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Racist Investor Marc Faber:"Thank God white people populated America, not the blacks"
- Thread starter theignoramus
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so are you a racist then
Gentleman Jack
Member
I wonder if any of that prosperity came largely in thanks to centuries of involuntary, free black labor.
Faber confirmed to Business Insider that the report was authentic.
"I am naturally standing by this comment since this is an undisputable fact," Faber said in an email.
In a follow-up email, Faber further defended the note: "If stating some historical facts makes me a racist, then I suppose that I am a racist. For years, Japanese were condemned because they denied the Nanking massacre."
Elegant Weapon
Member
Even non-american white people are for confederate monuments. White supremacy is very much invested in statues and history books that uphold whites and denigrates black folks.
PanicFreak
Member
Racists: "I'm not racist but"
Narrator: "He then said the most racist thing ever"
Narrator: "He then said the most racist thing ever"
Yeah, taking Zimbabwe as an example is rich.
Obviously Zimbabwe today is a shit-show but Whites had a very very big hand in that. We don't know how Africa would have evolved without white interference.
Also claiming that America is prosperous could be disputed. The US cannot afford universal health care (at least according to their two leading parties) while a lot of other countries can afford it.
Obviously Zimbabwe today is a shit-show but Whites had a very very big hand in that. We don't know how Africa would have evolved without white interference.
Also claiming that America is prosperous could be disputed. The US cannot afford universal health care (at least according to their two leading parties) while a lot of other countries can afford it.
That wasn't even diet racism though. That was full cocaine coca-cola racism.
Always-honest
Banned
Wow.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
This dude would have some HARD questions for the new Black Panther trailer.
Phrozenflame500
Member
Wow that's a pretty transparent "not a racist but..."
Ravensmash
Member
He wrote this in his own newsletter?
Are these people are getting more and more bold / stupid.
Are these people are getting more and more bold / stupid.
SomedayTheFire
Member
"I'm not a racist but..." strikes again.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
This entire concept of "Africa is a shithole, hence blacks are uncivilized lololol" is one of the most disingenuous and fucked up arguments, that a person can make. That asshole is still trying to make that old argument of IQ difference between "races" isn't he?
Bad borders, civil unrest from post-colonization poverty, rampant diseases left untreated because of said poverty...The entire place was pillaged top to bottom. They have nothing left. These aren't facts for the guy?
When motherfuckers bring up Hong Kong (not him in particular but...) as an example of a post-colonial area that flourished I just want to bang my head on a wall.
Bad borders, civil unrest from post-colonization poverty, rampant diseases left untreated because of said poverty...The entire place was pillaged top to bottom. They have nothing left. These aren't facts for the guy?
When motherfuckers bring up Hong Kong (not him in particular but...) as an example of a post-colonial area that flourished I just want to bang my head on a wall.
I find it saddening when people point to Asia's success as some sort of argument against colonialism ruining Africa - nevermind that most of its success stories (Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, China, Thailand) were never colonized by Western powers.
Byakuya769
Member
If you say "the blacks," I can say with 100% certainty that you're racist.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
do white supremacists just ignore that africa was most likely the birthing place of our species.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Isn't this the same Marc Faber who spent most of the past decade screaming about how liberal economic policies will trigger hyperinflation and predicting massive recessions basically every year with no accuracy (aka: Buy my newsletter!)?
Good to know he's a racist as well. Scumbag.
Good to know he's a racist as well. Scumbag.
It's going to be fascinating watching the amount of people showing their ass about this lol.
Atomic Playboy
Member
Is it even possible to start a sentence with "I'm not racist but" and have the result be anything other than racist? Even if it was something totally innocuous like "I'm not racist, but Bartlett is my favorite varietal of pear," I'm immediately thinking there has to be something racially charged about pears. Never mind that a Swiss investor apparently has absolutely no idea about the history of labor in America...
1781-1865: We're not going to pay for labor.
1865-1911: OK, we'll pay, but not much, and you have to work 18 hours a day, and that goes for women and children too.
1911-1945: Fine, we'll provide ACTUAL fire exits and you can work fewer hours per week, provided we can still pay immigrants less.
1945-1980: All these fucking labor laws that have resorted in the most prosperous economy the world has ever known are really cramping our vibe. Is there any way we can be obscenely rich through exploitative practices again?
1981-present: This rich actor guy has an idea; let's just stop taxing the rich. And now that we've got more money to invest in factories in America, did you know that over in Asia, they have basically no labor laws at all? Hmmmm, what to do....
Yeah, it's the "white people" who have made all the wealth. Stealing from the oppressed; what a good investment strategy.
1781-1865: We're not going to pay for labor.
1865-1911: OK, we'll pay, but not much, and you have to work 18 hours a day, and that goes for women and children too.
1911-1945: Fine, we'll provide ACTUAL fire exits and you can work fewer hours per week, provided we can still pay immigrants less.
1945-1980: All these fucking labor laws that have resorted in the most prosperous economy the world has ever known are really cramping our vibe. Is there any way we can be obscenely rich through exploitative practices again?
1981-present: This rich actor guy has an idea; let's just stop taxing the rich. And now that we've got more money to invest in factories in America, did you know that over in Asia, they have basically no labor laws at all? Hmmmm, what to do....
Yeah, it's the "white people" who have made all the wealth. Stealing from the oppressed; what a good investment strategy.
Brotherhood93
Member
It wasn't so long ago I genuinely thought the world was in a place that anybody saying something like this would be social and professional suicide, where people knew to keep their toxic views to themselves. The scary thing is how so many people think it's a perfectly reasonable and acceptable viewpoint these days that they're willing to come out publicly and say such heinous things and even worse that there are many that will also publicly support his statements.
It's funny how he talks about how he's glad white people populated America instead of blacks almost pretending as if it wasn't populated by it's own indigenous race in the first place. Just airbrush that out of history, it was either the whites or the blacks.
It's funny how he talks about how he's glad white people populated America instead of blacks almost pretending as if it wasn't populated by it's own indigenous race in the first place. Just airbrush that out of history, it was either the whites or the blacks.
Black Republican
Member
Guess which word makes his teeth whiter?
excelsiorlef
Member
This isn't even regular coke racism let alone diet... this is old formula coke that still had cocaine in it racism
PixelatedBookake
Junior Member
If black people found America first it would've been lit
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Pictured: God.
If only brown people were in America before white people.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Lol. I'm glad he cleared that up.
Someone should tell him that if and when Africa decides to close the continent keeping everyone out, the West is in huge trouble. He also needs to be reminded that most companies listed on the stock exchange don't produce shit, but are as rich as hell because of resources they steal from Africa under the disguise of trade.
Souldriver
Member
Guys, please. He's not racist, he said it himself.
China was conquered by nearly every major power at the time and divided up from the mid 19th century to after WWII. A lot of China's success came from managing to leverage their population into a manual labor force, then moving over to industrial and skill based as they are now.
Not saying I disagree, but China was the whipping boy in Asia for quite some time(Russia, Britain, French, Japan, and Germany all had parts). So saying they were never colonized is a lie. They basically got lucky the US pushed through the China Open Door policy(Only because they had no presence).
Forerunner
Member
I am not a racist is the code word for I'm racist.
theignoramus
Member
Men like Faber believe people become victims of colonisation because they are inherently lesser peoples.
I will say,the one area where I agree Europeans have everyone else beat is in the science of warfare and organised violence.
It wasn't so long ago I thought that too, it sucks to have that illusion shattered