has been. It is a byproduct of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and the need for women to<em> deny responsibility </em>because they have to in order to maintain female status.</p>\n<p>The Patriarchy has also been deliberately encouraged as a concept by the billion dollar industry that is <em>Feminism</em> and has been driven into the very teachings of our culture since the 1960s if not earlier, which is why no one stops to question it, we all grew up hearing it, and took it to be truth, but it isn't truth, it's the doctrine of a propaganda driven cult that has targeted traditional family roles. Though<em> <strong><a href=\"http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-10.htm\">Erin Pizzey</a> </strong></em>was aware of it being a problem as it got started, and her work with early Feminism is insightful into just what went wrong and why.</p>\n<p>But <em><strong><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia\">Camille Paglia</a></strong></em> puts it best in a few of her quotes which I share below, and at some point we are all going to have to wake up to the fact that the so called Patriarchy was mutually designed and built by men and women together. It is not the work of men alone, nor was it made to oppress females, if anything it has oppressed men into slavery to work dangerous jobs for his family unit, because society, technology, family, home, and the so-called Patriarchal system was made FOR women, to protect and nurture women, and designed at their behest and their demand.</p>\n<h3>The Male Biological Imperative: protect women, die trying, feel valued.</h3>\n<p>Our culture has always sought to protect, serve and cater to women - and children too for that matter. It is the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> of our species to protect women and children and to put them first. That <em>biological imperative</em> is deeply rooted within every man, and you can see it best on <strong><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/fightporn/\">Reddit r/FightPorn</a></strong><em> (If you can stomach it, be warned, it aint pretty)</em>. In every single example you find on there you will see the same dynamic play out - whenever a woman punches a man no one does anything, but if a man even just pushes a woman, he is taken down instantly by all the other men around, their minds do not even register what they are doing, it is instinctive. This is the <em>Male Biological Imperative</em> to protect women, rooted in the need to save the one that can propagate the species. It is an immensely powerful force, and hard to even spot unless you are looking.</p>\n<p>This <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong> to protect women and children was put there by Nature herself in order for our species to fight to survive. Man's only real role in life is to be a sacrifice for women and children. <strong>That is the real definition of the Patriarchy - <em>men sacrificing themselves for women and children, and in context of a real-life situation, working for their families.</em></strong></p>\n<p>For people to now pretend the Patriarchy is somehow loaded against women is a travesty of absolute ignorance, and frankly it is disgusting to engage in such a blatant dismissal of what men have sacrificed tirelessly through the ages to build a better world for those that came after. Men died constantly for the rest of us to live in the peaceful, technologically advanced Utopia that we have today. Shame on anyone who dares to turn that into a <em>blame-men</em> slogan for Feminazi propaganda. Those that do, should be sent somewhere to start over and see what it looks like. Maybe send them to another planet, and the best of luck with that. Call it Planet Clementine Ford and maybe she can be sent in the first mission.</p>\n<p>Lest we forget...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/war.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><em>\"One of feminism’s irritating reflexes is its fashionable disdain for “patriarchal society,” to which nothing good is ever attributed. But it is patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<p><em>\"It is capitalism that has given me the leisure to sit at this desk writing this book. Let us stop being small-minded about men and freely acknowledge what treasures their obsessiveness has poured into culture\" - Camille Paglia<br /><br /></em><em>\"Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself\" - Camille Paglia</em><br /><em><br /></em><em>\"What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<h3>Yet #MeToo still allows for women to play victim</h3>\n<p>For most people, sexual conquesting still remains a male driven arena, so it is easy to blame men as sole Agents, and it is still well underway to do so while claiming only ever being an Object as a female.</p>\n<p>But this should not be possible after #MeToo if it had been successful, or right, in the first place. If it had been right then women should now be able to vocalise, speak, ask, and recieve sex. But they can't. Why? Because they will still be shamed for it, so, nothing has changed since #MeToo, except more men are in prison and out of jobs, and we now know that a large section of the female population are dangerous and can't be trusted.</p>\n<p>If we bother to stop and consider the dynamics at work in any sexual connection, actually the feminine, passive role is a powerful one. The passive role is perfect for HypoAgency, because it allows for <em>denial of responsibility </em>later.</p>\n<p>Women can always play the victim card, but men can NEVER play that card. (Another aspect of HypoAgency and why it is mostly females that get to use it, though it makes you wonder if that is why men are trying to become women.) This is because playing victim functions well to make use of the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> men have to protect women and children. I am sure you see where I am going with this by now.</p>\n<p>This biological imperative in men is actually what is being used <em>against</em> men by women via the #MeToo campaign. Let's have a look at a good example of that...</p>\n<h3>Asia Argento, the perfect case</h3>\n<p>There is a certain irony in the fact that Asia Argento - the very person who started the entire #MeToo snowballing after her outburst at a Cannes event - then went on to be proven to be a sociopathic, sexual predator. She tried to deny it, and did so very convincingly because it seemed like an obvious attempt at a smear campaign, but then when pictures surfaced of her with the boy that she targeted, there was no room left for denial. But she still tried to wiggle out of it, not to admit it, instead she said she did not know he was that young, does he look old to you?</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-810 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/argento.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"599\" /></p>\n<p>Then it turned out that Asia was not so much raped by Harvey Weinstien, as blew him willingly in order to get ahead in Hollywood. Of course she maintains that...<em> <br /><br />\"She later had consensual encounters with Weinstein, she said, though she really felt \"obliged\" to comply, for fear he'd harm her career. \"  </em></p>\n<p>(The career she had progressed by blowing him, willingly, in a hotel room, voluntarily. Yet he is up for prison. Does that not seem weird?)</p>\n<p>Here is a picture of some women being tormented by their rapist...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-780 size-large\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/281-1024x839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"803\" /></p>\n<p><br /><br />and from Argento's original speech at Cannes...</p>\n<p><strong><em>\"we know who you are and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.\"</em></strong></p>\n<p>Well, quite so, and it probably came as a shock to her to discover that works both ways.</p>\n<h3>How is this still happening?</h3>\n<p>This is where <em>Female HypoAgency</em> comes in, and it is not just some fancy bit of jargon, it defines the very power dynamic at work between men and women. It is the power play used by those willing to deny responsibility for their their actions, and in some ways, hide their predatory nature just like the mimic octopus in the featuring photo of this blog.</p>\n<p>Asia has provided us with the perfect example of that creature in human form. She is completely in charge of all her situations, she is the absolute Agent, while totally played the Object from start to end every time. She still plays it even after being caught out, almost sociopathically believing she is the victim. This is so common it is uncanny.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a fiasco. No one seems to realise just how much it is just a tool for narcissistic women who use it to power-blugden men. It's literally a game of spot the predatory woman, because she will be claiming Object victimhood, while being the absolute Agent of her own life and targeting men to get ahead. The clue is in the victim position, she will never admit fault even when an Agent of her own choices. That is the clue, because she is lying. Mimicking, while hunting for her next actual, genuine victim.</p>\n<p><em>Female HypoAgency</em> is especially prevalent in any sexual interaction, this is because sex functions between the person who is<em> Dominant</em> and the other who is going to be more<em> Submissive</em> in the sexual dynamic, Sex energy increases between these two energetic, dynamic states of being. This then tends to lead to role play. Sex energy works like that, it is animated and excited by the engagement between those two opposite forces, but they are strangely complementary and they flip too. Dominance and Submission.</p>\n<h3>In BDSM, the Submissive runs the show</h3>\n<p>In BDSM world, it is well known that the person that controls the BDSM scene is the Submissive. This is a crucial truth if we are to understand the dynamics at work in #MeToo also. The Submissive is in control, and that is actually how it should be really, because that is how BDSM stays safe. But think about that, the Object, is in control, in Female HypoAgency, the victim is really the Agent who is running the show. Asia, the queen of the #MeToo campaign, plays it perfectly.</p>\n<h3>Plausible Deniability</h3>\n<p>Women can use <em>Female HypoAgency</em> to get ahead in all areas of life, they can play passive, while actually controlling the situation from that position, and yet all the while seeming not to. That is the fine art of the feminine to do this well. <em>Plausable Deniability, </em>is a woman's essential weapon and tool in life, or it can be, certainly not all women engage in it with the aggressive ferocity of someone like Asia Argento.</p>\n<p>Women actually have no choice but to use it with sex, because to act overtly would then get them targeted by other women as being promiscious and dangerous to them, it also might put men off. Men get scared when women act out of character. This is something for men to learn too.</p>\n<p>The problem comes when people like Asia Argento start to use it to wield power in public, and get ahead, and once it backfires on them, then they use it to take down the men around them, try to cover their tracks, while endlessly claiming to be the victim themselves.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is this, on a grand scale, and it is ingeniune in the extreme because it denies female culpability where there is plenty. Beware a woman who does not question #MeToo. She is probably using it.</p>\n<h3>Sociopathic claim to victimhood</h3>\n<p>The one thing that stands out every time with a sociopath running Female HypoAgency, is that they believe they are the victim even when it is proved beyond any doubt that they are not, and you can always tell by the language they use because they will continue to blame someone else even after being caught out. Asia reveals this behaviour perfectly for us to learn from. It's a great revealer because she has been so badly busted all round.</p>\n<p>Rose McGowan, who attached herself early on to Asia, is no better and interestingly they are now at war ever since Rose tried to distance herself from the Asia car crash. That's the level of support there.</p>\n<p>Men are mostly completely unaware of this happening to them when these kind of women target them, Anthony Bourdain almost certainly was caught out by it with Asia, and ultimately with disastrous consequences for him. The women who engage in it are absolutely ruthless, and it is why I used the Mimic Octopus in the main picture of this blog to represent it. A predator is looking for a result.</p>\n<p>The mimic octopus is an incredibly artful predator and fools its target by mimicking something that it is <em>not</em>, in the case of <em>Female HypoAgency</em>, a woman mimics being a victim while actually being the Agent, and she engages the male in his <em>Biological Imperative</em> desire to protect and support her. He then feels he is doing something good, for the greater good, when actually <em>she</em> is controlling the situation, and him, with a deliberate intent while pulling on his strings. Poor old Anthony got mugged by a mimic octopus.</p>\n<h3>White knights, or just poor clueless bastards</h3>\n<p>This mimicing behaviour is actually very common in Nature with the female predator, there are others that mimic fireflies for mating then eat the male, or the male tarantula that has spurs on his legs which could effectively stop the female from eating him. Does he ever use them? No. What is also common is the male's utter obliviousness to it all and failure to rescue himself from his own blindness. </p>\n<p>Female HypoAgency is in our blind spot, so we have to learn how to spot the signs that lead to confirming it.</p>\n<p>Males that are suckered by it, start to exhibit <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=White%20Knight\">white knight behaviour. </a>and then make fools of themselves doing the bidding for the woman that they think they are rescuing/ supporting/ saving/ or loved by.</p>\n<p>Like when Anthony Bourdain paid off Asia's young conquest in an attempt to stop his revelations harming her reputation and what he perceived to be the rescue of other #MeToo victims. Somehow he saw it as worth it, and not as Asia playing the hell out of him. The poor clueless bastard.</p>\n<p>Men rarely naturally become aware of how <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is used upon them, and women who use it will hunt for those kinds of men to prey on. For the most part those men only learn the hard way, even then they often can't believe it is real even after it is proved to them. This is because it goes against their <em><strong>Biological Imperative </strong></em>and the need to sacrifice themselves to save women. They fail to see how something as delightful as a woman can ever be that calculating. Nature programmed them that way so that they would sacrifice themselves when required.</p>\n<p>For this reason alone it is essential that <em>Female HypoAgency</em> be fully understood by men - and women too so we can talk to you about it - in order for us all to start to work out how to get along better. Not just to stop the #MeToo campaign, or the Corporate Feminist Take-over from running away with itself and becoming either a fiasco of male abuse, a victim stigma for irresponsible women to hide behind, a blatant leverage for power using the vagina to force entry, or simply a weapon with which to hate on men with. MeToo did not really help women, it hurt them. It was started by a sociopathic predator, so the clues are there.</p>\n<p>We need to work together to figure this out, and it is going to require some honesty, painful truths, and most of all, understanding how the symbiotic chemical reaction found between <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em>, underscores the entire dynamic of our modern first-world culture.</p>\n<h2>So, what is Female HypoAgency?</h2>\n<p>It's likely the only people who will ever care to know about it, are the very people who already know what it is, or have fallen victim to it and no longer able to deny their experience but can't yet understand what happened, or why it happened, to them.</p>\n<p>Everyone else, feminists especially, will not be interested in discussing it. Why? Because it reveals their behaviour.</p>\n<p>Here is the best explanation on Female HypoAgency (30 minutes long), provided by the person who helped me understand it two years ago, the incredibly insightful, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmnLu5cGUGeLy744WS-fsg\">Karen Straughan</a></p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KBgcjtE0xrE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> </p>\n<p>Every man should watch this video, and re-watch it until it is fully understood. I have been seeing it at work in our culture all over the place for the last two years. If men do not start to understand this dynamic and how it works, it is not likely going to get any better for men, or women, any time soon.</p>\n<h3>Links</h3>\n<p>If anyone reading this feels like they have been the victim of Female HypoAgency and #MeToo campaign and targeted unfairly, then I highly recommend contacting James Barnett of Barnett Survivors Limited, based in UK. He has done work internationally to help victims of false accusations and understands better than anyone the dynamics at work, and the legal issues involved in fighting for justice, against the damages caused by a false accusation. He can be found through any of the links below.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en\">https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors\">https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors\">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors</a></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/female-hypoagency-the-male-biological-imperative/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\"/>\n<h1><center>Female HypoAgency &amp; The Male Biological Imperative</center></h1>\n<p>Meet the mimic octopus (1.5 min video)...</p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/t-LTWFnGmeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n<h2>Introduction</h2>\n<p>Two years ago, just after the<em> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a> </em>campaign got started, I wrote a somewhat long and feisty article titled: <a href=\"https://steemit.com/mra/@mdkberry/female-hypoagency-pink-patriarchy-our-orwellian-big-sister\"><em>Female HypoAgency: Pink Patriarchy, our Orwellian Big Sister [steemit article]</em></a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hypoagency\">Female HypoAgency</a> was a new concept to me at the time, and I was investigating everything I could to understand what was going on between men and women that was creating such a volcanic reaction. I was also trying to understand my own position in the #MeToo revelation, as I am sure many of us were. I felt men were being unfairly targeted, but could not understand why. On the surface it looked genuine, but it felt wrong.</p>\n<p>Now the initial <em>#MeToo</em> furore has died down, I wanted to revisit the subject again, because it seems that the underlying forces at work have completely failed to surface in a way that makes it better understood. There has been no solution, just vengeance reaped.</p>\n<p><strong><em>Female HypoAgency</em></strong> and <em><strong>The</strong> <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong></em> are two forces that work together and need to be understood, if we are to unravel <em>#MeToo</em>, make good changes, and ultimately progress. Men and women have their part to play.<br /><br /></p>\n<h2>TL;DR</h2>\n<p><em><strong>Female HypoAgency</strong></em> allows women to switch between being an <em>Object (Victim)</em> or an <em>Agent (Independent &amp; strong woman)</em>. In short they can play victim in one moment, and play powerful woman the next, all based on how it suits them at the time.</p>\n<p>This switchable ability gives them <em>Deniable Plausibility</em> by default. For example a woman does not have to give consent, it is the man's job to get it. If he fails, he is held responsible for sex. If they are both drunk, he is considered the perpetrator and she the victim if she failed to give consent but went ahead anyway. Males are by default given the burden of being the responsible adult, a woman bears no personal responsibility. This applies to sex, education, workplace, and clothing, or the lack of. </p>\n<p>Men can only ever be Agents (Perpetrators), they are never thought of as Objects (Victims), most especially in a dynamic which involves a woman. Interestingly, if men become Trans, they can get access to HypoAgency. This then entitles them to play victim, and one wonders if it is partly why they choose it.<br /><br />Another common example of the value of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is in how we perceive women hitting men as okay, if not actually quite funny, while men hitting women is considered Domestic Violence.</p>\n<p>Yet another example is men raping women which is called <em>rape</em>, while women raping men is called <em>\"having sex with\"</em>, there is not even a word for it, in fact many Feminists claim it does not happen, but it does, and a lot. Female teachers often target children sexually. Yet legally a woman cannot rape a man, or child, there is no law against it. Rape only applies to men (Agents) <em>doing something to</em> women (Objects), and yet we know countless women are caught raping minors, but the word is never used in the media or in law because the act does not currently exist for women. Yet another example of Female HypoAgency.</p>\n<p>To add to the problem...</p>\n<p>When <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meets <em><strong>The Male Biological Imperative </strong></em>(the male urge to sacrifice oneself to protect women and children), it creates an amplified condition that has a dark side - women can then play on men's desire to rescue them, they can <em>play</em> victim.</p>\n<p>Our culture even has this written into to the saying, \"women and children first\". Men will sacrifice themselves in an instant to rescue women, because all men are driven by the <em>male biological imperative</em> to protect women for the greater good of the species. It is programmed into us, to sacrifice ourselves for the species. We even feel good doing it!</p>\n<p>This feeling of reward is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that we do not even see ourselves engaging in it. Culturally we have started to become aware of it though, and the Urban dictionary has jokingly come to call this the <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pussypass\"><strong>Pussy Pass</strong>,</a> but it is a very real dynamic.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately these two complementary dynamics between the genders has now taken a dark turn in our culture, in part because men are no longer needed to protect women against a potential threat of war, as a result Feminism has risen to take power, and this rise has happened in direct correlation with peace-time, but that is a subject for another post.</p>\n<p>Let's look at Female HypoAgency, and a great video explanation from Karen Straughan can be found at the end if you don't have time to read the rest of this article...</p>\n<h2>What has changed in two years?</h2>\n<p>The first thing I noticed, is that it is easy to find definitions and examples of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a>, I doubt there is a person alive that has not heard of it. We all followed the ensuing dramas of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_allegations\">Harvey Weinstein</a> and the fall of <a href=\"https://www.glamour.com/gallery/post-weinstein-these-are-the-powerful-men-facing-sexual-harassment-allegations\">many other famous men</a> since, but interestingly, it is still far from easy to find a good definition of the opposite behaviour involved, that of <a href=\"https://definithing.com/hypoagency/\">Female HypoAgency</a>. The only way to do so, is by venturing into the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement\">Men'sRightsActivism</a> areas, and who want's to do that, right? Even they don't really get it either, they are often too busy being angry or feeling denied their right to be a victim.</p>\n<h3>What does this tell us?</h3>\n<p>Firstly that no one actually much cares about what is driving the dynamics between men and women, but we sure do enjoy a good sexual drama on the News.</p>\n<p>and secondly, as a result of this disparity, hardly anyone actually acknowledged what <em>is</em> behind the dynamics.</p>\n<p>Investigation of #MeToo still seems to stop at \"<em>blame the Patriachy\"</em> and the presumption that - <em>\"it is all men's fault\"</em>. In this regard, nothing much has changed, but for those in the know there has been a gradual shift towards better understanding, and <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meeting <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> is beneath a lot of it.</p>\n<h3>What has changed from a male perspective?</h3>\n<p>Other men have started sharing their experiences, the good and the bad, we have started to talk to each other and to listen. So in that respect it has been progressive for us, even if in part that has been simply to protect ourselves from the less salubrious women out there.<br /><br />For myself, the last two years have been spent trying to understand my position, and why I was so immediately and instinctively against #MeToo from the start. I was disgusted by it, to be honest. I experienced sexual abuse from men and women growing up, and I have dated some absolute bitches (as well as some lovely women of course), and I did not agree with the #MeToo campaign at all, because I knew it completely ignored the complicity of women in their actions. It made out that only men were to blame.</p>\n<p>That made no sense, but I lost a lot of friends for expressing my position, and I was constantly berated by women for mentioning my point. I was constantly told that I was not listening to women, but from my perspective, I was not being listened to. The more I observed this, I soon realised that this dated back much further than just #MeToo, and that actually my entire life had been spent being told I need to<em> listen to women</em>, while actually not being listened to by<em> them</em>.</p>\n<p>Feminism has made men's experiences un-important and <em>less than</em>, while women's experiences have been elevated to essential listening. This is something we have been hearing for at least the last 50 years. That was an unexpectedly curious revelation.</p>\n<h3>Guilty as charged, your honour</h3>\n<p>I also had to accept that I have not been as innocent as I would like to think I have been, I have perpetrated all sorts of trickery in an attempt to get laid. #MeToo applies to me too.</p>\n<p>I certainly do not do it now, and I consider the #MeToo campaign to have drawn a line in the sand for all of us (both genders) because it marked the point beyond which any of us could use the excuse that we did not know what we were doing. It is now our duty to learn, and to take responsibility.</p>\n<p>In terms of finding people guilty for past behaviours, <em><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presentism\"><strong>Presentism</strong></a></em> should also be considered before judging anyone, <em>post</em> #MeToo. but sadly that is rarely of interest to those involved in an attempted hanging, since they usually want an outcome and to see someone swing from the gallows, and it is always aimed at creating a clearly defining a victim, and a perpetrator to hang, but is it all really that simple? <em>No, it is NEVER that simple!</em></p>\n<p>What ever happened before #MeToo, should be judged on it's own merit, while what happens now, can certainly be judged more diligently according to the rules left behind by the #MeToo campaign, but not without an honest look at the dynamics involved on both sides. I do not believe that is happening yet, not at all. The <em>blame-it-all-on-the-men</em> narrative remains doggedly prevalent and it just highlights the willing ignorance shown by people who are actually more interested in power-play, than in the truth. It is high time <em>that</em> was being called-out too. Women have been completely complicit and so far, that revelation has avoided scrutiny.</p>\n<h3>Communication from both sides before sex</h3>\n<p>There is no longer an excuse not to communicate about sex, but that includes women too.</p>\n<p>It is not an excuse to make men do all the work of getting consent, while playing dumb to their part in letting it happen. You just can't expect to get away with that <em>wall-flower</em> approach anymore, and this has obviously presented a problem, because to do that requires admitting responsibility for female sexual desire and women's demand for sex.</p>\n<p>Turns out #MeToo was a double edged sword, because women are simply not allowed to demand sex in our culture, they get tarnished if they do. To do so would also take away the ability to be an <em>Object (Victim)</em> and stick her firmly in the <em>Agent (Perpetrator)</em> camp.</p>\n<p>Who would risk that, especially given how vicious women are to one another when one of them is sexually overt and promiscuous<em> (The Sisterhood is also a myth, but again, another post for that debarcle)</em></p>\n<h3>Women want sex, but they risk their status to admit to it</h3>\n<p>Unfortunately admitting to sexual desire, or acting on it, impacts women's status negatively in our culture. And not just from men, but from other women. That is the root of the problem as I see it, because it encourages women to avoid taking responsibilty around the act of sex with men.</p>\n<p>But #MeToo has happened. There is responsibility to be had now, otherwise it will backfire on the women that it should be helping. This was in part why I was so against it, because I could see how it was going to remove the opportunity for women to remain passive in the engagement, they would no longer be able to get men to approach them in a dominant way, because we now risk legal issue later to do so.</p>\n<p>There is no pretending that false accusation's can destroy a man's life even before it goes to court. We have seen the damage it has done and we have heard women being righteous about that. We have been tried, and found guilty in the public domain by the mob. If I was a young man today, there is no way I would go near a woman now without some kind of proof that I did not force myself upon her. It is not worth the risk. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a total failure because men can't be safe to approach women anymore, if we do, we'll risk losing our jobs and going to prison on the whim of a woman's invented comment. We are guilty until proven innocent, and even when proven innocent, our lives will have been destroyed anyway. It's the Ultimate Power and it is in the hands of women, not the Patriarchy, and yet, apparently the patriarchy is the problem? pffft.</p>\n<h3>You want sex? Get me a lawyer first</h3>\n<p>So, women need to become more overtly sexual, more overtly communicative about wanting sex, or, you'll simply have go without because it is not worth the risk to us men. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>So the sharp, double-edged nature of the #MeToo sword now requires that women need to stop acting like speech-incapacitated victims (Objects), or pretend that sex is only ever <em>done</em> <em>to</em> them. #MeToo has removed your right to fall back on that as an excuse. If you want us, you are going to have to come and get us, and bring a lawyer along with you. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>But wait, of course you can still deny responsibility - <em>Female HypoAgency to the rescue.</em></p>\n<h3>The sexual dynamic: Dominant/Submissive </h3>\n<p>The hardest part of it all that people still completely fail to grasp, and the area that has seen far less change, is in understanding the dynamics and power-play behind the passive person's involvement in any sexual interaction.</p>\n<p>Women are still considered the Object (victim) in almost all sexual interaction by default. Their Agency in engaging in sex, attracting it, driving it to happen, seems to still be considered minimal. It is done <em>TO</em> them. Women get to retain <em>deniable plausability.</em> This is the power of <em>Female HypoAgency.</em></p>\n<p> #MeToo and Feminism, has also now ensured the right of women to provoke sexuality from men, all without being questioned on that behaviour, and this deliberate drive seems to have increased exponentially since #MeToo began. Women are now shoving it in our faces. It is now called being <em>the independant, brave woman, and men best accept it.</em> But there are some startlingly ignorant aspects in that role. Take Yoga pants as a really good example...</p>\n<h3>Yoga pants are the overt sexual harassment of men</h3>\n<p>They have become common place in public, designed now to accentuate and draw attention to the vagina and buttocks, while the cultural standard seems to have become obtuse denial of this fact, apparently it is done for her alone, not us at all. (more Female HypoAgency in action). If you could put language to it, it would go something like this.</p>\n<p><em>\"Look at me, look at me! I am an independant woman, fearless and brave and here is the outline of my vagina and ass to prove it. LOOK AT ME!\"</em></p>\n<p>but when you do, this is now followed promptly by, </p>\n<p><em>\"What the fuck are you looking at, RAPIST!\"</em></p>\n<p>Or at least that is how it feels as a man dealing with the <em>Agency</em> of women who pretend to be innocent <em>Objects</em> of our desire, while at the same time are deliberately provoking sexual attention from us, demanding it aggressively, then attacking us for it. </p>\n<p>There is another rule - we are not allowed to mention this. But yes, absolutely, men <em>are</em> being targetted with this overt Yoga pant wearing behaviour and especially by younger women who think they have the right to do that without consequence. In fact even this discussion on Yoga pants is not permitted, simply because I am a man. To mention tight-fitting Yoga pants being worn in public makes me a perpetrator and borderline rapist.</p>\n<p>This, is not a good change. In this regard female independance has become vicious, deliberate, and sexually antagonistic towards men, while at the same time teasing us, and then starving us, of what the feminine has control over. Where once I might have wolf-whistled, to women wearing Yoga pants in public I now say,</p>\n<p><em>Woman, kindly take your snatch-stretched yoga pants and fuck off somewhere else far away from me with that shiz.</em></p>\n<h3><strong>Corporate Feminism: because Vagina</strong></h3>\n<p>Corporate, industrial-level, Feminism has now crept powerfully into the very arena in which the majority of men were targeted by the #MeToo campaign - <em>Hollywood</em>. Is this a coincidence? I think not. The whole point was a Feminist take-over, so the targeted males no longer have any power in the media realm. It's been a coup.</p>\n<p><em>Political Correctness</em> in Corporate world has also stealthily become something of a dictatorship, it now requires that women be given roles that they have not necessarly earned, simply on the merit of having a vagina. This is actually discrimination, but that concept is sure to fall on deaf ears because of the belief that the Patriarchy is in control, run by men, and needs to be over-thrown by women at all costs. (This is actually baloney if you had not realised it yet).</p>\n<p>Never mind Oprah and her part in feeding Harvey Weinstein his alleged victims, or their part in meeting the man in a hotel room despite likely knowing full-well what they were walking into (unless women don't talk to each other? That would be a first.) They were meeting him in a hotel room...Why? Well, the clue is in the question.</p>\n<p>But despite all this old-school feminine method of career-climbing by using sexuality to get ahead while denying it, it is still <em>all men's fault</em> that it occurs or exists<em>, </em>and that single assumption permits targeting those men in power, ousting them, and putting someone with a vagina in charge instead. Any man who dares to get in the way of that, or does not vocally fully support it, can now easily be targeted too. It is genius really.</p>\n<p>The only required qualification to get ahead today - is possessing a vagina. That is why <em>the future is female.</em> Women are never at fault, because it is always men to blame.</p>\n<p>This is all just the work of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and men falling foul of <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> to support women. Wakey wakey men, you are being duped.</p>\n<p>Do you remember that moment Oprah stood up to support Harvey? No nor do I. Why? Because they would have taken her out too.<em> Power.</em> That is the game behind #MeToo really, and the sooner people see that, the sooner we can have a proper conversation about what has been going on to get ahead in Hollywood, or to get some head in Hollywood, depending on which side of the Hotel door you were on before she decided to enter in. No one forced them, but I bet Oprah encouraged them wholeheartedly. He are some pretty pictures of that. #MeToo, women were complicit 50/50 if not more because it's how the power game works.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-793\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" /> <img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-794\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah-too.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"219\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<h3>Women do<em> 'being men'</em> better, obviously</h3>\n<p>The last two years has seen huge changes in movie scripting and directing. <a href=\"https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/why-so-many-feminist-leaning-movies-now-maybe-because-its-time-1203104112/\">[Variety magazine article on it from January 2019]. </a></p>\n<p><em>Oceans 8</em> and films like it are all about women trying to do \"men\" better, and presenting the idea that they can do it <em>much</em> better.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, I don't think many women can actually grasp what a man even is, and yet they say we do not understand them.</p>\n<p>Anyway, time will tell, but I think there is a danger in promoting this ridiculous idea that women do it better, because it is rooted in female fantasy and the perception of female powerlessness. Feminine power is found by being outside the circle of activity, controlling it, without doing anything. Give that covert control up, try to become a man, and you will definitely experience powerlessness. This is what is happening as Feminism takes over overt control. I predict that it's going to end in tears.</p>\n<p>Women do NOT do men better at all, if you have any doubts just look at the gender statistics of the dangerous jobs in the world. Women are not even close to doing it better. It should be obvious enough what men do, but no, women do it all better, not in real life, but on film and in Feminist slogans, while in reality they don't do it at all.</p>\n<p>Though I also fully understand the reactive necessity of it, given women have been kept out of <em>the men's locker room</em> until now, and they want in, because they feel powerless. But when they get in there, they will just be <em>women in the men's locker room</em>. That is something else. But I get it, sure let them in for a while, though I am not pretending that I think it is a workable idea in the long run. If anything, #MeToo has taught me that there is a value in gender segregation, at least in some aspects.</p>\n<p>There is an inevitability about all this too, it's a wave of female emotional reaction that is doomed to fail in the end when the truth comes out. Certainly it will be supported while it is a new thing, but there will also be an inevitability in it's decline, because actually women do not do \"men\" better, how on earth could they?</p>\n<p>Men do men best, and that won't change ever, even if you take HRT until kingdom come. Just like Trans women are not actually women, they are men  who chopped their penises off, enjoy role-playing, and now have to take hormone drugs to maintain their bitch-tits, but they are not, and never will be, women.</p>\n<p>It makes one wonder why on earth women are not happy with feminine roles in life. The female sense of  powerlessness is a curious thing and maybe something to look at for another post.<br /><br />The Corporate Feminist take-over of Hollowood has already begun to show signs of weakening, Elizabeth Banks has been exhibiting an excellent example of Female HypoAgency by blaming the failure of her Charlie's Angels feminist teenage romp on... <em>men's failure to attend the cinema when women are the action heroes.</em> <a href=\"https://www.screengeek.net/2019/11/18/charlies-angels-failure-elizabeth-banks-blames-men-comic-book-movies/\">[link to her interview here]</a></p>\n<p>meh, could it just be that your film is crap? no, it must be men's fault.</p>\n<p>We have been hearing this for a long time, eternity in fact. But <em>\"It's all men's fault\"</em>, is going start to get tiresome to hear at some point, even for the women who have doggedly supported Feminism all along. Why not just let the men be men, because we do it really rather well when allowed to, and with no need of help from female expertise on the rules of it. When you are done playing at being men in the men's locker room, would you mind shutting the door on the way out. Thanks.</p>\n<h3>A world war would sort this all out in minutes</h3>\n<p>This could also all quite easily be sorted out by the return of a nice big and bloody war, the rise of Feminism dogma and #MeToo outrage, all remains curiously correlated to the advent of peace in our first world cultures, but I won't go into that today.