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Category Archives: Diversity
Diversity Destroys Trust
From Chateau Heartiste: Mass non-white immigration to white countries erodes social trust, which decreases the support for wealth redistribution to groups of swarthies who act and look very differently than your friends and family, hence increased “economic freedom”. Related: A … Continue reading
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The Devil’s in the Diversity
LINK: I was reading a post at the Amerika blog on a new Danish survey evaluating the, by now, well catalogued pathologies of diversity. The findings of which tend to mirror those of liberal Robert Putnam who found that “People … Continue reading
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NYT: Who Will Pay the Political Price for Affordable Housing?
NYT: Robert Putnam of Harvard: “immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the U.S. suggests that in ethnically diverse neighborhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down.’ Trust, even of one’s … Continue reading
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Demography is Destiny, American Nations Edition
Jayman writes: Sorting within an ethnic groups can produce distinct regional differences. Founder effects are powerful, as is the converse effect, boiling off. This means that regional differences across countries like the United States reflect genetic differences between people. Even … Continue reading
NPR: Hospitals Set New Restrictions On Who Can Perform Risky Surgeries
NPR: “So how bad can things get? Dr. John Birkmeyer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in New Hampshire says a patient came to him after bariatric surgery at a small hospital, a hospital that didn’t perform that operation often. Before sewing up this … Continue reading
Is It Wrong To Hate A Group?
I don’t believe in any such sin as prejudice, bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism, though frequently that hatred can be maladaptive because a more open attitude to out-groups is more in your best interest. In some circumstances, openness to strangers is to … Continue reading
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Fleeing Diversity While Denouncing Racism
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Those who flee the wonders of Diversity seem to overcompensate for their guilt by becoming shrill denouncers of racism. This is particularly true in Woodstock, NY, where I live. For decades, hipsters have fled to … Continue reading
Conservatives & Perversity
Ron Guhname writes: The General Social Survey asks two questions (that I know of) about behavior that at least some people would call perverted–consumption of online pornography and homosexual sex. Percent using pornographic site in last month–males Extremely liberal 31.2 … Continue reading
‘Acceptance of diversity is in direct proportion to your distance from it.’
Chaim Amalek writes: “I saw this as a kid. The most liberal people were those who had little contact with diversity. Today they live in nearly all-white enclaves like the UWS of Manhattan.” Report: A new study from Linneuniversitet confirms … Continue reading
Jews For Consistency
Because the biggest Jewish organizations in America and elsewhere in the diaspora frequently push left-wing policies I find abhorrent, I yearn for the development of a “Jews for Consistency” coalition that critiques such activism. One basis for such a critique … Continue reading
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