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Category Archives: Diversity
More ‘global’ individuals contribute less
From the University of Haifa: The greater individuals’ level of globalization, the less they will contribute to public goods. This finding emerges from the doctorate thesis of Dr. Eitan Adres from the School of Political Sciences at the University of … Continue reading
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Bryan Caplan: They (Goyim) Scare Me
Jewish economist Bryan Caplan writes out the reasons many perhaps most Jews instinctively revolt against living in a dominant Christian culture (does Caplan want Israel to cease being a Jewish state?): What would happen if Mormons were a solid majority … Continue reading
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Diversity As A Threat To Confidence
Growing up as a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian in Australia and Northern California, it never occurred to me in my first 18 years that there might be a religion more true than mine. I had no doubt that Anglo Protestants produced … Continue reading
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Diversity = Destruction
Comments to Steve Sailer: * What does ethnic diversity have to do with military effectiveness? Is there a single case in history of a multi ethnic patchwork force defeating an equal sized force of homogeneous ethnicity? Even one case in … Continue reading
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Diversity + Proximity = War
From the Chateau: People like to form into competing groups. This natural impulse is encoded in every human being’s DNA. It is a deeply embedded encoding, and can’t be excised. It can only be controlled by authoritarian measures, i.e. ultimately … Continue reading
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Real Life Hunger Games
Sarah A. Hoyt writes: Social capital, what’s that? The built-up support networks of families and individuals that help maintain and order their lives. Family ties, community ties — with organizations like churches, schools, and voluntary associations that once were more … Continue reading
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Treason
From Chateau Heartiste: Quoting Peter Sutherland, Goldman Sachs executive and an actual (not euphemistic) Scots-Irish (!): “[The EU should] do its best to undermine the homogeneity of its member states.” If this isn’t treason worthy of the rope, I don’t … Continue reading
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DIVERSITY + PROXIMITY = WAR
From Chateau Heartiste: The latest liberal screech-out is high dudgeon over some prankster teenage muslim mud in Texas who brought a “””clock””” to school as a science project that looked suspiciously like a suitcase bomb, and his teacher justifiably freaked … Continue reading
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After Diversity
From Chateau Heartiste: Diversity™ erodes the nation-state through invidious psy op mechanisms. You are soothed into a comfort bubble of warm altruistic feels, and then one day you wake up to find yourself robbed blind and left in the street … Continue reading
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High Trust Vs Low Trust Societies
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Hungary has been fighting Muslim invasions for over 500 years. Hungary has experienced the conflict and eventual collapse of three multicultural empires, the Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Soviet Empire. The EU is likely … Continue reading
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