A Visit To Seoul

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Martin Van Creveld writes:

My hotel, The Lotte, is reputed to be the best in Korea. Clean, posh, with very good service. The buffet is famous. Though a bit expensive, of course. Which made me wonder how come so many guests are young. My one complaint is that there is no lobby where one can sit comfortably and meet a guest. Unless one pays, of course.
In China, hotels in this class often have a so-called KTV, meaning a brothel, built in. Here they don’t. The Seoul Lotte does, however, have a “ladies’ floor” where men are not allowed. I doubt that I missed much.

Young Korean women are stunning. Many have sweet faces. Small breasts, but well-shaped asses and legs. Among them the shift back from pants to skirts (or shorts) is well under way. Makes them look even better.

Even a short-time visitor can see that this, at bottom, is a Confucian society. What makes it tick is deference; the boss is always right. Perhaps that is why, at the conference which I attended as the keynote speaker, there was hardly any Q&A.

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The Reasons For Globalism

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* First of all, globalisation is not a “scheme” for the rich to get richer. The economic advantages of the free exchange of goods, ideas and people are well understood going back to Adam Smith and David Ricardo. I am not getting into this, but at least 10 Nobel Prizes in economics had this as a theme over the past half a century.

Secondly, globalisation is not really an economic or political phenomenon, but rather a technological one. Globalisation has been fostered mostly by the dramatic increase in communication and transport technologies over the past 40 years. Such technological developments make the exchange of goods, services and capital between countries much easier than they were decades ago.

The fundamental problem is that conservatives assume the World to be static. They think that, because nations are a reality, that they always wil be and that if something is disrupting that it must be a conspiracy. The nation-state is a modern invention. In the ancient World humans lives either in tribes, city-states or empires. The only state with any large territory in the past were empires. The political entity was the city-state.

There is a pattern here that started in the Paleolithic Era and has hold true since then, of tribes coming together to form larger and more organized structures(cities). Cities expanding their territories to become even larger and more organized entities(nations). And now, national borders are falling apart due to advancements in communication and transport technologies, and nation-states are slowly dissolving into something even larger, namely, a true global civilization. But conservatives don’t notice the trend.

What is happening is that, due to the advancements in technology, we are progressing to become a Type I civilization in the Kardashev Scale. That is, a true global civilization. Because this process is technological, it cannot be stopped politically, only slowed. Nationalist movements wil omly stall temporarilly the process, but not stop it.

Also, Sailer’s denunciation of “universalist” morality is baffling. It is baffling because he tries to argue that caring for human beings based on their human condition irrespective of where they are born is less moral than determining their humanity based on whether or not they were born in an arbitrarilly set geographical construct(a nation). Yes, Sailer, it is so terrible to consider a human being born far away just as human and worthy of his humanity as a human being born close to me. I guess I am a monster(sigh). Assigning worth to human beings based on geography is irrational, more arbitrary and less rational than assigning it based on whether they are human or not. Hence, “universalist” morality IS more moral than the particular brand of particularist morality Sailer subscribes to(citizenism)

As for the rich wanting cheap labor, that is true. No one like to pay more for stuff than less. The people that work for the rich are also like that, and try to bargain prices just as the rich do. That’s human nature.

However, you are wrong, Sailer, that the elite does not believe in “universalist” morality and are only vouching for it for profits. They do. The daughter of a rich white man is far more likely to marry a rich Chinese man with a Harvard degree than an alcoholic white bum or construction worker. The elite tend to be intelligent, and intelligent people tend to TRULY dislike ethnocentrism and tribalism. That doesn’t mean that they don’t discriminate. They do. But their discrimination tends to be more sophisticated than that. Rich people care more about things like education, income and table manners than they do about race and nationality. Their discrimination is perceived by them to be more moral because it is based on PERSONAL attributes, and not attributes that do not depend on merit, like nationality or race. Education, income and manners are all things that can be changed by volitional effort. So the elite thinks that it is ok to discriminate based on this criteria because these are all things that you have at least some control over and therefore can be used to gauge your character. The elite considers discriminating someone based on their nationality or race to be distasteful because these are things that you can’t change. Therefore, it is cruel and unfair to discriminate someone based on that. The elite tends to be intelligent, and intelligent people tend to be more ethic than dumb people. How many rich people you see engaging in murder? Or even hooliganism or drunkeness? Because they are intelligent, they use a more sophisticated moral criteria to determine whether they like someone or not, one based on personal traits and merits and not on things that you can change such as race and nationality, which are accidents of birth. The elite TRULY dislikes racism and nationalism because nationalism is seen as a form of tribalism where people who are not members if the tribe are de-humanized irrespective of their personal traits as human beings. I know many, many elite people and I can assure you that they do believe in their core moral values. I see rich people doing business and even marrying with people of other nationalities and races all the time, as long as they like them on a PERSONAL level.

