From the Chateau: Three “power brokers” with their hands in pockets, and one doing the fig leaf over his crotch. Classic beta male body language tells. Trump, meanwhile, is the only man in the room with his hands out, gesticulating a commanding presence. Keep in mind that Trump is the man in this meeting who hasn’t yet been elected to any high office. Alpha is Attitude.
Nearly every photo of Trump is a master class in alpha male body language. For we teachers of the crimson arts, the Trumpening is gift from Eros, a walking Powerpoint on the successful traits, mannerisms, and habits of the alpha male who is beloved by feminine women and admired by masculine men.
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Over all, though, nearly three-fourths of victims and suspected assailants whose race could be identified were black. Some experts suggest that helps explain why the drumbeat of dead and wounded does not inspire more outrage. “Clearly, if it’s black-on-black, we don’t get the same attention because most people don’t identify with that. Most Americans are white,” said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston. “People think, ‘That’s not my world. That’s not going to happen to me.’”
* Normally I tend to blow off suggestions that mass media (music, movies,video games) amplifies violence but I have a hard time doing that now, particularly with rap music. Despite the left’s attempts to portray most of this genre as subtle and brilliant art, a huge percentage of it revolves around crude boasts about money, drugs/drinking, promiscuity, and violence.
It appears to me that lots of young black men and boys essentially model their behavior after the archetypical character in a rap song. In fact, it’s common too see some young black guy with headphones on walking down the street or standing at the bus stop rapping along with his favorite song complete with the gestures and expressions of the rapper in the music video, as if he’s trying to be that character. I don’t see white hipsters doing that while listening to the latest Wilco or even high schoolers play-acting to the soundtrack of teen pop music.
Obviously, the way people dress or act can be a reflection of their cultural influences of the moment, and I just as often silently laugh at the white kids who spend hours cultivating a look that is supposed to look careless, but guys with greasy hair, beards, and retro clothing or messenger bags style aren’t going to get wound up about some perceived slight and start shooting at a party or bar. In contrast, those that consciously mimic rap culture very well might.
* Most shootings with four deaths or injuries are invisible outside their communities. And most of the lives they scar are black.
Maybe the New York Times could explain why those who might want to read about black-on-black and black-on-white crime have to read the Daily Mail.
BTW, 2Kevins w/ Grace & Steele did good in-depth takedown of Jill Leovy’s book in the latter half of episode 36 0f their podcast. Leovy describes how appalling things are in the black “community,” but in the end assigns all responsibility for dealing with it to whites.
* Black people don’t kill black people because of racism, poverty, economic inequality, lack of opportunity. Rather those things are symptoms, not causes; they occur for the SAME REASON as black violence: low IQ, low impulse control, low concept of future, low grasp of cause and effect, low investment in family and society, low character and, oh yes, low IQ. To make it worse, they’ve been told by liberal fools and scoundrels for two generations that nothing is their fault, it’s all The System. Did I mention low IQ?
* This reminds me of Ta-Genius Coates’ appearance at an Aspen panel. When someone pointed out that far more African-Americans are killed in intra-black violence than police shootings, he said “yeah, but it feels different [when you hear someone is killed by the police].”
It’s bad to be worried about Islamic terrorism or black-on-white crime, because, hey, it’s a country of >300 million people, of course you can drudge up some examples if all you do is worry about it. Clearly, objective perusal of the data shows that those are relatively small risks to the ordinary American. Fears about them are exaggerated, due to racial/cultural hysteria against the perpetrators. But it’s good to be extremely worried about white police officers—or, sorry, police officers Who Must Believe They Are White—shooting black suspected criminals—or, sorry, Innocent Black Baby Bodies—because even if it’s a rounding error compared to heart disease, black-on-black crime or auto accidents it’s the principle of the thing, not the actual risk, that counts.
In all seriousness, it’s somewhat hilarious that after being attacked by black criminals, Matt Yglesias and Brian Beutler shrug it off as Shit Happens, but egg on blacks to tell everyone how they constantly fear their Black Bodies being destroyed because they once had a tense encounter with the cops.
As Steve would say, it comes down to “Who is overtaking whom?”
* It is much safer to live around poor whites than middle and upper class blacks.
