The Guardian: US antisemitism watchdog, the Anti-Defamation League, has added the “(((echo)))” symbol, used online by white supremacists to single out Jews, to its online database of hate symbols.
The group’s decision comes days after Google removed a Chrome extension that was being used by antisemites to add triple parentheses around the names of prominent Jewish public figures including Michael Bloomberg and New York Times journalist Jonathan Weisman.
“The echo symbol is the online equivalent of tagging a building with antisemites graffiti or taunting someone verbally,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL’s chief executive. “We at ADL take this manifestation of online hate seriously, and that’s why we’re adding this symbol to our database and working with our partners in the tech industry to investigate this phenomenon more deeply.”
The intersection of old-fashioned white supremacy and antisemitism with tech-savvy online groups centred around websites such as 4chan and Reddit has given rise to a movement loosely termed the “alt-right”. The echo symbol is just the latest artefact of that group’s thinking to burst into the mainstream, thanks largely to an article in late May from the NYT’s Weisman highlighting its use.
Weisman linked the antisemitism on display with the professed political support of those abusing him: the Twitter user who referred to him as “((Weisman))” went by the handle @CyberTrump.
“To the public, the symbol is not easily searchable on most sites and social networks; search engines strip punctuation from results,” wrote the publication’s reporters, Cooper Fleishman and Anthony Smith. “This means that trolls committed to uncovering, labelling and harassing Jewish users can do so in relative obscurity: No one can search those threats to find who’s sending them.”
The pair trace the origins of the symbol back to far right blog Right Stuff. “In Right Stuff propaganda, you’ll often read that Jewish names ‘echo’. According to the blog’s lexicon page, ‘all Jewish surnames echo throughout history’. In other words, the supposed damage caused by Jewish people reverberates from decade to decade.” The parentheses are used to imply that same echo textually.
While many antisemites simply write out Jewish names with the parentheses manually, using it as a deliberate taunt, there was also a popular Chrome extension that automated the function. Named “Coincidence Detector” – a sarcastic reflection of the anti-semitic conspiracy that Jews control the media – it automatically flagged up common Jewish surnames to anyone who installed it.
Google removed Coincidence Detector on Thursday, citing terms and conditions that prohibit “promotions of hate or incitement of violence”, shortly after Mic wrote about the extension.
The publicity around the echo symbol has led to a counter protest, with Jews and non-Jews alike putting the symbol around their own names on social media, led by Tablet magazine’s Yair Rosenberg:
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) June 3, 2016
Want to raise awareness about anti-Semitism, show solidarity with harassed Jews & mess with the Twitter Nazis? Put ((( ))) around your name.
The echo symbol is just the latest in a string of coded ways the far right has learned to communicate online. Neo-Nazis regularly adopt the numbers 88 – standing for HH, or “heil Hitler” – and 14, referring to “the 14 words”, the white-supremacist slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”.
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Mexican Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu issued a blistering attack against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a speech to a prominent Jewish group in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
“The United States benefits greatly from the economic relationship with Mexico, and the American people benefit immensely from the presence of Mexican people in this country,” Ruiz Massieu said during a speech at the American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum without mentioning Donald Trump by name. “People, we are most definitely not the problem; we are part of the solution. Our problem is not one of closed borders, but one of narrow minds.”
Lambasting Trump’s recent comments about Mexican immigrants “for political gain,” Ruiz Massieu stressed, “The Mexican people have always been a positive presence and force for good in the United States. And this is not an opinion, it is a fact. The future and viability of the United States as an economic dominant power in the 21st century is linked to the success of its immigrant population.”
According to the foreign secretary, the “foreign” people Trump disparages and demonizes are no different than American Jews and others who “plow the land and make sure there is food on our table.”
“Those who want to make political profit stigmatizing these people, be them Mexicans, Jews, Muslims, people of color, or Asians, are wrong,” she said. “For this country was founded on the very principle – the self evident truth that all men and women are endowed with the same rights – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Ruiz Massieu further touted the close relationship between the Mexican people and the Jewish community and their shared values, saying that if history has taught us anything, “when discrimination is allowed against one group, it’s just a matter of time before it is targeted against others.”
“Let me say loud and clear: Fighting anti-Semitism, like standing up to anti-Mexican sentiments, is not a Jewish issue nor a Mexican issue. It’s a common battle for human rights. It is a matter of universal dignity that goes beyond race, religion, ideology or politics. And this stance is simply non-negotiable,” she added.