* People know ‘who they are’.

The Japanese know ‘who they are’.
The Chinese know ‘who they are’.
Jewish people know ‘who they are’.
Indians know ‘who they are’.
Palestinians know ‘who they are’.
Blacks know ‘who they are’.

But only with whites, or more properly the forces that control discourse in white society, has this utterly dangerous, ridiculous nonsensical downright fiction arisen in the past half century that white people cannot ‘know who they are’.

* The ‘remain’ camp were full in with their talk of doom and gloom, ‘experts’ and ‘emergency budgets’.

Yet, a week after brexit the FTSE is back where it was, and the pound has stabilized a few percentage points below last week’s level. Yields on British government bonds are, in fact, now lower.

Surely, if brexit would cause economic catastrophe – as was widely prophesied last week, the collapse in sterling and the consequent massive jacking up of interest rates would have happened *immediately* after the brexit vote, as investors responded to the shock of economic meltdown – any delayed reaction, surely, cannot be due to brexit – as the fact is now known.
I’ve lived through enough British economic crises such as ‘Black Wednesday’ in 1992, so I know what economic turmoil looks like. This has been nothing of the sort. The markets have taken it in their stride.

So much for the ‘experts’.

* In the debate over Brexit 2, the departure of the England soccer team after an unexpected defeat by Iceland, most of the blame is being laid on the blond goalkeeper, Joe Hart. No word yet on whether the team’s lack of tactical sophistication resulting in players running around like headless chickens could have been related to the ethnic balance of the team.

* The old English soccer teams were not always that successful on the international stage but at least they played as a team, were reasonably entertaining and wholly committed to fighting for their country; were proud to be in the team.

In the last two decades things have gone pear-shaped: players appear to lose all sense of build-up, tactics, sobriety when they run out. This may reflect the crowding out of England eligible players by foreigners in the Premier League. But it also appears to reflect a decline of character; perhaps also a loss of indentity with England qua England.

I am agnostic on whether an ethnically mixed team has a similar cohesion and spirit as an ethnically homogeneous team outside of the money-orientated playing systems of the PL.

But my interest in following England has declined with the decline in the number of white players. This is not because is disrespect or dislike the non-white players but because a national team that increasingly does not look like the nation (even now) does not hold the same romance and feeling that “our lads” are out there battling foreigners on my behalf. Numbers matter. Other games may be different; soccer is the national game.

(The manager of the French team before the Euros was accused a racism for leaving out a couple of non-white players when there were only about four white players in the starting line-up. It may not be a coincidence that soccer is not terribly popular in France.)

* Galut is Hebrew for exile or diaspora – in other words Jews living outside of Israel. Zionist theory was that living in galut was distorting to the character of Jews, turning them into rent seekers, sycophants, etc. but they would be a normal people back in their own country and pursue honest work like picking oranges instead of being Fed Chairmen. I don’t think it quite worked out that way.

* British political customs tend to be a little better than American political customs.

Part of it is that Prime Ministers aren’t deified the way American Presidents have been, especially since Pearl Harbor. Notice that American Presidents never have a job again after they leave office, not since John Quincy Adams went into the House. But former PMs can rise again, the way former PM Balfour became Foreign Secretary.

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Hillary & Huma In A Hot Tub

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments:

* This would probably feel great to Hillary after Bill humiliated her with all his affairs, and she intends to rub her new, higher status in his face if she wins, and he knows it.

