The Swiss Handshake

This came in my email:

Sometimes it’s the little things that are most telling.

In Switzerland it has long been customary for students to shake
the hands of their teachers at the beginning and end of the school
day. It’s a sign of solidarity and mutual respect between teacher
and pupil, one that is thought to encourage the right classroom
atmosphere. Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga recently felt
compelled to further explain that shaking hands was part of Swiss
culture and daily life.

And the reason she felt compelled to speak out about the
handshake is that two Muslim brothers, aged 14 and 15, who have
lived in Switzerland for several years (and thus are familiar with its
mores), in the town of Therwil, near Basel, refused to shake the
hands of their teacher, a woman, because, they claimed, this would
violate Muslim teachings that contact with the opposite sex is
allowed only with family members. At first the school authorities
decided to avoid trouble, and initially granted the boys an
exemption from having to shake the hand of any female teacher.
But an uproar followed, as Mayor Reto Wolf explained to the BBC:
“The community was unhappy with the decision taken by the school.
In our culture and in our way of communication a handshake is
normal and sends out respect for the other person, and this has to
be brought home to the children in school.”

Therwil’s Educational Department reversed the school’s decision,
explaining in a statement on May 25that the school’s exemption
was lifted because “the public interest with respect to equality
between men and women and the integration of foreigners
significantly outweighs the freedom of religion.” It added that a
teacher has the right to demand a handshake. Furthermore, if the
students refused to shake hands again “the sanctions called for
by law will be applied,” which included a possible fine of up to
5,000 dollars.

This uproar in Switzerland, where many people were enraged
at the original exemption granted to the Muslim boys, did not
end after that exemption was itself overturned by the local
Educational Department. The Swiss understood quite clearly
that this was more than a little quarrel over handshakes; it was
a fight over whether the Swiss would be masters in their own
house, or whether they would be forced to yield, by the
granting of special treatment, to the Islamic view of the proper
relations between the sexes. It is one battle – small but to the
Swiss significant – between overweening Muslim immigrants
and the indigenous Swiss.

Naturally, once the exemption was withdrawn, all hell broke
loose among Muslims in Switzerland. The Islamic Central
Council of Switzerland, instead of yielding quietly to the Swiss
decision to uphold the handshaking custom, criticized the
ruling in hysterical terms, claiming that the enforcement of the
handshaking is “totalitarian” (!) because its intent is to “forbid
religious people from meeting their obligations to God.” That,
of course, was never the “intent” of the long-standing
handshaking custom, which was a nearly-universal custom in
Switzerland, and in schools had to do only with encouraging
the right classroom atmosphere of mutual respect between
instructor and pupil, of which the handshake was one aspect.

The Swiss formulation of the problem – weighing competing
claims — will be familiar to Americans versed in Constitutional
adjudication. In this case “the public interest with respect to
equality” of the sexes and the “integration of foreigners” (who
are expected to adopt Swiss ways, not force the Swiss to
exempt them from some of those ways) were weighed against
the “religious obligations to God” of Muslims, and the former
interests found to outweigh the latter.

What this case shows is that even at the smallest and
seemingly inconsequential level, Muslims are challenging the
laws and customs of the Infidels among whom they have
been allowed to settle [i.e., stealth jihad toward sharia
dominance]. Each little victory, or defeat, will determine
whether Muslims will truly integrate into a Western society or,
instead, refashion that society to meet Muslim requirements.

The handshake has been upheld and, what’s more, a stiff
fine now will be imposed on those who continue to refuse to
shake hands with a female teacher. This is a heartening sign
of non-surrender by the Swiss. But the challenges of the
Muslims within Europe to the laws and customs of the
indigenes have no logical end and will not stop. And the
greater the number of Muslims allowed to settle in Europe,
the stronger and more frequent their challenges will be.
They are attempting not to integrate, but rather to create,
for now, a second, parallel society, and eventually, through
sheer force of numbers from both migration and by
outbreeding the Infidels, to fashion not a parallel society
but one society — now dominated by Muslim sharia.