</p>\n<h3>The Patriarchy is a convenient <em>\"it's all men's fault\"</em> myth</h3>\n<p>The whole <em>\"blame patriarchy\"</em> concept is ridiculous and always has been. It is a byproduct of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and the need for women to<em> deny responsibility </em>because they have to in order to maintain female status.</p>\n<p>The Patriarchy has also been deliberately encouraged as a concept by the billion dollar industry that is <em>Feminism</em> and has been driven into the very teachings of our culture since the 1960s if not earlier, which is why no one stops to question it, we all grew up hearing it, and took it to be truth, but it isn't truth, it's the doctrine of a propaganda driven cult that has targeted traditional family roles. Though<em> <strong><a href=\"http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-10.htm\">Erin Pizzey</a> </strong></em>was aware of it being a problem as it got started, and her work with early Feminism is insightful into just what went wrong and why.</p>\n<p>But <em><strong><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia\">Camille Paglia</a></strong></em> puts it best in a few of her quotes which I share below, and at some point we are all going to have to wake up to the fact that the so called Patriarchy was mutually designed and built by men and women together. It is not the work of men alone, nor was it made to oppress females, if anything it has oppressed men into slavery to work dangerous jobs for his family unit, because society, technology, family, home, and the so-called Patriarchal system was made FOR women, to protect and nurture women, and designed at their behest and their demand.</p>\n<h3>The Male Biological Imperative: protect women, die trying, feel valued.</h3>\n<p>Our culture has always sought to protect, serve and cater to women - and children too for that matter. It is the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> of our species to protect women and children and to put them first. That <em>biological imperative</em> is deeply rooted within every man, and you can see it best on <strong><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/fightporn/\">Reddit r/FightPorn</a></strong><em> (If you can stomach it, be warned, it aint pretty)</em>. In every single example you find on there you will see the same dynamic play out - whenever a woman punches a man no one does anything, but if a man even just pushes a woman, he is taken down instantly by all the other men around, their minds do not even register what they are doing, it is instinctive. This is the <em>Male Biological Imperative</em> to protect women, rooted in the need to save the one that can propagate the species. It is an immensely powerful force, and hard to even spot unless you are looking.</p>\n<p>This <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong> to protect women and children was put there by Nature herself in order for our species to fight to survive. Man's only real role in life is to be a sacrifice for women and children. <strong>That is the real definition of the Patriarchy - <em>men sacrificing themselves for women and children, and in context of a real-life situation, working for their families.</em></strong></p>\n<p>For people to now pretend the Patriarchy is somehow loaded against women is a travesty of absolute ignorance, and frankly it is disgusting to engage in such a blatant dismissal of what men have sacrificed tirelessly through the ages to build a better world for those that came after. Men died constantly for the rest of us to live in the peaceful, technologically advanced Utopia that we have today. Shame on anyone who dares to turn that into a <em>blame-men</em> slogan for Feminazi propaganda. Those that do, should be sent somewhere to start over and see what it looks like. Maybe send them to another planet, and the best of luck with that. Call it Planet Clementine Ford and maybe she can be sent in the first mission.</p>\n<p>Lest we forget...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/war.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><em>\"One of feminism’s irritating reflexes is its fashionable disdain for “patriarchal society,” to which nothing good is ever attributed. But it is patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<p><em>\"It is capitalism that has given me the leisure to sit at this desk writing this book. Let us stop being small-minded about men and freely acknowledge what treasures their obsessiveness has poured into culture\" - Camille Paglia<br /><br /></em><em>\"Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself\" - Camille Paglia</em><br /><em><br /></em><em>\"What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<h3>Yet #MeToo still allows for women to play victim</h3>\n<p>For most people, sexual conquesting still remains a male driven arena, so it is easy to blame men as sole Agents, and it is still well underway to do so while claiming only ever being an Object as a female.</p>\n<p>But this should not be possible after #MeToo if it had been successful, or right, in the first place. If it had been right then women should now be able to vocalise, speak, ask, and recieve sex. But they can't. Why? Because they will still be shamed for it, so, nothing has changed since #MeToo, except more men are in prison and out of jobs, and we now know that a large section of the female population are dangerous and can't be trusted.</p>\n<p>If we bother to stop and consider the dynamics at work in any sexual connection, actually the feminine, passive role is a powerful one. The passive role is perfect for HypoAgency, because it allows for <em>denial of responsibility </em>later.</p>\n<p>Women can always play the victim card, but men can NEVER play that card. (Another aspect of HypoAgency and why it is mostly females that get to use it, though it makes you wonder if that is why men are trying to become women.) This is because playing victim functions well to make use of the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> men have to protect women and children. I am sure you see where I am going with this by now.</p>\n<p>This biological imperative in men is actually what is being used <em>against</em> men by women via the #MeToo campaign. Let's have a look at a good example of that...</p>\n<h3>Asia Argento, the perfect case</h3>\n<p>There is a certain irony in the fact that Asia Argento - the very person who started the entire #MeToo snowballing after her outburst at a Cannes event - then went on to be proven to be a sociopathic, sexual predator. She tried to deny it, and did so very convincingly because it seemed like an obvious attempt at a smear campaign, but then when pictures surfaced of her with the boy that she targeted, there was no room left for denial. But she still tried to wiggle out of it, not to admit it, instead she said she did not know he was that young, does he look old to you?</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-810 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/argento.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"599\" /></p>\n<p>Then it turned out that Asia was not so much raped by Harvey Weinstien, as blew him willingly in order to get ahead in Hollywood. Of course she maintains that...<em> <br /><br />\"She later had consensual encounters with Weinstein, she said, though she really felt \"obliged\" to comply, for fear he'd harm her career. \"  </em></p>\n<p>(The career she had progressed by blowing him, willingly, in a hotel room, voluntarily. Yet he is up for prison. Does that not seem weird?)</p>\n<p>Here is a picture of some women being tormented by their rapist...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-780 size-large\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/281-1024x839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"803\" /></p>\n<p><br /><br />and from Argento's original speech at Cannes...</p>\n<p><strong><em>\"we know who you are and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.\"</em></strong></p>\n<p>Well, quite so, and it probably came as a shock to her to discover that works both ways.</p>\n<h3>How is this still happening?</h3>\n<p>This is where <em>Female HypoAgency</em> comes in, and it is not just some fancy bit of jargon, it defines the very power dynamic at work between men and women. It is the power play used by those willing to deny responsibility for their their actions, and in some ways, hide their predatory nature just like the mimic octopus in the featuring photo of this blog.</p>\n<p>Asia has provided us with the perfect example of that creature in human form. She is completely in charge of all her situations, she is the absolute Agent, while totally played the Object from start to end every time. She still plays it even after being caught out, almost sociopathically believing she is the victim. This is so common it is uncanny.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a fiasco. No one seems to realise just how much it is just a tool for narcissistic women who use it to power-blugden men. It's literally a game of spot the predatory woman, because she will be claiming Object victimhood, while being the absolute Agent of her own life and targeting men to get ahead. The clue is in the victim position, she will never admit fault even when an Agent of her own choices. That is the clue, because she is lying. Mimicking, while hunting for her next actual, genuine victim.</p>\n<p><em>Female HypoAgency</em> is especially prevalent in any sexual interaction, this is because sex functions between the person who is<em> Dominant</em> and the other who is going to be more<em> Submissive</em> in the sexual dynamic, Sex energy increases between these two energetic, dynamic states of being. This then tends to lead to role play. Sex energy works like that, it is animated and excited by the engagement between those two opposite forces, but they are strangely complementary and they flip too. Dominance and Submission.</p>\n<h3>In BDSM, the Submissive runs the show</h3>\n<p>In BDSM world, it is well known that the person that controls the BDSM scene is the Submissive. This is a crucial truth if we are to understand the dynamics at work in #MeToo also. The Submissive is in control, and that is actually how it should be really, because that is how BDSM stays safe. But think about that, the Object, is in control, in Female HypoAgency, the victim is really the Agent who is running the show. Asia, the queen of the #MeToo campaign, plays it perfectly.</p>\n<h3>Plausible Deniability</h3>\n<p>Women can use <em>Female HypoAgency</em> to get ahead in all areas of life, they can play passive, while actually controlling the situation from that position, and yet all the while seeming not to. That is the fine art of the feminine to do this well. <em>Plausable Deniability, </em>is a woman's essential weapon and tool in life, or it can be, certainly not all women engage in it with the aggressive ferocity of someone like Asia Argento.</p>\n<p>Women actually have no choice but to use it with sex, because to act overtly would then get them targeted by other women as being promiscious and dangerous to them, it also might put men off. Men get scared when women act out of character. This is something for men to learn too.</p>\n<p>The problem comes when people like Asia Argento start to use it to wield power in public, and get ahead, and once it backfires on them, then they use it to take down the men around them, try to cover their tracks, while endlessly claiming to be the victim themselves.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is this, on a grand scale, and it is ingeniune in the extreme because it denies female culpability where there is plenty. Beware a woman who does not question #MeToo. She is probably using it.</p>\n<h3>Sociopathic claim to victimhood</h3>\n<p>The one thing that stands out every time with a sociopath running Female HypoAgency, is that they believe they are the victim even when it is proved beyond any doubt that they are not, and you can always tell by the language they use because they will continue to blame someone else even after being caught out. Asia reveals this behaviour perfectly for us to learn from. It's a great revealer because she has been so badly busted all round.</p>\n<p>Rose McGowan, who attached herself early on to Asia, is no better and interestingly they are now at war ever since Rose tried to distance herself from the Asia car crash. That's the level of support there.</p>\n<p>Men are mostly completely unaware of this happening to them when these kind of women target them, Anthony Bourdain almost certainly was caught out by it with Asia, and ultimately with disastrous consequences for him. The women who engage in it are absolutely ruthless, and it is why I used the Mimic Octopus in the main picture of this blog to represent it. A predator is looking for a result.</p>\n<p>The mimic octopus is an incredibly artful predator and fools its target by mimicking something that it is <em>not</em>, in the case of <em>Female HypoAgency</em>, a woman mimics being a victim while actually being the Agent, and she engages the male in his <em>Biological Imperative</em> desire to protect and support her. He then feels he is doing something good, for the greater good, when actually <em>she</em> is controlling the situation, and him, with a deliberate intent while pulling on his strings. Poor old Anthony got mugged by a mimic octopus.</p>\n<h3>White knights, or just poor clueless bastards</h3>\n<p>This mimicing behaviour is actually very common in Nature with the female predator, there are others that mimic fireflies for mating then eat the male, or the male tarantula that has spurs on his legs which could effectively stop the female from eating him. Does he ever use them? No. What is also common is the male's utter obliviousness to it all and failure to rescue himself from his own blindness. </p>\n<p>Female HypoAgency is in our blind spot, so we have to learn how to spot the signs that lead to confirming it.</p>\n<p>Males that are suckered by it, start to exhibit <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=White%20Knight\">white knight behaviour. </a>and then make fools of themselves doing the bidding for the woman that they think they are rescuing/ supporting/ saving/ or loved by.</p>\n<p>Like when Anthony Bourdain paid off Asia's young conquest in an attempt to stop his revelations harming her reputation and what he perceived to be the rescue of other #MeToo victims. Somehow he saw it as worth it, and not as Asia playing the hell out of him. The poor clueless bastard.</p>\n<p>Men rarely naturally become aware of how <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is used upon them, and women who use it will hunt for those kinds of men to prey on. For the most part those men only learn the hard way, even then they often can't believe it is real even after it is proved to them. This is because it goes against their <em><strong>Biological Imperative </strong></em>and the need to sacrifice themselves to save women. They fail to see how something as delightful as a woman can ever be that calculating. Nature programmed them that way so that they would sacrifice themselves when required.</p>\n<p>For this reason alone it is essential that <em>Female HypoAgency</em> be fully understood by men - and women too so we can talk to you about it - in order for us all to start to work out how to get along better. Not just to stop the #MeToo campaign, or the Corporate Feminist Take-over from running away with itself and becoming either a fiasco of male abuse, a victim stigma for irresponsible women to hide behind, a blatant leverage for power using the vagina to force entry, or simply a weapon with which to hate on men with. MeToo did not really help women, it hurt them. It was started by a sociopathic predator, so the clues are there.</p>\n<p>We need to work together to figure this out, and it is going to require some honesty, painful truths, and most of all, understanding how the symbiotic chemical reaction found between <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em>, underscores the entire dynamic of our modern first-world culture.</p>\n<h2>So, what is Female HypoAgency?</h2>\n<p>It's likely the only people who will ever care to know about it, are the very people who already know what it is, or have fallen victim to it and no longer able to deny their experience but can't yet understand what happened, or why it happened, to them.</p>\n<p>Everyone else, feminists especially, will not be interested in discussing it. Why? Because it reveals their behaviour.</p>\n<p>Here is the best explanation on Female HypoAgency (30 minutes long), provided by the person who helped me understand it two years ago, the incredibly insightful, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmnLu5cGUGeLy744WS-fsg\">Karen Straughan</a></p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KBgcjtE0xrE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> </p>\n<p>Every man should watch this video, and re-watch it until it is fully understood. I have been seeing it at work in our culture all over the place for the last two years. If men do not start to understand this dynamic and how it works, it is not likely going to get any better for men, or women, any time soon.</p>\n<h3>Links</h3>\n<p>If anyone reading this feels like they have been the victim of Female HypoAgency and #MeToo campaign and targeted unfairly, then I highly recommend contacting James Barnett of Barnett Survivors Limited, based in UK. He has done work internationally to help victims of false accusations and understands better than anyone the dynamics at work, and the legal issues involved in fighting for justice, against the damages caused by a false accusation. He can be found through any of the links below.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en\">https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors\">https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors\">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors</a></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/female-hypoagency-the-male-biological-imperative/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\"/>\n<h1><center>Female HypoAgency &amp; The Male Biological Imperative</center></h1>\n<p>Meet the mimic octopus (1.5 min video)...</p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/t-LTWFnGmeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n<h2>Introduction</h2>\n<p>Two years ago, just after the<em> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a> </em>campaign got started, I wrote a somewhat long and feisty article titled: <a href=\"https://steemit.com/mra/@mdkberry/female-hypoagency-pink-patriarchy-our-orwellian-big-sister\"><em>Female HypoAgency: Pink Patriarchy, our Orwellian Big Sister [steemit article]</em></a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hypoagency\">Female HypoAgency</a> was a new concept to me at the time, and I was investigating everything I could to understand what was going on between men and women that was creating such a volcanic reaction. I was also trying to understand my own position in the #MeToo revelation, as I am sure many of us were. I felt men were being unfairly targeted, but could not understand why. On the surface it looked genuine, but it felt wrong.</p>\n<p>Now the initial <em>#MeToo</em> furore has died down, I wanted to revisit the subject again, because it seems that the underlying forces at work have completely failed to surface in a way that makes it better understood. There has been no solution, just vengeance reaped.</p>\n<p><strong><em>Female HypoAgency</em></strong> and <em><strong>The</strong> <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong></em> are two forces that work together and need to be understood, if we are to unravel <em>#MeToo</em>, make good changes, and ultimately progress. Men and women have their part to play.<br /><br /></p>\n<h2>TL;DR</h2>\n<p><em><strong>Female HypoAgency</strong></em> allows women to switch between being an <em>Object (Victim)</em> or an <em>Agent (Independent &amp; strong woman)</em>. In short they can play victim in one moment, and play powerful woman the next, all based on how it suits them at the time.</p>\n<p>This switchable ability gives them <em>Deniable Plausibility</em> by default. For example a woman does not have to give consent, it is the man's job to get it. If he fails, it is him responsible. If they are both drunk, he is considered the perpetrator and she the victim. He is considered responsible adult, she bears no personal responsibility. </p>\n<p>Men can only ever be Agents (Perpetrators), they are never thought of as Objects (Victims), most especially in a dynamic which involves a woman. Interestingly if men become Trans, they get access to HypoAgency. This thenentitles them to play victim, and one wonders if it is partly why they choose it.<br /><br />An immediate example of the value of Female HypoAgency would be how we perceive women hitting men as okay, if not actually quite funny, while men hitting women is considered domestic violence.</p>\n<p>Another example is men raping women which is called <em>rape</em>, while women raping men, there is not even a word for it, in fact many Feminists claim it does not happen, but it does, a lot. Legally a woman cannot rape a man, there is no law against it, rape only applies to men (Agents) <em>doing something to</em> women (Objects), and yet we know countless women are caught raping minors, but the word is never used in the media or in law because the act does not currently exist for women. That is another example of Female HypoAgency.</p>\n<p>To add to the problem...</p>\n<p>When <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meets <em><strong>The Male Biological Imperative</strong> </em>to sacrifice oneself to protect women and children, it creates an amplified condition that has a dark side - women can then play on men's desire to rescue them, they can <em>play</em> victim, and culturally we tend to believe it to be real because all men are driven by the <em>biological imperative</em> to protect women and sacrifice themselves in order to achieve it. We feel good doing it. This feeling of reward is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that we do not even see ourselves engaging in it. Culturally we have started to become aware of it though, and the Urban dictionary has jokingly come to call this the <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pussypass\"><strong>Pussy Pass</strong>,</a> but it is a very real dynamic.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately these two complementary dynamics between the genders has now taken a dark turn in our culture, in part because men are no longer needed to protect women against a potential threat of war, as a result Feminism has risen to take power, and this rise has happened in direct correlation with peace-time, but that is a subject for another post.</p>\n<p>Let's look at Female HypoAgency, and a great video explanation from Karen Straughan can be found at the end if you don't have time to read the rest of this article...</p>\n<h2>What has changed in two years?</h2>\n<p>The first thing I noticed, is that it is easy to find definitions and examples of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a>, I doubt there is a person alive that has not heard of it. We all followed the ensuing dramas of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_allegations\">Harvey Weinstein</a> and the fall of <a href=\"https://www.glamour.com/gallery/post-weinstein-these-are-the-powerful-men-facing-sexual-harassment-allegations\">many other famous men</a> since, but interestingly, it is still far from easy to find a good definition of the opposite behaviour involved, that of <a href=\"https://definithing.com/hypoagency/\">Female HypoAgency</a>. The only way to do so, is by venturing into the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement\">Men'sRightsActivism</a> areas, and who want's to do that, right? Even they don't really get it either, they are often too busy being angry or feeling denied their right to be a victim.</p>\n<h3>What does this tell us?</h3>\n<p>Firstly that no one actually much cares about what is driving the dynamics between men and women, but we sure do enjoy a good sexual drama on the News.</p>\n<p>and secondly, as a result of this disparity, hardly anyone actually acknowledged what <em>is</em> behind the dynamics.</p>\n<p>Investigation of #MeToo still seems to stop at \"<em>blame the Patriachy\"</em> and the presumption that - <em>\"it is all men's fault\"</em>. In this regard, nothing much has changed, but for those in the know there has been a gradual shift towards better understanding, and <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meeting <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> is beneath a lot of it.</p>\n<h3>What has changed from a male perspective?</h3>\n<p>Other men have started sharing their experiences, the good and the bad, we have started to talk to each other and to listen. So in that respect it has been progressive for us, even if in part that has been simply to protect ourselves from the less salubrious women out there.<br /><br />For myself, the last two years have been spent trying to understand my position, and why I was so immediately and instinctively against #MeToo from the start. I was disgusted by it, to be honest. I experienced sexual abuse from men and women growing up, and I have dated some absolute bitches (as well as some lovely women of course), and I did not agree with the #MeToo campaign at all, because I knew it completely ignored the complicity of women in their actions. It made out that only men were to blame.</p>\n<p>That made no sense, but I lost a lot of friends for expressing my position, and I was constantly berated by women for mentioning my point. I was constantly told that I was not listening to women, but from my perspective, I was not being listened to. The more I observed this, I soon realised that this dated back much further than just #MeToo, and that actually my entire life had been spent being told I need to<em> listen to women</em>, while actually not being listened to by<em> them</em>.</p>\n<p>Feminism has made men's experiences un-important and <em>less than</em>, while women's experiences have been elevated to essential listening. This is something we have been hearing for at least the last 50 years. That was an unexpectedly curious revelation.</p>\n<h3>Guilty as charged, your honour</h3>\n<p>I also had to accept that I have not been as innocent as I would like to think I have been, I have perpetrated all sorts of trickery in an attempt to get laid. #MeToo applies to me too.</p>\n<p>I certainly do not do it now, and I consider the #MeToo campaign to have drawn a line in the sand for all of us (both genders) because it marked the point beyond which any of us could use the excuse that we did not know what we were doing. It is now our duty to learn, and to take responsibility.</p>\n<p>In terms of finding people guilty for past behaviours, <em><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presentism\"><strong>Presentism</strong></a></em> should also be considered before judging anyone, <em>post</em> #MeToo. but sadly that is rarely of interest to those involved in an attempted hanging, since they usually want an outcome and to see someone swing from the gallows, and it is always aimed at creating a clearly defining a victim, and a perpetrator to hang, but is it all really that simple? <em>No, it is NEVER that simple!</em></p>\n<p>What ever happened before #MeToo, should be judged on it's own merit, while what happens now, can certainly be judged more diligently according to the rules left behind by the #MeToo campaign, but not without an honest look at the dynamics involved on both sides. I do not believe that is happening yet, not at all. The <em>blame-it-all-on-the-men</em> narrative remains doggedly prevalent and it just highlights the willing ignorance shown by people who are actually more interested in power-play, than in the truth. It is high time <em>that</em> was being called-out too. Women have been completely complicit and so far, that revelation has avoided scrutiny.</p>\n<h3>Communication from both sides before sex</h3>\n<p>There is no longer an excuse not to communicate about sex, but that includes women too.</p>\n<p>It is not an excuse to make men do all the work of getting consent, while playing dumb to their part in letting it happen. You just can't expect to get away with that <em>wall-flower</em> approach anymore, and this has obviously presented a problem, because to do that requires admitting responsibility for female sexual desire and women's demand for sex.</p>\n<p>Turns out #MeToo was a double edged sword, because women are simply not allowed to demand sex in our culture, they get tarnished if they do. To do so would also take away the ability to be an <em>Object (Victim)</em> and stick her firmly in the <em>Agent (Perpetrator)</em> camp.</p>\n<p>Who would risk that, especially given how vicious women are to one another when one of them is sexually overt and promiscuous<em> (The Sisterhood is also a myth, but again, another post for that debarcle)</em></p>\n<h3>Women want sex, but they risk their status to admit to it</h3>\n<p>Unfortunately admitting to sexual desire, or acting on it, impacts women's status negatively in our culture. And not just from men, but from other women. That is the root of the problem as I see it, because it encourages women to avoid taking responsibilty around the act of sex with men.</p>\n<p>But #MeToo has happened. There is responsibility to be had now, otherwise it will backfire on the women that it should be helping. This was in part why I was so against it, because I could see how it was going to remove the opportunity for women to remain passive in the engagement, they would no longer be able to get men to approach them in a dominant way, because we now risk legal issue later to do so.</p>\n<p>There is no pretending that false accusation's can destroy a man's life even before it goes to court. We have seen the damage it has done and we have heard women being righteous about that. We have been tried, and found guilty in the public domain by the mob. If I was a young man today, there is no way I would go near a woman now without some kind of proof that I did not force myself upon her. It is not worth the risk. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a total failure because men can't be safe to approach women anymore, if we do, we'll risk losing our jobs and going to prison on the whim of a woman's invented comment. We are guilty until proven innocent, and even when proven innocent, our lives will have been destroyed anyway. It's the Ultimate Power and it is in the hands of women, not the Patriarchy, and yet, apparently the patriarchy is the problem? pffft.</p>\n<h3>You want sex? Get me a lawyer first</h3>\n<p>So, women need to become more overtly sexual, more overtly communicative about wanting sex, or, you'll simply have go without because it is not worth the risk to us men. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>So the sharp, double-edged nature of the #MeToo sword now requires that women need to stop acting like speech-incapacitated victims (Objects), or pretend that sex is only ever <em>done</em> <em>to</em> them. #MeToo has removed your right to fall back on that as an excuse. If you want us, you are going to have to come and get us, and bring a lawyer along with you. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>But wait, of course you can still deny responsibility - <em>Female HypoAgency to the rescue.</em></p>\n<h3>The sexual dynamic: Dominant/Submissive </h3>\n<p>The hardest part of it all that people still completely fail to grasp, and the area that has seen far less change, is in understanding the dynamics and power-play behind the passive person's involvement in any sexual interaction.</p>\n<p>Women are still considered the Object (victim) in almost all sexual interaction by default. Their Agency in engaging in sex, attracting it, driving it to happen, seems to still be considered minimal. It is done <em>TO</em> them. Women get to retain <em>deniable plausability.</em> This is the power of <em>Female HypoAgency.</em></p>\n<p> #MeToo and Feminism, has also now ensured the right of women to provoke sexuality from men, all without being questioned on that behaviour, and this deliberate drive seems to have increased exponentially since #MeToo began. Women are now shoving it in our faces. It is now called being <em>the independant, brave woman, and men best accept it.</em> But there are some startlingly ignorant aspects in that role. Take Yoga pants as a really good example...</p>\n<h3>Yoga pants are the overt sexual harassment of men</h3>\n<p>They have become common place in public, designed now to accentuate and draw attention to the vagina and buttocks, while the cultural standard seems to have become obtuse denial of this fact, apparently it is done for her alone, not us at all. (more Female HypoAgency in action). If you could put language to it, it would go something like this.</p>\n<p><em>\"Look at me, look at me! I am an independant woman, fearless and brave and here is the outline of my vagina and ass to prove it. LOOK AT ME!\"</em></p>\n<p>but when you do, this is now followed promptly by, </p>\n<p><em>\"What the fuck are you looking at, RAPIST!\"</em></p>\n<p>Or at least that is how it feels as a man dealing with the <em>Agency</em> of women who pretend to be innocent <em>Objects</em> of our desire, while at the same time are deliberately provoking sexual attention from us, demanding it aggressively, then attacking us for it. </p>\n<p>There is another rule - we are not allowed to mention this. But yes, absolutely, men <em>are</em> being targetted with this overt Yoga pant wearing behaviour and especially by younger women who think they have the right to do that without consequence. In fact even this discussion on Yoga pants is not permitted, simply because I am a man. To mention tight-fitting Yoga pants being worn in public makes me a perpetrator and borderline rapist.</p>\n<p>This, is not a good change. In this regard female independance has become vicious, deliberate, and sexually antagonistic towards men, while at the same time teasing us, and then starving us, of what the feminine has control over. Where once I might have wolf-whistled, to women wearing Yoga pants in public I now say,</p>\n<p><em>Woman, kindly take your snatch-stretched yoga pants and fuck off somewhere else far away from me with that shiz.</em></p>\n<h3><strong>Corporate Feminism: because Vagina</strong></h3>\n<p>Corporate, industrial-level, Feminism has now crept powerfully into the very arena in which the majority of men were targeted by the #MeToo campaign - <em>Hollywood</em>. Is this a coincidence? I think not. The whole point was a Feminist take-over, so the targeted males no longer have any power in the media realm. It's been a coup.</p>\n<p><em>Political Correctness</em> in Corporate world has also stealthily become something of a dictatorship, it now requires that women be given roles that they have not necessarly earned, simply on the merit of having a vagina. This is actually discrimination, but that concept is sure to fall on deaf ears because of the belief that the Patriarchy is in control, run by men, and needs to be over-thrown by women at all costs. (This is actually baloney if you had not realised it yet).</p>\n<p>Never mind Oprah and her part in feeding Harvey Weinstein his alleged victims, or their part in meeting the man in a hotel room despite likely knowing full-well what they were walking into (unless women don't talk to each other? That would be a first.) They were meeting him in a hotel room...Why? Well, the clue is in the question.</p>\n<p>But despite all this old-school feminine method of career-climbing by using sexuality to get ahead while denying it, it is still <em>all men's fault</em> that it occurs or exists<em>, </em>and that single assumption permits targeting those men in power, ousting them, and putting someone with a vagina in charge instead. Any man who dares to get in the way of that, or does not vocally fully support it, can now easily be targeted too. It is genius really.</p>\n<p>The only required qualification to get ahead today - is possessing a vagina. That is why <em>the future is female.</em> Women are never at fault, because it is always men to blame.</p>\n<p>This is all just the work of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and men falling foul of <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> to support women. Wakey wakey men, you are being duped.</p>\n<p>Do you remember that moment Oprah stood up to support Harvey? No nor do I. Why? Because they would have taken her out too.<em> Power.</em> That is the game behind #MeToo really, and the sooner people see that, the sooner we can have a proper conversation about what has been going on to get ahead in Hollywood, or to get some head in Hollywood, depending on which side of the Hotel door you were on before she decided to enter in. No one forced them, but I bet Oprah encouraged them wholeheartedly. He are some pretty pictures of that. #MeToo, women were complicit 50/50 if not more because it's how the power game works.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-793\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" /> <img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-794\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah-too.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"219\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<h3>Women do<em> 'being men'</em> better, obviously</h3>\n<p>The last two years has seen huge changes in movie scripting and directing. <a href=\"https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/why-so-many-feminist-leaning-movies-now-maybe-because-its-time-1203104112/\">[Variety magazine article on it from January 2019]. </a></p>\n<p><em>Oceans 8</em> and films like it are all about women trying to do \"men\" better, and presenting the idea that they can do it <em>much</em> better.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, I don't think many women can actually grasp what a man even is, and yet they say we do not understand them.</p>\n<p>Anyway, time will tell, but I think there is a danger in promoting this ridiculous idea that women do it better, because it is rooted in female fantasy and the perception of female powerlessness. Feminine power is found by being outside the circle of activity, controlling it, without doing anything. Give that covert control up, try to become a man, and you will definitely experience powerlessness. This is what is happening as Feminism takes over overt control. I predict that it's going to end in tears.</p>\n<p>Women do NOT do men better at all, if you have any doubts just look at the gender statistics of the dangerous jobs in the world. Women are not even close to doing it better. It should be obvious enough what men do, but no, women do it all better, not in real life, but on film and in Feminist slogans, while in reality they don't do it at all.</p>\n<p>Though I also fully understand the reactive necessity of it, given women have been kept out of <em>the men's locker room</em> until now, and they want in, because they feel powerless. But when they get in there, they will just be <em>women in the men's locker room</em>. That is something else. But I get it, sure let them in for a while, though I am not pretending that I think it is a workable idea in the long run. If anything, #MeToo has taught me that there is a value in gender segregation, at least in some aspects.</p>\n<p>There is an inevitability about all this too, it's a wave of female emotional reaction that is doomed to fail in the end when the truth comes out. Certainly it will be supported while it is a new thing, but there will also be an inevitability in it's decline, because actually women do not do \"men\" better, how on earth could they?</p>\n<p>Men do men best, and that won't change ever, even if you take HRT until kingdom come. Just like Trans women are not actually women, they are men  who chopped their penises off, enjoy role-playing, and now have to take hormone drugs to maintain their bitch-tits, but they are not, and never will be, women.</p>\n<p>It makes one wonder why on earth women are not happy with feminine roles in life. The female sense of  powerlessness is a curious thing and maybe something to look at for another post.<br /><br />The Corporate Feminist take-over of Hollowood has already begun to show signs of weakening, Elizabeth Banks has been exhibiting an excellent example of Female HypoAgency by blaming the failure of her Charlie's Angels feminist teenage romp on... <em>men's failure to attend the cinema when women are the action heroes.</em> <a href=\"https://www.screengeek.net/2019/11/18/charlies-angels-failure-elizabeth-banks-blames-men-comic-book-movies/\">[link to her interview here]</a></p>\n<p>meh, could it just be that your film is crap? no, it must be men's fault.</p>\n<p>We have been hearing this for a long time, eternity in fact. But <em>\"It's all men's fault\"</em>, is going start to get tiresome to hear at some point, even for the women who have doggedly supported Feminism all along. Why not just let the men be men, because we do it really rather well when allowed to, and with no need of help from female expertise on the rules of it. When you are done playing at being men in the men's locker room, would you mind shutting the door on the way out. Thanks.</p>\n<h3>A world war would sort this all out in minutes</h3>\n<p>This could also all quite easily be sorted out by the return of a nice big and bloody war, the rise of Feminism dogma and #MeToo outrage, all remains curiously correlated to the advent of peace in our first world cultures, but I won't go into that today.</p>\n<h3>The Patriarchy is a convenient <em>\"it's all men's fault\"</em> myth</h3>\n<p>The whole <em>\"blame patriarchy\"</em> concept is ridiculous and always has been. It is a byproduct of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and the need for women to<em> deny responsibility </em>because they have to in order to maintain female status.