REG: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Posted on 07/19/2018 7:58:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every time I see another disparagement of American history and American white males, I am poked to compose a list of their accomplishments that put everyone on the left to shame. The left's contempt for America is total – suggesting that leftists see nothing redeeming in who we are. This list should be burned into our memory to counter the left's fifty-year slander of American history. The advances on this list are the result of a unique degree of freedom blended with the Founders' exceptional knowledge of history that created a trickle-down effect in moral influence that no one can match.
Read 'em and weep:
1. Flawed white American males founded America, the apex of Western civics that established unmatched liberty, equality, and meritocracy based on service to all the people rather than service to the one percent. This was their core belief, made far better than anyone ever had, and this experiment has shown the world the magical rewards, the unique power, that come expressly from freedom.
2. Flawed white American males wrote the Constitution, and did so in such an artful way that the unavoidable, and notorious, compromise on slavery, the three-fifths clause, moved state after state to voluntarily abolish slavery even before the Civil War.
3. Flawed white American males made the Constitution reflect and exceed Western civics and Christian values – the values of equality among men, and between men and women, that were clearly a step ahead of the rest of the world, where men were not viewed as equals, and where women were property, as proven by the practice of polygamy all over the world, which the West abandoned in the 5th century.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
A more scientific and technical list.
Michael Savage: White male inventions (aired: 02/11/2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA1uGTlxTSQ
Flawed white males established the very government these liberals abuse that allows them the freedom to speak their mind without fear of being thrown in jail for life for.
They spit in the face of the very thing that gives them the freedoms they so cherish and appeal to.
Y’all DO realize that these are the very things to which the Left objects, right?
“Flawed” white males, ummm let’s see...
Electricity
Powered flight
Television
Computers
Cure for polio
Heart transplants
Internal combustion engine
Christianity
Judaism
The M 1911
Toilet paper
Indoor plumbing
Suppositories
....
Just think what could be done by “flawless” white males?
Thanks for posting.
Proud of your boys!
But WAKANDA!..
Smallpox and many other vaccines
Saturn rockets (mostly white males)
Theory of relativity
“The left’s contempt for America is total – suggesting that leftists see nothing redeeming in who we are. This list should be burned into our memory to counter the left’s fifty-year slander of American history.”
This.
And it should be repeated by every freedom-loving real American conservative.
Dems hate America - ask them to say “I love America”. Or “America is the best ever.” Go ahead. Try it. See if they manage it at all much less w/o qualifiers.
Are White Men Gods? (II): Getting the Facts Straight
https://fredoneverything.org/are-white-men-gods-ii-getting-the-facts-straight/
“the unavoidable, and notorious, compromise on slavery, the three-fifths clause,”
How was 3/5 a compromise on slavery?
The anti-slavers (rightly) wanted slaves not to count (0), whereas the slave-supporters wanted slaves to count whole-hog for representation (1).
So in an interesting way, the “southerners” wanted them counted as people, the “northerners” didn’t count them as people.
...and tens of thousands more.
White race did not do much without Christianity.
Yes, we had Greeks, and Romans, and they certainly made their mark. But they did not “civilize” the rest of Europeans without Christianity.
On the whole, Europe without Christianity was as backward and savage as Africa and “Indians”.
The “Dark Ages” was relative to ROME, not to Europe. The DA was much better than the savage age during Roman times and prior.
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What advances are left? Domestication of crops in Africa and the Americas. Development of geometry and other math in the Middle East (but it took the Greeks to systematize all this). Invention of "Arabic" numerals in India. All the technical advances by the Chinese long ago.
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Good article but the author does not really know what ARTFUL actually means.
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REG: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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