Rejecting Xenophilia
Anti-racism is a xenophilic ideology. It is the opposite of xenophobia.
The word is a synthesis from the Greek "xenos" (ξένος) (stranger, unknown, foreign) and "philos" (φίλος) (love, attraction).*
It is an affiliation for and love for those different from oneself even when that feeling is not commiserated. With young children, and especially babies, they naturally express an unease and fear of those they do not know or trust. This phenomena is amplified with peoples who look radically different from what the infant is familiar with. This distrust of the Other is not rooted in racism but an evolutionary defense mechanism. The child cries when the kidnapper approaches to alert those whom it trusts to protect it. Throughout Western world, such a response is considered an aberration against nature, immoral, and an evil that in many places is illegal.* The cause for it's solution, as is so commonly heard in the corporate media and education industrial complex, that it must be denounced and solved through the means of State approved education and regulated media content. To be xenophobic is childish, an immature and ignorant response to the reality of the friendly Other all over the world. Such is the xenophilic point of view.
The Bay Area National Anarchists reject this argument.
Although there is certainly nothing to be gained through senseless hating of the Other, there is much less to be gained through accepting the good will of confidence men (and women) who disarm their quarry with kindness. San Francisco residents, and many other communities of the Bay Area, are victims of having their confidence in others good will to the point that those people are no longer existent in many places of communities they once lived. Alameda, Vallejo, Oakland, San Francisco, South San Francisco, the list goes on of communities transformed by certain Senators and Mayors that made millions of dollars from the scam as paid for by wealthy business associations that cater to the interests of certain communities.* How long will the happy face fool the citizens of these lands?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophily
** http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1566763/School-probes-racism-claim-against-boy,-four.html
*** One of the most obvious examples of this occurred recently, I doubt that Gavin Newsom was in Israel recently just for the alcohol.
The word is a synthesis from the Greek "xenos" (ξένος) (stranger, unknown, foreign) and "philos" (φίλος) (love, attraction).*
It is an affiliation for and love for those different from oneself even when that feeling is not commiserated. With young children, and especially babies, they naturally express an unease and fear of those they do not know or trust. This phenomena is amplified with peoples who look radically different from what the infant is familiar with. This distrust of the Other is not rooted in racism but an evolutionary defense mechanism. The child cries when the kidnapper approaches to alert those whom it trusts to protect it. Throughout Western world, such a response is considered an aberration against nature, immoral, and an evil that in many places is illegal.* The cause for it's solution, as is so commonly heard in the corporate media and education industrial complex, that it must be denounced and solved through the means of State approved education and regulated media content. To be xenophobic is childish, an immature and ignorant response to the reality of the friendly Other all over the world. Such is the xenophilic point of view.
The Bay Area National Anarchists reject this argument.
Although there is certainly nothing to be gained through senseless hating of the Other, there is much less to be gained through accepting the good will of confidence men (and women) who disarm their quarry with kindness. San Francisco residents, and many other communities of the Bay Area, are victims of having their confidence in others good will to the point that those people are no longer existent in many places of communities they once lived. Alameda, Vallejo, Oakland, San Francisco, South San Francisco, the list goes on of communities transformed by certain Senators and Mayors that made millions of dollars from the scam as paid for by wealthy business associations that cater to the interests of certain communities.* How long will the happy face fool the citizens of these lands?
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophily
** http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1566763/School-probes-racism-claim-against-boy,-four.html
*** One of the most obvious examples of this occurred recently, I doubt that Gavin Newsom was in Israel recently just for the alcohol.
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