The Swiss handshaking dispute has received some, but
not enough, press attention. Presumably, it’s deemed too
inconsequential a matter to bother with. But the Swiss
know better. And so should we.

There’s an old Scottish saying that in one variant reads:
“Many a little makes a mickle.” That is, the accumulation
of many little things leads to one big thing. That’s what’s
happening in Europe today. This was one victory for the
side of sanity. There will need to be a great many more.

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‘Trump’s divergence from the conventional Republican platform is generating indignant punditry from neocons and neoliberals alike’

PERIES: So let’s take a look at this article by Paul Krugman. Where is he going with this analysis about the Siberian candidate?

HUDSON: Well, Krugman has joined the ranks of the neocons, as well as the neoliberals, and they’re terrified that they’re losing control of the Republican Party. For the last half-century the Republican Party has been pro-Cold War, corporatist. And Trump has actually, is reversing that. Reversing the whole traditional platform. And that really worries the neocons.

Until his speech, the whole Republican Convention, every speaker had avoided dealing with economic policy issues. No one referred to the party platform, which isn’t very good. And it was mostly an attack on Hillary. Chants of “lock her up.” And Trump children, aimed to try to humanize him and make him look like a loving man.

But finally came Trump’s speech, and this was for the first time, policy was there. And he’s making a left run around Hillary. He appealed twice to Bernie Sanders supporters, and the two major policies that he outlined in the speech broke radically from the Republican traditional right-wing stance. And that is called destroying the party by the right wing, and Trump said he’s not destroying the party, he’s building it up and appealing to labor, and appealing to the rational interest that otherwise had been backing Bernie Sanders.

So in terms of national security, he wanted to roll back NATO spending. And he made it clear, roll back military spending. We can spend it on infrastructure, we can spend it on employing American labor. And in the speech, he said, look, we don’t need foreign military bases and foreign spending to defend our allies. We can defend them from the United States, because in today’s world, the only kind of war we’re going to have is atomic war. Nobody’s going to invade another country. We’re not going to send American troops to invade Russia, if it were to attack. So nobody’s even talking about that. So let’s be realistic.

Well, being realistic has driven other people crazy. Not only did Krugman say that Trump would, quote, actually follow a pro-Putin foreign policy at the expense of America’s allies, and he’s referring to the Ukraine, basically, and it’s at–he’s become a lobbyist for the military-industrial complex. But also, at the Washington Post you had Anne Applebaum call him explicitly the Manchurian candidate, referring to the 1962 movie, and rejecting the neocon craziness. This has just driven them nutty because they’re worried of losing the Republican Party under Trump.

In economic policy, Trump also opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the TTIP trade and corporate power grab [inaud.] with Europe to block public regulation. And this was also a major plank of Bernie Sanders’ campaign against Hillary, which Trump knows. The corporatist wings of both the Republican and the Democratic Parties fear that Trump’s opposition to NAFTA and TPP will lead the Republicans not to push through in the lame duck session after November. The whole plan has been that once the election’s over, Obama will then get all the Republicans together and will pass the Republican platform that he’s been pushing for the last eight years. The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement with Europe, and the other neoliberal policies.

And now that Trump is trying to rebuild the Republican Party, all of that is threatened. And so on the Republican side of the New York Times page you had David Brooks writing “The death of the Republican Party.” So what Trump calls the rebirth of the Republican Party, it means the death of the reactionary, conservative, corporatist, anti-labor Republican Party.

And when he wrote this, quote, Trump is decimating the things Republicans stood for: NATO, entitlement reform, in other words winding back Social Security, and support of the corporatist Trans-Pacific Partnership. So it’s almost hilarious to see what happens. And Trump also has reversed the traditional Republican fiscal responsibility austerity policy, that not a word about balanced budgets anymore. And he said he was going to run at policy to employ American labor and put it back to work on infrastructure. Again, he’s made a left runaround Hillary. He says he wants to reinstate Glass-Steagall, whereas the Clintons were the people that got rid of it.

