Steve Sailer writes: “Last week David Frum was widely denounced for reacting to a New York Times article about Serena Williams’ late career resurgence to Barry Bonds-like dominance (and how her rivals are hamstrung by society’s outmoded body image prejudices that discourage them from bulking up like Serena does) with bemused skepticism rather than with the conventional hosannas for Serena’s strength and feminine beauty.”
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Blacks and doping. Isn’t it overkill since blacks are naturally more muscular to begin with?
If a Chinese female tennis player suddenly bulked up, people would notice.
People notice less with blacks since it’s well understood that blacks are more athletic and powerful.
But with Serena, it’s getting to be a bit too much… as with Ben Johnson.
* Is there a pattern here? Frum advocates against mass immigration. It’s tough to denounce him on that, because the facts are obviously on his side. So the pundits wait until he stumbles on a taboo, in this case, questioning the glory of a symbol of black female achievement.
Trump advocates against mass immigration. Facts are on his side as well, so the pundits pounce on his quip about McCain, a symbol of military heroism (suffering/captivity version, rather than the ass-kicking Alvin York/Audy Murphy kind of military heroism we used to celebrate when we declared wars and won them).
* Serena uses PEDs. She is still a wonderful athlete because her rivals also use PEDS. The only advantage that she sort of has is that naive and clueless sports nerds believe that massive biceps on her could be natural because she is black and they are clueless dolts.
* Antisemite will be tough. Trump has a Jewish son-in-law and a daughter who converted to Judaism.
* A welfare state tends to work better when the whole of the population served is homogenous and in agreement that the needy should get a leg up. In a multicultural society it is inevitable that jealousies will arise and one group will feel that another group is exploiting the system.
In the US almost every single political issue is ultimately about race or ethnicity and allocation of resources.
Even Medicare, because elderly blacks probably use a disproportionate amount of the resources of the system due to inherited morbidity factors, such as a high rate of diabetes and heart disease, and Medicaid, because there are more poor blacks with disabilities. Even special education for the mentally handicapped, for similar reasons.
Health, crime, education, abortion, immigration, foreign policy, taxes, ornamental flags over state houses, drugs, defense (government employment for minorities, VA)–the controversies are all about ethnicity and who gets what is coming to them.
Another illustration of my point is that a few years ago I remember reading about a huge controversy in Northern Ireland over the location of a new hospital that was being built as part of the socialized British National Health system to serve two towns a few miles apart. If it was built in the Protestant town this unfairly discriminated against Catholic employees who had to travel further to work, and Catholic patients and their visitors for the same reason. If it was built in the Catholic town, the reverse would apply Sometimes no one can win.