* The harrowing possibilities! Mandatory hot tub double dates: Hillary and Huma making out while across the froth Weiner suggestively raises his brows at desiccated, shriveled Bill.

* My impression is that Trump National Westchester is Bill Clinton’s home club.

Clinton had a hard time getting into top Westchester clubs without a long wait when he left the White House. It was pretty humiliating for him. The opening of Trump’s nouveau riche club thus was very appealing to him.

* We’re talking nearly twenty years ago, and if you know anything about established, old money Country Clubs you know that regardless of political party the Boards and influential families tend to be conservative in personal behavior with an emphasis on decorum. They’re also places where the old fellows’ wives hang out with the other old biddies and so you’re looking at a demographic that at the time wouldn’t want that cur around the Club. Would you really want a married ex-President chasing the skirts of waitstaff and members’ daughters and wives?

Additionally, the Secret Service detail would be a real hassle for other members.

A new money ex-President is probably a better get for a Club full of new money strivers and schemers.

I’ll bet that the top clubs on Oahu, however, have a different culture and any would probably welcome Mr. Obama (save for his alleged slow play).

* There’s a reason private clubs are private. They don’t need or want the publicity or notoriety of a former president. In fact, nothing says exclusive like not admitting (excluding) without a wait (like everyone else) a former president. Also, private clubs are equalist collectives where members are on the same level and have no desire for making special accommodations for the entourage of former presidents.

MORE COMMENTS:

* I read somewhere a half decade ago that Thilo Sarrazin said that he was told after publishing a bestselling book full of data on how immigration was working out in Germany … Look, Thilo, all the important people know you are right about immigration, so you shouldn’t have published your book. There’s no need to rile voters up over it because we insiders will never make the mistake we made with Turks back in the 1960s again. Just shut up about it and trust us.

But, the world is complicated and facts and analyses are hard to remember, so if you aren’t supposed to have a constant public debate over a topic using data and logic, it’s easy to forget what you used to be aware of.

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The Lavender Menace

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: The presumed successor to Jeremy Corbyn (UK Labour leader) is Angela Eagle, another pro-immigration Anglela.

She is an out lesbian. Leaders of both Scottish Labour and Scottish Conservatives are also lesbians. Has there ever been a situation where most of the female leaders of a country are lesbians? Any majority female movement eventually becomes a jobs for the gays movement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Menace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Eagle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Davidson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kezia_Dugdale

* Who would have guessed that black lesbians would be angry?

* It is a case of life imitating arts. Soros or an associate probably got the idea from the book. The black church didn’t approve of homosexuality especially during the 80s AIDS epidemic and has been pretty openly hostile to homosexuality until recently. Black gays have never been organized in any manner to do anything anyway except put a vogue show. White homosexual groups certainly weren’t going to put blacks in leadership roles.

BLM was able to side-step the stranglehold that clergy have on black activism by advocating for criminals which for some reason really appeals to black people. Now that BLM has the backing of many blacks and the attention of white media, BLM can promote its homosexual agenda.

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Two Liberal White Women Get Raped By Black Men, Write Books About It

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: “Two new true crime books. Two victins. Two liberal white women who could have used Derb’s “the Talk” …”

New York Times: In “I Will Find You,” Joanna Connors, a reporter for The Cleveland Plain Dealer with a college-age daughter, embarks on a quest to understand the man who raped her two decades earlier, a crime she had never discussed with her children. Using her journalistic skills, she sets out to investigate the world that produced a man capable of such an act. The result is a searing narrative that plumbs both emotional and political depths.

Like Winslow, Joanna Connors is a white woman raped by a black man, but this fact, largely ignored in Winslow’s memoir, becomes a point of serious moral and political inquiry in Connors’s “I Will Find You.” In July 1984, Connors, then a drama critic for The Plain Dealer, walked into an empty theater on the Case Western Reserve campus, late for a 5 o’clock interview. Claiming to be working the lights, a man in the lobby offered to take her inside. Ignoring her internal alarm, Connors followed him, and there the man (who had been released on parole just a week earlier) raped her at knife point. Asked why she went with him, Connors privately, and with great shame, admits to herself, “I could not allow myself to be the white woman who fears black men.” Despite being “the perfect victim” (white, educated, middle-class, married, with proof of a struggle and an immediate police report) and her perpetrator, David Francis, the perfect assailant (black, poor, with a criminal record), she is subjected to painful scrutiny and degradation before he is finally convicted.

