Category Archives: Race

Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model

Ashley Mears writes in this 2011 book: * They are now so unrepresentative of the everyday woman that they are considered offensive. They are far too young and slender, wearing a size zero and having dangerously low body mass indexes … Continue reading

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Racial Revenge

From comments to Steve Sailer: * If you recall the Brock Turner case, he was forcibly held against his will by two Swedes on bicycles. He was in the process of digitally penetrating a woman who at some point had … Continue reading

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NYT: The Racist History Behind Facial Recognition

From comments at Steve Sailer: * Criminal face has three big factors: high-T features, poor symmetry and other signs of genetic load (like narrow eyes), and fetal alcohol complex. The Chinese did a large study based on national ID photos … Continue reading

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The word racism and its definition changed in the 1930’s from earlier definitions

Joe emails: Even Wikipedia states this clearly. An entry in the Oxford English Dictionary (2008) simply defines racialism as “[a]n earlier term than racism, but now largely superseded by it”, and cites it in a 1902 quote.[12] The revised Oxford … Continue reading

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LAT: Yesterday once more: The feel-good sadness of a Carpenters fan convention

From the Los Angeles Times: Downey, about 13 miles south of Los Angeles, officially became a city in 1956. By then a growing aerospace industry had established it as a free-standing suburban enclave. Downey scored big in the pop-culture sweepstakes: … Continue reading

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