</p>\n<p>The Patriarchy has also been deliberately encouraged as a concept by the billion dollar industry that is <em>Feminism</em> and has been driven into the very teachings of our culture since the 1960s if not earlier, which is why no one stops to question it, we all grew up hearing it, and took it to be truth, but it isn't truth, it's the doctrine of a propaganda driven cult that has targeted traditional family roles. Though<em> <strong><a href=\"http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-10.htm\">Erin Pizzey</a> </strong></em>was aware of it being a problem as it got started, and her work with early Feminism is insightful into just what went wrong and why.</p>\n<p>But <em><strong><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia\">Camille Paglia</a></strong></em> puts it best in a few of her quotes which I share below, and at some point we are all going to have to wake up to the fact that the so called Patriarchy was mutually designed and built by men and women together. It is not the work of men alone, nor was it made to oppress females, if anything it has oppressed men into slavery to work dangerous jobs for his family unit, because society, technology, family, home, and the so-called Patriarchal system was made FOR women, to protect and nurture women, and designed at their behest and their demand.</p>\n<h3>The Male Biological Imperative: protect women, die trying, feel valued.</h3>\n<p>Our culture has always sought to protect, serve and cater to women - and children too for that matter. It is the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> of our species to protect women and children and to put them first. That <em>biological imperative</em> is deeply rooted within every man, and you can see it best on <strong><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/fightporn/\">Reddit r/FightPorn</a></strong><em> (If you can stomach it, be warned, it aint pretty)</em>. In every single example you find on there you will see the same dynamic play out - whenever a woman punches a man no one does anything, but if a man even just pushes a woman, he is taken down instantly by all the other men around, their minds do not even register what they are doing, it is instinctive. This is the <em>Male Biological Imperative</em> to protect women, rooted in the need to save the one that can propagate the species. It is an immensely powerful force, and hard to even spot unless you are looking.</p>\n<p>This <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong> to protect women and children was put there by Nature herself in order for our species to fight to survive. Man's only real role in life is to be a sacrifice for women and children. <strong>That is the real definition of the Patriarchy - <em>men sacrificing themselves for women and children, and in context of a real-life situation, working for their families.</em></strong></p>\n<p>For people to now pretend the Patriarchy is somehow loaded against women is a travesty of absolute ignorance, and frankly it is disgusting to engage in such a blatant dismissal of what men have sacrificed tirelessly through the ages to build a better world for those that came after. Men died constantly for the rest of us to live in the peaceful, technologically advanced Utopia that we have today. Shame on anyone who dares to turn that into a <em>blame-men</em> slogan for Feminazi propaganda. Those that do, should be sent somewhere to start over and see what it looks like. Maybe send them to another planet, and the best of luck with that. Call it Planet Clementine Ford and maybe she can be sent in the first mission.</p>\n<p>Lest we forget...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/war.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><em>\"One of feminism’s irritating reflexes is its fashionable disdain for “patriarchal society,” to which nothing good is ever attributed. But it is patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<p><em>\"It is capitalism that has given me the leisure to sit at this desk writing this book. Let us stop being small-minded about men and freely acknowledge what treasures their obsessiveness has poured into culture\" - Camille Paglia<br /><br /></em><em>\"Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself\" - Camille Paglia</em><br /><em><br /></em><em>\"What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<h3>Yet #MeToo still allows for women to play victim</h3>\n<p>For most people, sexual conquesting still remains a male driven arena, so it is easy to blame men as sole Agents, and it is still well underway to do so while claiming only ever being an Object as a female.</p>\n<p>But this should not be possible after #MeToo if it had been successful, or right, in the first place. If it had been right then women should now be able to vocalise, speak, ask, and recieve sex. But they can't. Why? Because they will still be shamed for it, so, nothing has changed since #MeToo, except more men are in prison and out of jobs, and we now know that a large section of the female population are dangerous and can't be trusted.</p>\n<p>If we bother to stop and consider the dynamics at work in any sexual connection, actually the feminine, passive role is a powerful one. The passive role is perfect for HypoAgency, because it allows for <em>denial of responsibility </em>later.</p>\n<p>Women can always play the victim card, but men can NEVER play that card. (Another aspect of HypoAgency and why it is mostly females that get to use it, though it makes you wonder if that is why men are trying to become women.) This is because playing victim functions well to make use of the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> men have to protect women and children. I am sure you see where I am going with this by now.</p>\n<p>This biological imperative in men is actually what is being used <em>against</em> men by women via the #MeToo campaign. Let's have a look at a good example of that...</p>\n<h3>Asia Argento, the perfect case</h3>\n<p>There is a certain irony in the fact that Asia Argento - the very person who started the entire #MeToo snowballing after her outburst at a Cannes event - then went on to be proven to be a sociopathic, sexual predator. She tried to deny it, and did so very convincingly because it seemed like an obvious attempt at a smear campaign, but then when pictures surfaced of her with the boy that she targeted, there was no room left for denial. But she still tried to wiggle out of it, not to admit it, instead she said she did not know he was that young, does he look old to you?</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-810 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/argento.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"599\" /></p>\n<p>Then it turned out that Asia was not so much raped by Harvey Weinstien, as blew him willingly in order to get ahead in Hollywood. Of course she maintains that...<em> <br /><br />\"She later had consensual encounters with Weinstein, she said, though she really felt \"obliged\" to comply, for fear he'd harm her career. \"  </em></p>\n<p>(The career she had progressed by blowing him, willingly, in a hotel room, voluntarily. Yet he is up for prison. Does that not seem weird?)</p>\n<p>Here is a picture of some women being tormented by their rapist...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-780 size-large\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/281-1024x839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"803\" /></p>\n<p><br /><br />and from Argento's original speech at Cannes...</p>\n<p><strong><em>\"we know who you are and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.\"</em></strong></p>\n<p>Well, quite so, and it probably came as a shock to her to discover that works both ways.</p>\n<h3>How is this still happening?</h3>\n<p>This is where <em>Female HypoAgency</em> comes in, and it is not just some fancy bit of jargon, it defines the very power dynamic at work between men and women. It is the power play used by those willing to deny responsibility for their their actions, and in some ways, hide their predatory nature just like the mimic octopus in the featuring photo of this blog.</p>\n<p>Asia has provided us with the perfect example of that creature in human form. She is completely in charge of all her situations, she is the absolute Agent, while totally played the Object from start to end every time. She still plays it even after being caught out, almost sociopathically believing she is the victim. This is so common it is uncanny.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a fiasco. No one seems to realise just how much it is just a tool for narcissistic women who use it to power-blugden men. It's literally a game of spot the predatory woman, because she will be claiming Object victimhood, while being the absolute Agent of her own life and targeting men to get ahead. The clue is in the victim position, she will never admit fault even when an Agent of her own choices. That is the clue, because she is lying. Mimicking, while hunting for her next actual, genuine victim.</p>\n<p><em>Female HypoAgency</em> is especially prevalent in any sexual interaction, this is because sex functions between the person who is<em> Dominant</em> and the other who is going to be more<em> Submissive</em> in the sexual dynamic, Sex energy increases between these two energetic, dynamic states of being. This then tends to lead to role play. Sex energy works like that, it is animated and excited by the engagement between those two opposite forces, but they are strangely complementary and they flip too. Dominance and Submission.</p>\n<h3>In BDSM, the Submissive runs the show</h3>\n<p>In BDSM world, it is well known that the person that controls the BDSM scene is the Submissive. This is a crucial truth if we are to understand the dynamics at work in #MeToo also. The Submissive is in control, and that is actually how it should be really, because that is how BDSM stays safe. But think about that, the Object, is in control, in Female HypoAgency, the victim is really the Agent who is running the show. Asia, the queen of the #MeToo campaign, plays it perfectly.</p>\n<h3>Plausible Deniability</h3>\n<p>Women can use <em>Female HypoAgency</em> to get ahead in all areas of life, they can play passive, while actually controlling the situation from that position, and yet all the while seeming not to. That is the fine art of the feminine to do this well. <em>Plausable Deniability, </em>is a woman's essential weapon and tool in life, or it can be, certainly not all women engage in it with the aggressive ferocity of someone like Asia Argento.</p>\n<p>Women actually have no choice but to use it with sex, because to act overtly would then get them targeted by other women as being promiscious and dangerous to them, it also might put men off. Men get scared when women act out of character. This is something for men to learn too.</p>\n<p>The problem comes when people like Asia Argento start to use it to wield power in public, and get ahead, and once it backfires on them, then they use it to take down the men around them, try to cover their tracks, while endlessly claiming to be the victim themselves.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is this, on a grand scale, and it is ingeniune in the extreme because it denies female culpability where there is plenty. Beware a woman who does not question #MeToo. She is probably using it.</p>\n<h3>Sociopathic claim to victimhood</h3>\n<p>The one thing that stands out every time with a sociopath running Female HypoAgency, is that they believe they are the victim even when it is proved beyond any doubt that they are not, and you can always tell by the language they use because they will continue to blame someone else even after being caught out. Asia reveals this behaviour perfectly for us to learn from. It's a great revealer because she has been so badly busted all round.</p>\n<p>Rose McGowan, who attached herself early on to Asia, is no better and interestingly they are now at war ever since Rose tried to distance herself from the Asia car crash. That's the level of support there.</p>\n<p>Men are mostly completely unaware of this happening to them when these kind of women target them, Anthony Bourdain almost certainly was caught out by it with Asia, and ultimately with disastrous consequences for him. The women who engage in it are absolutely ruthless, and it is why I used the Mimic Octopus in the main picture of this blog to represent it. A predator is looking for a result.</p>\n<p>The mimic octopus is an incredibly artful predator and fools its target by mimicking something that it is <em>not</em>, in the case of <em>Female HypoAgency</em>, a woman mimics being a victim while actually being the Agent, and she engages the male in his <em>Biological Imperative</em> desire to protect and support her. He then feels he is doing something good, for the greater good, when actually <em>she</em> is controlling the situation, and him, with a deliberate intent while pulling on his strings. Poor old Anthony got mugged by a mimic octopus.</p>\n<h3>White knights, or just poor clueless bastards</h3>\n<p>This mimicing behaviour is actually very common in Nature with the female predator, there are others that mimic fireflies for mating then eat the male, or the male tarantula that has spurs on his legs which could effectively stop the female from eating him. Does he ever use them? No. What is also common is the male's utter obliviousness to it all and failure to rescue himself from his own blindness. </p>\n<p>Female HypoAgency is in our blind spot, so we have to learn how to spot the signs that lead to confirming it.</p>\n<p>Males that are suckered by it, start to exhibit <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=White%20Knight\">white knight behaviour. </a>and then make fools of themselves doing the bidding for the woman that they think they are rescuing/ supporting/ saving/ or loved by.</p>\n<p>Like when Anthony Bourdain paid off Asia's young conquest in an attempt to stop his revelations harming her reputation and what he perceived to be the rescue of other #MeToo victims. Somehow he saw it as worth it, and not as Asia playing the hell out of him. The poor clueless bastard.</p>\n<p>Men rarely naturally become aware of how <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is used upon them, and women who use it will hunt for those kinds of men to prey on. For the most part those men only learn the hard way, even then they often can't believe it is real even after it is proved to them. This is because it goes against their <em><strong>Biological Imperative </strong></em>and the need to sacrifice themselves to save women. They fail to see how something as delightful as a woman can ever be that calculating. Nature programmed them that way so that they would sacrifice themselves when required.</p>\n<p>For this reason alone it is essential that <em>Female HypoAgency</em> be fully understood by men - and women too so we can talk to you about it - in order for us all to start to work out how to get along better. Not just to stop the #MeToo campaign, or the Corporate Feminist Take-over from running away with itself and becoming either a fiasco of male abuse, a victim stigma for irresponsible women to hide behind, a blatant leverage for power using the vagina to force entry, or simply a weapon with which to hate on men with. MeToo did not really help women, it hurt them. It was started by a sociopathic predator, so the clues are there.</p>\n<p>We need to work together to figure this out, and it is going to require some honesty, painful truths, and most of all, understanding how the symbiotic chemical reaction found between <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em>, underscores the entire dynamic of our modern first-world culture.</p>\n<h2>So, what is Female HypoAgency?</h2>\n<p>It's likely the only people who will ever care to know about it, are the very people who already know what it is, or have fallen victim to it and no longer able to deny their experience but can't yet understand what happened, or why it happened, to them.</p>\n<p>Everyone else, feminists especially, will not be interested in discussing it. Why? Because it reveals their behaviour.</p>\n<p>Here is the best explanation on Female HypoAgency (30 minutes long), provided by the person who helped me understand it two years ago, the incredibly insightful, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmnLu5cGUGeLy744WS-fsg\">Karen Straughan</a></p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KBgcjtE0xrE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> </p>\n<p>Every man should watch this video, and re-watch it until it is fully understood. I have been seeing it at work in our culture all over the place for the last two years. If men do not start to understand this dynamic and how it works, it is not likely going to get any better for men, or women, any time soon.</p>\n<h3>Links</h3>\n<p>If anyone reading this feels like they have been the victim of Female HypoAgency and #MeToo campaign and targeted unfairly, then I highly recommend contacting James Barnett of Barnett Survivors Limited, based in UK. He has done work internationally to help victims of false accusations and understands better than anyone the dynamics at work, and the legal issues involved in fighting for justice, against the damages caused by a false accusation. He can be found through any of the links below.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en\">https://twitter.com/barnettsurvivor?lang=en</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors\">https://www.facebook.com/BarnettSurvivors</a></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors\">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/barnettsurvivors</a></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/female-hypoagency-the-male-biological-imperative/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mimic-octopus-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\"/>\n<h1><center>Female HypoAgency &amp; The Male Biological Imperative</center></h1>\n<p>Meet the mimic octopus (1.5 min video)...</p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/t-LTWFnGmeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\n<h2>Introduction</h2>\n<p>Two years ago, just after the<em> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a> </em>campaign got started, I wrote a somewhat long and feisty article titled: <a href=\"https://steemit.com/mra/@mdkberry/female-hypoagency-pink-patriarchy-our-orwellian-big-sister\"><em>Female HypoAgency: Pink Patriarchy, our Orwellian Big Sister [steemit article]</em></a>.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hypoagency\">Female HypoAgency</a> was a new concept to me at the time, and I was investigating everything I could to understand what was going on between men and women that was creating such a volcanic reaction. I was also trying to understand my own position in the #MeToo revelation, as I am sure many of us were. I felt men were being unfairly targeted, but could not understand why. On the surface it looked genuine, but it felt wrong.</p>\n<p>Now the initial <em>#MeToo</em> furore has died down, I wanted to revisit the subject again, because it seems that the underlying forces at work have completely failed to surface in a way that makes it better understood. There has been no solution, just vengeance reaped.</p>\n<p><strong><em>Female HypoAgency</em></strong> and <em><strong>The</strong> <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong></em> are two forces that work together and need to be understood, if we are to unravel <em>#MeToo</em>, make good changes, and ultimately progress. Men and women have their part to play.<br /><br /></p>\n<h2>TL;DR</h2>\n<p><em><strong>Female HypoAgency</strong></em> allows women to switch between being an <em>Object (Victim)</em> or an <em>Agent (Independent &amp; strong woman)</em> of their actions.</p>\n<p>This switchable ability gives them <em>Deniable Plausibility.</em> Men can only ever be Agents (Perpetrators), they are never thought of as Objects (Victims), most especially in a dynamic which involves a woman. Interestingly if men become Trans, they get access to HypoAgency. This thenentitles them to play victim, and one wonders if it is partly why they choose it.<br /><br />An immediate example of the value of Female HypoAgency would be how we perceive women hitting men as okay, if not actually quite funny, while men hitting women is considered domestic violence.</p>\n<p>Another example is men raping women which is called <em>rape</em>, while women raping men, there is not even a word for it, in fact many Feminists claim it does not happen, but it does, a lot. Legally a woman cannot rape a man, there is no law against it, rape only applies to men (Agents) <em>doing something to</em> women (Objects), and yet we know countless women are caught raping minors, but the word is never used in the media or in law because the act does not currently exist for women. That is another example of Female HypoAgency.</p>\n<p>To add to the problem...</p>\n<p>When <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meets <em><strong>The Male Biological Imperative</strong> </em>to sacrifice oneself to protect women and children, it creates an amplified condition that has a dark side - women can then play on men's desire to rescue them, they can <em>play</em> victim, and culturally we tend to believe it to be real because all men are driven by the <em>biological imperative</em> to protect women and sacrifice themselves in order to achieve it. We feel good doing it. This feeling of reward is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that we do not even see ourselves engaging in it. Culturally we have started to become aware of it though, and the Urban dictionary has jokingly come to call this the <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pussypass\"><strong>Pussy Pass</strong>,</a> but it is a very real dynamic.</p>\n<p>Unfortunately these two complementary dynamics between the genders has now taken a dark turn in our culture, in part because men are no longer needed to protect women against a potential threat of war, as a result Feminism has risen to take power, and this rise has happened in direct correlation with peace-time, but that is a subject for another post.</p>\n<p>Let's look at Female HypoAgency, and a great video explanation from Karen Straughan can be found at the end if you don't have time to read the rest of this article...</p>\n<h2>What has changed in two years?</h2>\n<p>The first thing I noticed, is that it is easy to find definitions and examples of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement\">#MeToo</a>, I doubt there is a person alive that has not heard of it. We all followed the ensuing dramas of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_abuse_allegations\">Harvey Weinstein</a> and the fall of <a href=\"https://www.glamour.com/gallery/post-weinstein-these-are-the-powerful-men-facing-sexual-harassment-allegations\">many other famous men</a> since, but interestingly, it is still far from easy to find a good definition of the opposite behaviour involved, that of <a href=\"https://definithing.com/hypoagency/\">Female HypoAgency</a>. The only way to do so, is by venturing into the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement\">Men'sRightsActivism</a> areas, and who want's to do that, right? Even they don't really get it either, they are often too busy being angry or feeling denied their right to be a victim.</p>\n<h3>What does this tell us?</h3>\n<p>Firstly that no one actually much cares about what is driving the dynamics between men and women, but we sure do enjoy a good sexual drama on the News.</p>\n<p>and secondly, as a result of this disparity, hardly anyone actually acknowledged what <em>is</em> behind the dynamics.</p>\n<p>Investigation of #MeToo still seems to stop at \"<em>blame the Patriachy\"</em> and the presumption that - <em>\"it is all men's fault\"</em>. In this regard, nothing much has changed, but for those in the know there has been a gradual shift towards better understanding, and <em>Female HypoAgency</em> meeting <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> is beneath a lot of it.</p>\n<h3>What has changed from a male perspective?</h3>\n<p>Other men have started sharing their experiences, the good and the bad, we have started to talk to each other and to listen. So in that respect it has been progressive for us, even if in part that has been simply to protect ourselves from the less salubrious women out there.<br /><br />For myself, the last two years have been spent trying to understand my position, and why I was so immediately and instinctively against #MeToo from the start. I was disgusted by it, to be honest. I experienced sexual abuse from men and women growing up, and I have dated some absolute bitches (as well as some lovely women of course), and I did not agree with the #MeToo campaign at all, because I knew it completely ignored the complicity of women in their actions. It made out that only men were to blame.</p>\n<p>That made no sense, but I lost a lot of friends for expressing my position, and I was constantly berated by women for mentioning my point. I was constantly told that I was not listening to women, but from my perspective, I was not being listened to. The more I observed this, I soon realised that this dated back much further than just #MeToo, and that actually my entire life had been spent being told I need to<em> listen to women</em>, while actually not being listened to by<em> them</em>.</p>\n<p>Feminism has made men's experiences un-important and <em>less than</em>, while women's experiences have been elevated to essential listening. This is something we have been hearing for at least the last 50 years. That was an unexpectedly curious revelation.</p>\n<h3>Guilty as charged, your honour</h3>\n<p>I also had to accept that I have not been as innocent as I would like to think I have been, I have perpetrated all sorts of trickery in an attempt to get laid. #MeToo applies to me too.</p>\n<p>I certainly do not do it now, and I consider the #MeToo campaign to have drawn a line in the sand for all of us (both genders) because it marked the point beyond which any of us could use the excuse that we did not know what we were doing. It is now our duty to learn, and to take responsibility.</p>\n<p>In terms of finding people guilty for past behaviours, <em><a style=\"font-size: inherit;\" href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presentism\"><strong>Presentism</strong></a></em> should also be considered before judging anyone, <em>post</em> #MeToo. but sadly that is rarely of interest to those involved in an attempted hanging, since they usually want an outcome and to see someone swing from the gallows, and it is always aimed at creating a clearly defining a victim, and a perpetrator to hang, but is it all really that simple? <em>No, it is NEVER that simple!</em></p>\n<p>What ever happened before #MeToo, should be judged on it's own merit, while what happens now, can certainly be judged more diligently according to the rules left behind by the #MeToo campaign, but not without an honest look at the dynamics involved on both sides. I do not believe that is happening yet, not at all. The <em>blame-it-all-on-the-men</em> narrative remains doggedly prevalent and it just highlights the willing ignorance shown by people who are actually more interested in power-play, than in the truth. It is high time <em>that</em> was being called-out too. Women have been completely complicit and so far, that revelation has avoided scrutiny.</p>\n<h3>Communication from both sides before sex</h3>\n<p>There is no longer an excuse not to communicate about sex, but that includes women too.</p>\n<p>It is not an excuse to make men do all the work of getting consent, while playing dumb to their part in letting it happen. You just can't expect to get away with that <em>wall-flower</em> approach anymore, and this has obviously presented a problem, because to do that requires admitting responsibility for female sexual desire and women's demand for sex.</p>\n<p>Turns out #MeToo was a double edged sword, because women are simply not allowed to demand sex in our culture, they get tarnished if they do. To do so would also take away the ability to be an <em>Object (Victim)</em> and stick her firmly in the <em>Agent (Perpetrator)</em> camp.</p>\n<p>Who would risk that, especially given how vicious women are to one another when one of them is sexually overt and promiscuous<em> (The Sisterhood is also a myth, but again, another post for that debarcle)</em></p>\n<h3>Women want sex, but they risk their status to admit to it</h3>\n<p>Unfortunately admitting to sexual desire, or acting on it, impacts women's status negatively in our culture. And not just from men, but from other women. That is the root of the problem as I see it, because it encourages women to avoid taking responsibilty around the act of sex with men.</p>\n<p>But #MeToo has happened. There is responsibility to be had now, otherwise it will backfire on the women that it should be helping. This was in part why I was so against it, because I could see how it was going to remove the opportunity for women to remain passive in the engagement, they would no longer be able to get men to approach them in a dominant way, because we now risk legal issue later to do so.</p>\n<p>There is no pretending that false accusation's can destroy a man's life even before it goes to court. We have seen the damage it has done and we have heard women being righteous about that. We have been tried, and found guilty in the public domain by the mob. If I was a young man today, there is no way I would go near a woman now without some kind of proof that I did not force myself upon her. It is not worth the risk. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a total failure because men can't be safe to approach women anymore, if we do, we'll risk losing our jobs and going to prison on the whim of a woman's invented comment. We are guilty until proven innocent, and even when proven innocent, our lives will have been destroyed anyway. It's the Ultimate Power and it is in the hands of women, not the Patriarchy, and yet, apparently the patriarchy is the problem? pffft.</p>\n<h3>You want sex? Get me a lawyer first</h3>\n<p>So, women need to become more overtly sexual, more overtly communicative about wanting sex, or, you'll simply have go without because it is not worth the risk to us men. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>So the sharp, double-edged nature of the #MeToo sword now requires that women need to stop acting like speech-incapacitated victims (Objects), or pretend that sex is only ever <em>done</em> <em>to</em> them. #MeToo has removed your right to fall back on that as an excuse. If you want us, you are going to have to come and get us, and bring a lawyer along with you. #MeToo did that.</p>\n<p>But wait, of course you can still deny responsibility - <em>Female HypoAgency to the rescue.</em></p>\n<h3>The sexual dynamic: Dominant/Submissive </h3>\n<p>The hardest part of it all that people still completely fail to grasp, and the area that has seen far less change, is in understanding the dynamics and power-play behind the passive person's involvement in any sexual interaction.</p>\n<p>Women are still considered the Object (victim) in almost all sexual interaction by default. Their Agency in engaging in sex, attracting it, driving it to happen, seems to still be considered minimal. It is done <em>TO</em> them. Women get to retain <em>deniable plausability.</em> This is the power of <em>Female HypoAgency.</em></p>\n<p> #MeToo and Feminism, has also now ensured the right of women to provoke sexuality from men, all without being questioned on that behaviour, and this deliberate drive seems to have increased exponentially since #MeToo began. Women are now shoving it in our faces. It is now called being <em>the independant, brave woman, and men best accept it.</em> But there are some startlingly ignorant aspects in that role. Take Yoga pants as a really good example...</p>\n<h3>Yoga pants are the overt sexual harassment of men</h3>\n<p>They have become common place in public, designed now to accentuate and draw attention to the vagina and buttocks, while the cultural standard seems to have become obtuse denial of this fact, apparently it is done for her alone, not us at all. (more Female HypoAgency in action). If you could put language to it, it would go something like this.</p>\n<p><em>\"Look at me, look at me! I am an independant woman, fearless and brave and here is the outline of my vagina and ass to prove it. LOOK AT ME!\"</em></p>\n<p>but when you do, this is now followed promptly by, </p>\n<p><em>\"What the fuck are you looking at, RAPIST!\"</em></p>\n<p>Or at least that is how it feels as a man dealing with the <em>Agency</em> of women who pretend to be innocent <em>Objects</em> of our desire, while at the same time are deliberately provoking sexual attention from us, demanding it aggressively, then attacking us for it. </p>\n<p>There is another rule - we are not allowed to mention this. But yes, absolutely, men <em>are</em> being targetted with this overt Yoga pant wearing behaviour and especially by younger women who think they have the right to do that without consequence. In fact even this discussion on Yoga pants is not permitted, simply because I am a man. To mention tight-fitting Yoga pants being worn in public makes me a perpetrator and borderline rapist.</p>\n<p>This, is not a good change. In this regard female independance has become vicious, deliberate, and sexually antagonistic towards men, while at the same time teasing us, and then starving us, of what the feminine has control over. Where once I might have wolf-whistled, to women wearing Yoga pants in public I now say,</p>\n<p><em>Woman, kindly take your snatch-stretched yoga pants and fuck off somewhere else far away from me with that shiz.</em></p>\n<h3><strong>Corporate Feminism: because Vagina</strong></h3>\n<p>Corporate, industrial-level, Feminism has now crept powerfully into the very arena in which the majority of men were targeted by the #MeToo campaign - <em>Hollywood</em>. Is this a coincidence? I think not. The whole point was a Feminist take-over, so the targeted males no longer have any power in the media realm. It's been a coup.</p>\n<p><em>Political Correctness</em> in Corporate world has also stealthily become something of a dictatorship, it now requires that women be given roles that they have not necessarly earned, simply on the merit of having a vagina. This is actually discrimination, but that concept is sure to fall on deaf ears because of the belief that the Patriarchy is in control, run by men, and needs to be over-thrown by women at all costs. (This is actually baloney if you had not realised it yet).</p>\n<p>Never mind Oprah and her part in feeding Harvey Weinstein his alleged victims, or their part in meeting the man in a hotel room despite likely knowing full-well what they were walking into (unless women don't talk to each other? That would be a first.) They were meeting him in a hotel room...Why? Well, the clue is in the question.</p>\n<p>But despite all this old-school feminine method of career-climbing by using sexuality to get ahead while denying it, it is still <em>all men's fault</em> that it occurs or exists<em>, </em>and that single assumption permits targeting those men in power, ousting them, and putting someone with a vagina in charge instead. Any man who dares to get in the way of that, or does not vocally fully support it, can now easily be targeted too. It is genius really.</p>\n<p>The only required qualification to get ahead today - is possessing a vagina. That is why <em>the future is female.</em> Women are never at fault, because it is always men to blame.</p>\n<p>This is all just the work of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and men falling foul of <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em> to support women. Wakey wakey men, you are being duped.</p>\n<p>Do you remember that moment Oprah stood up to support Harvey? No nor do I. Why? Because they would have taken her out too.<em> Power.</em> That is the game behind #MeToo really, and the sooner people see that, the sooner we can have a proper conversation about what has been going on to get ahead in Hollywood, or to get some head in Hollywood, depending on which side of the Hotel door you were on before she decided to enter in. No one forced them, but I bet Oprah encouraged them wholeheartedly. He are some pretty pictures of that. #MeToo, women were complicit 50/50 if not more because it's how the power game works.</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-793\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"192\" /> <img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-794\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/oh-oprah-too.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"219\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<h3>Women do<em> 'being men'</em> better, obviously</h3>\n<p>The last two years has seen huge changes in movie scripting and directing. <a href=\"https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/why-so-many-feminist-leaning-movies-now-maybe-because-its-time-1203104112/\">[Variety magazine article on it from January 2019]. </a></p>\n<p><em>Oceans 8</em> and films like it are all about women trying to do \"men\" better, and presenting the idea that they can do it <em>much</em> better.</p>\n<p>Sometimes, I don't think many women can actually grasp what a man even is, and yet they say we do not understand them.</p>\n<p>Anyway, time will tell, but I think there is a danger in promoting this ridiculous idea that women do it better, because it is rooted in female fantasy and the perception of female powerlessness. Feminine power is found by being outside the circle of activity, controlling it, without doing anything. Give that covert control up, try to become a man, and you will definitely experience powerlessness. This is what is happening as Feminism takes over overt control. I predict that it's going to end in tears.</p>\n<p>Women do NOT do men better at all, if you have any doubts just look at the gender statistics of the dangerous jobs in the world. Women are not even close to doing it better. It should be obvious enough what men do, but no, women do it all better, not in real life, but on film and in Feminist slogans, while in reality they don't do it at all.</p>\n<p>Though I also fully understand the reactive necessity of it, given women have been kept out of <em>the men's locker room</em> until now, and they want in, because they feel powerless. But when they get in there, they will just be <em>women in the men's locker room</em>. That is something else. But I get it, sure let them in for a while, though I am not pretending that I think it is a workable idea in the long run. If anything, #MeToo has taught me that there is a value in gender segregation, at least in some aspects.</p>\n<p>There is an inevitability about all this too, it's a wave of female emotional reaction that is doomed to fail in the end when the truth comes out. Certainly it will be supported while it is a new thing, but there will also be an inevitability in it's decline, because actually women do not do \"men\" better, how on earth could they?</p>\n<p>Men do men best, and that won't change ever, even if you take HRT until kingdom come. Just like Trans women are not actually women, they are men  who chopped their penises off, enjoy role-playing, and now have to take hormone drugs to maintain their bitch-tits, but they are not, and never will be, women.</p>\n<p>It makes one wonder why on earth women are not happy with feminine roles in life. The female sense of  powerlessness is a curious thing and maybe something to look at for another post.<br /><br />The Corporate Feminist take-over of Hollowood has already begun to show signs of weakening, Elizabeth Banks has been exhibiting an excellent example of Female HypoAgency by blaming the failure of her Charlie's Angels feminist teenage romp on... <em>men's failure to attend the cinema when women are the action heroes.</em> <a href=\"https://www.screengeek.net/2019/11/18/charlies-angels-failure-elizabeth-banks-blames-men-comic-book-movies/\">[link to her interview here]</a></p>\n<p>meh, could it just be that your film is crap? no, it must be men's fault.</p>\n<p>We have been hearing this for a long time, eternity in fact. But <em>\"It's all men's fault\"</em>, is going start to get tiresome to hear at some point, even for the women who have doggedly supported Feminism all along. Why not just let the men be men, because we do it really rather well when allowed to, and with no need of help from female expertise on the rules of it. When you are done playing at being men in the men's locker room, would you mind shutting the door on the way out. Thanks.</p>\n<h3>A world war would sort this all out in minutes</h3>\n<p>This could also all quite easily be sorted out by the return of a nice big and bloody war, the rise of Feminism dogma and #MeToo outrage, all remains curiously correlated to the advent of peace in our first world cultures, but I won't go into that today.</p>\n<h3>The Patriarchy is a convenient <em>\"it's all men's fault\"</em> myth</h3>\n<p>The whole <em>\"blame patriarchy\"</em> concept is ridiculous and always has been. It is a byproduct of <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and the need for women to<em> deny responsibility </em>because they have to in order to maintain female status.</p>\n<p>The Patriarchy has also been deliberately encouraged as a concept by the billion dollar industry that is <em>Feminism</em> and has been driven into the very teachings of our culture since the 1960s if not earlier, which is why no one stops to question it, we all grew up hearing it, and took it to be truth, but it isn't truth, it's the doctrine of a propaganda driven cult that has targeted traditional family roles. Though<em> <strong><a href=\"http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-10.htm\">Erin Pizzey</a> </strong></em>was aware of it being a problem as it got started, and her work with early Feminism is insightful into just what went wrong and why.