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Category Archives: Race
Your Life Chances Are Largely Shaped By Your Genes
Economist Gregory Clark wrote in the New York Times Feb. 21, 2014: To a striking extent, your overall life chances can be predicted not just from your parents’ status but also from your great-great-great-grandparents’. The recent study suggests that 10 … Continue reading
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Diversity Kills
Social capital is inversely proportionate to racial diversity. So Los Angeles, the most diverse big city in the United States, has the lack of cooperation among its citizens. I was watching this 2012 documentary, The Summit, about climbing accidents on … Continue reading
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The Tragic Mulatto
When you have one white parent and one non-white parent, the mulatto kids often side with their non-white half. Witness Barack Obama who had a white mom and a black dad and he chose to grow up and identify as … Continue reading
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Race & The Jews
I emailed Neville Nagler, distinguished English civil servant and former leader of the Board of Deputies of British Jews: I was curious about these sentence about you on an anti-Jewish website and wondered if they were accurate? “Throughout the 1970s … Continue reading
Jews & The Fight Against Racism In Post-WWII England
Sunday, I interviewed by Skype Anglo-Jewry historian Geoffrey Alderman (GeoffreyAlderman.com). He is the author of 22 books, including Modern British Jewry. Here are some highlights of our discussion about fewer than .5% of Britain’s population. Listen. Luke: “I’m interested in … Continue reading
The Arrival Of Race-Based Medicine
Would it be better to let people die rather than face up to the fact of very real genetic differences between the races? From Forbes: A flood of studies has emerged showing racial differences in how patients suffer from disease–or … Continue reading
Should Feelings Determine Our Behavior?
Jan. 2, 2014, Dennis Prager said: “I don’t like any ethnic neighborhood. I don’t think it’s the American ideal.” “I don’t think black neighborhoods are healthy for blacks. I don’t think Mexican neighborhoods are healthy for Mexicans. They’re comfortable.” Feb. … Continue reading
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‘Strong religious beliefs may drive self-perception of addiction to online pornography’
From Case Western: People who consider themselves very religious and view Internet porn even once may perceive they are addicted, according to a new Case Western Reserve University’s psychology study. “This is one of the first studies to examine the … Continue reading
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Jerry Seinfeld Pushes Back Against Political Correctness
“Only Jews can save the soft headed white goyim from diversifying themselves out of existence. Still another example of the Jewish Man’s Burden.” (Sage) John Derbyshire writes: Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I took heart from the micro-fuss over … Continue reading
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NYT: Holder Urges States to Repeal Bans on Felons’ Voting
NYT: “The call by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was mostly symbolic, but it marked his latest effort to end laws that he says disproportionately keep minorities from the polls.” Why not instead ask minorities to commit fewer felonies? … Continue reading