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This article and this question are absurd. If you love something, you hate that which threatens it. If you love America, you hate its enemies. If you love Jews, you hate their enemies. If you love Muslims, you hate their enemies. Hatred is not unique to Donald Trump supporters. Those who have the opposite values from Trump understandably hate him.
For decades, it seemed that the visuals of Nazi propaganda — replete with hunch-backed, leering, long-nosed Chasidic Jews — had vanished. Then came the internet.
Virulently anti-Semitic imagery has made its way into the presidential campaign, materializing, for instance, in Julia Ioffe’s inbox and social media feeds after the Jewish reporter wrote a profile in GQ of Melania Trump, who found the article unflattering.
Now, members of the Jewish world who pay close attention to hate speech — anti-Semitic and otherwise — are posing an unsettling question: Will Donald Trump make America hate again? For some, the answer is that he already has.
“Trump’s rhetoric resonates with white supremacists,” said Joanna Mendelson, an investigative researcher with the Center on Extremism, a branch of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
“They’ve been essentially energized about Trump’s candidacy, and they’ve been very vocal about their support of Trump and his policies on immigration and globalism,” Mendelson said.
In February, the ADL published a list of 10 prominent white supremacists who actively support Trump. Then, in April, it urged the candidate to drop the phrase “America First” as a campaign slogan, pointing out it had been used by Charles Lindbergh, a prominent Nazi sympathizer, in the 1940s.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, another prominent Jewish organization monitoring hate speech, has stopped short of calling out Trump by name.
But in an emailed statement to the Jewish Journal, Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center’s founder and dean, wrote, “No political candidate for high office of any sort should allow hate groups and bigots to pollute their campaign by peddling their hatred.”
Trump’s tough stance on immigrants, paired with his anti-establishment ethos, seems to have made him the most palatable candidate in decades for white supremacists, who otherwise have been slowly fading into the country’s political fringe.
William Johnson, who was named on the ADL list, explained that Trump’s promise to put American interests first speaks to the concerns of white nationalists (he rejects the term “white supremacist,” calling it “the worst swear word out there”).
As the chairman of the anti-immigrant American Freedom Party, Johnson favors the creation of a white ethno-state.
A corporate lawyer in downtown Los Angeles, Johnson became entangled in the Trump campaign last month when he applied to become a California delegate to the Republican convention, and his name was accidentally included in the list of Trump convention delegates sent to the California secretary of state.
“Virtually all of the white nationalist movement is behind Donald Trump,” Johnson said in an interview with the Journal at the time.
In a second interview with the Journal, Johnson said the support stems from the fact that every other major presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan has promoted a globalist agenda of open borders and multiculturalism.
“They’re all promoting the globalist platform that Donald Trump is now tearing apart,” he said.
He added that many members of his community are also tacitly rooting for Bernie Sanders because of his anti-establishment stance.
In the interview, Johnson drew a line between white nationalists who see Jews as benign, saying Ashkenazis “would probably be considered white,” and those who see them as problematic non-whites. Johnson said he belongs to the first camp.
On the other side of that split is David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader.
Last month, Duke praised Trump on his radio show for exposing “Jewish supremacists who control our country.”
“Many people are upset with the Zionist elite,” Duke wrote in an email to the Journal, describing himself as “a Gentile who loves his own people as much as Jews love their own people.”
Duke declined to comment further.
Mendelson, the ADL researcher, questioned the existence of a clean divide between white supremacists who hate Jews and those who don’t.
“I look at many of those folks as ecumenical haters,” she said. “You can’t parse out their hatred for Jews, because really their hatred extends across the spectrum.”
While some haters are willing to speak out in public, she said, many “might not do so boldly in their workplace or on the street corner or at that rally.” Instead, they take to the internet.
“I’ve talked with many who agree with my opinions on Jewish influence, but it’s a very tricky subject to talk about in public,” a 22-year-old engineer from Houston, who declined to be named for this story, wrote in a private message on Twitter.
Posting under the handle @NationalismRise, the engineer has described a target of his ire as a “filthy kike,” tweeted pictures of swastikas and referred to The New York Times as the “Jew York Times.” He describes himself as a Trump supporter and a member of the alt-right movement, a fringe group of ultra-nationalist ideologies that challenges mainstream conservatism.
Asked why he believes Trump will stand up to Jewish political interests, he said, “The proof is in the pudding.”
“The amount of hate & vitriol aimed at Trump from Jewish members of the media & high finance has been constant for the last year,” he wrote.