Connors’s forthright exploration of race and poverty enlarges her personal story, turning it into a richer, more complex and ultimately more harrowing account of interwoven traumas. David Francis, she discovers, was one of eight children born into a family that one surviving member describes as “cursed.” That’s as apt an explanation as any other: When Connors interviews some of Francis’ siblings and family friends, she confronts a dizzying intersection of addiction, alcoholism, violence, racism, poverty and crime. (Even small children can’t escape: In this extended family not one but two toddlers are killed, one by violence, the other through gross negligence.)

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Here are the new rules for transgender troops

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Marine Corps Times: Many transgender individuals choose not to seek gender reassignment surgery so there is no requirement that official gender and physical genitalia match for troops or recruits.

Defense officials estimate there are between 2,500 and 7,000 transgender troops in today’s active-duty force of 1.3 million people.

“Although relatively few in number, we’re talking about talented and trained Americans who are serving their country with honor and distinction,” Carter said Thursday.

“We invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to train and develop each individual, and we want to take the opportunity to retain people whose talent we’ve invested in and who have proven themselves,” Carter said.

“The reality is that we have transgender service members serving in uniform today, and I have a responsibility to them and their commanders to provide them both with clearer and more consistent guidance than is provided by current policies,” Carter said.

Carter said the costs of the new policy would be minimal. He pointed to a recent study by the Rand Corp. that concluded there will be “minimal readiness impacts” and the health care costs would amount to “an exceedingly small proportion” of the overall military health care expenditures.

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Obama Mad

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* One of the main things about Obama that drives me bat-shit crazy, and makes me count the days until he leaves office, is his constant need to scold and lecture the public about everything with a smug, sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitude.

His style isn’t even professorial or informative. It’s condescending, bitchy, sometimes whiny, pleading, thin-skinned, and frankly, very womanly — like some kind of insecure churchwoman alternating between haranguing little five-year-olds with threats, asserting her superior power, and then pleading with them to “play nice.”

Who in the hell is this guy, anyway, to think that he can lecture with superior moral authority on anything and everything from transgender bathrooms to the true meaning of Islam? It’s not as if he’s ever accomplished anything of value, has any specific expertise, or has done anything with his life aside from smoking dope and being a professional mulatto.

*

* So, a Mexican, a black and gay guy walk into a bar, the bartender says…

* They look like something out of Latino Night at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

* Strikes me more like a Pride-Week-intensity parade of state-sponsored Red in the waning days of Hopey McChange’s public cult.

But can someone explain why Gucci’s Milan Men’s Fashion Week now includes two RCMP?

* The transgender orgy is now the highest expression of civic virtue in Canada.

There are no more rules.

Crowley was right: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Always remember Trudeau the Lesser’s proclamation –

“It’s 2015.”

Now, and forever.

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Trump’s Tight Game, A Series

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau: Another shitlib hit piece on Trump has backfired and unintentionally elevated his stature. Related to the founding principles of this blog, more evidence emerges that Trump had tight Game before the PUA subculture formed to systematize the informal seduction rules that naturals obey without knowing it.

Donald was among a group of boys who pulled girls’ hair, passed notes and talked out of turn.

The hair pull encompasses so much of the Game oeuvre because it vice signals a man’s irresistible jerkboy boner fides. Every girl adores a rule-breaker.

“We threw spitballs and we played racing chairs with our desks, crashing them into other desks,” recalled Paul Onish, a classmate, describing himself and Trump as “probably the two worst.”

Donald spent enough time in detention, Onish said, that his buddies nicknamed the punishment “DTs” — short for “Donny Trump.”

Chicks dig a badboy in detention.

“He had a reputation for saying anything that came into his head,” said Donald Kass, 70, a retired agronomist who was a schoolmate. When Trump misidentified Rocca, the pro wrestler, Kass recalled, “We would laugh at him and tell him he was wrong, and he’d say he was right. The next time, he would make the same mistake, and it would be the same thing all over again.”

