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Category Archives: WASPs
Ivy League law prof says Anglo-Protestant cultural norms are superior — and gets hammered for it
Amy Wax, a brilliant and courageous woman, has long been a race realist. Jared Taylor has praised her. The Blaze: University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Amy Wax may come across as somewhat of an aberration at one of the … Continue reading
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Should You Pay Your Taxes Honestly?
In my experience, there is a gulf between the civic obligations felt by WASPs (white gentile non-Catholics of northern European origins) and those felt by every other group. I keep meeting WASPs who take pains to pay the IRS everything … Continue reading
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Noah Feldman: ‘The Triumphant Decline of the WASP’
From the New York Times in 2010: But satisfaction with our national progress should not make us forget its authors: the very Protestant elite that founded and long dominated our nation’s institutions of higher education and government, including the Supreme … Continue reading
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When Anti-Semitism Strengthens Group Identity
When most people, Jew or gentile, hear the term “anti-Semitism”, they immediately assume it is a bad thing, an ignorant prejudice, and a type of mental virus that leads to gas chambers. I am not so sure. From my perspective, … Continue reading
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Anglo-Saxons vs Europeans
Comments: * You have to remember that concepts like the English common law, habeas corpus, trial by jury, the idea that you’re innocent until proven guilty, freedom of speech, and political freedom in general, are essentially Anglo-Saxon concepts. Continental Europe … Continue reading
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Boston Globe: Should Twitter ban the alt-right? The case for online censorship
David Scharfenberg writes: J.M. Berger, a fellow with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague who wrote the report, says social media give extremists some powerful tools for growth: anonymity and an easy way to seek out people with … Continue reading
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The Healthy Majority
It’s not easy being a minority. Minorities all over the world have it hard. It is much easier to go through life as part of the majority. A healthy majority culture does not bend to its minorities, as America does. … Continue reading
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Video of Cory Booker (D-NJ) Dancing with Shmuley Boteach on His Back in a Clown Suit
It’s naive to expect that Jews and blacks will have a lot in common. They are about as different as two peoples can be. Sure, at times, they are both cooperating members of the Coalition of the Fringe and have … Continue reading
Anglo Facial Features
Ken* emails: I was looking at this movie called Four Feathers which is an old British movie and one of the actors has facial features similar to yours. There is a screen shot of it attached. It’s really sad what … Continue reading
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Why Brazilians can’t help booing anything and everyone at the Olympics
Tom Holland tweets: “2 ways for host cities to enjoy the Olympics: applaud competitors from other countries (London) or boo them (Rio)” It’s like New Yorkers. They love to dump on LA. People from Northern California also love to hate … Continue reading