</p>\n<p>But <em><strong><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia\">Camille Paglia</a></strong></em> puts it best in a few of her quotes which I share below, and at some point we are all going to have to wake up to the fact that the so called Patriarchy was mutually designed and built by men and women together. It is not the work of men alone, nor was it made to oppress females, if anything it has oppressed men into slavery to work dangerous jobs for his family unit, because society, technology, family, home, and the so-called Patriarchal system was made FOR women, to protect and nurture women, and designed at their behest and their demand.</p>\n<h3>The Male Biological Imperative: protect women, die trying, feel valued.</h3>\n<p>Our culture has always sought to protect, serve and cater to women - and children too for that matter. It is the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> of our species to protect women and children and to put them first. That <em>biological imperative</em> is deeply rooted within every man, and you can see it best on <strong><a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/fightporn/\">Reddit r/FightPorn</a></strong><em> (If you can stomach it, be warned, it aint pretty)</em>. In every single example you find on there you will see the same dynamic play out - whenever a woman punches a man no one does anything, but if a man even just pushes a woman, he is taken down instantly by all the other men around, their minds do not even register what they are doing, it is instinctive. This is the <em>Male Biological Imperative</em> to protect women, rooted in the need to save the one that can propagate the species. It is an immensely powerful force, and hard to even spot unless you are looking.</p>\n<p>This <strong>Male Biological Imperative</strong> to protect women and children was put there by Nature herself in order for our species to fight to survive. Man's only real role in life is to be a sacrifice for women and children. <strong>That is the real definition of the Patriarchy - <em>men sacrificing themselves for women and children, and in context of a real-life situation, working for their families.</em></strong></p>\n<p>For people to now pretend the Patriarchy is somehow loaded against women is a travesty of absolute ignorance, and frankly it is disgusting to engage in such a blatant dismissal of what men have sacrificed tirelessly through the ages to build a better world for those that came after. Men died constantly for the rest of us to live in the peaceful, technologically advanced Utopia that we have today. Shame on anyone who dares to turn that into a <em>blame-men</em> slogan for Feminazi propaganda. Those that do, should be sent somewhere to start over and see what it looks like. Maybe send them to another planet, and the best of luck with that. Call it Planet Clementine Ford and maybe she can be sent in the first mission.</p>\n<p>Lest we forget...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-781 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/war.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><em>\"One of feminism’s irritating reflexes is its fashionable disdain for “patriarchal society,” to which nothing good is ever attributed. But it is patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<p><em>\"It is capitalism that has given me the leisure to sit at this desk writing this book. Let us stop being small-minded about men and freely acknowledge what treasures their obsessiveness has poured into culture\" - Camille Paglia<br /><br /></em><em>\"Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself\" - Camille Paglia</em><br /><em><br /></em><em>\"What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization, an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women\" - Camille Paglia</em></p>\n<h3>Yet #MeToo still allows for women to play victim</h3>\n<p>For most people, sexual conquesting still remains a male driven arena, so it is easy to blame men as sole Agents, and it is still well underway to do so while claiming only ever being an Object as a female.</p>\n<p>But this should not be possible after #MeToo if it had been successful, or right, in the first place. If it had been right then women should now be able to vocalise, speak, ask, and recieve sex. But they can't. Why? Because they will still be shamed for it, so, nothing has changed since #MeToo, except more men are in prison and out of jobs, and we now know that a large section of the female population are dangerous and can't be trusted.</p>\n<p>If we bother to stop and consider the dynamics at work in any sexual connection, actually the feminine, passive role is a powerful one. The passive role is perfect for HypoAgency, because it allows for <em>denial of responsibility </em>later.</p>\n<p>Women can always play the victim card, but men can NEVER play that card. (Another aspect of HypoAgency and why it is mostly females that get to use it, though it makes you wonder if that is why men are trying to become women.) This is because playing victim functions well to make use of the <em><strong>biological imperative</strong></em> men have to protect women and children. I am sure you see where I am going with this by now.</p>\n<p>This biological imperative in men is actually what is being used <em>against</em> men by women via the #MeToo campaign. Let's have a look at a good example of that...</p>\n<h3>Asia Argento, the perfect case</h3>\n<p>There is a certain irony in the fact that Asia Argento - the very person who started the entire #MeToo snowballing after her outburst at a Cannes event - then went on to be proven to be a sociopathic, sexual predator. She tried to deny it, and did so very convincingly because it seemed like an obvious attempt at a smear campaign, but then when pictures surfaced of her with the boy that she targeted, there was no room left for denial. But she still tried to wiggle out of it, not to admit it, instead she said she did not know he was that young, does he look old to you?</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-810 size-full\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/argento.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"599\" /></p>\n<p>Then it turned out that Asia was not so much raped by Harvey Weinstien, as blew him willingly in order to get ahead in Hollywood. Of course she maintains that...<em> <br /><br />\"She later had consensual encounters with Weinstein, she said, though she really felt \"obliged\" to comply, for fear he'd harm her career. \"  </em></p>\n<p>(The career she had progressed by blowing him, willingly, in a hotel room, voluntarily. Yet he is up for prison. Does that not seem weird?)</p>\n<p>Here is a picture of some women being tormented by their rapist...</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-780 size-large\" src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/281-1024x839.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"803\" /></p>\n<p><br /><br />and from Argento's original speech at Cannes...</p>\n<p><strong><em>\"we know who you are and we're not going to allow you to get away with it any longer.\"</em></strong></p>\n<p>Well, quite so, and it probably came as a shock to her to discover that works both ways.</p>\n<h3>How is this still happening?</h3>\n<p>This is where <em>Female HypoAgency</em> comes in, and it is not just some fancy bit of jargon, it defines the very power dynamic at work between men and women. It is the power play used by those willing to deny responsibility for their their actions, and in some ways, hide their predatory nature just like the mimic octopus in the featuring photo of this blog.</p>\n<p>Asia has provided us with the perfect example of that creature in human form. She is completely in charge of all her situations, she is the absolute Agent, while totally played the Object from start to end every time. She still plays it even after being caught out, almost sociopathically believing she is the victim. This is so common it is uncanny.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is a fiasco. No one seems to realise just how much it is just a tool for narcissistic women who use it to power-blugden men. It's literally a game of spot the predatory woman, because she will be claiming Object victimhood, while being the absolute Agent of her own life and targeting men to get ahead. The clue is in the victim position, she will never admit fault even when an Agent of her own choices. That is the clue, because she is lying. Mimicking, while hunting for her next actual, genuine victim.</p>\n<p><em>Female HypoAgency</em> is especially prevalent in any sexual interaction, this is because sex functions between the person who is<em> Dominant</em> and the other who is going to be more<em> Submissive</em> in the sexual dynamic, Sex energy increases between these two energetic, dynamic states of being. This then tends to lead to role play. Sex energy works like that, it is animated and excited by the engagement between those two opposite forces, but they are strangely complementary and they flip too. Dominance and Submission.</p>\n<h3>In BDSM, the Submissive runs the show</h3>\n<p>In BDSM world, it is well known that the person that controls the BDSM scene is the Submissive. This is a crucial truth if we are to understand the dynamics at work in #MeToo also. The Submissive is in control, and that is actually how it should be really, because that is how BDSM stays safe. But think about that, the Object, is in control, in Female HypoAgency, the victim is really the Agent who is running the show. Asia, the queen of the #MeToo campaign, plays it perfectly.</p>\n<h3>Plausible Deniability</h3>\n<p>Women can use <em>Female HypoAgency</em> to get ahead in all areas of life, they can play passive, while actually controlling the situation from that position, and yet all the while seeming not to. That is the fine art of the feminine to do this well. <em>Plausable Deniability, </em>is a woman's essential weapon and tool in life, or it can be, certainly not all women engage in it with the aggressive ferocity of someone like Asia Argento.</p>\n<p>Women actually have no choice but to use it with sex, because to act overtly would then get them targeted by other women as being promiscious and dangerous to them, it also might put men off. Men get scared when women act out of character. This is something for men to learn too.</p>\n<p>The problem comes when people like Asia Argento start to use it to wield power in public, and get ahead, and once it backfires on them, then they use it to take down the men around them, try to cover their tracks, while endlessly claiming to be the victim themselves.</p>\n<p>#MeToo is this, on a grand scale, and it is ingeniune in the extreme because it denies female culpability where there is plenty. Beware a woman who does not question #MeToo. She is probably using it.</p>\n<h3>Sociopathic claim to victimhood</h3>\n<p>The one thing that stands out every time with a sociopath running Female HypoAgency, is that they believe they are the victim even when it is proved beyond any doubt that they are not, and you can always tell by the language they use because they will continue to blame someone else even after being caught out. Asia reveals this behaviour perfectly for us to learn from. It's a great revealer because she has been so badly busted all round.</p>\n<p>Rose McGowan, who attached herself early on to Asia, is no better and interestingly they are now at war ever since Rose tried to distance herself from the Asia car crash. That's the level of support there.</p>\n<p>Men are mostly completely unaware of this happening to them when these kind of women target them, Anthony Bourdain almost certainly was caught out by it with Asia, and ultimately with disastrous consequences for him. The women who engage in it are absolutely ruthless, and it is why I used the Mimic Octopus in the main picture of this blog to represent it. A predator is looking for a result.</p>\n<p>The mimic octopus is an incredibly artful predator and fools its target by mimicking something that it is <em>not</em>, in the case of <em>Female HypoAgency</em>, a woman mimics being a victim while actually being the Agent, and she engages the male in his <em>Biological Imperative</em> desire to protect and support her. He then feels he is doing something good, for the greater good, when actually <em>she</em> is controlling the situation, and him, with a deliberate intent while pulling on his strings. Poor old Anthony got mugged by a mimic octopus.</p>\n<h3>White knights, or just poor clueless bastards</h3>\n<p>This mimicing behaviour is actually very common in Nature with the female predator, there are others that mimic fireflies for mating then eat the male, or the male tarantula that has spurs on his legs which could effectively stop the female from eating him. Does he ever use them? No. What is also common is the male's utter obliviousness to it all and failure to rescue himself from his own blindness. </p>\n<p>Female HypoAgency is in our blind spot, so we have to learn how to spot the signs that lead to confirming it.</p>\n<p>Males that are suckered by it, start to exhibit <a href=\"https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=White%20Knight\">white knight behaviour. </a>and then make fools of themselves doing the bidding for the woman that they think they are rescuing/ supporting/ saving/ or loved by.</p>\n<p>Like when Anthony Bourdain paid off Asia's young conquest in an attempt to stop his revelations harming her reputation and what he perceived to be the rescue of other #MeToo victims. Somehow he saw it as worth it, and not as Asia playing the hell out of him. The poor clueless bastard.</p>\n<p>Men rarely naturally become aware of how <em>Female HypoAgency</em> is used upon them, and women who use it will hunt for those kinds of men to prey on. For the most part those men only learn the hard way, even then they often can't believe it is real even after it is proved to them. This is because it goes against their <em><strong>Biological Imperative </strong></em>and the need to sacrifice themselves to save women. They fail to see how something as delightful as a woman can ever be that calculating. Nature programmed them that way so that they would sacrifice themselves when required.</p>\n<p>For this reason alone it is essential that <em>Female HypoAgency</em> be fully understood by men - and women too so we can talk to you about it - in order for us all to start to work out how to get along better. Not just to stop the #MeToo campaign, or the Corporate Feminist Take-over from running away with itself and becoming either a fiasco of male abuse, a victim stigma for irresponsible women to hide behind, a blatant leverage for power using the vagina to force entry, or simply a weapon with which to hate on men with. MeToo did not really help women, it hurt them. It was started by a sociopathic predator, so the clues are there.</p>\n<p>We need to work together to figure this out, and it is going to require some honesty, painful truths, and most of all, understanding how the symbiotic chemical reaction found between <em>Female HypoAgency</em> and <em>The Male Biological Imperative</em>, underscores the entire dynamic of our modern first-world culture.</p>\n<h2>So, what is Female HypoAgency?</h2>\n<p>It's likely the only people who will ever care to know about it, are the very people who already know what it is, or have fallen victim to it and no longer able to deny their experience but can't yet understand what happened, or why it happened, to them.</p>\n<p>Everyone else, feminists especially, will not be interested in discussing it. Why? Because it reveals their behaviour.</p>\n<p>Here is the best explanation on Female HypoAgency (30 minutes long), provided by the person who helped me understand it two years ago, the incredibly insightful, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmnLu5cGUGeLy744WS-fsg\">Karen Straughan</a></p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KBgcjtE0xrE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe> </p>\n<p>Every man should watch this video, and re-watch it until it is fully understood. I have been seeing it at work in our culture all over the place for the last two years. If men do not start to understand this dynamic and how it works, it is not likely going to get any better for men, or women, any time soon.</p>\n<h3>Links</h3>\n<p>If anyone reading this feels like they have been the victim of Female HypoAgency and #MeToo campaign and targeted unfairly, then I highly recommend contacting James Barnett of Barnett Survivors Limited, based in UK. He has done work internationally to help victims of false accusations and understands better than anyone the dynamics at work, and the legal issues involved in fighting for justice, against the damages caused by a false accusation. 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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/princess-harry.jpg</center> <br/><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Male Feminists</strong></h1>\n<img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/princess-harry.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3273\"/>\n<p><strong>Male Feminists fall into four main categories.</strong></p>\n<ol><li><strong><em>Predator</em></strong></li><li><strong><em>Subservient White Knight</em></strong></li><li><strong><em>\"Yes Darling\"</em></strong></li><li><strong><em>Uneducated male</em></strong></li></ol>\n<h2>1. Predator</h2>\n<p>This is the worst kind but also the least common. They feign being supportive but are simply looking for sex or to manipulate and control women in some way.</p>\n<h2>2. Subservient White Knight</h2>\n<p>These are the most common kind by a stretch. They believe they know what women want, but really just suck up to them.</p>\n<p>They infantilize women and think that women need their help, often to the point of privately patronizing female \"gifts\" and abilities, putting them on a pedestal. </p>\n<p>Male Feminists are unconsciously driven by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/female-hypoagency-the-male-biological-imperative/\" target=\"_blank\">The Male Biological Imperative</a> which, simply put, is what drives men to rescue <em>\"women and children first\"</em> and to defend the honor of women at all costs. This a powerful instinctive reaction that has been put there by Nature to maintain the species survival. Painful examples of it can be found in subreddits like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/fightporn\" target=\"_blank\">r/Fightporn</a> (not for the faint hearted), that show endless real life examples of men pouncing violently on other men whenever a woman is physically challenged by a male.</p>\n<p>Male Feminists often claim to have a \"lesbian feminist friend\" that they consult with regularly, thus believing themselves to have a superior education and understanding of both sides of the fence.<br><br>Unfortunately, and in most cases, these men become easy targets for dominating women. They do their bidding completely unaware that they are being manipulated. A perfect example of a <em>Subservient White Knight</em> in the public eye is the former Prince Harry (see title picture caricature). He has been completely taken over with no idea that it has happened. This is common.</p>\n<h2>3. \"Yes Darling\"</h2>\n<p>These kind are closer in numbers to the <em>Subservient White Knight</em>, but have learnt that saying nothing is the best policy. Just agreeing with women makes for an easier life. </p>\n<p>The difference between this man and the <em>Subservient White Knight</em>, is that they have kept their own mind. They are independent thinkers, but they are usually scared of women. Mummy issues abound. </p>\n<p>They often date dominating women, but have learnt ways to manage themselves around them to avoid admitting to their innate awareness that she is not always right. When things get feisty, they will use pacifying phrases like, <em>\"I understand\" </em>&amp; <em>\"Yes darling\"</em> until the storm has passed. They are obedient simply because they cannot stand up to her when she throws a tantrum.</p>\n<p>If pushed, they will usually end up behaving like a <em>Subservient White Knight</em> rather than standing up to a forceful woman. They will later sheepishly apologise to the lads and make a joke out of it, to which the lads will all nod understandingly.</p>\n<h2>4. Uneducated Males</h2>\n<p>This makes up most of the rest of us males, and actually covers the entire category of Male Feminists except for <em>Predators</em>. </p>\n<p>These kinds of men have not understood the need or value of standing up to women, or more importantly, why it is vital that we oppose Feminist doctrines if we want to achieve true equity. Equity is possible but equality is not.</p>\n<p>Nor have <em>uneducated males</em> understood the covert power of the Feminine to manipulate unconsciously.  </p>\n<p>Most of all, they have not understood the one thing that women do want - <em>Men strong enough to stand up to their shit.</em> (Something I plan to discuss in a later article).</p>\n<h2>Some Further Comments</h2>\n<p>Men and Women have been designed to complement each other's powers by Nature. Masculine power tends to be overt, Feminine power tend to be covert. In <em>Yin</em> and <em>Yang</em> principles there is as much power in <em>surrender</em> as there is in <em>action</em>.</p>\n<p>Women's natural proclivity for <em>covert emotional manipulation</em> is the single strongest reason why men have become blind-sided into believing Feminism wants equality. It does not, and it never did.  Feminism was always about power and competing with men. </p>\n<p>Women are not gentle creatures, they are not made of <em>\"sugar and spice and all things nice\"</em>. They are extremely competitive, and the co-called <em>\"sisterhood\"</em> is always run by a Queen Bee and policed with the eternal <em>threat of exclusion</em>. Women have a hard life competing with other women. </p>\n<p>The ever more visually intrusive <em>\"vagina and butt -accentuating\" </em>yoga pant syndrome seen appearing in modern society, is a symptom of this competition with each other. The sexual design is not there for attracting men, it is there to beat other women in getting male attention. Think about that. This is the how the feminine functions. Men are simply commodities that women compete over.</p>\n<p>But women are also very good at masking their behavior, even denying it in themselves. It is a matter of survival. Hiding their true thoughts and <em>plausible deniability</em>, are two essential tools women must learn to survive. If they fall foul of the social world or the sisterhood, they will be destroyed and ejected. </p>\n<p>For women \"status\" must be maintained to survive, as such hiding their thoughts is second nature, and <em>plausible deniability</em> in sexual encounters will be a priority. Hence why men have to <em>get</em> consent, women only have to <em>give it</em>. If you fail to confirm either of these, it defaults to plausible deniability for the female. Which is why women remain vague when giving consent. It suits them to avoid personal responsibility in most areas of life because it always defaults to the woman's favor. Men get laid off, women get let off.</p>\n<p>So, Feminine strength lies in being covert. This inability for the world to see women's power as it functions, is what has given rise to Feminism becoming a tyrannical power in time of peace (where disposable \"Toxic\" men are no longer needed, and that's probably you). </p>\n<p>This has also led to the likes of Amber Heard, Asio Argento and other criminals, getting away with their crimes of male abuse. Male Feminists and especially uneducated males, think all women are innocent by default. A Feminist indoctrinated society - of the kind that can only exist in peace-time - will function from the premise that <em>all women are victims </em>and<em> all men are perpetrators</em>. Sound familiar?</p>\n<p>The only way forward is to become educated on the covert tactics of women and Feminism. Come to understand the utter delusion of <em>Male Feminists</em>,  they types you will encounter, and for men to become resilient against the onslaught that is coming toward us under the guise of <em>\"Toxic Masculinity\"</em>, but is really just an agenda is to emasculate the entire male population. </p>\n<p>If you care about women, men, and our species, you would realise that this Feminist Gulag we are headed towards, would actually be a bad thing for all of us. Especially if war returns or the luxury of modernity collapses for some reason.</p>\n<h2>Further Reading (ongoing updates)</h2>\n<p>Below are a few of that things that many men do not understand or know about, and Male Feminists will outright dispute then just on principle. It was thrown together quite quickly but I will update them in the future and write separate articles at some point.</p>\n<p> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/female-hypoagency-the-male-biological-imperative/\" target=\"_blank\">Female HypoAgency &amp; The Male Biological Imperative</a></p>\n<p> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http://www.ejfi.org/DV/dv-10.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Emotional Terrorism</a> </p>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/feminism-has-become-obsessed-with-victimhood-1.3418483\" target=\"_blank\">The manipulative and often tyrannical nature of Feminism</a></p>\n<p> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/sunday/why-women-compete-with-each-other.html\" target=\"_blank\">The aggressively competitive nature of the so-called \"sisterhood\"</a></p>\n<p> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663360/\" target=\"_blank\">The undiscussed violence committed by women</a> </p>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.psypost.org/2020/12/researchers-identify-a-new-personality-construct-that-describes-the-tendency-to-see-oneself-as-a-victim-58753\" target=\"_blank\">Women consistently using victimhood to leverage</a></p>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.bu.edu/arion/files/2010/03/Feminism-Paglia1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The history of Feminism</a> has become a false narrative driven by what is today a billion dollar industry and advertising campaign to drive that narrative.</p>\n<p>There are many more and I may add them in at a later date.</p>\n<h2>In Conclusion</h2>\n<p>A long road lies ahead. It is going to get worse before it gets better. Feminism is getting into the education system, scientific research, the upper echelons of society, and for the most part changing things for the worse based on false narratives. </p>\n<p>To achieve equality is a ridiculous idea. Men can never be women and women can never be men. We complement each other. It's not a fault, it's a feature. The grunt jobs will always be done by men, and if war every returns it is men that will be on the front-line and women back at home working the factories, bearing the children, and keeping the family together. There is nothing wrong with<em> traditional masculinity</em>, especially when it is needed to fight for the homestead.</p>\n<p>Feminism has risen to tyrannical status during peace-time. This is not a coincidence. And it will rapidly diminish again if there is a war, suddenly <em>disposable men</em> will be needed again for sacrifice to save women and children. The concept of <em>Toxic Masculinity</em> and the ongoing drive to encourage the emasculation of Testosterone males, is a symptom of the shadow-side of a peaceful society that no longer needs <em>Alpha males</em> to protect it's borders or it's women. We are falling into a trap. <em>Beta males</em> are not a good substitute for survival long-term. Be proud of your \"Toxic\" masculinity, do not be fooled by the Feminist dogma designed to kill you off.</p>\n<p>Falling into a Feminist dominated culture would be a fatal mistake, yet it seems to be happening in our western culture more each day. Think of Gladriel in Lord of the Rings when that weird hobbit relinquishes his personal responsibility and hands his balls over to her (in the form of a ring of power). There is a good reason why we don't give women ultimate power, the most simple reason being they do not think in the same linear way that men do. They function like magnificent storms, while we function like arrows of disposable sacrifice aimed at targets to achieve results.</p>\n<p>Of course some women are better at being men than men are, but the exception proves the rule. Many women leaders have been fantastic, but look up \"adrenal fatigue\" if you want to see how they handle those Yang roles and positions. Mostly women do not think in the linear way that men do, hence why you find mainly men in construction and it is mainly men that have been behind the majority of innovations throughout history. </p>\n<p>This is not a fault, it is just the way Nature designed us. Men balance women's power and vice versa. In most cases in nature the female of the species is more powerful than the male. As such the male is given a few extra tricks to survive. And we are going to need them if the slogan \"<em>the future is female\"</em> comes to pass. Feminism will not be a merciful, compassionate dictatorship, though it will certainly claim to be.</p>\n<p>Don't get me wrong. I was never against equality, equity, equal rights for women, fairness, women in positions of power, or the honest handling of anything, but I have lived and suffered at the hands of Feminist dogma long enough to know that it is a complete sham. I have lost friends as a result of Feminism, and I don't mean they don't call me, I mean they are dead (Magnus Neumann, you're wise words and experience of this subject will not be forgotten, bro). </p>\n<p>I will never support Feminism because it is a false narrative, and is not directed at equality but at tyranny. Women need to start being a lot more honest about their covert drives and denials in our society. 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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rich-from-distribution.jpg</center> <br/><h1>\"Privilege\" is a weaponised term used to target people</h1>\n<center><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rich-from-distribution.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3227\"/></center>\n\n<h3>\"<strong><em>Study finds upper-class people attribute achievements to hard work when faced with evidence of class privilege\" </em></strong></h3>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.psypost.org/2020/07/study-finds-upper-class-people-attribute-achievements-to-hard-work-when-faced-with-evidence-of-class-privilege-57301\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.psypost.org/2020/07/study-finds-upper-class-people-attribute-achievements-to-hard-work-when-faced-with-evidence-of-class-privilege-57301</a></p>\n<p><em>The above research paper made a total balls-up of understanding the issue regarding the concept of \"privilege\" in the classes, and I want to discuss the obvious errors here.</em></p>\n<h2>TL;DR</h2>\n<p>In the above linked study, <em>\"Privilege\" </em>is assumed to be something the <em>Upper-Classes</em> have by default and enjoy, while the <em>Lower Classes</em> lack any privilege and suffer accordingly. This is simply not true, in fact, I suspect the opposite is the truth in most instances, and I will explain in this article why.</p>\n<h2>What the study completely misses</h2>\n<p>What the study completely fails to point out, is that there are privileges found from being in the <em>Lower-Classes</em> too. </p>\n<p>While being in the <em>Upper-Class</em> - and therefore assumed to be <em>\"privileged\"</em> by default - this actually makes you fearful, incorrectly labelled as assumed \"rich\", and lumped into the social bracket that gets targeted by <em>the mob</em>, (which is made up of people claiming to be lower-class but often are not, as I will get to shortly).</p>\n<p><strong>In short - To be in the <em>lower classes </em>is acceptable (privileged), while being born to the <em>upper classe</em>s will get you hated &amp; envied often incorrectly because they are not always rich (good luck telling that to the mob). </strong></p>\n<p>And this is why their study really showed that <em>anyone</em> will do anything to avoid being labelled privileged (not just upper classes, but anyone). There are exceptions and I will discuss them shortly.</p>\n<h2>\"Privilege\" is a derogatory <em>class</em> of it's own</h2>\n<p>The study has made huge errors of bias and assumption, while missing half the facts.</p>\n<p>The word \"privilege\" today is loaded with implication. It actually defines as a class of its own, and is a derogatory term when applied. <strong>Today it is used to line a person up for targeted attack by the mob.</strong> <strong>Being labelled \"privileged\", is nothing short of a curse.</strong></p>\n<h3>Calling someone \"Privileged\", is about lining them up for attack by the mob</h3>\n<p>If you are labelled \"privileged\", people then feel entitled to hate on you. It's an efficient <em>buzzword </em>used today for targeting a person with impunity.</p>\n<p>Stick the <em>\"Privileged\"</em> label on a person, blow on the dog-whistle, and then the<em> social-media mob</em> can attack them without another thought.</p>\n<p>For example, if you can label someone <em>white-privileged</em>, you immediately get granted the \"privilege\" of being able to accuse them of racism, monetary advantages, social advantages, and cultural advantages, all rolled into one convenient <em>Generalisation-Buzzword</em> that has nothing to do with the individuals experience, monetary value, class level, or even culture necessarily.<strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/\" target=\"_blank\">I go into this buzzword fallacy in more detail in a post here -<em> </em>\"The Anatomy of White Privilege\". </a></strong></p>\n<h2>Lower-Classes have many more social \"privileges\"</h2>\n<p>The study completely fails to note that being in a <em>lower-class</em> has it's own privileges, and quite a few too<em>.</em> Most are not only appealing, but could qualify as addictive.</p>\n<h3>Privileges of the lower classes</h3>\n<ul><li><em>Social acceptance</em></li><li><em>Access to support systems</em></li><li><em>Automatic pity and concern</em></li><li><em>Community care and admiration </em></li><li><em>Positive public attention</em></li><li><em>Access to free stuff</em></li><li><em>You get to hate on the perceived rich (upper classes, 1%)</em></li><li><em>You can blame them for everything, and relinquish all personal</em> <em>responsibility</em></li><li><em>Power of inclusivity &amp; numbers - the mob</em></li><li><em>Power of the ability to dog-whistle a social media mob</em> <em>attack</em></li><li><em>The right to become rich</em> <em>(rags to riches kudos)</em></li></ul>\n<h3>Align with the lower-classes to protect your wealth (rags to riches)</h3>\n<p>You can see this <em>play-it-down</em> narrative in action every time you imply someone needs to explain their position in order to prove they are NOT one of the <em>privileged</em>.</p>\n<p>Peoples anecdotal explanations will often be an attempt to justify their life-journey as <em>lower-class</em>, in terms of <em>personal monetary value</em> gained, and to show that is was through <em>hard-graft</em> not <em>privilege</em>. </p>\n<p>It is a very common <em>rags to riches</em> <em>story-arc</em> that people love to engage in when explaining away any value they hold. It has to be a <em>rags to riches</em> story to earn the respect of the mob, and of course, to avoid being targeted as <em>privileged</em>. </p>\n<ol><li><em>Claim you came from nothing but hard times &amp; poverty (or fell there)</em></li><li><em>Claim you made good through hard-graft and sufferance, and pulling yourself up through the monetary ranks, bleeding as you went.</em></li><li><em>Validate that your $$ success was earned through 1 &amp; 2, and not through being \"born with a silver spoon in the mouth\".</em></li><li><em>If in doubt, throw some cancer stories in there. Maybe a dying aunt who needed you to become rich to help pay for her three-legged, blind dog's vet fees. That kind of thing.</em></li><li><em>If all else fails, take a charity post in Africa for 3 months.</em></li></ol>\n<p><strong>The above is literally a way to claim the \"privilege\" of the lower classes. The only privilege the upper-classes really have, is to be a target.</strong></p>\n<h2>Exceptions to the rule</h2>\n<p>There are two exceptions to this rule.</p>\n<h3>Narcissistic superiority complex</h3>\n<p>These people will not give a rats ass about the mob, they do not fear them, they do not care what anyone thinks. They may be born rich, privileged or not, but they wont care. They despise the mob, hate the lower classes, even if they are in them. They will likely be the very thing that the mob claim is the problem. Of course, some of these types exist.</p>\n<h3>Virtue-signalling to the lower classes</h3>\n<p>More common is the <em>virtue-signalling </em>approach.</p>\n<p>They are vaguely privileged, maybe or maybe not, but they fit the category enough that they feel they need to diffuse the anger of the mob, and hope to join their ranks, by using the one thing that might achieve it, <em>subservience</em>. </p>\n<p>They will often work freely for the mob as a hunters, and call-out other \"privileged\" people around them, doing so will help them to prove their worth.</p>\n<p>The best example of this human trait, comes from the most horrorific circumstances, described in <em>Viktor Frankl's </em>book <em>\"Mans Search for Meaning\"</em>. The most dangerous people in the Nazi Camps were the Jews that took positions of power and chose to work for the Nazis. They were cruel, capricious, murderous, and hated their fellow Jews, but loved to serve at the feet of their Nazi masters, throw Jews to their deaths, and by doing so, feel like they belonged.</p>\n<p><em>Virtue-signalling</em> is heinous, and not just regarding \"privilege\", but because it lacks integrity and acceptance for what you are, while invariably throwing all those around you to the dogs.</p>\n<h2>You know the rules!</h2>\n<p><strong>We all know the rules, the<em> top-class</em> is the target, the <em>lower-class</em> is the down to earth, honest to goodness, completely justified, pitch-fork brandishing mob! </strong></p>\n<p>Only the stupid, or egoistically deranged would dare not claim lower social status before becoming rich, it would be financial suicide to do so today given the witch-hunt on social media for the 1%.</p>\n<h2>The lower classes want to be rich, the upper classes want to be left alone</h2>\n<p>The lower-class actually envy and desire the perceived benefits of the upper-class, it is a self-perpetuated hallucination, but they do not question this.</p>\n<p>What the lower class do not want, is the label or the so-called \"privilege\" of being upper-class. Why? Because the label immediately makes you fair game in the press, the public, the mob, and you become an acceptable target. </p>\n<p><strong>If you can become rich and are from the lower-class, then you will be left alone, you earned it. </strong></p>\n<p><strong>But if you are poor and upper-class you will still be targeted as if you were rich, simply because you are upper-class. It is a dubious privilege in this day and age, and ridiculous for the study to claim it is due to being upper class, any one would avoid it if they could. </strong></p>\n<p><strong>Being the upper-class obviously sucks.</strong> </p>\n<h2>The study missed by a mile</h2>\n<p>This means the conclusions the research piece has come to are wrong. </p>\n<p><strong>All people will avoid the \"privilege\" label, to avoid being a target for the mob, not just the upper-classes.</strong></p>\n<p>The study is faulty by its failure to realise that the lower classes have a social privilege that far outweighs the lonely solitary world of the upper classes,<strong> \"social unification and bonding, and the sense of belonging\" </strong>are powerful privileges and the study did not even consider their existence.</p>\n<p><strong>The upper-classes are notoriously solitary, and all the more ripe for socially acceptable targeting that is done by the public and the press. There will be cheers from the mob whenever it happens.</strong></p>\n<h2>Beware The Mob</h2>\n<p>The mob still love a good public execution, nothing has changed, they want to see blood. They want that same blood seen in the Roman Colloseum, and at the hangings, or a bloody dismemberment of someone they that all (usually wrongly) qualified as guilty by \"privilege\". <em>Upper-class</em> is just a useful additional tool for the excuse.</p>\n<p>Lower classes<em> are</em> the mob, and when the mob is looking for someone to blame, it is not rational perception that leads them, but vengeance reaped upon the so-called <em>\"privileged\"</em>. This word alone can get you in trouble today. Therefore it is a dangerous word to make use of. Anyone would run a mile the moment they are accused of it. The study should have tested lower class rich to see if they felt privileged or tried to explain their riches away.</p>\n<h2>Conclusion</h2>\n<p>The study is missing lots of the nuances of <em>privilege</em>. It possibly even set out from a place of bias due to assuming only one form of privilege exists - the upper class form - and ignoring the fact lower-class status has its own privileges too.</p>\n<p>I did not look into the background researchers because I had no interest to, but I did wonder if this had Marxist leanings and bias self-justifications written all over it.</p>\n<p>Everyone will claim to be a member of the <em>lower-class</em> and do their best to avoid to be associated to the <em>upper-class</em>, despite actually wanting everything they think the <em>upper-class</em> have got. Everything, except the label, of course. </p>\n<p><strong>It is not a privilege to be upper-class at all, it is a curse. There are far more <em>privileges </em>to be had by claiming you had it tough, worked to the bone, and are a fully-fledged member of the lower-class.