Poon Commandment XI:

XI. Be irrationally self-confident

No matter what your station in life, stride through the world without apology or excuse. It does not matter if objectively you are not the best man a woman can get; what matters is that you think and act like you are. Women have a dog’s instinct for uncovering weakness in men; don’t make it easy for them. Self-confidence, warranted or not, triggers submissive emotional responses in women. Irrational self-confidence will get you more pussy than rational defeatism.

It’s no coincidence that Trump has tight Game, a hot wife half his age, and is meteorically rising to God Emperor status as leader of a reborn nationalist movement.

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The Great Men On Women’s Little Passions

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau:

Via reader oldfury, a Chesterfield warning on the dangers of reorienting one’s foremost purpose to the objective of empowering women.

As women are a considerable, or at least a pretty numerous part of company; and as their suffrages go a great way toward establishing a man’s character in the fashionable part of the world (which is of great importance to the fortune and figure he proposes to make in it), it is necessary to please them.

I will therefore, upon this subject, let you into certain Arcana that will be very useful for you to know, but which you must, with the utmost care, conceal and never seem to know.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; but for solid reasoning, good sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four-and-twenty hours together. Some little passion or humor always breaks upon their best resolutions. Their beauty neglected or controverted, their age increased, or their supposed understandings depreciated, instantly kindles their little passions, and overturns any system of consequential conduct, that in their most reasonable moments they might have been capable of forming.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with serious matters; though he often makes them believe that he does both; which is the thing in the world that they are proud of; for they love mightily to be dabbling in business (which by the way they always spoil); and being justly distrustful that men in general look upon them in a trifling light, they almost adore that man who talks more seriously to them, and who seems to consult and trust them; I say, who seems; for weak men really do, but wise ones only seem to do it.

-Lord Chesterfield in a letter to his son

Chesterfield here is essentially arguing for restricted female agency, and therefore the necessity to men of wisely shielding women from matters of true importance – like immigration policy – while pretending as if women’s counsel was desired.

Feminine women don’t really desire, as beta males are wont to believe, full egalitarian inclusion in serious business or political decisions. Having it bores them and they often rebel by deciding for changes that subvert the bounty for which they were charged by obsequious, supplicating men to protect and preserve. What women really love is the man who “trifles with them”, but also assuages their fear that their instinctive female predilection for flirtation and little passions won’t be exploited to embarrass them in polite company as frivolities.

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‘Indian/Paki women seem to be natural feminists.’

Posted on June 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments:

In addition Indian chicks in america also carry the same attitude that DC chicks have. I’m educated, I’m not a sexual being, my pride is in having 2 degrees, and I want a wealthy educated man to spend money on me. In addition Indian chicks in the USA can be very cocky with guys or tease them for pursuing sex. Another no no of feminimity.

From what I’ve seen (mind you this is ONLY professional y dealing with them as customers) they’re VERY high maintenance and most seem to quickly westernize and jump on the “lets be fat and wear sweatpants” bandwagon.

They’re wack and are usually ugly.

Indian girls are like American girls on steroids. No thanks.

Sometimes on a first date, after I’ve already made out with a girl, I’ll stop her mid-walk, grab her and kiss briefly. The only girl who cuntily laughed at this was Indian. “What, you wanted to just kiss me again” or something to that effect. She was pretty, and very thin, but I never contacted her again.

Another problem, at least in my area, is that good looking Indian women are rare as fuck. I mean, every now and then there will be one where you’re like, holy shit she’s banging, but they’re few and far between, and the rest are ugly.

I’d be interested to see what you guys have noticed, because as far as I’ve noticed, Indian women by and large are just not good looking.

Indian women’s personality issues are just as bad if not worse than their lacking in the good looks department.

they tend to chub up pretty easily. Additionally, they love white guys more than other races from what I’ve seen.

Meanwhile brown girls are just like Jewish and Persian girls in that they’re more status seeking and materialistic except they’re not as attractive (that’s not me being biased against other brown people, everybody here agrees that brown girls on the whole aren’t hot) which makes the attitudes they sport hard to put up with.