And this may be for show, simply to brand Hillary as Wall Street’s candidate. But it also seems to actually be an attack on Wall Street. And Trump’s genius was to turn around all the attacks on him as being a shady businessman. He said, look, nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it. Now, what that means, basically, as a businessman, he knows the fine print by which they’ve been screwing the people. So only someone like him knows how to fight against Wall Street. After all, he’s been screwing the Wall Street banks for years [inaud.]. And he can now fight for the population fighting against Wall Street, just as he’s been able to stiff the banks.

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‘J’ouvert, the annual all-night musical street party that precedes the Caribbean Day Parade, is going to be heavily policed’

Comment: —–Violence “has hijacked the celebration of the Caribbean culture,” Adams said. “We want to free the community and that culture from that violence.”—–

Take out the violence and what is left in Caribbean culture?

It’s funny. Blacks hate cops.
But more blacks at any social event means the need for more cops to maintain the peace among violent blacks.
But when cops do their job, blacks bitch ‘racism’.

If blacks acted peaceable, there would be less need for police presence.

But blacks act wild. Therefore, need for more police presence.
But then, blacks just blame the police for the violence.

And the affluent Libs rely on police for their own protection but then mouth proggy platitudes about BLM to seem righteous.

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The Rise of Racial Alchemy

Robert Weissberg writes:

Since the 1960s Washington has launched countless programs in what might be characterized as “racial alchemy” whose purpose is to make blacks nearly identical to whites in income, educational achievement, vocational status, being law abiding, eschewing welfare dependency and multiple other measures of equality. Despite all the billions, perhaps trillions, the results have been disappointing. But, almost invisibly, the enterprise has been transformed. It has evolved from one of seeking concrete results to one of manufacturing the illusion of equality. Success is now calibrated by cosmetic criteria–recall Oscar Wilde’s quip that only shallow people do not judge by appearances.

The racial Potemkin village is everywhere and let me depict only a few of the more obvious manifestations (I’ll skip TV sitcoms, the movies, video games, comics and book prizes). Consider the sudden appearance of well-spoken, well-dressed, “white speaking” blacks in TV commercials. A Martian who knew the US exclusively from watching TV would conclude that blacks comprised at least a third of the population and, without exception, lived as intact Ossie and Harriet-like families in bucolic suburban homes (the sole exception I’ve encountered is a State Farm commercial where the satisfied female customer is “ghetto” in speech and hairdo). One GMC truck commercial prominently features a black conducting a symphony orchestra. Add lots of good-looking typically young inter-racial couples and racially mixed groups of working class men quaffing a few beers together. Black actors also often portray doctors advising their white patients on the latest pharmaceutical products or explaining MRI’s to worried elderly white cancer patients. Highly presentable Ph.D’s of color likewise populate PBS-like scientific TV documentaries.

Today’s racial alchemy reaches industrial levels when it comes to black crime. Gruesome black-on-white murders only appear on the local news (if then) and would be almost non-existent save for politically incorrect websites that pass it along to wider audiences. And when black crime does escape containment, it is usually sanitized—accounts of black wildings at malls use terms like “youths’ or “teenagers” while black perpetrators are often race-less though crime details make it easy to identify the perpetrator as black. Meanwhile, those who somehow get on TV to challenge Black Lives Matter rhetoric with Department of Justice statistics on inter-racial violence get their ten seconds of fame before quickly being shouted down as racists. And let’s not forget rolling back broken windows policy as a way of “reducing” crime.”