He echoed Johnson’s sentiment that Trump would do away with the pervasive globalism of America’s foreign policy: “I believe his America First foreign policy and criticism of the neoconservative movement implies he will be much less likely to carry water for Israel.”
COMMENTS:
* Trump is not a politically correct person. That doesn’t mean he is a fanatic. He just tells it like it is. Just because someone labels Trump as a crazy or fanatic doesn’t make it so. Actually, Trump is a very successful business person who has hired thousands of people. How many people has Hillary hired or how much money has she made in the private sector to give her an inkling on how to make America great again. Hillary has put our secrets at risks with her private server and failed to protect Amb. Stevens and brave Americans in Benghazi. The buck stops with her on those matters. Americans are tired of the same old line given by the same old people saying they will change America for the better. When? Hillary has been around for decades and became very rich holding public office. When is she going to make America better, now?
* I remember that ‘anti-semitic’ president, Nixon. When Israel was ‘on the ropes’, in 1973, He quickly loaded C-5’s with the needed re-supply, thumbed his nose at our European ‘allies’, and flew them non-stop, direct to Israel.
And now, we have a ‘pro-Israel’ POTUS, who, during Arab Spring. initiated the shipment of M-1 tanks, F-16 fighter planes, and Apache helicopters, to Egypt’s Morsi (read Moslem Brotherhood). At the same time, he embargoed spare parts for Israel.
There is written evidence that if FDR was still alive in 1947, the creation of Israel would never have been passed in the UN.
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Dennis Prager writes: If you want to understand Sen. Bernie Sanders, this is what you need to know:
He is the quintessential modern identity-free man.
He is a non-Jewish Jew and a non-American American.
In Sanders’ speeches and interviews, there is virtually no mention of his being a Jew (unless he’s asked about it), and — what’s truly amazing for an American presidential candidate — there are few mentions of America, except to lament American inequality, Wall Street corruption and other American evils.
The term “non-Jewish Jew” is not mine. It is generally attributed to a Jewish historian, Isaac Deutscher, who wrote an essay by that name in 1954. The term describes individuals who are born Jews (Judaism consists of a national identity and peoplehood identity, not just a religious identity) but identify as citizens of the world rather than as Jews, either nationally or religiously.
Once the walls of Jewish ghettos broke down and European Jews were allowed to leave Jewish enclaves, many Jews became non-Jewish Jews. In most cases, either they or their children assimilated into the societies in which they lived.
However, a small, but significant percentage became radicalized. They loathed religion (especially all Judeo- and Christian-based religions), traditional middle-class (“bourgeois”) values, capitalism and all Western national identities (they supported anti-Western national identities), and they particularly hated the Jewish religious and national identities.
What, for example, do socialist Karl Marx, Soviet politician Leon Trotsky, linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky and billionaire George Soros have in common? They were/are all radicals who were born to Jewish parents, had/have no Jewish identity and did/do harm to Jews and non-Jews.
Marx was the grandson of two Orthodox rabbis (his father converted to Christianity), yet he wrote one of the most significant anti-Semitic essays of the 19th century, “On the Jewish Question” in 1844. In it are such statements as:
“Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face which no other god may exist. …The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. …The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism.”
Trotsky, born Lev Bronstein, was the intellectual father of Russian, and later Soviet, communism. He, along with Joseph Stalin and three others (two of whom were also non-Jewish Jews), fought to succeed Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Communist Party.
When Trotsky was head of the Red Army, Moscow’s chief rabbi, Jacob Mazeh, asked Trotsky to use the army to protect the Jews from pogrom attacks. Trotsky reportedly responded, “Why do you come to me? I am not a Jew,” to which Mazeh answered: “That’s the tragedy. It’s the Trotskys who make revolutions, and it’s the Bronsteins who pay the price.”
Chomsky is hostile to the two identities with which he was born. He has devoted much of his life to working against America and Israel. To cite but one example, he traveled to Lebanon to appear with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and lend his support to a group that is committed to the annihilation of Israel, which the United States lists as a terrorist organization.
Soros is another man who was born Jewish and later became a radical world citizen, a man who was alienated from America and his Jewish origins and damages both. Martin Peretz, former editor-in-chief of the New Republic, described Soros: “George Soros is ostentatiously indifferent to his own Jewishness. He is not a believer. He has no Jewish communal ties. He certainly isn’t a Zionist. He told Connie Bruck in The New Yorker — testily, she recounted — that ‘I don’t deny the Jews their right to a national existence — but I don’t want to be part of it.’”
