Tomislav Sunic: O předsudcích a diskriminaci

[...] The word "prejudice" must be put into linguistic perspective, as this word has the common root with the word "prejudgment", which is part of the biological and psychological makeup in human speciation without which any civilization would collapse. When properly used, writes Alan McGregor, prejudice serves as a useful intellectual tool in comparing and contrasting and as a short cut in reaching important decisions. Undoubtedly, all humans discriminate, be that in choice of their mates, friends, or against their political enemies (např. Malý čtenář Délského potápěče pozn. Waldgänger). Nation-state building is a process carried out by the principles of "in-group" and "out-group" discrimination, wherein a tribe or an ethnic group , in a manner of extended family, prefers to interact with its own in-group members. People of same racial ethnicity, in this case white Americans, are more or less genetically similar and will, therefore, tend to display overt or covert prejudices against other racial groups. For numerous authors, particularly in the fields of sociobiology, xenophobia and racial prejudice are inherent in all human beings since they are "the natural and biological consequences of parental selections." Ethnic or racial discrimination, let alone charges of anti-Semitism, are viewed in postmodern Americanism as the ultimate intellectual sin.
But is not, after all, friendship also a form of the most subtle form of discrimination in view of the fact that an individual cannot be friends with all people on earth? One discriminates when mating and in sexual relationships, a point often made by prominent sociobiologists, but who are often targets of criticism by their liberal opponents. Long ago, an American author close to the school of thought dealing with sociobiology, Dr. William Shockley, wrote that those who persist in holding views of ethnic exclusion regarding heredity and race "are denied tenure and research funds, physically threatened, and shouted off platforms." Similar views on human diversity, let alone public ostracism of academics who argue that race and heredity play significant role in social and political behavior, have been legion in Europe and America. However, in the best of all worlds, in so-called free America, certain dogmatic views, particularly those regarding the sacred Jewish question and inherent goodnes of non-European races, are imposed by force and must be accepted by all.
When a human being makes a specific choice in his life, he automatically discards other options and reject other propisitons, even if this act may hurt a fellow human being. Examples abound: In postmodern America and Europe, if a citizen shows in public positive prejudices i.e., by making laudatory comments about some racial groups, he can fearlessly resort to grammatical constructs without using embellishing qualifiers and disclaimers. Thus, one can hear in America that "African-Americans are good singers and basketball players." There is nothing wrong with this general statement which implies that some blacks are not gifted for playing basketball. By contrast, a general statement that "African-Americans are prone to violence and that they are not family-oriented," can earn a person who uttered those words the label of being a "racist". One can also sometimes hear remarks that "Jews are good musicians" - and hardly anybody will object to this more or less well documented fact. However, avoiding the qualifier "some", and saying that "Jews are very rich", may cause social objections and is prudently avoided by many America's public discourse. In other words, if an author were to display a critical view about some non-European ethnic group or race in America [...] he had better be prepared to use the whole arsenal diminutives and make the sure he frames his critical argument in conditional sentences. By equiping himself with loads of disclaimers an author critical of Americanism and its numerous social derivatives such as globalism, liberalism, egalitarianism, can secure himself a professional exit, in case he needs one in an emergency. It may come in handy if he needs to plead professional ignorance.

Tomislav Sunic: Homo Americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age, 2007, str. 13-15