Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.
The concept of “white folks” is entirely unscientific, it’s an American cultural construction.
But yes, I am indeed saying that we just need to give other cultures time and we will all end up at the same destination. I don’t essentialize humans by their arbitrary racial characteristics.
I think you miss the point of history and cultural legacies.
I’m not making the argument that genocidal violence is in the genetic markup of white folks.
White folks is broadly speaking “European-descended people”.
I think this group of people is… Special in this regard. Most likely due to infighting and a long history of savagery - not due to their DNA!
So… Other peoples won’t necessarily have this brutal background, and so would not necessarily have done what white folks did.
I think owning up to the uniqueness of what it means to be white, or European-descendant, is an interesting project. And that project should not be tossed aside by some rationalisation that, incidentally, is terribly convenient for… white folks.
The concept of “white folks” is entirely unscientific, it’s an American cultural construction.
But yes, I am indeed saying that we just need to give other cultures time and we will all end up at the same destination. I don’t essentialize humans by their arbitrary racial characteristics.
I think you miss the point of history and cultural legacies.
I’m not making the argument that genocidal violence is in the genetic markup of white folks.
White folks is broadly speaking “European-descended people”.
I think this group of people is… Special in this regard. Most likely due to infighting and a long history of savagery - not due to their DNA!
So… Other peoples won’t necessarily have this brutal background, and so would not necessarily have done what white folks did.
I think owning up to the uniqueness of what it means to be white, or European-descendant, is an interesting project. And that project should not be tossed aside by some rationalisation that, incidentally, is terribly convenient for… white folks.