Soros supports Palestinian nationalism. A consistent belief of radicals is that anti-Jewish and anti-American nationalisms are good, and Jewish and American nationalisms are bad.
Sanders is a milder version of these radical non-Jewish Jews. He, too, is alienated from his Jewish and American origins.
And that explains his attitudes and policies. People with no national or religious roots who become politically active frequently seek to undermine the national and religious identities of others, especially those in their own national/religious group. In the case of Sanders, that means those with Jewish and American identities.
That’s why non-Jewish Jews are far more likely to work to weaken Christianity in America than Jewish Jews, especially religious Jews. Religious Jews celebrate religious Christians. The same holds true for American non-Jews who have rejected any identification with Christianity, many of whom in fact seek to weaken Christian influence and identity in America.
Non-Jewish Jews like Sanders are alienated from Jews who strongly identify as Jewish and Christians who strongly identify as Christians. And non-American Americans like Sanders and others who identify as “world citizens” more than they identify as American citizens, are alienated from Americans who strongly identify as Americans.
The radical non-Jewish Jew and the radical non-American American love humanity, but they hurt real humans, especially Jews and Americans.
A FRIEND SAYS:
Prager is misguided. It’s a big mistake to lump any of them in with the others, as they really had nothing in common. There is a common thread between Marx and Trotsky in that Marx was the leading economic/political theorist who advocated for a communist state and Trotsky helped install a nascent one in the Soviet Union. And of course one of the things that Prager neglects to mention is that unlike under the Tsar, the Jews were liberated within the Soviet Union, even if the regime itself was atheistic.
Chomsky is a different bird altogether. He is of course probably the leading thinker on linguistics, who has radical tendencies that give him a particular world view, a world view that does not coincide with Pragers. And of course Soros is sui generis. He was raised in Hungary and was persecuted as a Jew and he and his father apparently acted as informers once Horthy was deposed during WWII and the Arrow Cross took over the government. Considering that he was willing to sacrifice other Jews to save his own skin, is it any wonder he feels estranged from Judaism?
Prager would believe that for all of these persons, their Jewish identity is paramount. All of them, excepting Chomsky, had to deal with anti Semitism in a way that Prager never experienced. In each case their reaction was rational, even if possibly immoral, again by Jewish standards.
Sanders has little in common with any of these (with the possible exception of Chomsky.) Sanders grew out of the New York East Coast Jewish leftist (communist and socialist milieu). Unlike Prager, as a young man and as some sort of idealist, he did work on one of the most radical kibbutzim in Israel. It’s rich that out of the experience, Sanders is willing to view Israel as any other nation, and not entitled to any sort of special treatment because Sanders was born a Jew, yet Prager who is wedded at the hip to the Likudniks wholly rejects the legitimacy of Sanders personal experience and the knowledge he has gained through being a congressman and Senator.
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Hannibal Bateman writes: Muhammad Ali’s recent death will be just another moment for White liberals to collectively mourn another link to their “golden age” in the 1960’s. When their opponents where “the real racists” and they had such “titans” as Martin Luther King jr. and John F. Kennedy leading America inexorably towards progress.
The Guardian has a typical display of this mindset:
Born in the south before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white bus passenger, he died at the age of 74, having seen the first African American elected to the White House. Barack Obama led tributes to the incandescent athlete, activist, humanitarian, poet and showman with a statement that caught the mood of many.
But reality, unlike Cultural Marxist ideology is always more complex. Ali was of course, a radical Black muslim whom most of us would be hard-pressed to find much common ground with on the surface.
However, Ali in fact, had racial views that are far more akin to a race realist than to the smug White liberals who use his picture to decorate his dorm room today. Just take a look at this interview below.
Ali would go even further in a Playboy interview , sounding closer to Dr. Pierce than Dr. King by a mile:
>PLAYBOY: You’re beginning to sound like a carbon copy of a white racist. Let’s get it out front: Do you believe that lynching is the answer to interracial sex?
ALI: A black man should be killed if he’s messing with a white woman. And white men have always done that. They lynched n****rs for even looking at a white woman; they’d call it reckless eyeballing and bring out the rope. Raping, patting, mischief, abusing, showing our women disrespect — a man should die for that. And not just white men — black men, too. We will kill you, and the brothers who don’t kill you will get their behinds whipped and probably get killed themselves if they let it happen and don’t do nothin’ about it. Tell it to the President — he ain’t gonna do nothin’ about it. Tell it to the FBI: We’ll kill anybody who tries to mess around with our women. Ain’t nobody gonna bother them.
