Sad!
Margaret Sullivan writes for the Washington Post:
When Harry Waters came to Newsweek magazine in 1962, “it was a discreet orgy,” he later told journalist Lynn Povich. When he interviewed, his editor described the perks: “The best part of the job is that you get to screw the researchers.”
The researchers, of course, were young women. The reporters and editors were men.
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE JULY 13, 2016:
In making the explicit assertion of white identity and grievance more widespread, Mr. Trump has galvanized the otherwise marginal world of avowed white nationalists and self-described “race realists.” They hail him as a fellow traveler who has driven millions of white Americans toward an intuitive embrace of their ideals: that race should matter as much to white people as it does to everyone else. He has freed Americans, those activists say, to say what they really believe.
“The discussion that white Americans never want to have is this question of identity — who are we?” said Richard Spencer, 38, a writer and activist whose Montana-based nonprofit is dedicated to “the heritage, identity and future of people of European descent” in the United States. “He is bringing identity politics for white people into the public sphere in a way no one has.”
…Mr. Buchanan’s 1992 and 1996 campaigns were dismissed as a political and intellectual dead end for Republicans.
“I said, ‘Look, we’re the white party,’” Mr. Buchanan said in an interview from his Virginia home, recalling his attacks on multiculturalism and non-European immigration. “‘If this continues, we’re going the way of the Whigs.’ Everyone said, ‘That’s a terrible thing to say.’”
Mr. Buchanan was campaigning against a backdrop of overwhelming white political and cultural dominance in America. But in the years that followed, the number of immigrants living in the United States illegally would double and then triple, before leveling off under the Obama administration around 11 million. Deindustrialization, driven in part by global trade, would devastate the economic fortunes of white men accustomed to making a decent living without a college degree…
Mr. Spencer, a popular figure in the white nationalist world, said he did not believe that Mr. Trump subscribed to his entire worldview. But he was struck that Mr. Trump seemed to understand and echo many of his group’s ideas intuitively, and take them to a broader audience.
“I don’t think he has thought through this issue in a way that I and a number of people have,” Mr. Spencer said. “I think he is reacting to the feeling that he has lost his country.”
…Mr. Taylor, who has written that blacks “left entirely to their own devices” are incapable of civilization, and whose magazine, American Renaissance, once published an essay arguing that blacks were genetically more prone to crime, wrote on his blog that Mr. Trump had handled the attacks on him “in the nicest way.”
Like others in his world, Mr. Taylor does not know if Mr. Trump agrees with him on everything. In an interview, he suggested that it did not really matter, and that Mr. Trump was expressing the discomfort many white people felt about other races.
“Ordinary white people don’t want the neighborhood to turn Mexican,” Mr. Taylor said, adding, “They just realize that large numbers of Mexicans will change the neighborhood in ways they don’t like.”
* This Black Lives Matter stuff is so completely over the top ridiculous. The counter points are so calm, logical, and obvious. I’m actually sick of hearing them.
I love this quote straight from the Black Lives Matter main values web page:
“We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family”
That is just so nuts, it would horrify even the hard core leftists that I know.
Even some lifelong Democrats I know in NYC are absolutely horrified by de Blasio.
* Because the disruption of the “Western-prescribed nuclear family” has worked out so well for black people.
Then again, “disrupting” the “Western-prescribed nuclear family” would be an electoral benefit to the blue team, because, as we all know, from reading Steve Sailer all these years, the white cishet nuclear family and the ability to form them is directly and almost perfectly correlated with red team political success. I suspect Democrat partisan loyalty rather than black racial concern is the prime reason BLM lists that as a “value.”
* I’ve never met a black NYer who actually liked Giuliani. He was despised by black NYers long before 9/11. Any efforts of his administration to make black neighborhoods safer bore him zero goodwill.
* I looked at that webpage and was also surprised to learn that BLM was founded by three women: A daughter of Nigerian immigrants who grew up in Arizona, a black lesbian from LA who has a biracial transgender spouse, and another queer-identified black woman from LA with a strong interest in West African divination as practiced in Vodou and Santería.
With roots so far outside the traditional black American mainstream, it’s really surprising how much encouragement BLM has received from the media and establishment, especially considering that there’s been a national surge in black on black violence since it was handed the megaphone a couple of years ago. If the BLM leadership is as savvy and self-interested as they appear to be, I wouldn’t be surprised if they secretly plan on voting for Trump just to prolong their careers…
It’s especially ironic that one of the BLM founders is the child of Nigerian immigrants. Their black lives mattered… and that’s why they left Nigeria to come to the US where they knew they’d be safe! Does she miss the tribal violence? Is that what this is about?
* What happens when you have a showdown with nature, nature wins. Nature has been separating species by means of race as Darwin noticed with finches. All that is happening is nature is asserting her will.
* What you won’t hear, except from me, is that “Let the good times roll” is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society.
* Not long ago, Steve asked us what the Left’s next big concerted push would be, since their World War Gay & Tranny offensives succeeded.
I think that we are seeing the answer now. It’s not something new & exciting like normalizing pedophilia or incest or polygamy like many predicted.
Instead it looks like they are going back to their OG issue: White racism.
Maybe we are looking at a ratcheting cyclic pattern: Lead with race stuff to establish moral bona fides, follow that up with woman stuff & end with sexual preference stuff.
