So… neutral except on the subject of slavery?!
Faber said Confederate symbols should be considered “statues of honorable people whose only crime was to defend what all societies had done for more than 5,000 years: keep part of the population enslaved,” according to the Financial Times.
I don’t know about the “honorable” part, but he’s right about the rest of it.
The real danger with what this guy says is, a lot of people are going to read it and think it makes more sense than some profane white-power guy spouting in-your-face hate speech. It’s still hate speech, but it goes down easier because it has a (flawed) logic to it.
So… any bets on how much Nazi gold he has somewhere?
Boy, Donald is probably pissed this guy is a Swiss citizen, otherwise he never would have put Mulvaney in his cabinet. This is the kind of guy he would have preferred. Faber has Trump in his very fucking soul!
So, how does he explain the U.A.E? Saudi Arabia?
No “White People” populating the country there.
Racist Assholes will always twist History to fit their personal bigotries.
I also have an example of a “White” country that did not do very well; Nazi Germany.
I wonder how he arrived at the conclusion that he is not racist?
And people of color helped build it?
It’s all about the cherry picking. White supremacists claim to have a common heritage with Thomas Jefferson via melanin deficiency but not with Marrquis de Sade – despite also sharing a melanin deficiency. And seriously…why melanin deficiency and not eyebrow shape? If you’re going to claim that a common appearance factor makes you an “inheritor” that appearance factor may as well be anything – hair thickness, leg:torso ratio, finger length, nose shape, chin shape, width of the second toe, literally anything.
My question too. I wonder what he thinks racism is.
I am not a racist, but
You can’t use these words, in this order, and not be.
Very well stated! That was my take away from the article, too.
Hey! Stop it! He said he isn’t racist, so end of discussion. Shut it! Shh!
The late comedian Mitch Hedberg knows how that went down.
Racist #1: Hey, do you know anyone that’s racist?
Racist #2. Nope.
Racist #1: Cool… cuz you know me.
QED.
Actually, there are those who would observe that white America got rich because it populated America with “the blacks.” At least the half who weren’t tossed over the side to the avidly following sharks during the Middle Passage.
Jesus Christ, please let this be one of those all-too-rare moments when some motherfucker unexpectedly becomes acquainted with the concept of “accountability” for the first time in his or her life.
…and these people walk among us. In 2017. It takes my breath away.
Wow. This guy needs to die in a fire.
I am not a racist, but the reality – no matter how politically incorrect – needs to be spelled out,” Faber said.
A Swiss ? How exotic !
Just because you are rich, doesn’t mean you are smart …
There’s a reason why many Germans think the Swiss are not the sharpest knives in the drawer…