For instance:
Prince George’s County, MD
Median household income $72,052
Median home value $247,600
Black Non-Hispanic Alone (63.5%)
Hispanic or Latino (14.9%)
White Non-Hispanic Alone (14.9%)
Asian alone (4.0%)
Murder Rate 146
Kanawha County, West Virginia
Median Household Income $46,325
Median Home Value $107,000
White Non-Hispanic Alone (88.6%)
Black Non-Hispanic Alone (7.2%)
Asian alone (1.0%)
Murder Rate 18
* My gf & I went to Target last night. Only two registers were open and there was about ten people waiting in a single line. Thus in the very from register no one was directly waiting. This young black girl with her daughter walks up feigns like she is asking if the register is available. As she is doing this another cashier opens up their register & she pounces. Seeing this I called her out. She calls me a “fag**t” & that she’ll meet me outside. I respond that’s how you talk in front of your daughter?
They have little couth, civility or self-control and when they’re in the ghetto incidents like these happen routinely & end in violence. The underclass blacks really do need a firm hand guiding their every move. They aren’t fit for modern society.
* I have been involved in competitive shooting for 20 years, and shot in national events for the last twelve. Among the thousands and thousands of shooters I have encountered over that period of time, I can literally count the number of blacks on one hand.
Competitive shooting is, above all else, a game of extreme, Zen-like mental focus. It requires a significant attention to detail in terms of equipment and environmental conditions. I would liken the attitude of the competitive shooter to that of a professional pilot — all business, which includes a positively anal emphasis on safety.
Blacks do not generally possess these traits. Consequently, the competitive shooting community is 99.9+ percent white. I believe that blacks are genetically hard-wired to have less impulse control than whites, and that this attribute explains black success in pursuits that require spontaneous behavior, like basketball and bebop jazz, but it also explains a LOT of senseless black criminality and the ease with which blacks routinely just grab a gun and shoot wildly after the slightest provocation.
Competitive shooters, many of whom have fired hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, would never do anything like that.
The problem with impulsive black shootings is that they are being used politically to justify infringements on the freedoms of millions of sober, responsible, self-sufficient whites. Perhaps the Founders were right — all of them believed that blacks were incapable of functioning in a free society, and that blacks would be better off if they were emancipated and then repatriated to Africa.
* The Constitution and the 2nd Amendment was written for white people. A different sort of government may work better for black people. But I don’t want to change the Constitution to make it more suitable for black people (generally speaking) but less suitable for white people (again generally speaking).
* Not trending on Fakebook.
BlackLiesMatter – Activist Group Leader Arrested For Sex Trafficking,
The Daily Caller obtained a police report stating that Wade was picked up in a College Park police sting after cops responded to a backpage.com ad from a woman who claimed to be 23, offering sexual services at an area Howard Johnson hotel.
When police arrived and confronted the woman, who turned out to be 17, she identified Wade, who had been watching from the parking lot, as her “manager” named “CJ.” The police then arrested Wade who, according to the report, had rented the hotel room and was carrying three cell phones.
According to the police report, the woman told police that “CJ” knew she was underage and “wasn’t worried” because she’d turn 18 in a few months. She told investigators that she provided CJ with all of the money she made in her endeavors.
* Seems like there is a huge potential competitive advantage for a gang that invests even a tiny amount of time and money in teaching its shooters how to shoot. Not sure whether it’s a good or bad thing that none of them have figured this out.
* Attributing black gun violence to early 90′s “gangsta” rap is fundamentally wrongheaded, for a couple of reasons:
1. “Gangsta” rap doesn’t happen in a vaccuum. It’s an aesthetic incarnation of a thing that’s happening previous to its pop-cultural incarnation (i.e., Biggie isn’t putting something in a song because it happened in another song he heard, it’s par for the course in an already extant cultural environment).
2. Black youth in 2016 ain’t listening to ’90′s shit. Popular rap today is in a much different state than it was in the ’90′s and even the early 2000′s (which is peak moron in the history of hip hop (though it produced some really enjoyable, although admittedly retarded, music)). There’s a Chicago rap scene that’s broadly representative of the violent environs of the city but popular rap (read: rap that young black people actually listen to) is more in line with Drake/Kanye abstraction than Wu-Tang or Geto Boys street violence.
