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Category Archives: Diversity
Stereotyping While Waiting In Line At Ralphs
It was a mess at Ralphs this afternoon. As I waited in line, I noticed patterns. WASPs are the best behaved group. They are the best at waiting in line and they are the best, in general, in acting like … Continue reading
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Jews & Women
For the past 2600 years (until recently), most Jews have lived as a minority in Gentiles countries. They’ve kept alive their tradition by constantly contrasting what is Jewish with what is goyish. When Jews say something is goyish, that’s never … Continue reading
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Diversity Harms Share Values
From Chateau Heartiste: Diversity lowers a firm’s market value. Most likely share values drop when a firm’s board adds more women because investors are discounting the future rate of return of the firm based on two unflattering facts about the … Continue reading
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The Dying Of The White Light
Comment to Chateau Heartiste: It’s simply impossible for whites to thrive when there are too many minorities around. If we want to reach the heights of civilization, to visit the moon again, to colonize mars, to automate cars and have … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: The Demographics of “MONEY’s Best Places to Live 2015”
Steve Sailer writes: Keep in mind the magazine gives bonus points for diversity, eliminates any place at least 95% white, and excludes very wealthy towns. And it’s all pretty subjective to allow for novelty needed to sell magazines. But, still, … Continue reading
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Diversity Destroys Community
Another study: Community psychologists are interested in creating contexts that promote both respect for diversity and sense of community. However, recent theoretical and empirical work has uncovered a community-diversity dialectic wherein the contextual conditions that foster respect for diversity run … Continue reading
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‘Dialogue is naturally limited under the condition of diversity’
LINK: Atomize any further and it gets down to kindergarten level, pretty much “Don’t say that bad word!” dictated in baby talk. All of this for the upkeep of a lonely society where you say “Have a nice day” to … Continue reading
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The Joys Of Diversity
NPR: Social Distrust Blooms Among Millennials, But Where Are Its Roots? One explanation for this, the study suggests, is growing racial diversity – 43 percent of millennial adults are non-white, making this the most diverse generation in America… She says, … Continue reading
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Who Will The Democrats Nominate In 2016?
As Hillary Clinton falls apart, who steps up? Comments to Steve Sailer: * If the Democrats really wanted to throw a curveball at the American electorate they’d have Dore Gold run for the White House. Having the Connecticut-born Director-General of … Continue reading
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When Europeans Ruled The World
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Setting aside morality, and looking only at biology, if one wants to talk about the dominance of the Europoid race there’s really only one way to do it: breed like rabbits and then migrate and … Continue reading