THE WHITE INVENTOR ARGUMENT says that we know white people are better than everyone else because of all their wonderful inventions.
THE WHITE INVENTOR ARGUMENT has three main uses:
1. To prove that whites are better and the world is better off despite whatever racism they may have practised.
2. To change the subject. People of colour hate this argument and will jump on it, pushing aside whatever it was that was argued about before, ready with a long list of black inventions, explanations, theories and ancient black civilisations like Egypt or something, the conversation will go something like this and then.
THE BLACK "We built pyramids, had many black civilisations in Africa, fathers of maths and literature, while the white man lived in his caves in Europe"
THE WHITE "The Egyptians weren't black"
THE BLACK "They were"
THE WHITE "They weren't" and so on and so on and once THE BLACK has semi-proved there Egyptians were black THE WHITE will up the anti and reply with "Well, if Africa was so great, then why is it now such a sewer"
Once again THE BLACK will have to take a defensive position and give THE WHITE a beginners guide to colonialism, racism and exploitation, then THE WHITE will play his ace card and reply with "You just want to blame whitey" and thus there it will end, not that THE WHITE cared in THE BLACKS explanations, THE WHITE just wanted to change the subject from whatever uncomfortable thing they were saying about whites.
3. To point out that x would not even be possible without white people. So like if they are arguing about how racist a film is, just point out that film was invented by whites, so shut up already.
With the THE WHITE INVENTOR ARGUMENT whites can act as if whites invented everything, as if it is an uncommon gift that the whole world has been blessed with through the overflowing kindness of white people.
What is wrong with THE WHITE INVENTOR ARGUMENT :
1. Doing something good does not excuse doing something bad. More particularly, inventing x does not give you or anyone else the right to misuse x. The invention of television, for example, does not excuse using it to push stereotypes about blacks.
2. If inventions “prove” one part of mankind is better than all the rest, then the Chinese and Egyptians have a way better claim than whites.
The four inventions that made possible the rise of whites to world power were all Chinese : Gunpowder, The Compass, Paper and Printing. The Egyptians invented civilization itself along with stuff like writing, calendars, irrigation and so on. They made huge pyramids that no has been able to match. Egypt was the most advanced part of the world for over 2,000 years – twice as long as even China. True, most of the important inventions of the past few hundred years were made by white people. But that is only because they have been on top during that time.
If you assume that the largest city will tend to be in the most advanced part of world, then you can say how many years different people have been on top:
• 2072 Egyptian
• 974 Chinese
• 364 Roman
• 360 Sumerian/Babylonian
• 359 Persian
• 285 Greek
• 281 Arab
• 140 Anglo
Anglo power – British and American – is fresh in our minds, but it is merely the latest chapter in the book of history. And that is the Historical Context that this argument forgets. If it was because white people are born with more brains, then white people would have been on top throughout human history – instead of just a fifth of it.