* There is literally nothing to be done about Black on Black murders. Nothing. They have always been appallingly high as even WEB Dubois noted in his “The Philadelphia Negro” which covered Black criminal behavior in Philly from 1800-1898. Written as a response to George Washington Carver, Dubois argues that Black people were innately more criminal even than the most deprived and criminal White immigrants in the same city and thus unable to win political power and equal rights under Segregation through economic advancement as Carver favored. Thus the Talented Tenth would agitate for White concessions and of course, pocket the majority of the goodies.
Still the data in Dubois book is compelling. Leovy in her book conveniently overlooks the historical record in places like Philly, and the underlying dynamic which is sexual reproduction. Simply put Black women demand even greater A hole levels in their men, killers best of all. Every ghetto shooting of a baby, grandma, or other innocent gets the shooter laid that night. And thereafter.
Fundamentally Black people don’t WANT the violence to be greatly reduced — it would greatly reduce their fertility.
* Newspaper articles used to cover violence among blacks with a certain sardonic amusement.
Dallas Morning News
December 29, 1891
BLOOD LETTING
Razor and Fence Paling Used.
PARIS, Tex., Dec. 28. There was a lively free fight among the colored barbers in the quarter known as Boardtown in which fence palings, walking canes and razors played a conspicuous part. Saturday night a negro named Brown who shaves colored people, picks a banjo and fights on very little provocation had a row with Silas Washington, who shaves white folks and wears good clothes. The thing passed off without loss of blood. Yesterday afternoon Silas and another barber named Jim Garnett were walking along the street that runs through Boardtown when they were met by Brown, who renewed the hostilities. A three-cornered fight ensued. Garnett had a cane, Washington had a paling and Brown a razor. After being thumped a few times by Garnett and Washington, Brown got in his work with his trusty razor and slashed Washington across the forehead, making an ugly gash, and cutting Garnett across the left wrist, cutting the leaders and arteries and inflicting a dangerous wound. Brown was arrested.
Dallas Morning News
September 2, 1888
SERIOUS CUTTING AFFRAY
Two Brothers, Negroes, Carve and Slash Each Other.
Denton, Tex., Aug. 31. A serious difficulty occurred three miles northeast of the city last night at a negro dance, in which two darkies, John and Ed Crawford, were seriously carved with the old proverbial negro razor. It seems that Ed and John were brothers, but full of whisky, and, being rivals for the same damsel, a difficulty occurred, in which John drew his razor and cut his brother a fearful gash, almost severing one of his ribs; whereupon another darky named Bob Hagman, being possessed of a razor also, made a stroke at John and with tonsorial dexterity inflicted a gash across his face and throat about eight inches long. Both the carvers are lodged in the county jail and the two carved negroes are doing as well as could be expected. It is thought that both will recover.
* The Washington herald., January 14, 1908, Page 6, Image 6
…
A mob of North Carolina negroes lynched the proprietor of a negro theatrical outfit because his show did not come up to the advance agent’s promises. Theoretically, this idea may be sound, but its general adoption would soon put the advance agent business all to the bad.
* Seems like the same garbage “music” of black guys screaming about how they are so awesome violent and rich as 25 years ago.
Here are the lyrics to the current #1 rap single:
[Intro – Kyla & Wizkid:]
Baby, I like your style
[Verse 1 – Drake:]
Grips on your waist
Front way, back way
You know that I don’t play
Streets not safe
But I never run away
Even when I’m away
Oti, oti, there’s never much love when we go, oti
I pray to make it back in one piece
I pray, I pray
[Hook – Drake:]
That’s why I need a one dance
Got a Hennessy in my hand
One more time ‘fore I go
Higher powers taking a hold on me
I need a one dance
Got a Hennessy in my hand
One more time ‘fore I go
Higher powers taking a hold on me
[Bridge – Kyla & Wizkid:]
Baby, I like your style
[Verse 2 – Drake:]
Strength and guidance
All that I’m wishing for my friends
Nobody makes it from my ends
I had to bust up the silence
You know you gotta stick by me
Soon as you see the text, reply me
I don’t wanna spend time fighting
We’ve got no time
Here’s the immediately prior #1 rap song:
Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda, Panda
Panda, Panda…
I got broads in Atlanta
Twisting dope, lean, and the Fanta
Credit cards and the scammers
Hitting off licks in the bando
Black X6, Phantom
White X6 looks like a panda
Going out like I’m Montana
Hundred killers, hundred hammers
Black X6, Phantom
White X6, panda
Pockets swole, Danny
Selling bar, candy
Man I’m the macho like Randy
The choppa go Oscar for Grammy
Bitch nigga pull up ya panty
Hope you killas understand me
* An Australian woman is drugged and raped in South Korea. We learn at the very end of the article, after tut-tuts about Korean rape culture and indifference to sexual assault, that the rapist was Nigerian.
