陶傑論民族性; racial hatred vs class hatred

陶傑 左翼霸權 20150625

「男人以理性見長，女人富有感性」，更是「歧視女性」，因為西方的婦權份子指控，你暗示女人缺乏理性（她們不會說：這句話也同時在歧視男性，暗示男人冷淡無情）。幾十年來，西方的社會學術界，讓左翼搞得烏烟瘴氣，而且對於左翼，這也歧視、那也禁忌，言論自由在西方受威脅。

當然，你可以說：「民族性」即使是學術，缺乏數據，既不嚴謹，而且興盛於以人類學為經緯，對人種標籤而區分，形成後來的種族主義，而希特拉以這門知識，為屠殺猶太人的種族滅絕根據，所以過時而危險。

然而，我也可以說：左翼崇尚的馬克思主義，資本論也在一百多年前出籠。馬克思將資本家與無產階級二分而標籤，預測階級革命，卻忽視了技術中產階級的興起。馬克思理論也過時而不嚴謹。

馬克思衍生了列寧，列寧再傳門徒史達林和毛澤東，馬克思主義造成二十世紀的反人類大屠殺，波爾布特和喬森潘在巴黎大學談馬克思，回國後組成赤柬，屠殺了二百萬高棉人。

如果「民族性」的理論造成「種族仇恨」，馬克思理論也造成階級仇恨。


(I always wonder what would happen if I translate Tsao Chip's controversial articles... Again, the "translation" has my additional thoughts in it and does not completely represent his opinion.)


"Men are better at rational thinking while women are more emotional," is a classic "discrimination against women": feminists accuse that it suggests women lack the ability to reason rationally (but they will not say that the same sentence is a discrimination against men, that men are cold and emotionless). For decades, leftists in the West made the "social science" academia into a mess. Freedom of expression is under threat by the leftists' constant accusations of discrimination and the taboo of racism.

One could say that the study of "ethnic characteristics" is no longer considered an academically rigorous branch of anthropology. Moreover its "labelling" of different ethnicities helped justify racism, which was then further used by Hitler to justify the Holocaust. It is therefore not only an outdated but a dangerous idea. However, one can also say that Marxism and its labelling of capitalists and the proletariat is also obsolete and not rigorous (it fails to explain the existence of middle-class, knowledge-based economy, etc). It is arguably even more dangerous: Marx inspired Lenin, who further inspired Mao Zedong and Pol Pot, who provoked class hatred among people to kill millions of people in the Far East (a fact that some Western leftists are still unwilling to accept.)

If racial hatred can be attributed to the study of "ethnic characteristics", then Marxism should be blamed for class hatred and the millions of lives it took. Which brings us to my main point - leftists happily accuse people of racial hatred every day, while spending all their lives trying to spread and provoke class hatred.