A lot of the hot brown girls I know who are born and raised in the West LOVE acting ghetto when in reality they’re far from it. They think they are African American. Anyway they are really Westernized and predominately hang out with other wannabe ghetto brown girls or wannabe ghetto white girls. They grow out of that after they finish university. Brown girls very much prefer dating other brown guys and at least at my age don’t seem to care whether or not they’re Indian or Sri Lankan or Pakistani. They get a fuckload of attention from pathetic hordes of ultra beta and needy brown guys and as such develop gigantic egos. They get passed around by the few player brown guys and wannabe ghetto white guys (mainly Italian and Greek in my neck of the woods) all the while pretending to be ultra innocent to all their brown male friends. If they knew how slutty some of the girls they idolate so much are they would probably kill themselves. They put them on the pedestal THAT much.

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* But you’ll never lack for an Indian willing to lecture you on American racism.

* There are 4 types of Indian skin colors

Yellow , for the Mongoloid peoples of North East India

Black , for the dravidians

nearly white, for the bollywood stars, usually Khatri ( upper caste punjabi merchants ), some brahmins and kashmiri

Brown for the rest of Indians ( 65% )

and there are shades of brown

Upper castes mostly have lighter brown skin ( wheatish )
Padma Lakshmi , the model, is a Tamil brahmin, with wheatish color

* Lots of successful Dalit and Lower caste men , get themselves trophy Brahmin and Upper caste wives – like how Tiger Woods collects trophy blondes

Udit Raj is a Dalit MP , from Delhi, of the BJP

http://s1.firstpost.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/udit-rajFB.jpg

and here he is raving about his white upper caste wife , Seema, Khatri – Upper caste Punjabi merchant

http://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2003/10/20084913256610287.html

“I am very dark, almost black, but my wife is as fair as an English woman and I must say that although ours was a love marriage in which her intrinsic qualities mattered more than looks, I found her fair skin very attractive,” says Udit Raj.

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http://im.rediff.com/news/2005/feb/27nlook.jpg

The dude on the left, is Ram Vilas Paswan, a central govt minister and a dalit billionaire ( got his wealth by being corrupt politician )
The fair woman feeding him is his brahmin 2nd wife – he is bigamist,
he dumped his 1st wife ( dalit ) but did not divorce her

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http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/01771/28FR-SRINIDHI_CHID_1771015g.jpg

This woman is Srinidhi, she was Tamil film actress, and Tamil Brahmin
She married the son of P.Chidambaram, a powerful billionaire dravidian politician

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http://moviegalleri.net/wp-content/gallery/nirnayam-movie-audio-launch/nirnayam_movie_audio_launch_photos_stills_412e7e6.jpg

This is Anusha, a Tamil Brahmin

the fat ugly dude on her right is her husband, a dravidian politician
and grandson of M.Karunanidhi, the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu
( and a corrupt billionaire , whose politics involves mainly brahmin baiting )

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http://www.reshareit.com/wp-content/uploads/Jayalalitha-e1412767219145.jpg

http://drop.ndtv.com/albums/NEWS/jayalalithalifeinpics/f.jpg

This is picture of Jayalalitha from 1966
She is Tamil brahmin, now she is 50 years older and much fatter and uglier
she is now Chief minister of Tamil Nadu

She got her entry into politics by becoming mistress of MGR, a former dravidian
film star, who later became Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. and she inherited the post

* One of the first things I noticed after moving to Vancouver was that all (most) of the White people I befriended man and woman alike, while your standard PC Canadian, would without prompting say:

“I f’n hate brown people.” Humorously it was often prefaced by “I’m not racist but…”

I came to the conclusion it was proximity. Kind of like how Americans catch heat both at home and abroad for “racism” against blacks.

Try livin’ next to ‘em. I certainly understood the browns’ reputation after working a hotel for 4 years in downtown Van.

* Very recently I was enlightened by an Indian coworker on the subject of backward castes. “Only in India do people strive to be backward”. He was obviously very indignant about his classmates who were several generations from “backward” status and who still benefit from their disadvantage. Just this year, there were riots near Delhi as a clan of Indians lobbied for “backward” status and set-asides. This won’t last.