A similar ubiquity infuses education. Difficult-to-boost test scores have been replaced by more malleable graduation statistics while performances on Advanced Placement exams (Chapter 5) are now often measured by the sheer number of “minorities” who take these exams. Similarly, large numbers of blacks are now pushed into gifted programs though they fail to meet the necessary academic criteria. Sustaining the charade are school officials who turn a blind eye to cheating on government mandated tests. Then there’s using grandiose names for disguising mediocre schools—only 14% of the graduates of the Bronx-based largely Hispanic and black Archimedes Academy for Math, Science and Technology Applications are academically ready for New York City’s flagship public college (as defined by not needing remedial classes) despite the school’s august sounding name. Further add Department of Justice consent decrees to close historic race-related gaps in school discipline. Nor is higher education immune to the construction of this racial fantasy land as even elite schools continue to embrace affirmative action and offer easy-to-pass majors such as Black Studies all the while hiring marginally qualified black academics to diversify once monochromatic departments.

Our public vocabulary has shifted to toward abstractions to absolve blacks from any personal responsibility for their plight. There are no lazy, intellectual inept black students; all want to learn but, sadly, have the misfortune to attend bad, often vandalized schools. Young blacks now, allegedly, commit crimes because they have the bad luck to live in a crime-ridden neighborhood and cannot find work because all the jobs have left town. And so many are in jail due to the government’s policy of mass incarceration. Read on.

COMMENTS:

* American TV also glamorizes miscegenation. This choice is generally not good advice however. Bi-racialism can alienate children from their parents as well as their community. A white female who chooses to bear a black child is putting her offspring in a disadvantaged position and in underachieving class. Race correlates strongly with IQ and any number of behavior traits. This should not be ignored. Yet it is.

When white females bear black children, they usually end up raising the child alone since black fathers often disappear. The white mother is then left particularly isolated since white males do not want to raise a black man’s baby. This causes further stress on mother and child alike.

The children of interracial romance also suffer from identity issues. This spreads hardship throughout the family and into the community.

Miscegenation is very risky. It should not be glamorized by TV/Hollywood. Yet it is.

* I like the one where the White couple are destroying their house to avoid having to call their insurance man while next door and the brilliant Blacks bought AllState (or whomever). Those folks are the epitome of the .0001% of Blacks pushed as the average. And, average Blacks would hate all the successful Blacks in ads because by being successful, they are “acting White”. There are a million of these examples now, of course.

Now what kind of street cred does a conventionally successful (degree and an honest profession, wife and family) Black have? Zero. The Blacks in the ghetto would hate those folks because that path is what White folks take to success. That of course is abhorrent to low-rent Blacks because that path means hard work, in spite of how easy it’s become for Blacks to take that path. And true to form, any Black kid with the instinct to learn and succeed is derided and beaten up at school (ghetto schools that is) for acting White. That one aspect is huge, I suspect, bigger than we know.

* How come black women don’t have curly hair anymore? Watching the convention I marveled at Michelle’s do.

Their hair straightening treatments are both a fiscal and ecological catastrophe. We are talking toxic chemicals flushed into the water supply and financed by the taxpayers.

* There’s a channel on YouTube run by a Japanese guy. Foreigners send him questions about Japan and he uses them to interview random Japanese people on the street. When asked, one Japanese girl thought the African American population was close to 50% of the US, no doubt because of media depictions.

* Let’s not forget Diverse Alchemy.

All those ‘refugees’ flooding into Europe will become doctors and engineers.

Let’s not forget homo alchemy and tranny alchemy. Bunghole is a sex organ and a penis can turn into a vagina.

And there is sexual alchemy. Women will save American business. There was Ellen Pao. Now this one [Marissa Mayer].

* When I ask my Taiwanese students about the demographics of the US, especially concerning blacks, these educated professionals routinely make guesses in the 35 – 45% range. The squeaky wheel gets the media coverage. Perhaps more surprising is the fact that US citizens also believe that blacks make up at least 25% of the population.

* My fave commercial is the Liberty Mutual one where the woman is mocking the man because she got a rebate check for “superior driving”.

Apparently for women, failing to have two accidents a year constitutes driving excellence.

* Racial alchemy indeed. Little green men watching American TV would get the impression that blacks are America’s leading citizens and represent an intellectual elite. It seems every police chief is black and most judges are black females. Only on TV are the criminals mostly white and the cops mostly black.