We’ve seen it before in the 60′s: Civil Rights –> Women’s Lib –> Stonewall. Then again in the 90′s: PC Culture –> Rape Culture hysteria –> ACT UP.
And someone could make the case that the recent World War T victory was the and of another cycle that started in the 2000′s with the launch of the White Privilege concept.
Each time, the Left pushes the envelope of anti straight white Christian male rhetoric & demands further & further.
The Civil Rights demands for treating blacks equally morphed into a demand for special perks & privileges through affirmative action & a refusal to notice black misbehavior through Political Correctness. Now Black Lives Matters is demanding that whites allow blacks to do & have whatever they want, without interference from white (or even black) authorities in any manner.
I can’t wait to see what other treats this next cycle has in store for me.
* One time I was at the White House Correspondents Dinner (when Colbert notoriously addressed W.) and was lucky to meet Justice Thomas. I mentioned we shared an intellectual hero in Thomas Sowell, and the immediate reaction from the judge was “Oh he’s a wiz at math!” A couple years later I read The Bell Curve and then The Bell Curve Wars and emailed John Derbyshire for his opinion of Sowell’s opinion included in the latter. His response was to the effect, Tom doesn’t know the math enough to know what follows what on the matter. From that I deduce that the black intellect is prone to oversights in subtle ways more complicated than brute IQ. On that note, consider this passage from Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith I just recently enjoyed:
“Belief in experience is the beginning of that bold instinctive art, more plastic than the instinct of most animals, by which man has raised himself to his earthly eminence: it opens the gates of nature to him, both within him and without, and enables him to transmute his apprehension, at first merely AESTHETIC, into MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE. This is so great a step that most minds cannot take it. They stumble, and remain entangled in poetry and in gnomic wisdom. Science and reasonable virtue, which plunge their roots in the soil of nature, are to this day only partially welcome and understood. Although they bring freedom in the end, the approach to them seems sacrificial, and many prefer to live in the glamor of intuition, not having the courage to believe in experience.”
I think that passage is worth rereading, and hints at all sort of contexts we are currently living midst. Smartphone nation could be considered consonant with an evolution in criminal science, as Steve has said. But what we are seeing from blacks is more akin to an aesthetic intuition, in the sense that these murders and shootings would fit snug a dramatic script, and drama is not usually rational. This stuff is out of some apocalyptic movie. With the native judgment we know they enjoy, we should now know what such cinema as the two videos that sparked the latest incidents moves particulars of that certain population to do. It seems life can imitate art by anticipating it.
* A Democratic National Committee staffer was beaten and shot dead as he walked home. I’ll bet the guy who murdered him was a black man riled-up by all the recent scheming on the part of the Democratic National Committee. They seem to think they’re immune to the effects of their own machiavellianism.
* Sometimes when the police try to arrest someone who is armed and actively engaged in a crime, they shoot at the police in an attempt to get away. Shots were fired causing the call. It might have been gang related, a robbery gone wrong or an altercation that got out of hand.
I don’t like it when the President jumps to conclusions knowing little more than the parties involved.
* Restraint, whilst being the solution demanded by liberals, Leach and Obama, is not the answer for blacks. Blacks only respect strength and the threat of violence. Restraint is liable to increase violence. To understand black behavior in the US, you need to study it in Africa. Since blacks have been interacting with whites in South Africa for 350 years, it would be a suitable place to do this. Of course nobody wants to touch it, because invariably it would lead to Apartheid being rehabilitated. Many politicians and media elites know this.
Black on white interaction is culturally doomed. The best you can achieve is a form of implicit Apartheid, much like the way Israel deals with Palestinians within Israel. Most blacks need simple uncomplicated jobs. The black high-performers which the media like to rub in our faces, are mostly AA creations meant to shame and intimidate whites. They add no real value to black society. Most simple jobs have been offshored, so Trump’s ideas, if implemented, are likely to improve the wealth and self-esteem of ordinary blacks. Then in the black areas black police officers keep the peace, but the rules need to be different from white areas, much more in accordance with traditional African tribal law, since blacks psychologically cannot cope with the moral and legal demands of European and US law. This psychological overload is the source of much of the black violence against cops. That was the reason why white South Africa kept traditional tribal law in place in black areas. Everything else is a train wreck.
Obama and the Soros-elites are just creating an environment where blacks can live out their grievances, offences and hatreds against whites. This is what the mostly western revolutionary elite (run by the usual suspects) did in South Africa as well. The idea is to max. chaos and intimidate ordinary whites into relinquising power. Yet they have no solution for the incompatibility of blacks with white legal systems, because it is not what they are after.
* Black Panther leader urges creation of ‘black’ country: Alabama part of ‘nation-within-a-nation’
A leader in the People’s New Black Panther Party is urging the creation of a new country within in the U.S.
Babu Omowale, the national minister of defense for the People’s New Black Panther Party, told radio host Aaron Klein his group and others are working to establish a government in a nation within a nation. The five states that would make up the new nation would be Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.
“We just need to start migrating back to those states and taking control of the economics in those states. If black people move in, most definitely white people will move out. So it’s not a hard process for us to have our own country within a country,” Omowale told Klein. The comments were first reported on Breitbart News, a conservative website.
Omowale later elaborated saying the short-term steps would be to work to control economies and politics in each of the areas.
Omowale’s comments came amid growing tensions over the police-involved shootings of two black men followed by the slaying of five Dallas policeman last week.