</strong></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/privilege-is-used-to-target-people/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory, because they are. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not about creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, different levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even, themselves, in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those rich, privileged whites, they hallucinate exist, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own meager experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this especially for the young with no experience of their own to fall back on or lay claim to.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age to encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes me a racist.</p>\n<p>There will be no discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as an <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"Hate Speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites, down whenever they dare to question the narrative. </p>\n<p>Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privileged, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved <em>white-guilt</em>, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years spent living in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His genuine belief was that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indians do. But I did not dare talk to black people about any of this. I was too afraid of their reaction, and mine, if we got too deep into it.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since at least the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>There's Big Money in <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving the bus since the 1940s to <em>\"Save Africa\"</em>, because it pays very well. Yet not one single country in Africa has been saved, not even close. We have plowed trillions upon trillions into the continent. When is this day going to arrive? <em>Answer - it isnt</em>. It never was.</p>\n<p>It was always about taking money off white people and keeping Africa in a state of corruption, hand-out addiction, and civil war. Really those charities and the World Bank have achieved one thing very well - They have absolutely destroyed black Africa, why? In order to exist themselves.<em> (See Dambia Moyo's book - Dead Aid, mentioned earlier)</em>.</p>\n<p>White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades to part with cash. But are they? </p>\n<h4>Handout Culture</h4>\n<p>If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. So, how much money is going to be enough? How much reparation? No amount will be enough.</p>\n<p>When are we going to look at the reality of what is going on, and see that it does not work to create a <em>hand-out culture</em>, yet we are now doing it in our own back-yards.</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans because it can easily get aggressive and ugly, but it is really not much different. </p>\n<p>I firmly believe that absolutely everyone is racist, it is written into our hunter-gatherer instincts of survival to spot a friend or foe coming out of the bush.<strong> The difference is that whites are taught they are racist, and non-whites are taught that they are not.</strong></p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, you must be a RACIST! REEEEEEET!\"</em> </p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/GEStsLJZhzo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"></iframe>\n<p></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are</a>. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> as the real problem. This will be positively encouraged by their peers, and white people alike, even if they never personally experienced it, they can make use of it by supporting <em>PoC, BAME, and BLM.</em></p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered. The racism occurring in their country of origin is also forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message of claiming racial inequality at the hands of whites.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic Privileges - Encouraged by Whites</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are freely offered, than to discuss their own racism or question it's validity. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism, if they can instead claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club, that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em> simply by membership, and they can immediately benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em>, because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, they can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Today we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> the moment you set foot in a white-dominant country, and are willing to become a member of <em>PoC club</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>generalisation-buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to non-whites, for fear of being ostracised or triggering their deep rooted (inner six year old's) sense of shame.</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, education, jobs, a house, free money, whatever they need really.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in her unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that an environment of equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism, or maybe is where the root cause of the problem might be found? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em> and run out of social-media town. Spurious acts of intense<em> white virtue-signalling</em> will follow any such event. Knees will be taken, desperately. Statues will be pulled down and a few risque white commentators will be taken out the back and shot.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>In conclusion</h2>\n<p><em>White</em> <em>virtue-signalling</em> is the infantization of non-whites. </p>\n<p>And <em>white privilege</em>, is <em>closet racism</em> disguised beneath a <em>superiority complex, </em>because you actually believe those people are desperate, and need your help.</p>\n<p>None of this is helping anyone achieve equity. But worse, the <em>generalisation buzzwords</em> are stopping any of us even being allowed to talk about it.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough but a couple of things before I go...</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. </p>\n<p>We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us that it <em>is </em>all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will<em> virtue-signal</em> like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". But we can never do enough, truth is, we should probably not be doing anything.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. It is culturally quite common in white folk since ancient times. There is no end-point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate,  but it works, so why would they stop to question it.</p>\n<h3>If you keep giving, others will keep taking</h3>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either. <em>Handout-culture</em> destroys, we have plenty of evidence of this, if we look.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false-cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on. It happened in the past, it must be something that effects the present, right? Well, no, probably not, times are different now, but this should be allowed to be questioned, not just accepted due to <em>buzzwording, </em>or else!</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness for something they did not do. They do not even know what they are begging for, they are just reacting to their inner six-year old's endless sense of guilt. Did any one of those white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging? Why indeed.</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek the right kind of therapy to fix it.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line.jpg</center> <br/><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Africa in Black &amp; White</h1>\n<img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2985\"/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><em>The above photo clearly shows the division of equity still prevalent in South Africa</em>.<br><em>We can assume whites live on the left, and blacks live in the ghetto on the right.</em></p>\n<p><strong>How is this inequality still so prevalent today in Africa? Why does nothing ever improve for black Africans? Is it all the fault of whites?</strong></p>\n\n<h2>Arguing, as a white man</h2>\n<p>Once again, my arguing on Reddit has produced an interesting discussion, This time on the disparity between White and Black life in Africa (in as much as I can claim to know it).</p>\n<p>It started with the picture above, showing a clear division between the ghetto of South Africa on the right, and the rich homes on the left that we can safely assume to be owned by whites. I do not deny it.</p>\n<p>The Reddit argument was long, and I only know as much as I know, but I am every day trying to understand more and arguing helps me get better educated by those that know. </p>\n<p>As a white man, and someone who does not live in Africa, one wonders what gives me the right to have an opinion. Apart from the fact that my Dad was born there, some of my family live there, and many of them died there, even if this was not true, I would still have a right to an opinion by virtue of being held responsible.</p>\n<p>By nature of my white skin colour and familial association to Zimbabwe and South Africa, I feel very much responsible for the inequity, enslavement, abuse, and failure of black Africa to get ahead. <strong>It is a message we have all heard as white skinned people since birth. We constantly are told how we are responsible for slavery and the oppression of blacks.</strong></p>\n<h2>Whites are silent, but about the wrong things</h2>\n<p>There is surely a certain duty that we talk about it. And yet, what really happens is that we never talk about it, in fact, we fear talking about it. <strong>White people remain silent, obediently accepting it is <em>all </em>their fault, but without argument. Why?</strong></p>\n<p>The white-guilt is strong, it is horrible to carry. <strong>We have been hearing how it is our fault ever since we were young and at the dinner table heard the immortal words, <em>\"think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em></strong> What a guilt-trip it has been to be white. To be six years old and carrying the weight of all African deaths on your small shoulders. That is the root of our white-guilt, right there.</p>\n<p>It does not ever leave you, and you begin to try to make amends, of course you do, because you care about humanity. But there is no way to fix it. So you donate money, and apologise at every opportunity to any black person who demands it, and even if they don't. \"It is the fault of our <em>white privilege</em>\", we say, and then we try to do anything to make it better. Since we have thrown so much at fixing it over many decades, why has it not got any better?</p>\n<h2>The World Bank is a criminal enterprise</h2>\n<p>Sadly there is huge amounts of money to be made from this white-guilt trip. Easy money too, since no one dares ask questions. <strong>Our cultural media has made a point of targeting our white-guilt, as have hundreds of charities, and The World Bank co-ordinates the entire African effort. </strong>We are well trained to think Africa is our fault because we are white, and we donate accordingly without ever asking awkward questions. But is it all true? </p>\n<p>I want to solve the poverty in Africa, we all want to solve it. I want to help blacks get ahead in life, if that is what is really the problem here. But Trillions upon trillions has been spent trying to solve it, and yet nothing has been solved at all. This makes no sense. <strong>It has been 80 years of charity giving, refugee invitation, and \"<em>white-saviours to the rescue</em>\". When is it all going to be fixed? Give me a certain date! You can't. Does that make any kind of sense to you?</strong> <strong>In fact, Africa looks a lot worse off than when we started donating!</strong></p>\n<h2>How exactly am I personally to blame for this again?</h2>\n<p>If I am to take the blame for it, then I need to know why I am to blame for it. </p>\n<p>Why has trillions of dollars thrown at Africa not worked? Where has it all gone? <strong>Why has 80 years of throwing money at impoverished black people, been an abject failure? </strong>Why is there a ghetto in the top right of the picture above? What the fuck has The World Bank been doing for 80 years? </p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, it is time we looked in other places for the problem, and a solution, and maybe, just maybe, it will be uncomfortable to do that. I think it will.</p>\n<h2>When racially accused of being to blame, ask inconvenient questions</h2>\n<p>The discussion below is my response to someone who was accusing me of being white, privileged, and the cause of all black Africa's problems. I do not believe this to be true, and I have spent 40 years wondering about it almost daily so it is not my first discussion. I used to think it <em>was</em> all the fault of whites. But the more that I learnt, the less I was able to accept this accusation to be true at face value.</p>\n<p>It seems like the most dangerous and offensive statement to utter, but... <strong>I now believe the REAL issue in Africa, and in America too for that matter, is that blacks are not letting other black lives improve.</strong></p>\n<p>Below is my post. If you (the reader) have updated information, more accurate truth, cited proof of it, and can educate me as to how I am very wrong about what I have written below, then please let me know. I would love to be wrong on this. <strong>If I thought for one minute that I could help solve any of the problems that blacks face, then I would do it. But I do not believe the solution lies with whites at all.</strong> <strong>Not even one bit, and here is why . . .</strong></p>\n<h2>The Reddit post . . .</h2>\n<p><em>(I have tidied the below post for clarity and to make it more suitable for a blog. It is in response to someone, and their quoted questions are accentuated below, starting with my reply...)</em></p>\n<p>\". . . you never replied to my last comment. I want to discuss some of this, because I think you are wrong. This is an opportunity for you to educate me on how I am wrong, or maybe both of us learn something, so let us talk about your questions since you ignored me the last time…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"white people in africa hold up about 72 PERCENT of the land that can be used for farming\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Let's consider Zimbabwe, they took the land off white farmers there, Mugabe made it a law that white farmers either leave the country or give some of the land to \"selected\" blacks. This happened. The end result? The blacks did nothing with the land. So Mugabe next said that white farmers had to give money to the blacks. The blacks did not take advantage of the opportunity, they did not try to learn farming, they did not try to work their way to make use of the land, many of them just sat in their new homes on the land and complained. They then (in the same way Mugabe took millions from The World Bank), demanded more free handouts for nothing. They still blamed the white farmers despite all this gifting. This is why it failed, and why Zimbabwe is still a disaster. If black people are given land and money, and the country leaders are too, then why did it fail in Zimbabwe? Who was responsible? The Whites?</p>\n<p>How do you see this same land reparation working out better in South Africa exactly? Do please explain.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"how your racist ass would feel if someone marched into your nation, took almost ~75% of your greenland, sold it off to companies that do nothing for your nation, pushed you into the ghetto, and profited off of your young to make more money for themselves, while nothing goes into your community.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I assume you are not talking about what my family and many other whites experienced in Zimbabwe, but again, I think you are wrong about this, but you are wrong about this in 3 different ways.</p>\n<ol><li>When white man entered Africa, what was happening in Africa at the time? I can tell you what, and history bears this out, Egypt and Nubian tribes had been pushing down through Africa for years, stealing land off the indigenous tribes and killing the Bushmen who lived there and possessed nothing other than hunting skills. They were taking them as slaves, claiming the land, and then there was a lot of tribal war and fighting for power too. When Europeans arrived in South Africa &amp; Zimbabwe, the Zulu were in the midst of killing the last of the Sans and pushing them south, through into South Africa. This ended when Europeans arrived. They still hate on each other to this day, the Zulu and the tribes there, how do I know this? I traveled there a few years ago and they are happy to tell you how much they hate the Zulu and vice versa. So, you are wrong about \"Uptopian\" Africa before whites showed up. It was violent and bloody, and slavery was rife. Today in EVERY SINGLE black country there is corruption, civil war, tribal war, and poverty. Why? You cannot blame whites if black Africans have the opportunity to change all that, but never do. Why does change and improvement NEVER happen in Africa? It is not the whites stopping it.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"2\"><li>When whites showed up in Africa 400 years ago, they brought technology and education, and, unfortunately for Africa, God. But it was already a place of problems, war, tribes abusing each other and most important, slavery was already going on, brought in by Egyptians and Muslims for hundreds of years before. Africa had been doing far better as a country of hunter-gatherer Bushmen, but then the black Nubian tribes, Egyptian slave trading, Muslim slavers and the Zulu and other aggressive tribes started killing the Bushmen and claiming the land for themselves. When whites showed up, they brought new ways and even peace, and over time many black people actually thrived, got jobs, had homes and started to embrace those new ways themselves, but this was not always accepted by the black community, or the white community either for that matter. I do not say there was no white racism, it was and is rife, but it is not the real root of the problem. You may not like to admit it, but you can read Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, and you will see that she agrees. For instance, financially speaking, blacks on average were better off in S Africa during Apartheid than they have been since SA was handed back to black leadership. This is a fact. You want to blame whites, because you have ignored the history of what black Africa was already like. And you also choose to ignore the other reasons that black communities struggle to change -<em> themselves</em>. Whites brought segregation and racial abuse, that is very true, but you ignore the fact they also brought <em>opportunity and tech advancement</em>. So you are half right, but also very wrong for ignoring the advantages. You cannot paint whites as evil, without also looking at the evil in blacks when whites are not around. Africa was, and is still, a very cruel continent. Just look at child-soldiering, or any number of wars in black-run countries, and show me the white man involved in any of that! Show me one black-ruled country in Africa that is doing well. One? So, maybe it is time to stop blaming whites and look elsewhere to find out what the real problem is that is creating the issue we see in the image above.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"3\"><li> And finally, the money does not reach the communities because of who it passes through to get there (blacks). And the people in the companies that are abusing the blacks are most always corrupt black managers and not corrupt whites. This is also being proven by history, and can be seen in every black government-run country in Africa the same. For our part, as eternally guilt-ridden whites brought up to think everything black's experience is our fault, we have our own issues to deal with in seeing our complicity for giving handouts endlessly, while failing to achieve a solution. For example, The World Bank has been throwing Charity money at every country in Africa since 1940. Trillions upon trillions of dollars have been spent trying to improve life in Africa, and where has it gone? I can tell you - it has gone to corrupt black African governments, and corrupt black community leaders. THAT IS WHY IT NEVER GETS TO THE PEOPLE. Very little of that has gone to white people, all of it has gone to blacks who did not then let it reach their community. So we need to start to put the blame for that where it rightly belongs, and to stop blaming white people for all black peoples problems.</li></ol>\n<p>If I am wrong on any of this, and you can prove it, please be my guest…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"PLEASE explain to me how <em>I’m</em> lying.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe you are not lying, but if you are not lying, then you are either being blind or ignorant.</p>\n<p>The biggest problem facing blacks today is not whites, it is the blacks that will not allow other blacks to improve their lives. The problem today, certainly appears to be down to corrupt blacks and officials in government, then the next layer is corrupt blacks in the black community. Where is all that World Bank money going? ffs.</p>\n<p>If blacks take handouts, are given farms, are given money, given land for free, and offered education too, and if they then do nothing with it, you cannot keep coming back to white people and telling them it is all their fault!</p>\n<p>Whites have been trained to assume guilt since a very young age, our cultural message for 40 years has been designed to shame us into parting with money and not asking inconvenient questions about where it then goes. If we need to de-fund anything, we need to <strong>Defund The World Bank</strong>. 500,000 related jobs that are wasting money and not fixing Africa for 80 years, is a god-damn travesty!</p>\n<p>But you cannot blame the whites alone for the problems we see in the picture above. We need to look at better solutions than just robbing the white people who have been born, grown up, worked, lived, and in many cases died in Africa. They are African too, by the way, and Zimbabwe already proved that this method does not work. Julius Molema (S African politician calling to \"kill all whites\") is a racist, militant, crook who is looking out for no one but himself and epitomises the very problem we have just discussed. Black men like him are the real problem lying in the way of change, and not the whites.\"</p>\n<h2>Links and citations</h2>\n<p><strong>FORIEGN AID, THE WORLD BANK &amp; THE LONG-TERM DAMAGE IT HAS DONE IN AFRICA:</strong></p>\n<p>World-famous black economist Dambisa Moyo explaining the issue with Aid handouts including a suggestion to help fix it -<br><a href=\"https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/dead_aid_dambisa_moyo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/dead_aid_dambisa_moyo</a></p>\n<p>From The World Bank, agreeing with the larger scope of the implication -<br><a href=\"https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/a-partial-defense-of-dambisa-moyo-s-dead-aid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/a-partial-defense-of-dambisa-moyo-s-dead-aid</a></p>\n<p>Angelle Kwemo CEO &amp; Author of \"Believe in Africa\", on the need to reduce \"Aid Dependency\" hand-out culture in Africa -<br><a href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2017/04/20/making-africa-great-again-reducing-aid-dependency/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2017/04/20/making-africa-great-again-reducing-aid-dependency/</a></p>\n<p>Africans on the failure of Aid, known about as far back as 2005<br><a href=\"https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulletin/african-perspectives-aid-foreign-assistance-will-not-pull-africa-out-poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bulletin/african-perspectives-aid-foreign-assistance-will-not-pull-africa-out-poverty</a></p>\n<p>The damage being caused by long-term Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa &amp; how it leads to corruption and dependance -<br><a href=\"https://www.lejournalinternational.fr/Foreign-aid-is-hurting-not-helping-Sub-Saharan-Africa_a2085.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.lejournalinternational.fr/Foreign-aid-is-hurting-not-helping-Sub-Saharan-Africa_a2085.html</a></p>\n<p><strong>PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA:</strong></p>\n<p>Plenty of information on pre-colonial African tribal war, global trade, slavery, et al from here -<br><a href=\"https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/section/pre-colonial-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/section/pre-colonial-history/</a></p>\n<p>Nubians indigenous to North Sudan and Egypt (7000 BC) -<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubians</a></p>\n<p>Pre-colonial \"domestication\" of Zimbabwe through tribal wars and political control of gold and ivory trade (pre-colonial) -<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Zimbabwe</a></p>\n<p>Zulu warrior tribes forced their way down the East coast and into southern africa displacing indigenous tribes &amp; bushmen as they went -<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_people</a></p>\n<p><strong>AFRICAN SLAVERY AND PRE-COLONIAL SLAVE HISTORY</strong> -</p>\n<p>Martin Henry, University Professor, Jamaica on Africa's complicity in Slavery -<br><a href=\"http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focus/20151025/africas-role-slavery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/focus/20151025/africas-role-slavery</a></p>\n<p>The 1833 abolition of slave trade across all white countries (to-date very few non-white countries have addressed it) -<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833</a></p>\n<p>Ivory Coast-born director Roger Gnoan M'Bala's film \"Adanggaman\", lifting the lid on African involvement in slave trade<br><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/11/movies/film-review-africans-making-slaves-of-africans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/11/movies/film-review-africans-making-slaves-of-africans.html</a></p>\n<p>Ancient Egyptian slavery in Africa (1,550 BC) -<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt</a></p>\n<p>The Muslim slave trade in Pre-colonial Africa (7th to 15th Century) -<br><a href=\"https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/history-of-slavery/africa-before-transatlantic-enslavement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/history-of-slavery/africa-before-transatlantic-enslavement/</a></p>\n<p>Slavery in Sudan past and present (Muslim Slave Trade and still going on today, all non-white run)<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Sudan\" target=\"_blank\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Sudan</a></p>\n<p><strong>MODERN DAY CONCERNS IN NON-WHITE AFRICA</strong></p>\n<p><em>(pick a country and do a search, takes five seconds to reveal just how bad it is compared to first-world equivalent here are just a few but pretty much every African country is struggling with it)</em></p>\n<p>The modern ongoing displacement and land theft from Sans bushmen by non-white governments in southern Africa<br><a href=\"https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/bushmen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/bushmen</a></p>\n<p>more than 140,000 people adbucted into slavery in Sudan between 1986 and 2002<br><a href=\"https://humanrightshouse.org/articles/sudan-and-modern-slavery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://humanrightshouse.org/articles/sudan-and-modern-slavery</a></p>\n<p>Child soldiers exploited in Africa, Sudan, Central Africa, Nigeria and other countries. (all non-white)<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_soldiers_in_Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_soldiers_in_Africa</a></p>\n<p>Children working in Congo mines for the smartphone industry of the First-world -<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-01/tech-companies-rely-child-labour-abuse-to-mine-coltan-in-congo/11855258\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-01/tech-companies-rely-child-labour-abuse-to-mine-coltan-in-congo/11855258</a></p>\n<p>Gold miners exploited in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and S AFrica -<br><a href=\"https://www.equaltimes.org/south-africa-s-gold-slaves#.XwpxqygzYdU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.equaltimes.org/south-africa-s-gold-slaves#.XwpxqygzYdU</a></p>\n<p>Slavery today in Congo, Ghana, Senegal -<br><a href=\"https://www.freetheslaves.net/our-model-for-freedom/slavery-today/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.freetheslaves.net/our-model-for-freedom/slavery-today/</a></p>\n<p><strong>ZIMBABWE LAND REFORM &amp; WHITE FARMERS:</strong></p>\n<p>\"In the ten-year period from 1980 to 1990 approximately two thirds of the white population left Zimbabwe.\"<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people_in_Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people_in_Zimbabwe</a></p>\n<p>\"Twenty years after independence, there were 21,000 commercial farmers in the country of whom 4,000 were white and 17,000 were black.\"<br><a href=\"https://sarpn.org/documents/d0000015/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://sarpn.org/documents/d0000015/index.php</a></p>\n<p>\"In 1999 the government initiated a \"fast track land reform\" programme. The means used to implement the programme were ad-hoc and involved forcible seizure in many cases.\"<br><a href=\"https://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/zimbabwe/ZimLand0302-02.htm#P112_20168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/zimbabwe/ZimLand0302-02.htm#P112_20168</a></p>\n<p>\"By mid-2006 only 500 of the original 5,000 white farms were still fully operational…The land confiscated from white owners has been redistributed to black peasant farmers and smallholders, acquired by commercial land companies, or persons connected to the regime.\"<br><a href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20070615023739/http://www.zwnews.com/3-Main%20Body.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://web.archive.org/web/20070615023739/http://www.zwnews.com/3-Main%20Body.pdf</a></p>\n<p>\"While the expropriated white farmers themselves have generally moved on to other things, this has not been the case for some of their employees. Former white farm workers from the chargehand/foreman bracket have found themselves in much reduced circumstances\" . . . \"By June 2008, it was reported that only 280 white farmers remained and all of their farms were invaded.\"<br><a href=\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/2196135/Zimbabwes-last-white-farmer-forced-to-quit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/2196135/Zimbabwes-last-white-farmer-forced-to-quit.html</a></p>\n<p>\"Land reform has had a serious negative effect on the Zimbabwe's economy and heavily contributed to its collapse.\"<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Zimbabwe</a></p>\n<p>\"The [land reform] programme also left another 200,000 farmworkers displaced and homeless, with just under 5% receiving compensation in the form of land expropriated from their ousted employers.\"<br><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Zimbabwe</a></p>\n<p>After finally admitting Mugabe's land reforms ruined Zimbabwe - \"After close to two decades, Zimbabwe has started the process of returning back land to farmers whose farms were controversially taken over by the government of the late Robert Mugabe.\"<br><a href=\"https://www.pulselive.co.ke/bi/politics/zimbabwe-now-moves-to-return-back-land-taken-over-by-mugabe-to-white-farmers/z3mgn06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.pulselive.co.ke/bi/politics/zimbabwe-now-moves-to-return-back-land-taken-over-by-mugabe-to-white-farmers/z3mgn06</a></p>\n<p>\"In 1975 The Land Tenure Act had reserved 30% of agricultural land for White ownership\" (Not 70% as later claimed, though that 30% may well have been largely made up of some of the most fertile Arable land.)<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20040501103309/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/land/gp_zimbabwe.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://web.archive.org/web/20040501103309/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/land/gp_zimbabwe.html</a></p>\n<p><strong>ZIMBABWES ECONOMY UNDER MUGABE &amp; MNANGAGWE PRESIDENTS (1980 to present) -</strong></p>\n<p><em>\"after coming second to Morgan Tsvangirai, Mr Mugabe displayed more characteristic defiance, swearing that \"only God\" could remove him from office. And just to be sure, violence was unleashed to preserve his grip on power.\"</em><br><a href=\"https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-122114.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://bulawayo24.com/index-id-opinion-sc-columnist-byo-122114.html</a></p>\n<p>Charles Ray - US Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2009-2012), Article on Mugabe and his 2017 coup -<br><a href=\"https://www.afsa.org/zimbabwe-after-mugabe-dark-dawn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.afsa.org/zimbabwe-after-mugabe-dark-dawn</a></p>\n<p>\"Even after 37 years in power, Mr Mugabe still maintained the same worldview - the patriotic socialist forces of his Zanu-PF party were still fighting the twin evils of capitalism and colonialism. Any critics were dismissed as \"traitors and sell-outs\" He always blamed Zimbabwe's economic problems on a plot by Western countries, led by the UK, to oust him because of his seizure of white-owned farms.\"<br><a href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23431534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-23431534</a></p>\n<p>Who is to blame for Zimbabwes collapse? \"The notion that sanctions are primarily responsible for the economic collapse in Zimbabwe is a useful fiction promoted by that country’s authoritarian elite. . . Zimbabwe has the highest inflation rate in the world . . .\"<br><a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/24/sorry-west-isnt-responsible-zimbabwes-continuing-economic-collapse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/24/sorry-west-isnt-responsible-zimbabwes-continuing-economic-collapse/</a></p>\n<p>\"the crisis is driven by the government’s failed leadership, economic mismanagement and corruption. When Mnangagwa came to power via a military coup in 2017 he promised a new dispensation and warming relations with the West. But his government employs the same brutal tactics used by his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, including violence against political opponents, human rights defenders and civil society activists.\"</p>\n<p>“there is a serious deterioration of the political, economic and social environment since August 2018 [the date of the most recent elections] resulting in fear, frustration and anxiety among a large number of Zimbabweans.”<br><a href=\"http://zw.one.un.org/newsroom/news/end-mission-statement-united-nations-special-rapporteur-rights-freedom-peaceful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http://zw.one.un.org/newsroom/news/end-mission-statement-united-nations-special-rapporteur-rights-freedom-peaceful</a></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/africa-in-black-white/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line.jpg</center> <br/><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Africa in Black &amp; White</h1>\n<img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2985\"/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><em>The above photo clearly shows the division of equity still prevalent in South Africa</em>.<br><em>We can assume whites live on the left, and blacks live in the ghetto on the right.</em></p>\n<p><strong>How is this inequality still so prevalent today in Africa? Why does nothing ever improve for black Africans? Is it all the fault of whites?</strong></p>\n<h2>Arguing, as a white man</h2>\n<p>Once again, my arguing on Reddit has produced an interesting discussion, This time on the disparity between White and Black life in Africa (in as much as I can claim to know it).</p>\n<p>It started with the picture above, showing a clear division between the ghetto of South Africa on the right, and the rich homes on the left that we can safely assume to be owned by whites. I do not deny it.</p>\n<p>The Reddit argument was long, and I only know as much as I know, but I am every day trying to understand more and arguing helps me get better educated by those that know. </p>\n<p>As a white man, and someone who does not live in Africa, one wonders what gives me the right to have an opinion. Apart from the fact that my Dad was born there, some of my family live there, and many of them died there, even if this was not true, I would still have a right to an opinion by virtue of being held responsible.</p>\n<p>By nature of my white skin colour and familial association to Zimbabwe and South Africa, I feel very much responsible for the inequity, enslavement, abuse, and failure of black Africa to get ahead. <strong>It is a message we have all heard as white skinned people since birth. We constantly are told how we are responsible for slavery and the oppression of blacks.</strong></p>\n<h2>Whites are silent, but about the wrong things</h2>\n<p>There is surely a certain duty that we talk about it. And yet, what really happens is that we never talk about it, in fact, we fear talking about it. <strong>White people remain silent, obediently accepting it is <em>all </em>their fault, but without argument. Why?</strong></p>\n<p>The white-guilt is strong, it is horrible to carry. <strong>We have been hearing how it is our fault ever since we were young and at the dinner table heard the immortal words, <em>\"think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em></strong> What a guilt-trip it has been to be white. To be six years old and carrying the weight of all African deaths on your small shoulders. That is the root of our white-guilt, right there.</p>\n<p>It does not ever leave you, and you begin to try to make amends, of course you do, because you care about humanity. But there is no way to fix it. So you donate money, and apologise at every opportunity to any black person who demands it, and even if they don't. \"It is the fault of our <em>white privilege</em>\", we say, and then we try to do anything to make it better. Since we have thrown so much at fixing it over many decades, why has it not got any better?</p>\n<h2>The World Bank is a criminal enterprise</h2>\n<p>Sadly there is huge amounts of money to be made from this white-guilt trip. Easy money too, since no one dares ask questions. <strong>Our cultural media has made a point of targeting our white-guilt, as have hundreds of charities, and The World Bank co-ordinates the entire African effort. </strong>We are well trained to think Africa is our fault because we are white, and we donate accordingly without ever asking awkward questions. But is it all true? </p>\n<p>I want to solve the poverty in Africa, we all want to solve it. I want to help blacks get ahead in life, if that is what is really the problem here. But Trillions upon trillions has been spent trying to solve it, and yet nothing has been solved at all. This makes no sense. <strong>It has been 80 years of charity giving, refugee invitation, and \"<em>white-saviours to the rescue</em>\". When is it all going to be fixed? Give me a certain date! You can't. Does that make any kind of sense to you?</strong> <strong>In fact, Africa looks a lot worse off than when we started donating!</strong></p>\n<h2>How exactly am I personally to blame for this again?</h2>\n<p>If I am to take the blame for it, then I need to know why I am to blame for it. </p>\n<p>Why has trillions of dollars thrown at Africa not worked? Where has it all gone? <strong>Why has 80 years of throwing money at impoverished black people, been an abject failure? </strong>Why is there a ghetto in the top right of the picture above? What the fuck has The World Bank been doing for 80 years? </p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, it is time we looked in other places for the problem, and a solution, and maybe, just maybe, it will be uncomfortable to do that. I think it will.</p>\n<h2>When racially accused of being to blame, ask inconvenient questions</h2>\n<p>The discussion below is my response to someone who was accusing me of being white, privileged, and the cause of all black Africa's problems. I do not believe this to be true, and I have spent 40 years wondering about it almost daily so it is not my first discussion. I used to think it <em>was</em> all the fault of whites. But the more that I learnt, the less I was able to accept this accusation to be true at face value.</p>\n<p>It seems like the most dangerous and offensive statement to utter, but... <strong>I now believe the REAL issue in Africa, and in America too for that matter, is that blacks are not letting other black lives improve.</strong></p>\n<p>Below is my post. If you (the reader) have updated information, more accurate truth, cited proof of it, and can educate me as to how I am very wrong about what I have written below, then please let me know. I would love to be wrong on this. <strong>If I thought for one minute that I could help solve any of the problems that blacks face, then I would do it. But I do not believe the solution lies with whites at all.