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Openly and explicitly promoting rational individualism is the best strategy.
in the late sixties, and it was good! -- j
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The greatest poet in Hungarian - Sandor Petro"fi - in fact magyarized his Slavic family name, Petrovich. So, anyone descended from central Europeans can pretty much choose which bunch of bohunks they want to hang out with.
But... if you form a White Student Union, then, as they are also White by descent, you have to allow African-Americans into it. Race is a social construct, and only a social construct. It has no objective reality.
In a guest sociology lecture I attended in 2010 , the visiting professor put up a picture of President Obama. "What is his race?" Several students said Black and African-American. The professor then clicked and showed the President's mother. "He does not get to pick his race. It is ascribed to him by others." Race is a social construct only.
Ethnicity is determined by culture, largely by language, also by geography.
The point is that it seems individuals do not start up and join such a group to show how silly they are because of the perceived threat from other individuals and groups who claim to represent the disadvantaged, or more likely are just bullies, and have the power of the state behind them.
Yes, to start a white student union is a political act, and probably racist, but the power of the state should be used against violence, not against opinion, association or speech.
People in glass houses ...
Everything the 'black lives matter' group does is intended to intimidate others.
At first I thought it was going to be a group doing something intentionally foolish to show how foolish group identity politics is. But they did it anonymously and posted names of people they said are anti-white. It seems like they really mean it and they're every bit as bad as any group that wants to wallow in racial identity.
I think they could do this well, but they have to be clear that it's tongue-in-cheek, that it's a way to say, "You want a group for people with dark skin who are accused of a crimes and denied Constitutional rights? Let's expand it to include all people in that situation, regardless of their appearance."