How the West Won—but “Western Civ” Lost

Intercollegiate Review

Forty years ago the most important and popular freshman course at the best American colleges and universities was “Western Civilization.” It not only covered the general history of the West but also included historical surveys of art, music, literature, philosophy, science, and other matters. But this course has long since disappeared from most college catalogues on grounds that Western civilization is but one of many civilizations and it is ethnocentric and arrogant to study ours....Thus, Stanford dropped its widely admired “Western Civilization” course just months after the Reverend Jesse Jackson came on campus and led members of the Black Student Union in chants of “Hey-hey, ho-ho, Western Civ has got to go.”--- Rodney Stark

If that isn't a war, what is it?

But Charles M. Blow of the New York Times denies it.

Whites are not under attack by Democrats; Republicans like Brooks are simply stoking racial fears to hide their history of racially regressive policies.

Blow goes on to enumerate a number of incidents to show how white people are racist.

No need to deny that some white people are racist.  But as Blow pointed out himself, Obama became president because white people voted for him.  Yet, they still play the racism card anyway.

We don't have the Jim Crow South anymore.  The left defends its war on the white man even though that era has passed a long time ago.

Why is it necessary to remove the study of Western Civilization from our universities if there isn't a war on white men?  Why the favoritism towards Islam?  Why is Western Civ branded as especially and uniquely evil?  They aren't going for racial equality and justice, they are going for some other goal of remaking the nation into something else.  Perhaps Obama said it best when he said America wasn't a Christian nation anymore.  That's not a statement of fact, but a statement of intention.

Christianity has a primarily Western flavor to it.  Especially, and very especially a "white man" religion.  That's what the left doesn't like about it.  They want to stamp it out.  Yes, that very language is being used by these people themselves, yet according to Blow and perhaps others, there's no war against the white man.

The war exists and even a blind man can see it.  Blow doesn't prove anything when he cites instances of bigotry in Western cultures.  The charges of bigotry of the past is being used as justification for the continuation of their war.  Without it, the left has no reason to exist.  Western Civilization didn't rise because it oppressed others.  It rose on its own merits.  Scratch the surface of leftists and you'll see that they will never acknowledge this fact.  The white man has to be forever disparaged.

Yet Blow's leftwing ideas are another invention of a white man---Karl Marx.  He's just one of the house negroes that the left sends out to show us the error of our ways---and to make us feel guilty of the past.  The real villain isn't the black man, it is this vicious ideology of communism.  The communists don't give a damn about the black man, they are just using him.  Black folks and people of all colors would benefit if they would set this aside the way that China has done.  Capitalism and freedom works in all colors.