</strong> <strong>Not even one bit, and here is why . . .</strong></p>\n<h2>The Reddit post . . .</h2>\n<p><em>(I have tidied the below post for clarity and to make it more suitable for a blog. It is in response to someone, and their quoted questions are accentuated below, starting with my reply...)</em></p>\n<p>\". . . you never replied to my last comment. I want to discuss some of this, because I think you are wrong. This is an opportunity for you to educate me on how I am wrong, or maybe both of us learn something, so let us talk about your questions since you ignored me the last time…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"white people in africa hold up about 72 PERCENT of the land that can be used for farming\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Let's consider Zimbabwe, they took the land off white farmers there, Mugabe made it a law that white farmers either leave the country or give some of the land to \"selected\" blacks. This happened. The end result? The blacks did nothing with the land. So Mugabe next said that white farmers had to give money to the blacks. The blacks did not take advantage of the opportunity, they did not try to learn farming, they did not try to work their way to make use of the land, many of them just sat in their new homes on the land and complained. They then (in the same way Mugabe took millions from The World Bank), demanded more free handouts for nothing. They still blamed the white farmers despite all this gifting. This is why it failed, and why Zimbabwe is still a disaster. If black people are given land and money, and the country leaders are too, then why did it fail in Zimbabwe? Who was responsible? The Whites?</p>\n<p>How do you see this same land reparation working out better in South Africa exactly? Do please explain.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"how your racist ass would feel if someone marched into your nation, took almost ~75% of your greenland, sold it off to companies that do nothing for your nation, pushed you into the ghetto, and profited off of your young to make more money for themselves, while nothing goes into your community.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I assume you are not talking about what my family and many other whites experienced in Zimbabwe, but again, I think you are wrong about this, but you are wrong about this in 3 different ways.</p>\n<ol><li>When white man entered Africa, what was happening in Africa at the time? I can tell you what, and history bears this out, Egypt and Nubian tribes had been pushing down through Africa for years, stealing land off the indigenous tribes and killing the Bushmen who lived there and possessed nothing other than hunting skills. They were taking them as slaves, claiming the land, and then there was a lot of tribal war and fighting for power too. When Europeans arrived in South Africa &amp; Zimbabwe, the Zulu were in the midst of killing the last of the Sans and pushing them south, through into South Africa. This ended when Europeans arrived. They still hate on each other to this day, the Zulu and the tribes there, how do I know this? I traveled there a few years ago and they are happy to tell you how much they hate the Zulu and vice versa. So, you are wrong about \"Uptopian\" Africa before whites showed up. It was violent and bloody, and slavery was rife. Today in EVERY SINGLE black country there is corruption, civil war, tribal war, and poverty. Why? You cannot blame whites if black Africans have the opportunity to change all that, but never do. Why does change and improvement NEVER happen in Africa? It is not the whites stopping it.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"2\"><li>When whites showed up in Africa 400 years ago, they brought technology and education, and, unfortunately for Africa, God. But it was already a place of problems, war, tribes abusing each other and most important, slavery was already going on, brought in by Egyptians and Muslims for hundreds of years before. Africa had been doing far better as a country of hunter-gatherer Bushmen, but then the black Nubian tribes, Egyptian slave trading, Muslim slavers and the Zulu and other aggressive tribes started killing the Bushmen and claiming the land for themselves. When whites showed up, they brought new ways and even peace, and over time many black people actually thrived, got jobs, had homes and started to embrace those new ways themselves, but this was not always accepted by the black community, or the white community either for that matter. I do not say there was no white racism, it was and is rife, but it is not the real root of the problem. You may not like to admit it, but you can read Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, and you will see that she agrees. For instance, financially speaking, blacks on average were better off in S Africa during Apartheid than they have been since SA was handed back to black leadership. This is a fact. You want to blame whites, because you have ignored the history of what black Africa was already like. And you also choose to ignore the other reasons that black communities struggle to change -<em> themselves</em>. Whites brought segregation and racial abuse, that is very true, but you ignore the fact they also brought <em>opportunity and tech advancement</em>. So you are half right, but also very wrong for ignoring the advantages. You cannot paint whites as evil, without also looking at the evil in blacks when whites are not around. Africa was, and is still, a very cruel continent. Just look at child-soldiering, or any number of wars in black-run countries, and show me the white man involved in any of that! Show me one black-ruled country in Africa that is doing well. One? So, maybe it is time to stop blaming whites and look elsewhere to find out what the real problem is that is creating the issue we see in the image above.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"3\"><li> And finally, the money does not reach the communities because of who it passes through to get there (blacks). And the people in the companies that are abusing the blacks are most always corrupt black managers and not corrupt whites. This is also being proven by history, and can be seen in every black government-run country in Africa the same. For our part, as eternally guilt-ridden whites brought up to think everything black's experience is our fault, we have our own issues to deal with in seeing our complicity for giving handouts endlessly, while failing to achieve a solution. 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So we need to start to put the blame for that where it rightly belongs, and to stop blaming white people for all black peoples problems.</li></ol>\n<p>If I am wrong on any of this, and you can prove it, please be my guest…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"PLEASE explain to me how <em>I’m</em> lying.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe you are not lying, but if you are not lying, then you are either being blind or ignorant.</p>\n<p>The biggest problem facing blacks today is not whites, it is the blacks that will not allow other blacks to improve their lives. The problem today, certainly appears to be down to corrupt blacks and officials in government, then the next layer is corrupt blacks in the black community. 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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line.jpg</center> <br/><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Africa in Black &amp; White</h1>\n<img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2985\"/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><em>The above photo clearly shows the division of equity still prevalent in South Africa</em>.<br><em>We can assume whites live on the left, and blacks live in the ghetto on the right.</em></p>\n<p><strong>How is this inequality still so prevalent today in Africa? Why does nothing ever improve for black Africans? Is it all the fault of whites?</strong></p>\n<h2>Arguing, as a white man</h2>\n<p>Once again, my arguing on Reddit has produced an interesting discussion, This time on the disparity between White and Black life in Africa (in as much as I can claim to know it).</p>\n<p>It started with the picture above, showing a clear division between the ghetto of South Africa on the right, and the rich homes on the left that we can safely assume to be owned by whites. I do not deny it.</p>\n<p>The Reddit argument was long, and I only know as much as I know, but I am every day trying to understand more and arguing helps me get better educated by those that know. </p>\n<p>As a white man, and someone who does not live in Africa, one wonders what gives me the right to have an opinion. Apart from the fact that my Dad was born there, some of my family live there, and many of them died there, even if this was not true, I would still have a right to an opinion by virtue of being held responsible.</p>\n<p>By nature of my white skin colour and familial association to Zimbabwe and South Africa, I feel very much responsible for the inequity, enslavement, abuse, and failure of black Africa to get ahead. <strong>It is a message we have all heard as white skinned people since birth. We constantly are told how we are responsible for slavery and the oppression of blacks.</strong></p>\n<h2>Whites are silent, but about the wrong things</h2>\n<p>There is surely a certain duty that we talk about it. And yet, what really happens is that we never talk about it, in fact, we fear talking about it. <strong>White people remain silent, obediently accepting it is <em>all </em>their fault, but without argument. Why?</strong></p>\n<p>The white-guilt is strong, it is horrible to carry. <strong>We have been hearing how it is our fault ever since we were young and at the dinner table heard the immortal words, <em>\"think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em></strong> What a guilt-trip it has been to be white. To be six years old and carrying the weight of all African deaths on your small shoulders. That is the root of our white-guilt, right there.</p>\n<p>It does not ever leave you, and you begin to try to make amends, of course you do, because you care about humanity. But there is no way to fix it. So you donate money, and apologise at every opportunity to any black person who demands it, and even if they don't. \"It is the fault of our <em>white privilege</em>\", we say, and then we try to do anything to make it better.</p>\n<h2>The World Bank is a criminal enterprise</h2>\n<p>Sadly there is huge amounts of money to be made from this. Easy money too, since no one dares ask questions. <strong>Our cultural media has made a point of targeting our white-guilt, as have hundreds of charities, and The World Bank co-ordinates the entire African effort. </strong>We are well trained to think Africa is our fault because we are white, and we donate accordingly without ever asking awkward questions. But is it all true? </p>\n<p>I want to solve the poverty in Africa, we all want to solve it. I want to help blacks get ahead in life, if that is what is really the problem here. But Trillions upon trillions has been spent trying to solve it, and yet nothing has been solved at all. This makes no sense. <strong>It has been 80 years of charity, refugee invitation, and <em>white-saviours to the rescue</em>. When is it all going to be fixed? Give me a certain date! You can't. Does that make any kind of sense to you?</strong></p>\n<h2>How exactly am I personally to blame for this again?</h2>\n<p>If I am to take the blame for it, then I need to know why I am to blame for it. </p>\n<p>Why it has trillions of dollars not worked? Where has it all gone? Why has 80 years of throwing money at impoverished black people, been an abject failure? Why is there a ghetto in the top right of the picture above? What the fuck has The World Bank been doing for 80 years? </p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, it is time we looked in other places for the problem, and a solution, and maybe, just maybe, it will be uncomfortable to do that. I think it will.</p>\n<h2>When racially accused of being to blame, ask inconvenient questions</h2>\n<p>The discussion below is my response to someone who was accusing me of being white, privileged, and the cause of all black Africa's problems. I do not believe this to be true, and I have spent 40 years wondering about it almost daily. I used to think it <em>was</em> all the fault of whites. But the more that I learnt, the less I was able to accept that to be true at face value.</p>\n<p>It seems like the most dangerous and offensive statement to utter, but... <strong>I now believe the REAL issue in Africa, and in America for that matter, is that blacks are not letting other black's lives improve.</strong></p>\n<p>Below is my post. If you (the reader) have updated information, more accurate truth, cited proof of it, and can educate me as to how I am very wrong about what I have written below, then please let me know. I would love to be wrong on this. <strong>If I thought for one minute that I could help solve any of the problems that blacks face, then I would do it. But I do not believe the solution lies with whites at all.</strong> <strong>Not even one bit, and here is why . . .</strong></p>\n<h2>The Reddit post . . .</h2>\n<p><em>(I have tidied the below post for clarity and to make it more suitable for a blog. It is in response to someone and their questions are accentuated below.)</em></p>\n<p>\". . . you never replied to my last comment. I want to discuss some of this, because I think you are wrong. This is an opportunity for you to educate me on how I am wrong, or maybe both of us learn something, so let us talk about your questions since you ignored me the last time…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"white people in africa hold up about 72 PERCENT of the land that can be used for farming\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Let's consider Zimbabwe, they took the land off white farmers there, Mugabe made it a law that white farmers either leave the country or give some of the land to \"selected\" blacks. This happened. The end result? The blacks did nothing with the land. So Mugabe next said that white farmers had to give money to the blacks. The blacks did not take advantage of the opportunity, they did not try to learn farming, they did not try to work their way to make use of the land, many of them just sat in their new homes on the land and complained. They then (in the same way Mugabe took money from The World Bank), demanded more free handouts for nothing. They still blamed the white farmers despite all this gifting. This is why it failed, and why Zimbabwe is still a disaster. If black people are given land and money,  then why did it fail in Zimbabwe? Who was responsible?</p>\n<p>How do you see this same land reparation working out better in South Africa exactly? Do please explain.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"how your racist ass would feel if someone marched into your nation, took almost ~75% of your greenland, sold it off to companies that do nothing for your nation, pushed you into the ghetto, and profited off of your young to make more money for themselves, while nothing goes into your community.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Again, I think you are wrong about this, but you are wrong about this in 3 different ways.</p>\n<ol><li>When white man entered Africa, what was happening in Africa at the time? I can tell you what, and history bears this out, Egypt and Nubian tribes had been pushing down through Africa for years, stealing land off the indigenous tribes and killing the Bushmen who lived there and possessed nothing other than hunting skills. They were taking them as slaves, claiming the land, and then there was a lot of tribal war and fighting for power too. When Europeans arrived in South Africa &amp; Zimbabwe, the Zulu were in the midst of killing the last of the Sans and pushing them south, through into South Africa. This ended when Europeans arrived. They still hate on each other, the Zulu and the tribes there, how do I know this? I traveled there a few years ago and they are happy to tell you how much they hate the Zulu and vice versa. So, you are wrong about \"Uptopian\" Africa before whites showed up. It was violent and bloody, and slavery was rife. Today in EVERY SINGLE black country there is corruption, civil war, tribal war, and poverty. Why? You cannot blame whites if black Africans have the opportunity to change all that, but never do. Why does change and improvement NEVER happen in Africa? If it is not the whites stopping it.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"2\"><li>When whites showed up in Africa 400 years ago, they brought technology and education, and, unfortunately for Africa, God. But it was already a place of problems, war, tribes abusing each other and most important, slavery was already going on, brought in by Egyptians and Muslims for hundreds of years before. Africa had been doing far better as a country of hunter-gatherer Bushmen, but then the black Nubian, Egyptian slave trading, Muslim slavers and the Zulu and other aggressive tribes started killing the Bushmen and claiming the land for themselves. When whites showed up, they brought new ways, and over time many black people actually thrived, got jobs, had homes and started to embrace those new ways themselves, but this was not always accepted by the black community, or the white community either for that matter. I do not say there was no white racism, it was and is rife, but it is not be the real root of the problem. You may not like to admit it, but you can read Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, and you will see that she agrees. For instance, financially speaking, blacks on average were better off in S Africa during Apartheid than they have been since SA was handed back to black leadership. This is a fact. You want to blame whites, because you have ignored the history of what black Africa was already like. And you also choose to ignore the other reasons that black communities struggle to change - themselves. Whites brought segregation and racial abuse, that is very true, but you ignore the fact they also brought <em>opportunity and tech advancement</em>. So you are half right, but also very wrong for ignoring the advantages. You cannot paint whites as evil, without also looking at the evil in blacks when whites are not around. Africa is still a very cruel continent. Just look at child soldiering, or any number of wars in black-run countries, and show me the white man involved in any of that! Show me one black-ruled country in Africa that is doing well. One? So, maybe it is time to stop blaming whites and look elsewhere to find out what the real problem is that is creating the issue we see in the image above.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"3\"><li> And finally, the money does not reach the communities because of who it passes through to get there (blacks). And the people in the companies that are abusing the blacks, are most always corrupt black managers and not corrupt whites. This is also being proven by history, and can be seen in every black government-run country in Africa. For our part, as eternally guilt-ridden whites brought up to think everything black's experience is our fault, we have our own issues to deal with in seeing our complicity for giving endlessly, while failing to achieve a solution. For example, The World Bank has been throwing Charity money at every country in Africa since 1940. Trillions upon trillions of dollars have been spent trying to improve life in Africa, and where has it gone? I can tell you - it has gone to corrupt black African governments, and corrupt black community leaders. THAT IS WHY IT NEVER GETS TO THE PEOPLE. Very little of that has gone to white people, all of it has gone to blacks who did not then let it reach their community. So we need to start to put the blame for that where it rightly belongs, and to stop blaming white people for all black peoples problems.</li></ol>\n<p>If I am wrong on any of this, and you can prove it, please be my guest…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"PLEASE explain to me how <em>I’m</em> lying.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe you are not lying, but if you are not lying, then you are either being blind or ignorant.</p>\n<p>The biggest problem facing blacks today is not whites, it is the blacks that will not allow other blacks to improve their lives. The problem today, certainly appears to be down to corrupt blacks and officials in government, then the next layer of corrupt blacks in the black community. 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Does that make any kind of sense to you?</strong></p>\n<h2>How exactly am I personally to blame for this again?</h2>\n<p>If I am to take the blame for it, then I need to know why I am to blame for it. </p>\n<p>Why it has trillions of dollars not worked? Where has it all gone? Why has 80 years of throwing money at impoverished black people, been an abject failure? Why is there a ghetto in the top right of the picture above? What the fuck has The World Bank been doing for 80 years? </p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, it is time we looked in other places for the problem, and a solution, and maybe, just maybe, it will be uncomfortable to do that. I think it will.</p>\n<h2>When racially accused of being to blame, ask inconvenient questions</h2>\n<p>The discussion below is my response to someone who was accusing me of being white, privileged, and the cause of all black Africa's problems. I do not believe this to be true, and I have spent 40 years wondering about it almost daily. 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It is in response to someone and their questions are accentuated below.)</em></p>\n<p>\". . . you never replied to my last comment. I want to discuss some of this, because I think you are wrong. This is an opportunity for you to educate me on how I am wrong, or maybe both of us learn something, so let us talk about your questions since you ignored me the last time…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"white people in africa hold up about 72 PERCENT of the land that can be used for farming\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Let's consider Zimbabwe, they took the land off white farmers there, Mugabe made it a law that white farmers either leave the country or give some of the land to \"selected\" blacks. This happened. The end result? The blacks did nothing with the land. So Mugabe next said that white farmers had to give money to the blacks. The blacks did not take advantage of the opportunity, they did not try to learn farming, they did not try to work their way to make use of the land, many of them just sat in their new homes on the land and complained. They then (in the same way Mugabe took money from The World Bank), demanded more free handouts for nothing. They still blamed the white farmers despite all this gifting. This is why it failed, and why Zimbabwe is still a disaster. If black people are given land and money,  then why did it fail in Zimbabwe? Who was responsible?</p>\n<p>How do you see this same land reparation working out better in South Africa exactly? 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But it was already a place of problems, war, tribes abusing each other and most important, slavery was already going on, brought in by Egyptians and Muslims for hundreds of years before. Africa had been doing far better as a country of hunter-gatherer Bushmen, but then the black Nubian, Egyptian slave trading, Muslim slavers and the Zulu and other aggressive tribes started killing the Bushmen and claiming the land for themselves. When whites showed up, they brought new ways, and over time many black people actually thrived, got jobs, had homes and started to embrace those new ways themselves, but this was not always accepted by the black community, or the white community either for that matter. I do not say there was no white racism, it was and is rife, but it is not be the real root of the problem. You may not like to admit it, but you can read Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, and you will see that she agrees. For instance, financially speaking, blacks on average were better off in S Africa during Apartheid than they have been since SA was handed back to black leadership. This is a fact. You want to blame whites, because you have ignored the history of what black Africa was already like. And you also choose to ignore the other reasons that black communities struggle to change - themselves. Whites brought segregation and racial abuse, that is very true, but you ignore the fact they also brought <em>opportunity and tech advancement</em>. So you are half right, but also very wrong for ignoring the advantages. You cannot paint whites as evil, without also looking at the evil in blacks when whites are not around. Africa is still a very cruel continent. Just look at child soldiering, or any number of wars in black-run countries, and show me the white man involved in any of that! Show me one black-ruled country in Africa that is doing well. One? So, maybe it is time to stop blaming whites and look elsewhere to find out what the real problem is that is creating the issue we see in the image above.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"3\"><li> And finally, the money does not reach the communities because of who it passes through to get there (blacks). And the people in the companies that are abusing the blacks, are most always corrupt black managers and not corrupt whites. This is also being proven by history, and can be seen in every black government-run country in Africa. For our part, as eternally guilt-ridden whites brought up to think everything black's experience is our fault, we have our own issues to deal with in seeing our complicity for giving endlessly, while failing to achieve a solution. For example, The World Bank has been throwing Charity money at every country in Africa since 1940. Trillions upon trillions of dollars have been spent trying to improve life in Africa, and where has it gone? I can tell you - it has gone to corrupt black African governments, and corrupt black community leaders. THAT IS WHY IT NEVER GETS TO THE PEOPLE. Very little of that has gone to white people, all of it has gone to blacks who did not then let it reach their community. So we need to start to put the blame for that where it rightly belongs, and to stop blaming white people for all black peoples problems.</li></ol>\n<p>If I am wrong on any of this, and you can prove it, please be my guest…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"PLEASE explain to me how <em>I’m</em> lying.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe you are not lying, but if you are not lying, then you are either being blind or ignorant.</p>\n<p>The biggest problem facing blacks today is not whites, it is the blacks that will not allow other blacks to improve their lives. The problem today, certainly appears to be down to corrupt blacks and officials in government, then the next layer of corrupt blacks in the black community. 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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line.jpg</center> <br/><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Africa in Black &amp; White</h1>\n<img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2985\"/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><em>The above photo clearly shows the division of equity still prevalent in South Africa</em>.<br><em>We can assume whites live on the left, and blacks live in the ghetto on the right.</em></p>\n<p><strong>How is this inequality still so prevalent today in Africa? Why does nothing ever improve for black Africans? Is it all the fault of whites?</strong></p>\n<h2>Arguing, as a white man</h2>\n<p>Once again, my arguing on Reddit has produced an interesting discussion, This time on the disparity between White and Black life in Africa (in as much as I can claim to know it).</p>\n<p>It started with the picture above, showing a clear division between the ghetto of South Africa on the right, and the rich homes on the left that we can safely assume to be owned by whites. I do not deny it.</p>\n<p>The Reddit argument was long, and I only know as much as I know, but I am every day trying to understand more and arguing helps me get better educated by those that know. </p>\n<p>As a white man, and someone who does not live in Africa, one wonders what gives me the right to have an opinion. Apart from the fact that my Dad was born there, some of my family live there, and many of them died there, even if this was not true, I would still have a right to an opinion by virtue of being held responsible.</p>\n<p>By nature of my white skin colour and familial association to Zimbabwe and South Africa, I feel very much responsible for the inequity, enslavement, abuse, and failure of black Africa to get ahead. <strong>It is a message we have all heard as white skinned people since birth. We constantly are told how we are responsible for slavery and oppression of blacks.</strong></p>\n<h2>Whites are silent, but about the wrong things.</h2>\n<p>So, there is surely a certain duty that we talk about it. And yet, what really happens is that we never talk about it, we fear talking about it. <strong>White people remain silent, obediently accepting it is all their fault, but without argument. Why?</strong></p>\n<p>The white-guilt is strong, it is horrible to carry. We have been hearing how it is our fault ever since we were young and at the dinner table heard the immortal words, <strong><em>\"think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em></strong> What a guilt-trip it has been to be white. To be six years old and carrying the weight of all African deaths on your small shoulders. It does not ever leave you, and you begin to try to make amends, of course you do, because you care about humanity. But there is no way to fix it. So we donate money, and apologise at every opportunity to any black person who demands it, and even if they dont. <em>White privilege</em>, we call it.</p>\n<h2>The World Bank is a criminal enterprise</h2>\n<p>Sadly there is huge amounts of money to be made from this. Easy money too, since no one dares ask questions. <strong>Our cultural media has made a point of targeting our white-guilt, as have hundreds of charities, and The World Bank co-ordinates the entire African effort. </strong>We are well trained to think Africa is our fault because we are white, and we donate accordingly without ever asking awkward questions. But is it all true? </p>\n<p>I want to solve the poverty in Africa, we all want to solve it. I want to help blacks get ahead in life, if that is what is really the problem here. But Trillions upon trillions has been spent trying to solve it, and yet nothing has been solved at all. This makes no sense. <strong>It has been 80 years of charity, refugee invitation, and <em>white-saviours to the rescue</em>. When is it all going to be fixed? Give me a certain date! You can't. Does that make any kind of sense to you?</strong></p>\n<h2>How exactly am I personally to blame for this again?</h2>\n<p>If I am to take the blame for it, then I need to know why I am to blame for it. </p>\n<p>Why it has trillions of dollars not worked? Where has it all gone? Why has 80 years of throwing money at impoverished black people, been an abject failure? Why is there a ghetto in the top right of the picture above? What the fuck has The World Bank been doing for 80 years? </p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, it is time we looked in other places for the problem, and a solution, and maybe, just maybe, it will be uncomfortable to do that. I think it will.</p>\n<h2>When racially accused of being to blame, ask inconvenient questions</h2>\n<p>The discussion below is my response to someone who was accusing me of being white, privileged, and the cause of all black Africa's problems. I do not believe this to be true, and I have spent 40 years wondering about it almost daily. I used to think it <em>was</em> all the fault of whites. But the more that I learnt, the less I was able to accept that to be true at face value.</p>\n<p>It seems like the most dangerous and offensive statement to utter, but... <strong>I now believe the REAL issue in Africa, and in America for that matter, is that blacks are not letting other black's lives improve.</strong></p>\n<p>Below is my post. If you (the reader) have updated information, more accurate truth, cited proof of it, and can educate me as to how I am very wrong about what I have written below, then please let me know. I would love to be wrong on this. <strong>If I thought for one minute that I could help solve any of the problems that blacks face, then I would do it. But I do not believe the solution lies with whites at all.</strong> <strong>Not even one bit, and here is why . . .</strong></p>\n<h2>The Reddit post . . .</h2>\n<p><em>(I have tidied the below post for clarity and to make it more suitable for a blog. It is in response to someone and their questions are accentuated below.)</em></p>\n<p>\". . . you never replied to my last comment. I want to discuss some of this, because I think you are wrong. This is an opportunity for you to educate me on how I am wrong, or maybe both of us learn something, so let us talk about your questions since you ignored me the last time…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"white people in africa hold up about 72 PERCENT of the land that can be used for farming\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Let's consider Zimbabwe, they took the land off white farmers there, Mugabe made it a law that white farmers either leave the country or give some of the land to \"selected\" blacks. This happened. The end result? The blacks did nothing with the land. So Mugabe next said that white farmers had to give money to the blacks. The blacks did not take advantage of the opportunity, they did not try to learn farming, they did not try to work their way to make use of the land, many of them just sat in their new homes on the land and complained. They then (in the same way Mugabe took money from The World Bank), demanded more free handouts for nothing. They still blamed the white farmers despite all this gifting. This is why it failed, and why Zimbabwe is still a disaster. If black people are given land and money,  then why did it fail in Zimbabwe? Who was responsible?</p>\n<p>How do you see this same land reparation working out better in South Africa exactly? Do please explain.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"how your racist ass would feel if someone marched into your nation, took almost ~75% of your greenland, sold it off to companies that do nothing for your nation, pushed you into the ghetto, and profited off of your young to make more money for themselves, while nothing goes into your community.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Again, I think you are wrong about this, but you are wrong about this in 3 different ways.</p>\n<ol><li>When white man entered Africa, what was happening in Africa at the time? I can tell you what, and history bears this out, Egypt and Nubian tribes had been pushing down through Africa for years, stealing land off the indigenous tribes and killing the Bushmen who lived there and possessed nothing other than hunting skills. They were taking them as slaves, claiming the land, and then there was a lot of tribal war and fighting for power too. When Europeans arrived in South Africa &amp; Zimbabwe, the Zulu were in the midst of killing the last of the Sans and pushing them south, through into South Africa. This ended when Europeans arrived. They still hate on each other, the Zulu and the tribes there, how do I know this? I traveled there a few years ago and they are happy to tell you how much they hate the Zulu and vice versa. So, you are wrong about \"Uptopian\" Africa before whites showed up. It was violent and bloody, and slavery was rife. Today in EVERY SINGLE black country there is corruption, civil war, tribal war, and poverty. Why? You cannot blame whites if black Africans have the opportunity to change all that, but never do. Why does change and improvement NEVER happen in Africa? If it is not the whites stopping it.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"2\"><li>When whites showed up in Africa 400 years ago, they brought technology and education, and, unfortunately for Africa, God. But it was already a place of problems, war, tribes abusing each other and most important, slavery was already going on, brought in by Egyptians and Muslims for hundreds of years before. Africa had been doing far better as a country of hunter-gatherer Bushmen, but then the black Nubian, Egyptian slave trading, Muslim slavers and the Zulu and other aggressive tribes started killing the Bushmen and claiming the land for themselves. When whites showed up, they brought new ways, and over time many black people actually thrived, got jobs, had homes and started to embrace those new ways themselves, but this was not always accepted by the black community, or the white community either for that matter. I do not say there was no white racism, it was and is rife, but it is not be the real root of the problem. You may not like to admit it, but you can read Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, and you will see that she agrees. For instance, financially speaking, blacks on average were better off in S Africa during Apartheid than they have been since SA was handed back to black leadership. This is a fact. You want to blame whites, because you have ignored the history of what black Africa was already like. And you also choose to ignore the other reasons that black communities struggle to change - themselves. Whites brought segregation and racial abuse, that is very true, but you ignore the fact they also brought <em>opportunity and tech advancement</em>. So you are half right, but also very wrong for ignoring the advantages. You cannot paint whites as evil, without also looking at the evil in blacks when whites are not around. Africa is still a very cruel continent. Just look at child soldiering, or any number of wars in black-run countries, and show me the white man involved in any of that! Show me one black-ruled country in Africa that is doing well. One? So, maybe it is time to stop blaming whites and look elsewhere to find out what the real problem is that is creating the issue we see in the image above.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"3\"><li> And finally, the money does not reach the communities because of who it passes through to get there (blacks). And the people in the companies that are abusing the blacks, are most always corrupt black managers and not corrupt whites. This is also being proven by history, and can be seen in every black government-run country in Africa. For our part, as eternally guilt-ridden whites brought up to think everything black's experience is our fault, we have our own issues to deal with in seeing our complicity for giving endlessly, while failing to achieve a solution. For example, The World Bank has been throwing Charity money at every country in Africa since 1940. Trillions upon trillions of dollars have been spent trying to improve life in Africa, and where has it gone? I can tell you - it has gone to corrupt black African governments, and corrupt black community leaders. THAT IS WHY IT NEVER GETS TO THE PEOPLE. Very little of that has gone to white people, all of it has gone to blacks who did not then let it reach their community. So we need to start to put the blame for that where it rightly belongs, and to stop blaming white people for all black peoples problems.</li></ol>\n<p>If I am wrong on any of this, and you can prove it, please be my guest…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"PLEASE explain to me how <em>I’m</em> lying.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe you are not lying, but if you are not lying, then you are either being blind or ignorant.</p>\n<p>The biggest problem facing blacks today is not whites, it is the blacks that will not allow other blacks to improve their lives. The problem today, certainly appears to be down to corrupt blacks and officials in government, then the next layer of corrupt blacks in the black community. 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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line.jpg</center> <br/><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Africa in Black &amp; White</h1>\n<img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/south-africa-dividing-line-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2985\"/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"><em>The above photo clearly shows the division of equity still prevalent in South Africa</em>.<br><em>We can assume whites live on the left, and blacks live in the ghetto on the right.</em></p>\n<p><strong>How is this inequality still so prevalent today in Africa? Why does nothing ever improve for black Africans? Is it all the fault of whites?</strong></p>\n<h2>Arguing, as a white man</h2>\n<p>Once again, my arguing on Reddit has produced an interesting discussion, This time on the disparity between White and Black life in Africa (in as much as I can claim to know it).</p>\n<p>It started with the picture above, showing a clear division between the ghetto of South Africa on the right, and the rich homes on the left that we can safely assume to be owned by whites. I do not deny it.</p>\n<p>The Reddit argument was long, and I only know as much as I know, but I am every day trying to understand more and arguing helps me get better educated by those that know. </p>\n<h2>It is all the white man's fault, reparations are needed!</h2>\n<p>It is clear that <strong>even after 80 years of World Bank hand-outs, and literally trillions upon trillions of dollars being thrown at Africa, nothing has improved much for black Africans at all. Why?