All this weekend there are going to be celebrations about the ‘legacy’ of Muhammad Ali. They will more than likely focus on race more than anything to do with boxing. But for the smug leftists who celebrate Ali, the man himself stands in stinging rebuke to the “post-racial” dream they so love to articulate.
It’s no surprise that we are seeing a resurgence in street violence this election season. This is something Ali would have predicted, because like White identitarians today he understood that diversity leads to conflict.
So let’s do a littleculture jamming and throw these words back into the faces of Ali’s so-called admirers. They could use the tough love!
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New York Times: “Infant mortality is not distributed equally in the United States. In 2013, the infant mortality rate among non-Hispanic whites was 5 per 1,000 births, as was the infant mortality rate among Hispanics. The rate among non-Hispanic blacks, however, was more than 11 per 1,000 births.”
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William Heirens, a 1940s Chicago serial murderer, became known as ‘the Lipstick Killer’ after using it to scrawl on a victim’s wall: ‘For heaven’s sake, catch me before I kill more, I cannot control myself.’
The infamous Zodiac Killer of San Francisco made a similar plea in a 1969 letter to police: ‘Please help me, I can not remain in control for much longer.’ We commonly attribute such a sentiment to sociopathy. But it has now sprung up again in a more unlikely place.
The recent criminal trial around an Afro teen’s shooting death by Floridian George Zimmerman has gripped the nation. The lesson to be drawn, say the pundits, is that young black men are akin to dangerous wildlife: One cannot approach them, even innocently, without implicitly inviting them to beat one’s head into cement. ‘If only Zimmerman had stayed in his car,’ the chorus sings, ‘none of this would have happened.’
We are to understand, then, that Afros are telling us, ‘We cannot control ourselves. Approaching us, looking at us, just getting in our space, can push us to spontaneous violence–for which we cannot be held responsible.’ In a word, ‘We are wild animals.’
It is a curious line to take, in an advanced society. The message is that though you may believe yourself in a city of civilized men, you are in fact no different than an Indian villager at constant threat of leopard attacks. Your life en ville is a sort of urban safari.
It is as though Black Americans are telling us that in their presence, we should follow the advice given to visitors by car to, for example, Namibia’s Etosha National Park:
‘Also remember to give a wide berth to elephants and rhinos which may become agressive if they feel threatened. Never get too close, never approach them too fast and never honk the horn. They can both outrun the vehicle if they decide to charge, so better not mess around. But if you are respectful and careful they will see you as part of their surroundings and will behave very peacefully. Warning signs that an elephant is annoyed is the raising and flapping of the ears whilst looking directly at you – retreat slowly and immediately.’
If Afros really want us to treat them this way–as dangerous wildlife–then we can only examine some case studies to see if simple guidelines could indeed change tragic outcomes for non-Afros.
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In December 2013, Nguyen caused controversy by posting an article on her website titled “Why I Sympathize with Hitler: Part I”, though she stated that her views on Hitler were not derived from anti-Semitism on her part, nor any feelings toward Jewish people. Nguyen stated:
For those of you who focus on the victims of war well that is just part of war. What do you think war is about? People DIE in wars that is why I am against wars. It brought me to tears because I used to think all of those horrible things about him [Hitler] until I learned the truth about the war and what Hitler truly did and he was not a bad person as they have painted him out to be. Here is a man who was not a coward, stood up for his country in a DESPERATE TIME OF NEED (unlike all of our cowardly leaders), and yet not only did he try his best to help his country and people get out of what was a time of depression, economic collapse, high unemployment, amongst many other things.[58]
She also posted pro-Hitler and anti-Semitic comments on her Facebook page,[59] as well as photos of herself as a scantily clad Nazi posing in front of a photo of Auschwitz. These actions angered her Facebook followers, and resulted in Facebook closing her account and removing the material in question.[60] In August 2015, Tequila became a contestant in the sixteenth series of British television reality show Celebrity Big Brother, but was asked to leave the programme on its second day when producers became aware of her comments, and following reports that she had posted images of herself posing before Auschwitz concentration camp dressed in a Nazi uniform.[61] She subsequently apologized for her earlier comments, blaming them on depression and drug addiction.[62] However, on May 6, 2016, Nguyen tweeted that Jewish-American political commentator Ben Shapiro should “be gassed and sent back to Israel” and later posted that “There are only two things in this world, for which I would gladly sacrifice my own life; the destruction of all Jews and preservation of the white race” and “You know what will help Asians earn respect? An Asian version of Adolf Hitler… I want that person to be me; I want to save the world from this Zionist disease.”
