84A. About Reverse Racism
A mass murder occurred in Germany today, followed by a flood of racist statements by racial manipulators. My father had the exact same murder fetish as the attacker, so I feel compelled to step in.
The attack in Germany apparently injured or killed over 200 people, making it one of the worst mass murders by a single individual in history. The perpetrator was a highly educated ultra right-wing man of Middle Eastern ethnicity that hated other Middle Easterners of Islamic ideology and wanted to run over people with his vehicle. Just like my father. When we would drive together he would tell me that he wanted to get a big truck with a custom rammer so that he could go on a rampage and kill as many racial minorities as possible. Despite being born in the Middle East, my father was a white supremacist. He also was a convicted and previously institutionalized violent sociopath, specializing in domestic violence but with public aspirations. So it was always understood that for my father, this was more than a fantasy.
My father was imprisoned and tortured in Iran while attending university in Tehran because he wrote a pro democracy slogan on a wall. This was many years before I was born in California and certainly what caused him to "snap". He wasn't born a monster, and the attacker in Germany likely had a similar back story.
My father did go on to get the truck. He did put the custom rammer on the front. Fortunately for the world, he timed out before he could execute his fantasies. I spent my youth trying to get away from him and his abuse, and I was 17 years old before I managed to become an emancipated minor. The world I stepped into was so filled with anti Middle Eastern racism that the abuse didn’t reduce much, and the number of racists trying to kill me actually increased.
I should point out that until the last few years I’ve never identified with any religion. I recently have been putting a significant amount of time into learning Buddhism, which is easy since I’ve adhered to their precepts since age 5 despite having had zero exposure to Buddhism until recently. I’ve also had essentially zero exposure to Islam, and most of my experience with Christianity has been people trying to murder me in creative ways for being a witch or demon-ally due to my “unnatural” cognitive development and other abilities.
People are born with an Ethnicity which is essentially their racial/genetic makeup. This isn’t the same as their Culture, which is the environment they grew up in which tends to program the people living in that culture with a standard set of Ideologies dictated by that culture. I grew up in ultra liberal Santa Monica, California but in my youth I was a pro military conservative like my father. When I was 14 years old I was credited (on national TV) with getting “Bomber” Bob Dornan (the father of the B-1 Bomber) elected in the very liberal West Los Angeles district he was running in.
I did this because my teacher at the time, Mr. Kramer (a very left leaning man), mocked me for helping a Republican and told me I had no chance. I went door to door every day for hours convincing people to fear Middle Easterners, mostly targeting the elderly. It was very easy to convince them that Bob and Ronald Reagan were needed to protect them from these foreign threats. Bob promised me the Congressional recommendations necessary to go to one of the top American military academies. The voters I talked to had no idea I was (50%) Middle Eastern myself. To them I was just another white person and thus trustworthy.
My friends half joke that I’m the biological father of Stephen Miller because he went to the same high school I did (Santa Monica High, SaMoHi) and was born during that period when I was homeless and an elite sperm donor for the top fertility clinic in Beverly Hills. Since he uses the same methods that I used so effectively to drive racist engagement, it’s a fair comparison. He has less hair, but hair is a genetic trait linked to the mother, not the father, so not my fault.
Thus I realize that all of the death threats and death actions taken against me over the years, I am partly responsible for and this is Karma coming back at me. I could change my name like the rest of my family and suddenly live life on “Easy Mode”, but I never play on Easy Mode.
After I got away from my father’s echo chamber, I realized I had been living a lie, and a dangerous one at that. I rejected the military culture I grew up in and became a Pacifist. I’ve identified as a Scientist since I began getting invited to private NASA lectures at the age of 7. I still am, first and foremost, a Scientist. I was homeless from age 17 to 22, and rejected all the offers of money, education, food, and glory coming from the militarists that desperately wanted access to my unusual skill sets. I was not going to break my vow of Pacifism, even if that meant eating out of dumpsters for the next several years.
Humans are essentially organic computers. They are programmed by their Culture with a default set of programming that can be entirely different than the programming that people of that Ethnicity normally get. The final Ideology they end up with is generally their culture template modified somewhat by their personal experiences and the people they most interact with. As they get older and lose neuroplasticity, their odds of that Ideology diverging from their Culture become less and less likely.
People who assume that Ethnicity = Culture = Ideology have a specific technical word that describes them. We call them “Racists”, and I would say the number of people who are in that category, who engage in this form of irrational behavior, is over 80% of the population. The world population.
The reason it is so common is because humans who are not trained as Scientists are heavily dependent on Inductive Reasoning for their survival. This allows them to say “well it was safe to cross the street when the light is green the last 999 times, so it will be safe on the 1000th attempt”. Inductive Reasoning is essentially pattern recognition. People see a pattern and then assume that pattern will continue without exception. The early IQ tests that I was bombarded with when I was 7 years old, when authorities discovered my “abnormality”, would often try to trick the test taker into using inductive reasoning instead of Deductive Reasoning, and thus choosing the wrong answer.
Deductive Reasoning requires the person to evaluate all of the facts objectively before coming to a conclusion. Juries and trials attempt to use Deductive Reasoning to come up with a verdict. But this is a lot more work, and most people don’t have time to use it for everyday activities. But this also creates a back door that makes these people extremely vulnerable to manipulation from racist manipulators. Like me when I was 14 years old, or all of the people on the internet right now trying to tell people that the attack in Germany was more reason to fear/hate/eject/eliminate Middle Easterners. That attacker hated Middle Easterners just as much as my white supremacist Middle Eastern father did.
Don’t be manipulated. Every time someone tries to reprogram you with their Ideology, this is an important moment in your life. Take the time to rely on Deduction, not Induction, so you don’t become a tool. Or more of a tool. Then it should be obvious what those manipulators are up to, and you can tell them to shove off instead of rewarding them with the power they crave.