</strong></p>\n<p>As a white man, and someone who does not live in Africa, one wonders what gives me the right to have an opinion. Apart from the fact that my Dad was born there, some of my family live there, and many of them died there, even if this was not true, I would still have a right to an opinion by virtue of being held responsible.</p>\n<p>By nature of my white skin colour and familial association to Zimbabwe and South Africa, I feel very much responsible for the inequity, enslavement, abuse, and failure of black Africa to get ahead. <strong>It is a message we have all heard as white skinned people since birth. We constantly are told how we are responsible for slavery and oppression of blacks.</strong></p>\n<h2>Whites are silent, but about the wrong things.</h2>\n<p>So, there is surely a certain duty that we talk about it. And yet, what really happens is that we never talk about it, we fear talking about it. <strong>White people remain silent, obediently accepting it is all their fault, but without argument. Why?</strong></p>\n<p>The white-guilt is strong, it is horrible to carry. We have been hearing how it is our fault ever since we were young and at the dinner table heard the immortal words, <strong><em>\"think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em></strong> What a guilt-trip it has been to be white. To be six years old and carrying the weight of all African deaths on your small shoulders. It does not ever leave you, and you begin to try to make amends, of course you do, because you care about humanity. But there is no way to fix it. So we donate money, and apologise at every opportunity to any black person who demands it, and even if they dont. <em>White privilege</em>, we call it.</p>\n<h2>The World Bank is a criminal enterprise</h2>\n<p>Sadly there is huge amounts of money to be made from this. Easy money too, since no one dares ask questions. <strong>Our cultural media has made a point of targeting our white-guilt, as have hundreds of charities, and The World Bank co-ordinates the entire African effort. </strong>We are well trained to think Africa is our fault because we are white, and we donate accordingly without ever asking awkward questions. But is it all true? </p>\n<p>I want to solve the poverty in Africa, we all want to solve it. I want to help blacks get ahead in life, if that is what is really the problem here. But Trillions upon trillions has been spent trying to solve it, and yet nothing has been solved at all. This makes no sense. <strong>It has been 80 years of charity, refugee invitation, and <em>white-saviours to the rescue</em>. When is it all going to be fixed? Give me a certain date! You can't. Does that make any kind of sense to you?</strong></p>\n<h2>How exactly am I personally to blame for this again?</h2>\n<p>If I am to take the blame for it, then I need to know why I am to blame for it. </p>\n<p>Why it has trillions of dollars not worked? Where has it all gone? Why has 80 years of throwing money at impoverished black people, been an abject failure? Why is there a ghetto in the top right of the picture above? What the fuck has The World Bank been doing for 80 years? </p>\n<p>Maybe, just maybe, it is time we looked in other places for the problem, and a solution, and maybe, just maybe, it will be uncomfortable to do that. I think it will.</p>\n<h2>When racially accused of being to blame, ask inconvenient questions</h2>\n<p>The discussion below is my response to someone who was accusing me of being white, privileged, and the cause of all black Africa's problems. I do not believe this to be true, and I have spent 40 years wondering about it almost daily. I used to think it <em>was</em> all the fault of whites. But the more that I learnt, the less I was able to accept that to be true at face value.</p>\n<p>It seems like the most dangerous and offensive statement to utter, but... <strong>I now believe the REAL issue in Africa, and in America for that matter, is that blacks are not letting other black's lives improve.</strong></p>\n<p>Below is my post. If you (the reader) have updated information, more accurate truth, cited proof of it, and can educate me as to how I am very wrong about what I have written below, then please let me know. I would love to be wrong on this. <strong>If I thought for one minute that I could help solve any of the problems that blacks face, then I would do it. But I do not believe the solution lies with whites at all.</strong> <strong>Not even one bit, and here is why . . .</strong></p>\n<h2>The Reddit post . . .</h2>\n<p><em>(I have tidied the below post for clarity and to make it more suitable for a blog. It is in response to someone and their questions are accentuated below.)</em></p>\n<p>\". . . you never replied to my last comment. I want to discuss some of this, because I think you are wrong. This is an opportunity for you to educate me on how I am wrong, or maybe both of us learn something, so let us talk about your questions since you ignored me the last time…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"white people in africa hold up about 72 PERCENT of the land that can be used for farming\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Let's consider Zimbabwe, they took the land off white farmers there, Mugabe made it a law that white farmers either leave the country or give some of the land to \"selected\" blacks. This happened. The end result? The blacks did nothing with the land. So Mugabe next said that white farmers had to give money to the blacks. The blacks did not take advantage of the opportunity, they did not try to learn farming, they did not try to work their way to make use of the land, many of them just sat in their new homes on the land and complained. They then (in the same way Mugabe took money from The World Bank), demanded more free handouts for nothing. They still blamed the white farmers despite all this gifting. This is why it failed, and why Zimbabwe is still a disaster. If black people are given land and money,  then why did it fail in Zimbabwe? Who was responsible?</p>\n<p>How do you see this same land reparation working out better in South Africa exactly? Do please explain.</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"how your racist ass would feel if someone marched into your nation, took almost ~75% of your greenland, sold it off to companies that do nothing for your nation, pushed you into the ghetto, and profited off of your young to make more money for themselves, while nothing goes into your community.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Again, I think you are wrong about this, but you are wrong about this in 3 different ways.</p>\n<ol><li>When white man entered Africa, what was happening in Africa at the time? I can tell you what, and history bears this out, Egypt and Nubian tribes had been pushing down through Africa for years, stealing land off the indigenous tribes and killing the Bushmen who lived there and possessed nothing other than hunting skills. They were taking them as slaves, claiming the land, and then there was a lot of tribal war and fighting for power too. When Europeans arrived in South Africa &amp; Zimbabwe, the Zulu were in the midst of killing the last of the Sans and pushing them south, through into South Africa. This ended when Europeans arrived. They still hate on each other, the Zulu and the tribes there, how do I know this? I traveled there a few years ago and they are happy to tell you how much they hate the Zulu and vice versa. So, you are wrong about \"Uptopian\" Africa before whites showed up. It was violent and bloody, and slavery was rife. Today in EVERY SINGLE black country there is corruption, civil war, tribal war, and poverty. Why? You cannot blame whites if black Africans have the opportunity to change all that, but never do. Why does change and improvement NEVER happen in Africa? If it is not the whites stopping it.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"2\"><li>When whites showed up in Africa 400 years ago, they brought technology and education, and, unfortunately for Africa, God. But it was already a place of problems, war, tribes abusing each other and most important, slavery was already going on, brought in by Egyptians and Muslims for hundreds of years before. Africa had been doing far better as a country of hunter-gatherer Bushmen, but then the black Nubian, Egyptian slave trading, Muslim slavers and the Zulu and other aggressive tribes started killing the Bushmen and claiming the land for themselves. When whites showed up, they brought new ways, and over time many black people actually thrived, got jobs, had homes and started to embrace those new ways themselves, but this was not always accepted by the black community, or the white community either for that matter. I do not say there was no white racism, it was and is rife, but it is not be the real root of the problem. You may not like to admit it, but you can read Dambisa Moyo's book, Dead Aid, and you will see that she agrees. For instance, financially speaking, blacks on average were better off in S Africa during Apartheid than they have been since SA was handed back to black leadership. This is a fact. You want to blame whites, because you have ignored the history of what black Africa was already like. And you also choose to ignore the other reasons that black communities struggle to change - themselves. Whites brought segregation and racial abuse, that is very true, but you ignore the fact they also brought <em>opportunity and tech advancement</em>. So you are half right, but also very wrong for ignoring the advantages. You cannot paint whites as evil, without also looking at the evil in blacks when whites are not around. Africa is still a very cruel continent. Just look at child soldiering, or any number of wars in black-run countries, and show me the white man involved in any of that! Show me one black-ruled country in Africa that is doing well. One? So, maybe it is time to stop blaming whites and look elsewhere to find out what the real problem is that is creating the issue we see in the image above.</li></ol>\n<ol start=\"3\"><li> And finally, the money does not reach the communities because of who it passes through to get there (blacks). And the people in the companies that are abusing the blacks, are most always corrupt black managers and not corrupt whites. This is also being proven by history, and can be seen in every black government-run country in Africa. For our part, as eternally guilt-ridden whites brought up to think everything black's experience is our fault, we have our own issues to deal with in seeing our complicity for giving endlessly, while failing to achieve a solution. For example, The World Bank has been throwing Charity money at every country in Africa since 1940. Trillions upon trillions of dollars have been spent trying to improve life in Africa, and where has it gone? I can tell you - it has gone to corrupt black African governments, and corrupt black community leaders. THAT IS WHY IT NEVER GETS TO THE PEOPLE. Very little of that has gone to white people, all of it has gone to blacks who did not then let it reach their community. So we need to start to put the blame for that where it rightly belongs, and to stop blaming white people for all black peoples problems.</li></ol>\n<p>If I am wrong on any of this, and you can prove it, please be my guest…</p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\"PLEASE explain to me how <em>I’m</em> lying.\"</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Maybe you are not lying, but if you are not lying, then you are either being blind or ignorant.</p>\n<p>The biggest problem facing blacks today is not whites, it is the blacks that will not allow other blacks to improve their lives. The problem today, certainly appears to be down to corrupt blacks and officials in government, then the next layer of corrupt blacks in the black community. Where is all that World Bank money going? ffs.</p>\n<p>If blacks take handouts, are given farms, are given money, given land for free, and offered education too, and if they then do nothing with it, you cannot keep coming back to white people and telling them it is all their fault!</p>\n<p>Whites have been trained to assume guilt since a very young age, our cultural message for 40 years has been designed to shame us into parting with money and not asking inconvenient questions about where it then goes. If we need to de-fund anything, we need to <strong>Defund The World Bank</strong>. 500,000 related jobs that are wasting money and not fixing Africa for 80 years, is a god-damn travesty!</p>\n<p>But you cannot blame the whites alone for the problems we see in the picture above. We need to look at better solutions than just robbing the white people who have been born, grown up, worked, lived and in many cases died in Africa. They are African too, by the way, and Zimbabwe already proved that this method does not work. Julius Molema (S African politician calling to \"kill all whites\") is a racist, militant crook who is looking out for no one but himself and epitomes the very problem we have just discussed. Men like him are the real problem lying in the way of change, and not the whites.\"</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/africa-in-black-white/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/trans.jpg</center> <br/><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Identity Politics - Gender</h1>\n<center><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/trans.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2405\"/></center>\n\n<h3><strong>TL;DR - Gender Binary is a biological and universal fact. No <em>ifs</em> or <em>buts</em> will change that.</strong></h3>\n<p><em>I made this post so I don't have to keep repeating myself. If I have sent you here to read this, then I look forward to hearing your arguments on your return to wherever you ran into me. Good luck!</em></p>\n<h2>Identifying the Underlying Issues</h2>\n<p>It's a difficult one to break down into simple terms, but I will try by seperating various fundamental issues as I see them.</p>\n<p>To sum the entire Trans or Gender issue up in two words:<strong> <em>Identity Crisis</em></strong></p>\n<ol><li><strong>Without HRT drugs and violent self-mutilation, the question of what \"gender\" you identify as would become irrelevant,</strong> <strong>because you would not be able to change what you physically were capable of achieving.</strong> The use of expensive HRT and permanent mutilation ( self-violence) are part of the issue of what simply amounts to an <em>Identity Crisis</em>. It's made the issue far worse because people now believe it is a real thing just because they can use HRT and surgery to mutilate themselves. But this does not change the fundamentals of male/female gender binary, it only changes what you can achieve by mutilating yourself.</li><li><strong>Nature designed procreation around a merging of Feminine energy with Masculine energy</strong>. Explain it any other way, I defy you to be able to. Polaric forces are fundamental to the Universe's design.</li><li><strong>The entire argument revolves around <em>Identity Crisis</em>, and it has nothing to do with Biology or Science, it is to do with \"feelz\" &amp; Identity Politics.</strong> If I think I feel like a woman, so what? It doesn't change the biological reality of my body. Also, how do I know what a female actually feels like? It is projecting, and vice versa for women saying they feel like men. This does not mean you cannot engage in your own Polaric F/M energy, and I discuss this later on.</li><li><strong>If you go to a doctor and claim to be a \"fire-engine\" and are convinced of this, they will consider you mentally disturbed and put you on medication to control it (making money in the process).</strong> But if you go to a doctor and claim to be a woman inside a man's body, they will encourage you to become a lifelong customer of HRT drugs, and to go under the knife to address your<em> Identity Crisis </em>once and for all, with no way back. This is not re-defining a gender <em>\"fact\"</em>, this is the abuse of humans who are vulnerable to <em>Identity Crisis</em> to turn them into life-long customers.</li><li><strong>There is a reason Trans die at a huge rate, it is because the <em>Identity Crisis</em> they experience is not being properly addressed</strong>, it is not fixed by HRT or the surgical knife. That is just tragic to think that it is. If you cannot accept yourself for what you are (Identity Crisis) then why should anyone else have to accept you for what you are not (A surgically mutilated, HRT abusing individual)?</li><li><strong>Big Pharma &amp; the medical world will make incredible amounts of money in the future the more that Trans are encouraged to take the HRT &amp; surgical mutilation route</strong>. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/trans-genderfluid-culture-faces-an-issue-that-is-being-ignored/\" target=\"_blank\">I have documented proof that Big Pharma is spending money to try to force this concept of multiple genders or gender dysphoria by testing HRT Drugs on children in Europe.</a> Its experimentation at a level last seen in the camps of Nazi Germany.</li></ol>\n<h2>The Cult of Identity Politics</h2>\n<p>Every now and then someone comes along to try to educate me on the existence of a spectrum of genders, but to date this has not been successful because it is not <em>New Science</em>, but rather,<em> The Cult of Identity Politics</em> that is trying to argue a fallacy into becoming a truth. </p>\n<p><strong>Humans are biologically binary in gender. We are either Male or Female, there is no middle position.</strong> <strong>Just like there is only a North and South pole.</strong> Everything in between is influenced by one or the other force, it is not a new magnetic position.</p>\n<p>This boils down to Universal Truths.<em> Yin &amp; Yang.</em> It is beautifully simple at it's essence, and the only way it will ever change, is if the laws of the Universe change.</p>\n<p>If you can prove to me that this premise is false, then please do change my mind. I am not married to the binary idea, it does not threaten me to have it argued, but if you are talking nonsense why on earth would I agree with your position?</p>\n<h2>Identity Crisis &amp; Self Acceptance</h2>\n<p>I have been around Trans folk all my life and observed them in action through transition and otherwise. I have worked with them, lived with them, got to know them. My conclusion has remained the same throughout, that being Trans is completely fine, there is no problem there. It's quite normal to feel polarized around our masculine and feminine<em> feelz,</em> but what often happens, is that in extreme situations it then becomes an <em>Identity Crisis</em>. That is when the trouble starts.</p>\n<p><strong>Do Trans need to be accepted? Yes! Do Trans need to be allowed to make their own choices about their body? Yes!</strong></p>\n<p>So what is the problem?</p>\n<p><strong>The problem is that <em>Identity Politics</em> has created a cult around Gender misinformation.</strong> This is encouraged because the cult wants new members to empower the politics further. Once you are transitioned there is no easy way back. You are in the cult, and will not easily be allowed to leave, or speak out against it, those that do get attacked. <a href=\"https://waltheyer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One example, of many, is Walt Heyer who works to help Trans become aware of the issues.</a></p>\n<p>This cult is also being funded and encouraged by Big Pharma and the Medical world because Trans become life-long customers. <a href=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/trans-genderfluid-culture-faces-an-issue-that-is-being-ignored/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I have already posted in depth about European Big Pharma funding research into HRT drugs being designed and tested to further encourage more HRT customers and one way surgery.  </a>And it is encouraged by what amounts to being a <em>Cult of Identity Politics</em>. </p>\n<p><strong>The answer that Trans folk are looking for, is found in <em>self-acceptance</em>, not in HRT and surgical mutilation.</strong></p>\n<h2>The Polaric Nature of Masculine &amp; Feminine Energy</h2>\n<p>You may be surprised to discover, that I believe all humans have Masculine and Feminine energy within them. We are capable of switching into one or the other to some extent. We can embrace this dualism, but it does not change our biology to do so. It may impact our <em>feelz</em>, but not our biological design. We can take on effeminate behaviours and amplify them within ourselves like an actor might, but it does not make men <em>become </em>female, or females become men.</p>\n<p>What happens when this gets to an extreme level of experience, is that we risk having an <em>Identity Crisis</em>. This is also something common to actors and musicians who embrace and embody \"entities\" for the stage.</p>\n<p>Let me give you an example of this Polaric nature in us...</p>\n<p>In 2007, I spent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/about/vipassana\" target=\"_blank\">10 days in a Vipassana meditation sit</a>, the guy I sat next too for those ten days was gay, and very clearly effeminate, though I did not know this until the end. You cannot speak or communicate with others, nor even look at them, it is forbidden for the duration of the 10 days.</p>\n<p>Something I noticed during my sits was that at times I had the impression that a female was sat next to me. When I got to meet the person at the end, it made sense. His expression was effeminate, his actions too, and I could understand why I had been under this impression at times.</p>\n<p>Now, you would think this might persuade me to see a <em>Gender Spectrum</em>, or for it to prove that female and male is an experience, and not a biological fact, but it doesn't.</p>\n<p>All of my trans friends have exhibited this same behaviour, they swing between seeming effeminate on some days, and then seeming to be firmly placed in their masculinity on others. It rarely stays fixed, and it can be amplified by all sorts of things from moods, to feelz, to drugs, to acting in character, and even overly dramatic \"episodes\" for effect. Many of these moments, I noticed, were deliberate and not enforced by Nature at all. Often it seemed to be more about wanting acceptance, but when that failed,  seeking attention by deliberately engaging in acted-out femininity to create an effect.</p>\n<p>It is even something I have experienced personally too, and it just shows the capacity of our focus to be fluid, but has no relevance on our biological make-up. I have deliberately embraced that feminine side of myself during sex and observed the woman I was with unconsciously embrace the masculine in response. Why? <em><strong>Because the Universe functions according to Polaric energy that moves between Yin and Yang, Masculine and Feminine, North and South magnetic fields. </strong></em>It is in us, but it does not have to define us, and that includes \"<em>being Trans\"</em>.</p>\n<p><em><strong>But this energy is binary</strong>, <strong>and your biological make-up cannot change by itself as a human</strong></em><strong><em>, even if your FEELZ, clothes, and mannerisms can.</em></strong></p>\n<h3>Identity Confusion Caused by Binary Forces</h3>\n<p>All humans are capable of that polaric shift between feminine and masculine principles, but it is a <em>binary</em> shift, and the only points of real relevance are at the ends - the <em>Masculine </em>and <em>Feminine</em> forces that function like magnets. (<em>Masculine and Feminine</em> are the same as <em>Yin and Yang</em>, if you hadn't understood that point yet. The Chinese are very aware of these forces too, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Tao, </em>is their beautiful expression of wisdom regarding the fundamental universal principles of Yin and Yang seeking balance</a>).</p>\n<p>Another example in Nature is the <em><strong>North and South magnetic poles</strong></em>. We don't confuse the North and South Pole magnetic energy do we? But being at the equator creates a mixed position with both in balance, it does not create a new pole.</p>\n<h3>There is no issue until we make one</h3>\n<p>It's really not an issue to switch between our sense of being Masculine or Feminine in <em>\"feelz\"</em> terms, the issue comes when it messes with our Identity. It then becomes an <em>Identity Crisis</em>, and something that we might start to think needs to be \"fixed\". But our <em>identity</em> does not need to be fixed it needs to be accepted, and usually by<em> us</em> more than by<em> others.</em></p>\n<p><strong>Trans need to feel accepted, not butchered under the knife. Having an issue with your sense of biological gender, is an<em> Identity Crisis</em></strong>. Trying to convince yourself or someone else, that you or they are on a spectrum is <em>Identity Politics and Cultism</em> that is leaving vulnerable people open to abuse, because the people who then accept them are likely to encourage them to join the <em>Cult of HRT and surgical self-mutilation</em>. Big Pharma and Medicine simply benefit from this, and in buckets.</p>\n<p>but… to confuse this with the science of gender binary in biological terms, is the essence of <em>Identity Politics</em>, and not factual. </p>\n<h2>Conclusions</h2>\n<p>We cannot change the Universal fundamental energetic design of Yin and Yang forces that achieve procreation. You can mutilate your body using surgery and powerful hormone drugs, and you can also falsify scientific research to create a false narrative. That is exactly what is going on today. But nothing is changing in the forces of Nature at all. Masculine and Feminine forces are fundamental.</p>\n<p>Gender is binary, and always will be until the day that the Universe disappears and a new and different one takes it's place that functions to completely different Laws regarding procreation.</p>\n<p>When a biologically born male professes to know what it means to be female, I call bullshit. How can you know that experience when you are biologically male? And vice versa, of course. I have come across many women trying to be men, but honestly it is a joke to me when they try, they clearly have no concept of masculinity at all even on heavy HRT drugs and after surgery. Some can fake it well, and that is about it. They have not become a woman without using self-mutilation and HRT drugs to achieve a close proximal effect, but not an actual transition, it is a lie.</p>\n<p>Dress-up and self mutilation do not permit you to hijack the binary opposite of your own gender out of Political convenience to claim a new Identity. It does not work like that, even if you join an <em>Identity Cult</em> that likes to think it is true, and is hell bent on re-writing Science to fit.</p>\n<h3>Trans deserve acceptance, absolutely!</h3>\n<p>To be clear about this, I am not saying Trans are wrong or need to be treated any differently to any human. Trans are Trans. Simple. They should be shown respect the same as anyone, but to think you are a woman in a man's body is the very definition of an <em>Identity Crisis.</em> How can a person born biologically a man, know what it feels like to be a woman?</p>\n<p>A Trans existence needs to be accepted as such, something to come to terms with, and not have HRT and mutilation applied to achieve a warped end result. A man will never become a female. A female will never become a man. Not without HRT and the surgical knife, which create a falsity anyway, it is a facade, an appearance, a lie. The moment you stop taking HRT you will start to return to your former state. What does this tell you?</p>\n<p>Trying to create a gender \"spectrum\", is just part of that nefarious <em>Cult of Identity Politics</em>, and it<em> is</em> a cult, and it <em>is </em>being encouraged and funded for all the wrong reasons. The Cult is supported by Big Pharma and the Medical world because they want more customers from a vulnerable and extremely easily influenced subset of humanity.</p>\n<p>It is being encouraged and supported and funded by the <em>Politically Correct</em>, because they have been duped into thinking Trans need help of the wrong kind. <strong><em>Trans don't really need anything more than any of us need - acceptance for what we are, and to feel valued as a part of society.</em></strong></p>\n<h2>Trans are the biggest Gender-Binary believers of all</h2>\n<p>Finally, no one is more binary-gender thinking than Trans folk, why? because they are using dress-up, HRT, and self-violence expressed as genital mutilation, to force themselves towards a binary-gender outcome.<em> Identity Crisis </em>leads them to try to force the issue because they hope to feel better in themselves by doing so. They are sold this lie by people with vested interests, and this is why it is correctly considered to be a <em>cult</em>.</p>\n<p>Trans just need to become accepted as Trans, most of all by themselves, so that they no longer get tricked into thinking the answer lies at one end, or other, nor somewhere in between the two end points of the so-called Gender spectrum. </p>\n<p><strong>As Frank Zappa once so perfectly put it -<em> \"You are what you is, and that's all it is, you ain't what you're not, so see what you got.</em>\" </strong>We all suffer an<em> Identity Crisis</em> at some level, but none more so than Trans, and none are more vulnerable than Trans at this time because of who seeks to abuse them with HRT and mutilation.</p>\n<p>The belief in multiple Genders, is about <em>Identity Politics</em> driving a narrative and trying to force a reality into existence, and it is not, and never will be, about biological fact.</p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>[for updates and more info see the comments section of this page]</strong></em></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/identity-politics-gender-binary/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/trans.jpg</center> <br/><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Identity Politics - Gender</h1>\n<center><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/trans.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2405\"/></center>\n\n<h3><strong>TL;DR - Gender Binary is a biological and universal fact. No <em>ifs</em> or <em>buts</em> will change that.</strong></h3>\n<p><em>I made this post so I don't have to keep repeating myself. If I have sent you here to read this, then I look forward to hearing your arguments on your return to wherever you ran into me. Good luck!</em></p>\n<h2>Identifying the Underlying Issues</h2>\n<p>It's a difficult one to break down into simple terms, but I will try by seperating various fundamental issues as I see them.</p>\n<p>To sum the entire Trans or Gender issue up in two words:<strong> <em>Identity Crisis</em></strong></p>\n<ol><li><strong>Without HRT drugs and violent self-mutilation, the question of what \"gender\" you identify as would become irrelevant,</strong> <strong>because you would not be able to change what you physically were capable of achieving.</strong> The use of expensive HRT and permanent mutilation ( self-violence) are part of the issue of what simply amounts to an <em>Identity Crisis</em>. It's made the issue far worse because people now believe it is a real thing just because they can use HRT and surgery to mutilate themselves. But this does not change the fundamentals of male/female gender binary, it only changes what you can achieve by mutilating yourself.</li><li><strong>Nature designed procreation around a merging of Feminine energy with Masculine energy</strong>. Explain it any other way, I defy you to be able to. Polaric forces are fundamental to the Universe's design.</li><li><strong>The entire argument revolves around <em>Identity Crisis</em>, and it has nothing to do with Biology or Science, it is to do with \"feelz\" &amp; Identity Politics.</strong> If I think I feel like a woman, so what? It doesn't change the biological reality of my body. Also, how do I know what a female actually feels like? It is projecting, and vice versa for women saying they feel like men. This does not mean you cannot engage in your own Polaric F/M energy, and I discuss this later on.</li><li><strong>If you go to a doctor and claim to be a \"fire-engine\" and are convinced of this, they will consider you mentally disturbed and put you on medication to control it (making money in the process).</strong> But if you go to a doctor and claim to be a woman inside a man's body, they will encourage you to become a lifelong customer of HRT drugs, and to go under the knife to address your<em> Identity Crisis </em>once and for all, with no way back. This is not re-defining a gender <em>\"fact\"</em>, this is the abuse of humans who are vulnerable to <em>Identity Crisis</em> to turn them into life-long customers.</li><li><strong>There is a reason Trans die at a huge rate, it is because the <em>Identity Crisis</em> they experience is not being properly addressed</strong>, it is not fixed by HRT or the surgical knife. That is just tragic to think that it is. If you cannot accept yourself for what you are (Identity Crisis) then why should anyone else have to accept you for what you are not (A surgically mutilated, HRT abusing individual)?</li><li><strong>Big Pharma &amp; the medical world will make incredible amounts of money in the future the more that Trans are encouraged to take the HRT &amp; surgical mutilation route</strong>. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/trans-genderfluid-culture-faces-an-issue-that-is-being-ignored/\" target=\"_blank\">I have documented proof that Big Pharma is spending money to try to force this concept of multiple genders or gender dysphoria by testing HRT Drugs on children in Europe.</a> Its experimentation at a level last seen in the camps of Nazi Germany.</li></ol>\n<h2>The Cult of Identity Politics</h2>\n<p>Every now and then someone comes along to try to educate me on the existence of a spectrum of genders, but to date this has not been successful because it is not <em>New Science</em>, but rather,<em> The Cult of Identity Politics</em> that is trying to argue a fallacy into becoming a truth. </p>\n<p><strong>Humans are biologically binary in gender. We are either Male or Female, there is no middle position.</strong> <strong>Just like there is only a North and South pole.</strong> Everything in between is influenced by one or the other force, it is not a new magnetic position.</p>\n<p>This boils down to Universal Truths.<em> Yin &amp; Yang.</em> It is beautifully simple at it's essence, and the only way it will ever change, is if the laws of the Universe change.</p>\n<p>If you can prove to me that this premise is false, then please do change my mind. I am not married to the binary idea, it does not threaten me to have it argued, but if you are talking nonsense why on earth would I agree with your position?</p>\n<h2>Identity Crisis &amp; Self Acceptance</h2>\n<p>I have been around Trans folk all my life and observed them in action through transition and otherwise. I have worked with them, lived with them, got to know them. My conclusion has remained the same throughout, that being Trans is completely fine, there is no problem there. It's quite normal to feel polarized around our masculine and feminine<em> feelz,</em> but what often happens, is that in extreme situations it then becomes an <em>Identity Crisis</em>. That is when the trouble starts.</p>\n<p><strong>Do Trans need to be accepted? Yes! Do Trans need to be allowed to make their own choices about their body? Yes!</strong></p>\n<p>So what is the problem?</p>\n<p><strong>The problem is that <em>Identity Politics</em> has created a cult around Gender misinformation.</strong> This is encouraged because the cult wants new members to empower the politics further. Once you are transitioned there is no easy way back. You are in the cult, and will not easily be allowed to leave, or speak out against it, those that do get attacked. <a href=\"https://waltheyer.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One example, of many, is Walt Heyer who works to help Trans become aware of the issues.</a></p>\n<p>This cult is also being funded and encouraged by Big Pharma and the Medical world because Trans become life-long customers. <a href=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/2019/trans-genderfluid-culture-faces-an-issue-that-is-being-ignored/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I have already posted in depth about European Big Pharma funding research into HRT drugs being designed and tested to further encourage more HRT customers and one way surgery.  </a>And it is encouraged by what amounts to being a <em>Cult of Identity Politics</em>. </p>\n<p><strong>The answer that Trans folk are looking for, is found in <em>self-acceptance</em>, not in HRT and surgical mutilation.</strong></p>\n<h2>The Polaric Nature of Masculine &amp; Feminine Energy</h2>\n<p>You may be surprised to discover, that I believe all humans have Masculine and Feminine energy within them. We are capable of switching into one or the other to some extent. We can embrace this dualism, but it does not change our biology to do so. It may impact our <em>feelz</em>, but not our biological design. We can take on effeminate behaviours and amplify them within ourselves like an actor might, but it does not make men <em>become </em>female, or females become men.</p>\n<p>What happens when this gets to an extreme level of experience, is that we risk having an <em>Identity Crisis</em>. This is also something common to actors and musicians who embrace and embody \"entities\" for the stage.</p>\n<p>Let me give you an example of this Polaric nature in us...</p>\n<p>In 2007, I spent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/about/vipassana\" target=\"_blank\">10 days in a Vipassana meditation sit</a>, the guy I sat next too for those ten days was gay, and very clearly effeminate, though I did not know this until the end. You cannot speak or communicate with others, nor even look at them, it is forbidden for the duration of the 10 days.</p>\n<p>Something I noticed during my sits was that at times I had the impression that a female was sat next to me. When I got to meet the person at the end, it made sense. His expression was effeminate, his actions too, and I could understand why I had been under this impression at times.</p>\n<p>Now, you would think this might persuade me to see a <em>Gender Spectrum</em>, or for it to prove that female and male is an experience, and not a biological fact, but it doesn't.</p>\n<p>All of my trans friends have exhibited this same behaviour, they swing between seeming effeminate on some days, and then seeming to be firmly placed in their masculinity on others. It rarely stays fixed, and it can be amplified by all sorts of things from moods, to feelz, to drugs, to acting in character, and even overly dramatic \"episodes\" for effect. Many of these moments, I noticed, were deliberate and not enforced by Nature at all. Often it seemed to be more about wanting acceptance, but when that failed,  seeking attention by deliberately engaging in acted-out femininity to create an effect.</p>\n<p>It is even something I have experienced personally too, and it just shows the capacity of our focus to be fluid, but has no relevance on our biological make-up. I have deliberately embraced that feminine side of myself during sex and observed the woman I was with unconsciously embrace the masculine in response. Why? <em><strong>Because the Universe functions according to Polaric energy that moves between Yin and Yang, Masculine and Feminine, North and South magnetic fields. </strong></em>It is in us, but it does not have to define us, and that includes \"<em>being Trans\"</em>.</p>\n<p><em><strong>But this energy is binary</strong>, <strong>and your biological make-up cannot change by itself as a human</strong></em><strong><em>, even if your FEELZ, clothes, and mannerisms can.</em></strong></p>\n<h3>Identity Confusion Caused by Binary Forces</h3>\n<p>All humans are capable of that polaric shift between feminine and masculine principles, but it is a <em>binary</em> shift, and the only points of real relevance are at the ends - the <em>Masculine </em>and <em>Feminine</em> forces that function like magnets. (<em>Masculine and Feminine</em> are the same as <em>Yin and Yang</em>, if you hadn't understood that point yet. The Chinese are very aware of these forces too, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Tao, </em>is their beautiful expression of wisdom regarding the fundamental universal principles of Yin and Yang seeking balance</a>).</p>\n<p>Another example in Nature is the <em><strong>North and South magnetic poles</strong></em>. We don't confuse the North and South Pole magnetic energy do we? But being at the equator creates a mixed position with both in balance, it does not create a new pole.</p>\n<h3>There is no issue until we make one</h3>\n<p>It's really not an issue to switch between our sense of being Masculine or Feminine in <em>\"feelz\"</em> terms, the issue comes when it messes with our Identity. It then becomes an <em>Identity Crisis</em>, and something that we might start to think needs to be \"fixed\". But our <em>identity</em> does not need to be fixed it needs to be accepted, and usually by<em> us</em> more than by<em> others.</em></p>\n<p><strong>Trans need to feel accepted, not butchered under the knife. Having an issue with your sense of biological gender, is an<em> Identity Crisis</em></strong>. Trying to convince yourself or someone else, that you or they are on a spectrum is <em>Identity Politics and Cultism</em> that is leaving vulnerable people open to abuse, because the people who then accept them are likely to encourage them to join the <em>Cult of HRT and surgical self-mutilation</em>. Big Pharma and Medicine simply benefit from this, and in buckets.</p>\n<p>but… to confuse this with the science of gender binary in biological terms, is the essence of <em>Identity Politics</em>, and not factual. </p>\n<h2>Conclusions</h2>\n<p>We cannot change the Universal fundamental energetic design of Yin and Yang forces that achieve procreation. You can mutilate your body using surgery and powerful hormone drugs, and you can also falsify scientific research to create a false narrative. That is exactly what is going on today. But nothing is changing in the forces of Nature at all. Masculine and Feminine forces are fundamental.