* It is funny to know that Bill Kristol has already made such an ass of himself that someone will just have to play him in any film about Trump’s road to the White House.
* Having Negro style masculinity is bad if you want to stay out of trouble with the police and want to live a drama free life. But I recommend for East Asian men and White men to adopt Negro style masculinity only for trying to pick up women.
Adopt the positive aspects of Negro masculinity, but none of the negative aspects of it. If you do that, you basically get Italian masculinity.
Italian men aggressively pursue women just like Black men do, but commit crime at the level of WASP men. It’s a perfect balance, it’s the best of both worlds.
* Incidentally, his daughter married a white man. I wonder if it was her way of rebelling.
* Many of Ali’s opponents came to sticky ends, besides Liston. Sonny Banks knocked him down in their 1962 bout, and was killed in a 1965 bout with Leotis Martin. Zora Folley was found in a motel pool with massive head injuries. Oscar Bonavena was very unhappy with the refereeing of their 1970 match, his only inside the distance loss, and was shot dead in Nevada in 1975.
Ken Norton won all 3 fights against Ali, though he only got the decision in one. Victim of an unexplained single vehicle car accident, and in a coma for 5 years. Trevor Berbick was killed with an axe in 2006. Alejandro Lavorante was another opponent who died from injuries received in a later bout.
The hero in Creed basically has three main obstacles he must overcome:
a) He must stop beating up black guys outside the ring and start beating up white guys inside the ring.
b) He must become part of an authentically black community, in an authentically black city (Philly), by winning the love of an authentically Philly woman.
c) He must make peace with his father, Apollo Creed, and his legacy.
Hey– an alienated son of privilege must make peace with his father’s ghost and become a leader of his race by joining the community of a large black-dominated American city and winning the love of one of that city’s native daughters: I think I’ve read that book before.
Michael Jordan, the actor playing the title role, played Wallace in “The Wire,” the prototypical callow black youth caught in forces beyond his control. And in contrast to Carl Weathers, who really looked like he could have been a champion in the original Rocky, Jordan comes across as pretty callow here. But it works. In almost every scene, Adonis Creed seems less grounded than any of the other, usually older actors around him, but in a way this suits his role as an all-purpose vehicle for hopes (his own and others’) rather than a person with an intense inner life…
Creed, though wrapped in the flashy boxing robe of the big-ticket Rocky franchise, feels like an elegiac repurposing of the myth of Obama himself for the era of Black Lives Matters and the closing year of his presidency.
* OT: a nice quote by Tila Tequila, former porn star and now twitter nazi, on ‘Fash the Nation 42′ (https://radio.therightstuff.biz/2016/06/04/fash-the-nation-week-42/), ~89:30. She came back to Houston after it’d been diversified. She says the intent of section 8 is to put blacks on their best behavior, get them out of their bad environments, but that “that’s not how it works, they dominate the neighborhood and chase out the nice people” (paraphrase). Promises good times for Obama’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.
* Real boxing doesn’t look much like a Rocky movie, where everything is telegraphed so viewers can follow what’s going on.
Boxing is kind of like hockey where the action tended to be too quick to really follow on pre-HD television. I watched a lot of Olympic boxing on TV in 1976, but I had a hard time following who was winning from what I was seeing.
Did they have instant replay set up for the closed circuit telecast?
Former champ James J. “Cinderella Man” Braddock was in the front row and told a reporter: “I have a feeling that this guy (Ali) is a lot better than any of us gave him credit for,” Braddock said. “It isn’t the knockout punch that sticks in my mind as much as a punch he let go (earlier)….It was a right to Liston’s jaw and it shook him to his shoetops. For all we know, it could have been the one that set up the knockout.”
* In Madmen the old secretary, Miss Blankenship, expresses no interest in Clay-Liston and says “If I wanted to watch 2 negroes fight I’d throw a dollar out the window.” Which is a great line and an example of Weiner having it both ways, as the audience can laugh and say it’s laughing at how awful people used to be.
* Some economists studied the Houston Section 8 lottery; the applicants who won the lottery and received the housing voucher committed more crimes, mostly assaults. Men who won the lottery were twice as likely to get arrested than men who applied for Section 8 but lost. Basically, since spending the voucher is fungible with other spending, you can get drunk (or high, perhaps) more often if you win than if you don’t, and consequently get in more fights. The voucher had no effect on women’s propensity to commit crimes.
