A Couple of Things I Need to Vent About

I’ve been busy with real life lately. A sickly friend and fun stuff like snorkeling. However, I do need to vent my spleen upon these pages as a form of therapy.

It’s a form of therapy; under no conditions are you to actually read this!

Firstly, I found a short video on X where Steven Crowder is trying to debate some black guys at a barber shop:

I won’t knock him for trying, but generally speaking it’s a waste of time trying to debate blacks on racial issues. We don’t even speak the same language.

At some level, when humans have conversations, it’s about dominance. Rarely is it purely an exchange of ideas, and rarely are both parties primarily there to learn from the other side. However, with Africans, it’s much more obvious that the primary purpose of conversations is to gain dominance over your opponent. This is why their conversations tend to be so loud. It’s not about who is objectively “right” or who has the best evidence to support his position, or even who can deliver it most effectively. It’s about who is louder and who projects the most strength. This is also why they repeat themselves so often, sometimes reciting the same phrase ten times or more. Loud vocalizations are a means of projecting dominance. It doesn’t even matter much what’s being said, as long as it’s said loudly and with conviction.

There is no evidence that the art of debate ever took root in Africa, though it was practiced in Asia and the Middle East. Structured debates are, in my opinion, a crowning achievement of Western civilization.

I’m not saying that black people CAN’T debate, but their natural craving for dominance, and their natural excitability, serve as obstacles. Hence, it’s usually a waste of time for a White person to try debating a black person. I’ll point out that it’s also usually a waste of time trying to debate a White person – or even a JEW.

This brings me to my next topic.

I’ve found myself trying to debate Israelis about their pronunciation of Hebrew. More accurately, some Israelis have taken issue with my comments on various platforms – and attacked me as ignorant. When I show them the evidence that Israeli spoken Hebrew is very different from ancient Hebrew, they get very defensive – more so than in years past.

Why? I think it’s because we’ve seen a lot of attacks on Zionism/Israel recently where Israelis are described as “Europeans who colonized Palestine.” Some people have made the connection between Israel’s German-style Hebrew and the claim that Israeli Jews are actually European colonizers.

My view is that it’s a valid point, but it doesn’t somehow delegitimize Jews’ claims to the Holy Land.

Israelis, for the most part, are so invested in their “native language” and its supposed status as “heir to ancient Hebrew” that they’re blind to the obvious. Frankly, I’ve grown tired of debating them, as they’re hopelessly biased.

To them I say, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too!” They (as in Israeli elites) made a decision to promote Europeanized Hebrew exclusively. This was the policy for decades. They can’t now turn around and claim that this Yiddishized jargon is an organic product of the Land of Israel with a legitimate claim as an indigenous Semitic language. No. They “didn’t want to sound like Arabs” – and it just so happens that Arabs sound a lot like ancient Jews. As a consequence, they sound like Germans. It was their choice. They can still defend their claim to the land, and Israel has enough positives that it deserves to exist – but don’t deny the obvious, because it casts doubt on all the other (genuinely strong) arguments for Israel’s existence.