</p>\n<p>Gender is binary, and always will be until the day that the Universe disappears and a new and different one takes it's place that functions to completely different Laws regarding procreation.</p>\n<p>When a biologically born male professes to know what it means to be female, I call bullshit. How can you know that experience when you are biologically male? And vice versa, of course. I have come across many women trying to be men, but honestly it is a joke to me when they try, they clearly have no concept of masculinity at all even on heavy HRT drugs and after surgery. Some can fake it well, and that is about it. They have not become a woman without using self-mutilation and HRT drugs to achieve a close proximal effect, but not an actual transition, it is a lie.</p>\n<p>Dress-up and self mutilation do not permit you to hijack the binary opposite of your own gender out of Political convenience to claim a new Identity. It does not work like that, even if you join an <em>Identity Cult</em> that likes to think it is true, and is hell bent on re-writing Science to fit.</p>\n<h3>Trans deserve acceptance, absolutely!</h3>\n<p>To be clear about this, I am not saying Trans are wrong or need to be treated any differently to any human. Trans are Trans. Simple. They should be shown respect the same as anyone, but to think you are a woman in a man's body is the very definition of an <em>Identity Crisis.</em> How can a person born biologically a man, know what it feels like to be a woman?</p>\n<p>A Trans existence needs to be accepted as such, something to come to terms with, and not have HRT and mutilation applied to achieve a warped end result. A man will never become a female. A female will never become a man. Not without HRT and the surgical knife, which create a falsity anyway, it is a facade, an appearance, a lie. The moment you stop taking HRT you will start to return to your former state. What does this tell you?</p>\n<p>Trying to create a gender \"spectrum\", is just part of that nefarious <em>Cult of Identity Politics</em>, and it<em> is</em> a cult, and it <em>is </em>being encouraged and funded for all the wrong reasons. The Cult is supported by Big Pharma and the Medical world because they want more customers from a vulnerable and extremely easily influenced subset of humanity.</p>\n<p>It is being encouraged and supported and funded by the <em>Politically Correct</em>, because they have been duped into thinking Trans need help of the wrong kind. <strong><em>Trans don't really need anything more than any of us need - acceptance for what we are, and to feel valued as a part of society.</em></strong></p>\n<h2>Trans are the biggest Gender-Binary believers of all</h2>\n<p>Finally, no one is more binary-gender thinking than Trans folk, why? because they are using dress-up, HRT, and self-violence expressed as genital mutilation, to force themselves towards a binary-gender outcome.<em> Identity Crisis </em>leads them to try to force the issue because they hope to feel better in themselves by doing so. They are sold this lie by people with vested interests, and this is why it is correctly considered to be a <em>cult</em>.</p>\n<p>Trans just need to become accepted as Trans, most of all by themselves, so that they no longer get tricked into thinking the answer lies at one end, or other, nor somewhere in between the two end points of the so-called Gender spectrum. </p>\n<p><strong>As Frank Zappa once so perfectly put it -<em> You are what you is! And you ain't what you're not, so see what you got.</em> </strong>We all suffer an<em> Identity Crisis</em> at some level, but none more so than Trans, and none are more vulnerable than Trans at this time because of who seeks to abuse them with HRT and mutilation.</p>\n<p>The belief in multiple Genders, is about <em>Identity Politics</em> driving a narrative and trying to force a reality into existence, and it is not, and never will be, about biological fact.</p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>[for updates and more info see the comments section of this page]</strong></em></p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/identity-politics-gender-binary/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory, because they are. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not about creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, different levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even, themselves, in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those rich, privileged whites, they hallucinate exist, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own meager experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this especially for the young with no experience of their own to fall back on or lay claim to.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age to encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes me a racist.</p>\n<p>There will be no discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as an <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"Hate Speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites, down whenever they dare to question the narrative. </p>\n<p>Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privileged, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved <em>white-guilt</em>, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years spent living in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I did not dare talk to black people about any of this. I was too afraid of their reaction, and mine, if we got into it.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it since the 1940 to \"save Africa\", because it pays well. Yet not one single country in Africa has yet been saved and we have plowed trillions upon trillions into it. When is this day going to arrive? Answer - it isnt. It never was. It was always about taking money off white people. Fuck black Africa.</p>\n<p>White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory, because they are. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not about creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, different levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even, themselves, in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those rich, privileged whites, they hallucinate exist, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own meager experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this especially for the young with no experience of their own to fall back on or lay claim to.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age to encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes me a racist.</p>\n<p>There will be no discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as an <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"Hate Speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites, down whenever they dare to question the narrative. </p>\n<p>Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privileged, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved <em>white-guilt</em>, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years spent living in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I did not dare talk to black people about any of this. I was too afraid of their reaction, and mine, if we got into it.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory, because they are. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not about creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, different levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even, themselves, in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those rich, privileged whites, they hallucinate exist, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own meager experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this especially for the young with no experience of their own to fall back on or lay claim to.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age to encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes me a racist.</p>\n<p>There will be no discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as an <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"Hate Speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites down whenever they dare to question the narrative. Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty, would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privilege, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved white-guilt, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I would not dare talk to black people about any of this. I am too afraid of their reaction.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory, because they are. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not about creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, different levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even, themselves, in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those rich, privileged whites, they hallucinate exist, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own meager experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this especially for the young with no experience of their own to fall back on or lay claim to.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age to encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes me a racist.</p>\n<p>There will be no discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as an <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"Hate Speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became labelled a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites down whenever they dare to question the narrative. Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty, would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privilege, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved white-guilt, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I would not dare talk to black people about any of this. I am too afraid of their reaction.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory, because they are. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not about creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, different levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even, themselves, in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those rich, privileged whites, they hallucinate exist, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own meager experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this especially for the young with no experience of their own to fall back on or lay claim to.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age to encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes you a racist. No discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as and <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"hate speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became labelled a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites down whenever they dare to question the narrative. Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty, would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privilege, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved white-guilt, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I would not dare talk to black people about any of this. I am too afraid of their reaction.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory, because they are. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not about creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, different levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even, themselves, in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those rich, privileged whites, they hallucinate exist, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes you a racist. No discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as and <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"hate speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became labelled a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites down whenever they dare to question the narrative. Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty, would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privilege, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved white-guilt, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I would not dare talk to black people about any of this. I am too afraid of their reaction.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory, because they are. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not about creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, different levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even, themselves, in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those damn, rich and privileged whites, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes you a racist. No discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as and <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"hate speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became labelled a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites down whenever they dare to question the narrative. Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty, would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privilege, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved white-guilt, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I would not dare talk to black people about any of this. I am too afraid of their reaction.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god knows what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and conveniently made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default. This was used in an attempt to silence me and shut down a conversation.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, diferrent levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even themselves in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those damn, rich and privileged whites, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes you a racist. No discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as and <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"hate speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became labelled a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites down whenever they dare to question the narrative. Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty, would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privilege, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved white-guilt, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I would not dare talk to black people about any of this. I am too afraid of their reaction.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, why am I being targeted for exclusion exactly?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god know what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, diferrent levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even themselves in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those damn, rich and privileged whites, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes you a racist. No discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as and <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"hate speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became labelled a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites down whenever they dare to question the narrative. Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty, would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privilege, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved white-guilt, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I would not dare talk to black people about any of this. I am too afraid of their reaction.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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      "body": "<center>https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding.jpg</center> <br/><img src=\"https://www.thetemplespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/how-can-you-have-any-pudding-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\"/>\n<h1>The Anatomy of \"White Privilege\"</h1>\n<h3>White people are afraid to pull the plaster off . . .</h3>\n<p>If you are white, and you actually believe <em>\"white privilege\"</em> is a thing in 2020, then you might be regurgitating <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> without having considered the underlying reason beneath why you assume everything is the fault of your skin colour.</p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR</strong> - <em>\"...think of the poor, starving Ethiopians! Eat your dinner!\"</em> <br>Yea, because the death of all of Africa is the fault of a white-skinned six year old, thanks for that bit of programming.</p>\n<h2>Generalisation-Buzzwords</h2>\n<p><em>Racism</em> is a dangerous subject, full of anger, rage, vitriol, and (in the case of white folk) unconscious fear due to association to past colonialism. </p>\n<p>But to avoid discussing the elements of racism, while continually shutting people down with <em>generalisation buzzwords</em>, is to bathe in ignorance and to avoid talking about the underlying issues honestly.</p>\n<h3>Therapy for the <em>white-guilt</em> narrative</h3>\n<p>No therapist on earth would suggest the use of <em>buzzwords</em> to avoid discussion on a difficult topic. </p>\n<p>And yet currently, <em>buzzwords</em> help us obediently maintain the polarized concept that <strong>-</strong> <strong>all non-whites are oppressed, and all whites are the oppressors.</strong> But there is no modern-day truth to this narrative, it is historical at best, and a distorted version of a distant-past is consistently used to <em>weaponise</em> the argument in the present. White people do not even argue, why?</p>\n<p>If the line of \"privilege\" division can be drawn anywhere today, it is between First-world and Third-world countries. <strong>All the multi-cultural inhabitants of the First-world are equally guilty of the economic enslavement of the Third. </strong>But this is not the subject of discussion here.</p>\n<h3>Racism is a personal experience</h3>\n<p><strong><em>Racism is a personal experience that occurs moment to moment, it cannot be generalised</em></strong> <em><strong>successfully because it is often not experienced by two people in the same way.</strong></em> Yet we use <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em> to imply it exists everywhere, at all times, and this is patently false.</p>\n<p>I am not here to discuss black people's experiences directly, nor deny their experiences, nor am I denying the age of Empire that happened 400 years ago that without doubt committed horrors, and neither am I talking about 1950's Alabama, nor experiences in third-world countries. <strong>I am talking about white people using buzzwords on each other, today, in the first-world, in the year 2020, and believing the <em>buzzwords</em> carry a truth that should not ever be questioned.</strong> </p>\n<p><em>Generalisation buzzwords</em> are being used to aggressively maintain the narrative, create further division, and to completely avoid any hope of constructive discussion or resolve of the racism that does exist, in everyone.</p>\n<h3>The <em>buzzwords</em> that help you avoid that awkward discussion about the facts</h3>\n<p>Here are a few of the <em>generalisation-buzzwords</em>, that we all know very well, and that whites cower before when accused of them...</p>\n<p><strong><em>white privilege </em></strong><em>(every white person on earth is born free and rich)</em><strong><em><br>white supremacy</em> </strong><em>(400 year old acts of the few who benefited, applied to all who didn't today)</em><br><strong><em>systemic racism</em></strong> <em>(in some places, maybe, but it is localized and never quantified properly or honestly)</em><strong><br><em>white oppression </em></strong><em>(disputing any of the above exist)</em><strong><em><br>white power</em></strong><em> (black power is cool, white power implies you are a fan of Hitler)</em><br><strong><em>hate speech</em></strong> <em>(white people questioning the narrative)</em><br><strong><em>free speech</em></strong> <em>(if you are white, see \"hate speech\")</em><strong><em><br>racist</em></strong> <em>(only whites can be racist)</em></p>\n<h2>Polarising the non-whites against the whites</h2>\n<p>The following labels are by definition racist, they are also designed to deliberately polarise <em>non-whites </em>against<em> whites</em> by lumping them all together for convenience, thus making it easier to blame white people for everything, while claiming <em>equal levels of victim-status</em> for all non-whites regardless of experience or cultural origin, simply based on membership.</p>\n<p><em><strong>People of Colour </strong>(Anyone not white skinned)<strong><br>BAME</strong></em> <em>(Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic - even the Trans folk get in on this one)</em><br><strong><em>BIPOC</em></strong> <em>(Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)</em></p>\n<p>How are these terms racist? <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">If you are excluding a group, then by definition, that is racial discrimination.</a></strong> <strong>Also, is my skin colour translucent to you? I have a colour, are you a racist?</strong></p>\n<p>And consider this. How can a rich Asian born in China, moved to USA, and now enjoying life as a trust-fund STEM student, compare their experience to the life of a Black African-American, born in Chicago, in a community with a gang problem and with no family money or opportunity to escape? The two are incomparable. But <em>PoC</em> membership makes it all okay, they can fight white supremacy, that they did not necessarily ever experience, together.</p>\n<p>I genuinely have had arguments online with black Africans, that turned out to be Asian kids from rich families attacking whites for god know what reason, but claiming<em> PoC</em> status as if it automatically endorses them with privileges of poverty, and made me, as a white outsider, the oppressor by default.</p>\n<h2>Refuse ALL use of <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em></h2>\n<p>I no longer accept the use of the above <em>buzzwords</em> in any discussion as a result. I refuse to recognise them. I consider them racist, false and discriminatory. </p>\n<p>I will absolutely focus on it when they are used and start to undo them as racism until the person is willing to use less <em>convenient</em> terminology charged with false narrative.</p>\n<p><strong>I accept only terminology that defines the individual properly -<em> non-white, asian, black african-american, black, white, Indian, or definitive cultural references</em> are fine because it is important to differentiate the experience of the individual.</strong></p>\n<p>One persons cultural life experience, is absolutely not the same as anothers, and <em>PoC </em>and other racist terminology, allows the hijacking of <em>victim-status</em> and <em>cultural mis-appropriation</em> that is incorrect and fraudulent to use because it is designed to separate out white skinned people for targeting.</p>\n<h3>It is not about equality, it is about power</h3>\n<p>This deliberate exclusion is not creating equality, these <em>buzzword</em> terms are being used to create division and to gather groups together under one banner that actually experience very different lifestyles, different history, diferrent levels of racism or lack of it, and have no correlation to each other's worlds at all. In many cases, they are even themselves in racial wars with one another back in their countries of origin.</p>\n<h3>Make joining the polarisation club worthwhile</h3>\n<p><strong>All any non-white has to do, is to agree that whites are the problem and join the <em>buzzword</em> club</strong>, it's free. And then, rather than have to take any <em>personal responsibility</em> or consider their own cultural experiences, they get to borrow from anyone in the <em>PoC</em> or <em>BLM </em>camp. It creates a sense of unity, I get it. The shared experience of targeting those damn, rich and privileged whites, must be fun.</p>\n<p>There is also real rewards for doing this, because it then empowers non-whites to receive ever-growing advantages in the social world and financial world too. </p>\n<p>If I was non-white, I would consider it tempting to ignore the obvious selling-out of my <em>personal integrity</em>, and to claim my prize as a victim of<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\"</em>. All the rewards, claims, and hand-outs that such a position offers, would become available to me. Lots of free stuff, control of whites in conversation, blame cops for everything, blame your life on white oppression, front of line access to education, get to play victim based on <em>PoC</em> values of others and not your own experiences, getting lots of attention, being seen, being acknowledged. There is a bunch of value in this.</p>\n<p>Ironically, whites have also been programmed at an early age encourage this in non-whites (and I will get to that shortly).</p>\n<h3>To question the narrative, IS racist \"hate speech\"</h3>\n<p>Of course, to even wonder on the validity of such things as a white person, makes you a racist. No discussion. Just a battering with <em>buzzwords</em>, potential loss of job, banning from social media, your Paypal and Visa accounts locked and frozen, and your name held up in public labelled as and <em>\"ALT-RIGHT, WHITE, HATE SPEECH, SUPREMACIST!\"</em>.</p>\n<p>Yea, how convenient \"hate speech\" laws are to legally suppress public discussion by white people.</p>\n<h2>How I became labelled a \"racist\"</h2>\n<p>I need to give some background into why I have come to regard the entire lexicon of <em>generalised-buzzwords</em> to be a sham. They are incorrect, they are outdated, and they have become the<em> Identity Politics</em> used by people to win arguments and shut whites, and non-whites down whenever they dare to question the narrative. Here is how I became a \"racist\" . . .</p>\n<h3>Murder</h3>\n<p>In the late 1980s my gran was brutally murdered in a black home invasion in Zimbabwe, a bunch of my family then got pushed out to South Africa to avoid Mugabe's incoming regime. I don't profess to know that side of my family very well, other than my gran, because I was living in England, but it is still my family and has sat with me for decades. </p>\n<p>I have been made to feel like a <em>racist</em> every day since I was quite young, all because I am part of the colonial past in Africa. This guilt has been with me all my life and the First-World messaging endorses it constantly. There is no point at which this blame is finally paid for. It goes on, and on, and on. 40 years of it so far, and still the blame level is rising. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dambisa_Moyo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(The involvement of the World Bank and Charity in this travesty, would require a whole other article to explain, or better yet read the book by Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid, that explains it much better than I ever could.)</strong></a></p>\n<p>When my gran had her throat cut in front of my granddad, I was forced to face some very mixed emotions about that. No one in my family knew what to say, no one dared discuss the skin colour relevance, nor the murder at all. In fact, many of my family still consider white-skin to be privilege, and that we owe reparations without end. I see that as fundamentally unresolved white-guilt, and I will get to why it exists shortly.</p>\n<h3>Verbal abuse followed by a hospital visit</h3>\n<p>In the 1990s, I got in a row in the street in Islington after someone nearly ran me over at a zebra-crossing. I kicked the car in response to it nearly taking my leg as I leapt out of the way. The car stopped and a black family got out. I was called a \"blood clot\", a \"pussy clot\", spat on, and then eventually the mum who was hurling most of the abuse close up in my face, told her son to hit me, and he did. I was KO'd, and woke up in hospital. I got a broken nose and a fractured skull for my troubles. </p>\n<h3>Late night hunting white boys</h3>\n<p>One night walking home from a late-night club in Camden, a car pulled up in the empty street I was walking down. An Indian in the passenger seat asked me directions. I knew something was fishy and kept my distance. The next moment a bunch of Indians bailed out of the car and chased me down the street. They were looking to beat up a random white guy for fun. I got away. There were a number incidents of this nature during my twenty years in London, as I was often out late and alone headed home.</p>\n<h3>Justified robbing of white people</h3>\n<p>Later that month I was working at a night-club, listening to one of the black bouncers there tell me about how he often went into the local park and robbed white people. His was saying that they owed him reparations for the slavery that happened in Africa. Turned out that it did not happen to his family at all, they moved to England much later. His justification for this was solid in his view, and he saw it as completely fine. He told me this with his foot up on his shiny new SUV. He was proud of his abilities to help white people part with cash at the threat of violence. I said nothing. I did not want to upset him.</p>\n<h3>White people cannot experience racism</h3>\n<p>I have many other such stories, of how white people cannot experience racism.</p>\n<p>Any time I have ever tried to discuss any of these experiences, I have either been shut down, accused of being a racist, or been told how it is the fault of the Empire, and my <em>white privilege</em>, to assume that these people were not suffering from <em>white oppression</em>, and that was why they did what they did. This is white people that shut me down, not blacks, sometimes Indian do. But I would not dare talk to black people about any of this. I am too afraid of their reaction.</p>\n<h2>The roots of white-guilt</h2>\n<h3>1. \"Think of the poor, starving Ethiopians.\"</h3>\n<p>This has been drilled into the mind of white children since the 1960s. I bet you heard it too. I certainly did in the 1970s, and it was used to force me, by guilt, to finish my dinner. No biggie, but consider the ramifications.</p>\n<p>What happens, when you are six years old and your guardians <em>white-shame</em> you incessantly into thinking that the whole reason Africa has a problem is because of you and your skin colour? What are you going to grow up thinking?</p>\n<p><strong>This is just one reason why white people are unconsciously afraid to question the narrative. </strong>They have been <em>white-shamed</em> since a young age to believe everything is the fault of whites. So much so, that they fear it being questioned and often will attack anyone doing so. <em>White-guilt</em> runs deep. The message is constant in our culture too. </p>\n<h4>Big Money in white-guilt</h4>\n<p>The World Bank and Charities have been driving it too, because it pays well. White people have been encouraged to believe that they are the problem for decades. But are they? If you are honest, white-dominant countries are the only places that ever tried to find a solution to racism, and continue to do so. How much is enough?</p>\n<h3>2. Non-white countries have been taught and encouraged to be racist.</h3>\n<p>This may seem like deflection, but it is relevant because of the kind of debates that I have experienced when trying to talk to Indians or Chinese, especially, when they are accusing me of racism, while dodging their own complicity in it. I try not to go there with black Africans or African-Americans, because it can get ugly, but it is not much different.</p>\n<h4>Ignore non-white racism, target <em>white-guilt</em></h4>\n<p>White people will shut themselves down when they get labelled racist, mostly for the reason I mentioned previously - <em>White-guilt</em> is instilled in us at a young age and continually reinforced every day by a strong <em>white-blame</em> message in our culture. </p>\n<p>Speaking against that narrative, does not illicit a rational response from other whites, it illicits a fear response and then anger,<em> \"You can't say that, RACIST!\"</em></p>\n<h4>Meanwhile, non-white countries nurture racism</h4>\n<p>Indians and Chinese, and in fact most non-white nations, do not have this ingrained guilt that white people have. They often have the opposite, despite historically being equally guilty of invasion, slavery, genocide, racism, colonialism, and cultural human-rights abuse. In many cases, still occurring.</p>\n<p>Most non-white countries encourage caste and class racism, and are not checked on this at all. There is plenty of documented proof of just how violent and racist most of&nbsp;those countries still are. It is not often questioned. And so within the castes or class systems, it is often accepted and encouraged in those countries of origin to this day. <em>Non-whites cannot be accused of racism</em>. Yet, the whole reason for seeking refuge in the first place, is often due to non-white racism they have experienced from non-whites, or even meted out.</p>\n<p>Yet when these non-whites arrive, or grow up, in First-world cultures, all this racism going on back home is forgotten about and replaced by the convenient message that, if they use <em>PoC</em>, <em>BAME</em>, or <em>BLM</em>, then they too can benefit from claiming <em>systemic white-racism</em> is the real problem. </p>\n<p>Never once, is the question of their own inherent cultural racism considered, and the racism occurring in their country of origin is forgiven and forgotten, and suddenly they find themselves living in a world where <em>\"white people cannot experience racism\"</em>, and they can benefit from joining their voice to this message.</p>\n<h4>Ethnic hand-outs</h4>\n<p>In the traditionally white-dominant countries that non-whites have moved to, either seeking refuge or by earning their way in, it is far easier for them to then use the <em>white-racist whipping-stick</em> that they are given, than to discuss their own racism. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Why would non-whites need to look at their own racism if they can then claim<em> \"ethnic minority victim status\", </em>immediately gain inclusive access to the <em>PoC</em> club that can then claim <em>colonial historical abuse</em>, simply by membership, and then benefit from it? White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is of benefit to all non-whites to join in this <em>white-shaming</em> because the white skin colour is an obvious and easy target, you can see it. There is also the common belief that <em>whites cannot experience racism</em>, and of course, the fact that non-white racism has been nurtured, encouraged, and endorsed back home makes it a great opportunity to pretend you are not from a racist country, not racist yourself, and then blame whites for all your woes. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>Non-whites never see their own racism, it gets conveniently upgraded to them being the victims on arrival in the First-world, or birth in it. They only see, and are free to target, alleged <em>white racism</em> even if it happened last 400 years ago in a country they were not even connected to. And even when it does not exist, they can claim it does with impunity because <em>PoC</em>, or <em>BLM</em> and <em>\"white systemic racism\"</em> <em>buzzwords</em> make it real, they can borrow it. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<p>It is easy to pick on whites using 400 year old history, even if colonialism is not in effect today, nor even if it never effected your country of origin, personally. It benefits non-whites to do this, and they are continually rewarded if they do.</p>\n<p>Now we have laws protecting non-whites even in conversation. If they are challenged in discussion by someone with white skin, this is called <em>\"hate speech\"</em>. Even if you were the son or daughter of Pol Pot or Idi Amin and committed atrocities yourself, you will be considered a victim of <em>white oppression</em> because you live in a white-dominant country and are a member of <em>PoC</em>. If in doubt, or caught in a crime, blame the Police for racially targeting you. White people encourage this approach.</p>\n<h3>3. Using <em>buzzwords</em> to oppress discussion</h3>\n<p>Anytime someone doubts the narrative, the <em>buzzwords </em>get applied. Whites fear the labels and exist in a state of continual <em>virtue-signalling</em> to black people, for fear of being ostracised.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><em>Censorship</em> and the application of so-called <em>Hate Speech Laws</em> are growing exponentially powerful, and they have become the perfect tools to silence anyone questioning the narrative, and to help non-whites get into positions of power, even to get jobs.</p>\n<h3>4. Applying <em>Double-Standards</em> and <em>Privilege</em> to non-whites</h3>\n<p>When a non-white person claims that,<em> \"Every day I have to resist knee-capping white men\"</em> - as <em>Priyemvada Gopal </em>did in an unfortunate Twitter reveal, and when she later claimed <em>\"No white lives matter\" </em>in a similarly veined tweet. It was considered <em>freedom of speech. </em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8460059/Cambridge-University-backs-academic-tweeted-White-Lives-Dont-Matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Cambridge even posted a commitment to support her right to do so, and in response, elevated her to a professorship at Cambridge University<em>. </em></a></p>\n<p>But when whites question the narrative, it is considered <em>hate speech</em> to do so. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan B Peterson was&nbsp;stripped of his fellowship</a> and refused the right to speak to students at the very same University of Cambridge almost exactly a year before, when they accused him of political wrong-think, and \"<em>in opposition to the principles of the University</em>\".</p>\n<p>Hmmm.</p>\n<h3>5. Never let blame land in the non-white community, especially if it belongs there</h3>\n<p>To suggest that any issue may lie within the non-white community itself, is regarded as the epitome of <em>systemic white racism</em> and <em>colonial oppression</em>.</p>\n<p>To suggest that the environment for equality already exists for non-whites in the first world, that all reparations possible have already been made, that all opportunities are equally available, that the problems faced by the non-whites are more to do with other non-whites, than with whites. To dare to ask if the community of non-whites is having a problem with it's own racism? Don't you dare!</p>\n<p>All these questions are considered sacrilegious, and no white person would dare to utter them, for fear of being labelled <em>a racist</em>. Spurious acts of intense white virtue-signalling will follow any such event.</p>\n<p>To utter these suggestions is probably the most terrifying thing a white person can do. Even as I write this, I am feeling a strange unconscious fear, almost as if I am going against God. Why? Because I am a six year old white boy being told to, <em>\"Think of the poor, starving, Ethiopians!\"</em> How dare I question the authority that taught me that I am guilty by definition of my skin colour! Those poor non-whites, of course it is all my fault.</p>\n<h2>How to move forward</h2>\n<p>I''ll save most of it for another post, this one is long enough.</p>\n<h3>Addiction to the guilt-trip</h3>\n<p>The first problem for an addict is admitting to being an addict. </p>\n<p>Whites are addicted to the idea that we are guilty because it was programmed into us before we could think for ourselves. We seriously need therapy, unfortunately the therapist will probably tell us it is all our fault because we are white. Even the therapists need therapy. Whites often desperately want non-white people to like them, and will virtue-signal like crazy to achieve it. White people fear that they are not doing enough to save the \"poor, starving, Ethiopians\". We actually infantize non-whites as a result, but that is for another post.</p>\n<p>To torture yourself eternally is a form of addiction. There is no end point in sight with this, it is an endless demand that is being made by non-whites for reparations that are not even legitimate. </p>\n<h4>Keep giving, of course others will keep taking</h4>\n<p>Non-whites don't know why we are so fucking stupid, because they don't suffer the problem. Of course they are going to take everything we give away. But taking everything from whites did not work in Zimbabwe, and it will not work anywhere else either.</p>\n<p>It is especially ridiculous to apologise, if there is no crime that you, personally, have committed. A masochistic reflection of submission to someone else's false cause, does not qualify anything. It is just more desperate attempts to appease your confused, guilt-ridden inner six year old.</p>\n<p>How can any of us be guilty of colonial crimes that we did not personally commit at all? None of this racism debate makes any sense, why? Because it is not even allowed to become a debate to find out what is really going on.</p>\n<p>The <em>Generalisation-Buzzwords</em> get applied, and the white folk drop to their knees to beg forgiveness. They do not even know what they are begging for. Did any one of these white people down on their knees ever do anything bad to a non-white person ever? Of course most of them did not, and so why are they on their knees, begging?</p>\n<p>This is the question we should now be asking ourselves. Then seek therapy to fix.</p>\n <br /><center><hr/><em>Posted from my blog at <a href='https://www.thetemplespace.com'>The Temple Space</a> : https://www.thetemplespace.com/2020/the-anatomy-of-white-privilege/ </em><hr/></center>    ",
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