This is consistent with other findings that transfers fungible with cash tend to increase crime in the short term (aside from any increases in the long term due to “welfare dependency,” change in culture, etc.)
* For fraction of the money Soros has wasted on BLM, he could have funded surveillance cameras for Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods.
I would like to know what percentage of Chicago homicides take place outside and could be captured on video.
The gang murder trial I was a juror on that ended in an acquittal due to gross lack of evidence happened out in the middle of the street in front of a crowd on a hot summer’s night.
If you watch The First 48, a large number of the shootings involving blacks that are resolved had video evidence. I imagine the show’s producers choose not to waste time attempting to track cases involving AAs that do not have either video, audio or social media evidence simply because the “no snitch” mentality makes the cases poor odds for resolution.
Of course the last thing TWMNBN would want is more video that would end up on WSHH, SBPDL or Colin Flaherty’s Youtube channel.
But improving the CPD murder case conviction rate by just 10% could dramatically lower the carnage.
We remember Ali calling Frazier “ugly,” an “Uncle Tom” and, especially, a “gorilla.” And even those of us too young to have stayed up to learn the result of a 15-round prizefight in the 1970s recall how black people laughed and laughed at this.
“I’m cringing in my car right now just thinking about it,” says Janks Morton Jr. He visited Frazier in Philadelphia in the early 1970s with his dad, Janks Morton Sr., who trained Sugar Ray Leonard and was close friends with Frazier’s sparring partner, heavyweight champ-to-be Ken Norton. “I can still see [Ali] sitting next to Howard Cosell punching that [rubber] black gorilla, saying, ‘It’s going to be a thrilla in Manila when I kill that gorilla.’”
* When confronted by the press about his low IQ score, Ali said “I always said I was the greatest, not the smartest.” When he was training for his second match against Sonny Liston in Boston (a match that had to be postponed and rescheduled for Lewiston, Maine because Ali got hit with an appendicitis attack), I went with a college buddy to the small gym where he was working out. He was the most beautiful man I have ever seen. To see him spar in the ring with his sparring partner was truly impressive. He was so quick and graceful. Truly “floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee.” It was a small gym and we were about the only people watching, which meant we were about 25 feet away from the sparring ring. I was also stunned to see how big he was after reading all the stories in the press about how Sonny Liston towered over him with his scowl. Ali was two inches taller, had several inches in reach over Liston and outweighed Liston by a good 15 pounds when I saw him. No wonder my college friend from Louisville cleaned up on the first fight betting a good deal of money at 7 to 1 odds. Later, when Ali met Frazier in their first fight, I happened to be skiing in Innsbruck, Austria with my girlfriend. Because of budgetary constraints, we were staying in a pension with no TV. The night of the fight we checked into a hotel with a TV in the lobby and got a wakeup call around 3 am (because of the time difference) and joined a fairly large crowd in the lobby to watch the fight. I was cheering for Ali all the way but realized that the judges’ decision at the conclusion of the fight was the right one. It was the most memorable and exciting sporting event I have ever watched, in person or on TV. During his career, I always rooted for Ali, but after he retired I concluded that Joe Frazier was the much better man. He put up with all that crap from Ali with a great deal of dignity, and, based on what I read, he conducted himself the same way in all aspects of his life.
BTW I rather enjoyed John McEnroe’s antics when he played and saw the humor in what he did. Apparently, he did too based on the commercials he made after he retired. I was also a big McEnroe fan because of his artistry as a tennis player.
* According to the NYT obit he failed the Army’s mental ability test which I’m assuming is NYT speak for IQ test. It was only after the minimum score was lowered that he became eligible to be drafted.
* Muhammad Ali strikes me as evidence that Jensen’s “Level 1″ intelligence is better understood as heuristic-based or subconscious processing than as literal recall. Ali could be insightful, even creative, within a narrow band of topics and situations, but presumably had no ability to abstract outside that, the Level 2 intelligence that IQ tests evaluate. I also think there might be some tradeoffs between fast visual processing of 3D objects and fast 2D processing, that might have made him especially predisposed to illiteracy. The IQ test was correct as far as it went, but everything’s not IQ.
My wife saw him in Times Square once- the stretch limo pulls up, the window goes down, an enormous head with a big smile leans out, the crowd of people waiting to cross 42nd street goes suddenly wild.
Roger Ebert’s essay about watching Rocky 2 with Ali is quite good, and doesn’t have the hagiographic quality that things written more recently have.
