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Taking Out the White Trash: How Race is a Construct but Culture is Not (May 28, 2026)
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- The Secret Teachings
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- May 28, 2026
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Summary
When people are taught that they are “white” and then shown how evil “white” people supposedly are, then it makes sense why they identify with that label and strive to defend the same. But what if “white” is as much of a social construct as “black”? What if many of the people we call “white” and credit with building America or civilization in general were always identified by their cultural heritage? Rome was diverse and founded on Greek philosophy, neither of which were “white.” America was built by the Dutch, Germans, Irish, Scottish, Italians, Chinese, Slavs , etc. Although some may fall into a broad definition of “white” or European, the fact remains that “whites” were not the sole builders of America. What matters first is culture and ethnicity, then region, and finally by modern standards some arbitrary color wheel. It is only when you learn that “white” is meant to be an insult, like use of the abbreviation “nazi,” that it all begins to make more sense. The same is true for “white trash,” which was the basis of contemporary “ black culture .” Additionally, the idea that “white” people built the modern world is just fundamentally not true. Whatever “white” is, these people certainly contributed to the building of civilization, even more than certain other groups. But China developed the compass, paper, modern money, gun powder, and printing — in fact, the oldest printed book in the world is not a Gutenberg Bible, it is a Buddhist text predating that book by over 500 years. Doesn’t this count for something? The growing rebellious use of racial insults and the embracing of undefinable or inaccurate “white culture” is not what it all may seem. The idea that “blacks” or “whites” invented the world is without doubt part of an op. *The is the FREE archive, which includ…