* Progressive millennial Indians of the sort that browse and contribute to Buzzfeed are a vanishingly small minority in India; typically Westernized rich kids from the big cities with expensive educational credentials on their resumes and much wisdom derived from blogging. Not all that different from progressive millennials in America, the main difference being that in India, they have virtually no political power or ability to influence the grand narratives that drive electoral politics in the country. They are vastly outnumbered by the poor, and the poor are all segregated along various tribal interests, whether caste or religion or language. The only progressive party with a national scope they could join is the Congress, which is fading thanks to the incompetence of the Nehru-Gandhi family. Meanwhile, the reactionary right-wing BJP rises to power because of the Hindutva heartlands, and their stance on caste may charitably be compared to Reagan’s stance on race.

It’s a different situation in America where progressive millennials wield not-inconsiderable cultural power, even if they don’t vote enough to have much political power.

* On the contrary this, i.e. large scale affirmative action for low castes and ‘other backward castes’, has been in place for more than six decades in India, with up to 50% of jobs and college slots in some situations being set aside for that purpose.

The reactionary right in India has introduced the term “creamy layer” into political dialogue. The idea is that there be a both an income and a caste test for affirmative action quotas and reservations. The creamy layer, of course, is those who are now part of the mainstream middle and upper classes, but technically still from “backward” castes.

A US analogy would be shutting down affirmative action benefits in college admissions to African Americans from comfortably off middle-class and professional families. They would be deemed to be the creamy layer that has already risen to the top of their cohort.

Not surprisingly, the left in India is screaming murder at the idea and trying to discredit it vigorously.

Incidentally, I love how Indian legal and constitutional terminology doesn’t flinch at using the word “backward” in describing groups of people.

* There are several forms of Hinduism and only some of them can be properly termed as reactionary. The main orthodox current within Hinduism, that of Vedic ritualism, is descended from the very reactionary indo-european culture that spread through war and patriarchy.

Hinduism gradually evolved to become more liberal as the warriors settled down and became wealthy, and also accepted influences from other cultures into itself. At this point, the Hindu civilization gave rise to “protestant” religions like Buddhism. The following thousand years saw orthodox Hinduism adopt increasingly reactionary poses to distinguish itself from Buddhism, which in several ways foreshadowed today’s liberal progressivism. This is when the current form of the caste system became codified.

Meanwhile, non-orthodox Hindus reinterpreted their religion to make it more liberal and open, thereby leading many Buddhists to reconvert to Hinduism. The larger Hindu fold therefore contained about an even mix of reactionaries and progressives after the fall of Buddhism towards the end of the 1st millennium CE.

After that we had a thousand years of foreign rule, first 800 years of Muslims, then 200 years of the British. And one thing we see everywhere is that non-dominant cultures have to adopt very reactionary social mores in order to survive. Blacks and hispanics are far more right-wing in their innate social worldviews than Whites. As are Muslims who live in the west, compared to whites and to Muslims who live in Muslim countries. Same thing happened with Hindus in India.

* The entire system of arranged marriages is basically a form of eugenics, but by another name. The most important qualification parents look for in a prospective match is “what sort of family are they from?”. Meaning they want to have a marital alliance with a family of equal or higher social status. This usually requires the family be from the same caste that they are, in addition to wealth and connections. Each caste, no matter how low its standing in the hierarchy, considers itself quite unique and would be displeased with intermarriage, even if it were with a member of a higher caste.

The second question is usually related to level of education, and the third to income and earning potential. Height and skin color are also given importance – because subconsciously all Indians realize that their ruling class consists disproportionately of fairer-skinned and taller people.

Appearance and compatibility, the cornerstones of western marriages, are not considered particularly important when parents pick mates for their children in India.

I know all this first hand because my mother is trying to arrange a marriage for me. I’ve finally come round to admitting that her ideas are actually quite wise.

* Buddy of mine has this huge house next door to his place. It went in and out of foreclosure a few times after 2008. Finally, an Indian buys the place. He moves his extended family into the house. There are cars everywhere, people coming and going at all times, etc.

My buddy and the other wags in his neighborhood now refer to that house as The Call Center.

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