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Category Archives: Race
WP: ‘Why the IRS puts white-nationalist groups in the same category as orchestras, planetariums and zoos’
Max Ehrenfreund writes for the Washington Post: The white nationalist movement has its intellectual roots in an old tradition of justifying racial prejudice through appeals to nonscientific theories of human evolution. The movement’s adherents generally espouse discredited ideas about race, … Continue reading
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Where Is Your Happy Place?
A Mexican friend says Dodger Stadium is her happy place. She goes there and she always feels happy. I want to say that for Jews, synagogue is their happy place. They go there and they always feel happy. But I … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: The Rise and Rise of Ethnic Turf Marking
Los Angeles Times: “But few of them are aware that the fountain was the centerpiece to a housing development with an ugly side: Midwick View Estates was meant for whites only.” Do synagogues have an ugly side in that they … Continue reading
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Will the Alt-Right Peddle a New Kind of Racist Genetics?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * If Ms. Zhang needs an organ transplant we will see how quickly she believes in race. * Humans and chimpanzees share 99% of the same genes. And I share 99.99% of the same genes with … Continue reading
Race & Intelligence
From InfoGalactic: The existence of a link between race and intelligence has been repeatedly observed by scientists, but remains extremely controversial. Research suggests that the average IQ score of East Asians is higher than that of Europeans, and the average … Continue reading
Jews & Racism
An Orthodox Jewish friend says to me: “We’re not racists. We’re bigots. We prefer people who are part of Judaism to those outside of it.” Luke: “But if Jews are a race, which was how Jews were referred to a … Continue reading
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WP: In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less
Washington Post: The 4-year old boy was mentally disabled, unable to speak in complete sentences and unable to play with other children because of his violent fits of hitting and biting. The decision facing one Brooklyn jury last year was … Continue reading
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LAT: How Airbnb is addressing its racial-bias problem
There’s not a hint in this article that discrimination is commonsense, that not all races and religions act equally, and that there may be practical reasons that people might not want to rent to members of groups with high crime … Continue reading
Frequency of the word ‘Racism’ in NYT articles, chronologically
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NYT: ‘The Easiest Way to Get Rid of Racism? Just Redefine It.’
Racism as a moral wrong has no reality because the concept was not in any moral lexicon prior to the 20th Century. Prior the last 100 years, you never heard about “racism.” Jesus never condemned it. No great rabbi has … Continue reading
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