Thoughts on Discrimination
Posted by Socrates in egalitarianism, equality, Socrates, William Pierce at 11:37 am | Permanent Link
by Dr. William Pierce.
“A lot of crazy things are going on these days, some of which strike us as more obviously crazy than others. One of the more obviously crazy things which has come to my attention recently is a fight between two associations of high school wrestling coaches and referees in Texas on the one hand and feminist groups on the other hand. The feminists are insisting that high school girls be permitted to wrestle high school boys. The Texas Wrestling Officials Association and the Texas Interscholastic Wrestling Association are saying, ‘No way.’ So the parents of a couple of high school girls in Texas, backed by the feminist groups, have sued the wrestling officials, charging them with bigotry, sexism, and all the usual things. The wrestling officials say that they are willing to sponsor separate wrestling matches for girl wrestlers, but no girl-vs.-boy matches. The feminists claim to be insulted by this offer. They are demanding sexually integrated wrestling. The American Civil Liberties Union, among the groups backing the feminists, has announced that the wrestling officials clearly are guilty of ‘discrimination.'”
11 September, 2009 at 8:28 pm
The global technological system forces equality of all kinds upon an unwilling humanity. Human distinctions of race and sex are things it would prefer didn’t exist at all, and so it is trying to deny them where possible, and where they are unavoidable, admit them to the minimum degree possible. This American trend towards equality was already noticeable to De Tocqueville almost 200 years ago, and it stands out more and more as the pace of the global technological system’s expansion increases through time.
The instant case that Dr. Pierce is here highlighting is an interesting case-in-point. At first it might seem silly even to think that co-ed wrestling could be contemplated, but on second thought, maybe not. Should women be allowed to study the martial arts at all? If the answer is yes, then wouldn’t it be better and more useful for them to be able to wrestle successfully with men? That would be more realistic and more likely to equip them to survive an encounter in the real world. So long as weight classes are observed, it might be okay. It would give each wrestler some added incentive. The boys would fight extra hard to avoid the humiliation of losing to a girl, and the girls would want to prove themselves able to overcome male strength. On considerations of efficiency alone – which is the only factor considered by the technological system – it looks like a win-win proposition. Only culturally does it fail. It would coarsen the women and compromise the man’s role as protector. But then, that has been a theme of the technological system’s expansion that runs throughout modern times. Scientific birth control coarsens women because it makes them able to have sex with male abandon, and also enables their experimentation with miscegenation; “equal pay for equal work” legislation feeds their independence and makes them more like men; most jobs in the technological system aren’t upper body strength-dependent, and can be done by women as well as men, although such jobs as mechanic and bull-dozer operator would make them rough and unfeminine, etc. As De Tocqueville observed, it seems that every technical advance over the course of the last few centuries has “turned to the advantage of equality.”
Want to stop race and sex equality and reverse all egalitarian trends? Then destroy the global technological system. That is a way that is guaranteed to work.