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The only reason why it seems that way is simply due to the specific historical time period we're currently in. The same thing could have been said by the Mongols, or the Arabs during the Islamic Golden Age. The "all-time scoreboard" at the time as per this logic would have implied they were pretty fucking awesome, and yet their flourishing did not last. Just because the societies any given group of people have built are doing well at present does not mean that they are unassailable and able to overcome any threat with just a little elbow grease. It does not justify apathy nor does it justify a feeling of invulnerability.
I think part of the reason for lack of recognition of the problem among whites, rather, is that there is a not insignificant contingent of whites who are absolutely addicted to the idea of being Powerful and Awesome and very much enjoy all the rhetoric which states that they, as the Powerful, must take responsibility for everyone else and should not react to any hatred or vitriol thrown their way because how much can it really hurt them anyway? And they'll often attempt to ignore actual concrete instances of discrimination against whites and/or hand-wave it away in order to maintain this fantasy of being untouchable. People with this mindset will not realise how much this narrative they've happily assented to is actually hurting them even if and when they end up on the wrong side of a pervasive racial spoils system. I've been trying to get many whites to understand exactly why it is that they should be more than a little disturbed by the way things currently are, and it's been very much like pulling teeth despite my non-white (Asian) status granting me some preferential standing in these discussions.
Now, I'm not saying that I necessarily want whites to go full doomer and organise against racial outgroups and embrace the absolute mind virus that is grievance politics. But if the idea is that the current anti-white cultural trends are in large part the creation of white people (which isn't entirely incorrect), if "we only lose if we keep tying both hands behind our backs" (again, not entirely incorrect), then it definitely might be a very good idea for these whites to stop trying to tie their own hands and the hands of other white people by completely closing off all avenues that white people have to correct these trends. Because to be honest, I can't think of anything that would be more damaging than propagating these narratives of endless racial guilt and responsibility, and then letting whites become a numerical minority in their own countries. That's a point of no return I don't want to see crossed.
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