Blacks are never depicted as exclusively evil in movies. If an evil black or two is required then it will be balanced by equally evil whites and good blacks. After all, we don’t what those white people in flyover country getting the wrong ideas about race or looking askance at the black man.

The popular TV series The Walking Dead is a perfect example of this longstanding industry trend where goodwhites and blacks ban together against badwhites and blacks. But the really dastardly characters are almost always white like the governor.

And it’s Weissbergs co-racialists in the entertainment industry who are responsible for that which he laments. If his folk were true to their principles they would be churning out movies about Israeli women falling madly in love with Palestinian Muslims and depicting Muslims as leading members of Israeli society. They would include stories about the legendary size of the Palestinian Muslim man’s genitalia and his unmatched sexual prowess much like they promote the black man and sell him to brainless and naive white women in America which has produced legions of mulattoes.

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Dennis Prager: Trump’s Speech Wasn’t ‘Dark’ Enough

Dennis Prager writes: One of the many remarkable traits of the progressives is their lack of self-awareness.
This trait was on display last week in the media and Democratic Party’s characterization of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech — and the entire Republican National Convention — as “dark.”
For the left to dismiss other Americans as having a dark view of America is preposterous.
Because no one — not Trump, not the Republican Party, not any conservative — has nearly as dark a view of America as does the left.
Across the board — from the universities to the media to the Democratic Party — the left, around the world and in America, has an unremittingly dark view of the United States.
Here’s a brief glimpse.
–Racism “is part of our (American) DNA,” President Barack Obama said in 2015. Is there anything Trump said in his acceptance speech that is as dark about America as that?
–On July Fourth weekend, Vox published a long column arguing “3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake.”
–The most widely read historian in American high schools and colleges, the late left-wing professor Howard Zinn, was asked (by me) whether he thought the United States had done more good or more bad in the world. “Probably more bad than good,” he answered.
–The left regularly characterizes the United States as a sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist and bigoted country.
–Our wars are wars for imperialist expansion, driven by material greed.
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–The top 1 percent relentlessly exploits the other 99 percent.
–America is rigged against blacks, Hispanics and the 99 percent.
–Cops kill unarmed blacks proportionately more than they kill unarmed whites because so many cops are racist.
–About 1 in 5 female college students are sexually assaulted on campus.
Is there anything in Trump’s speech that can match any of those left-wing views of the United States for “darkness”?
Moreover, every one of those leftist critiques of America is false.
Nevertheless, we are in a dark time in America. In fact, Trump didn’t make the case for America’s darkness nearly effectively enough.
–Our universities — outside of the natural sciences — are being destroyed as learning institutions. They close minds, censor speech and indoctrinate rather than educate.
–Blacks have more anger toward whites and America than at any time since the civil rights era.
–American students are learning less while being indoctrinated more. They graduate high school barely able to write a coherent essay with proper sentence structure, grammar and spelling. But they know all about the existential threat allegedly posed by fossil fuels.
–According to a recent Gallup Poll, fewer young Americans than at any time since polling began are proud to be Americans.
–A greater percentage of Americans are dependent upon government for their income and even for food than at any time in American history.
–The American national debt is the highest it has ever been. And it is increasing at a rate that can only lead to an economic implosion.
–A smaller percentage of Americans are married than at any time in American history.
–Americans are having fewer children than ever.
–Fewer businesses in proportion to the general population are being started than ever before.
–Sectors of major American cities are essentially killing zones.
–Fewer Americans than ever before believe in God, go to church or affirm Judeo-Christian values, the basic moral code of America’s founding and of Western civilization.
–Only 2 in 10 black children are born to a married mother.
Is that dark enough?
And the list is only a partial one.
Moreover, every one of those dark facts is the result of left-wing policies, left-wing politicians, left-wing writers, left-wing professors and the left-wing party, the Democratic Party.

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