* His celebrity status helped popularize the so-called ‘Black Muslims’, a hate white people group who preached that whites were literally the devil. It’s believed this group spawned murder cults such as the Zebra murderers and others across the country. The NOI (Nation of Islam), currently headed by Farrakhan has been on public access television at various slots for years in the Chicago area. This would never have been tolerated were it to be a white nationalist type group but blacks always get a pass no matter. The nasty taunting of Frazier for being darker is a window to the inherent race obsessions of blacks, such as light vs dark feelings and other forms of hating everybody. Generally, the vast majority of blacks are united in their hatred of whitey and masochistic, simpering whites just suck it up and ask for more.
* Ali was punchy long before Parkinson’s set in. Back in the 80s and 90s Howard Stern would have Frazier into the studio for interviews and would joke between them how dopey Ali was, how dazed in later days Ali was and snicker about how Frazier beat Ali stupid. Ali was brain dead and underwater for decades.
Ali kicked off everything that is idiotic about Black athletes today and rare indeed is the Black sports star who, in the end zone, acts as if he’s been there before, as they say. Ali was also the beginning of the era of Black-Man-Does-No-Wrong-That-We-Print-Or-Portray media. Ali was the beginning of the tolerance of Black-onWhite racism and the beginning of the shuttling aside of a man’s moral and intellectual shortfalls because of his Black skin, especially if he was a celebrity. Little known factlet, 4 wives, by various accounts from seven to a dozen children that we know of, and dozens or hundreds of groupies, a particularly egregious record, even for Blacks in the 60s and 70s. From Ali onward, are you Black? Promiscuous? Unsupported children? No problem, just a Black thing. You wouldn’t understand. It all started down the hill with Ali.
* ‘Ali was, in the words of famed sportswriter Frank Deford, “the original trash talker.” He liberated athletes in most sports (other than golf) from the code of the British gentleman.’
No. He liberated blacks from the oppressive chains of good sportsmanship. White athletes, for the most part, still display good sportsmanship no matter the sport.
* If Ali had a low IQ then this seems to clearly demonstrate in an HBD sense blacks folk’s have something else that compensates to some extent. A white person with the same IQ could not riff like that. Rappers can be pretty clever with the phrases too. Mike Tyson seems to be kind of an idiot yet insightful at the same time. Low IQ whites are just dull. What is going on?
* Right, blacks seem to be more talkative than most people, and they have a tendency to string together words and phrases they pick up from the environment into utterances that don’t make much sense semantically or logically. The words and phrases seem to be put together for the purposes of sound and rhythm.
A lot of sports broadcasting and commentary is now virtually unwatchable because they tend to have black commentators on every panel and broadcasting crew. It’s embarrassing and cringe inducing to watch. Cable news is increasingly like this as well, although not as bad yet. They now tend to always include one or more black commentators.
* If you spend any time around black people, you will hear a lot of very amusing and entertaining trash talk. When I was younger and more naive, I knew a very witty black woman obviously much brighter than her black peers. I was amazed when she showed me the DFS paperwork relating to her having lost custody of her children. Her IQ was listed as 99. I couldn’t believe it was so low. In retrospect, it seems spot on to me.
* After Ali won the title again in 1974, it became “In” to hero-worship him. I recall in 1976, Ali was on CBS Face the Nation, of all things. A reporter asked him who he favored in the Presidential race. Ali said he liked Gerald Ford, who had invited him to the White House, which Ali liked very much.
I was a bit surprised, but that’s what he said. I believe Ali endorsed Reagan in 1984.
* The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica had a different explanation. Interestingly, this section has been expunged from some of the on-line versions.
Mentally the negro is inferior to the white. The remark of F. Manetta, made after a long study of the negro in America, may be taken as generally true of the whole race: “the negro children were sharp, intelligent and full of vivacity, but on approaching the adult period a gradual change set in. The intellect seemed to become clouded, animation giving place to a sort of lethargy, briskness yielding to indolence. We must necessarily suppose that the development of the negro and white proceeds on different lines. While with the latter the volume of the brain grows with the expansion of the brainpan, in the former the growth of the brain is on the contrary arrested by the premature closing of the cranial sutures and lateral pressure of the frontal bone.
* The late David Halberstam thought Ali had the most astute analysis of the Vietnam War of anyone. Halberstam also declared Ali sacrificed more due to the war than anyone.
An example of the fawning over blacks, and Ali in particular, common to people (literary and otherwise) of Halberstam’s milieu.
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