* One incident I recall from last summer was a retaliation-style mass shooting in Detroit in which a dozen people were shot, one fatally, at a park.
Twelve people were shot, one fatally, during a block party on a basketball court on Dexter and Webb St. on Detroit’s west side. Over 400 people were estimated to be in attendance at the Saturday night block party including children. The victims ranged from 19 to 47 years old. Forty-seven shots were fired from at least three guns during what is being called a retaliation-style mass shooting,
Police are looking for two suspects. One is described as a black male with light complexion in his twenties, and the other is described as a black male in his twenties with medium complexion…
Police believe Jones, the deceased, might have been expecting a gun fight Saturday night. Why he would have placed himself at a party with hundreds of people, including children, in attendance was unclear, [black Detroit Police Chief James Craig] said…
According to Craig, even those who were shot last night aren’t helping police track anyone down…
A woman claiming to be Jones’s sister stood across Dexter Avenue for most of Craig’s news conference. When a police officer crossed the street to speak with the woman, who had been talking to a reporter, the woman began yelling expletives and cursing the police.
“(expletive) the police,” the woman screamed from across the street. She then began to walk quickly down the street, swearing and cursing the police the entire way.
There is some disagreement in the black community about who should be held responsible:
Detroit Police Chief James Craig agitated activists by calling those involved in shooting a dozen people Saturday, one who died, “urban terrorists.”
“We want to make it very much known that the young people who are causing the violence in our community are not terrorists,” said the Rev. Charles Williams, president of the Detroit National Action Network, a civil rights group founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton. “They are not urban terrorists, they are the products of bad urban policy.
“They are products of bad education policy, where our young people are used as products, versus being educated. They are products of the fact that you are dealing with a city with high poverty numbers, so to relate these young people as terrorists is wrong.”
* Those of my generation who saw the Japanese soldiers in the flesh cannot forget their almost inhuman attitude to death in battle. They were not afraid to die. They made fearsome enemies and needed so little to keep going – the tin containers on their belts carried only rice, some soya beans and salt fish. Throughout the occupation, a common sight was of Japanese soldiers at bayonet practice on open fields. Their war cries as they stabbed their gunny-sack dummies were bloodcurdling.
Had the British re-invaded and fought their way down Malaya into Singapore, there would have been immense devastation.
After seeing them at close quarters, I was sure that for sheer fighting spirit, they were among the world’s finest. But they also showed a meanness and viciousness towards their enemies equal to the Huns’. Genghis Khan and his hordes could not have been more merciless. I have no doubts about whether the two atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary. Without them, hundreds of thousands of civilians in Malaya and Singapore, and millions in Japan itself, would have perished.
What made them such warriors? The Japanese call it bushido, the code of the samurai, or Nippon seishin, the spirit of Nippon. I believe it was systematic indoctrination in the cult of emperor worship, and in their racial superiority as a chosen people who could conquer all. They were convinced that to die in battle for the emperor meant they would ascend to heaven and become gods, while their ashes were preserved at the Yasukuni Shrine in the suburbs of Tokyo
Kuan Yew Lee – The Singapore Story Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1-Times Editions (1998)
* I always say, if you’re interested in an era of history, try to find first person accounts of people who were there. Often they will provide insight that won’t be supplied by historians, particularly if some of the events differ from commonly accepted precepts. Better than news articles are personal diaries, and the like.
In any case, there’s a wealth of first-person slave narratives available at the library of congress website. I spent a few hours perusing them, and it wasn’t what I had expected. I assumed it would be a lot of horror stories about black slave life, and while there were some, there were many stories of Blacks who were fairly content with the lifestyle. It seemed the culture from one plantation to the next could vary wildly. Some were shitholes to be sure, some were got great, but not bad, and some were run like a commune, with slaves voting for whatever issues were important to them, and basically running the show as far as their work days were concerned, and how day-to-day problems were solved, with the plantation owner very light-handed, when he was around at all. The slaves who had it going well were particularly upset when they were freed. They knew even if they ran their own farms, life was going to be a lot harder.
I had the same surprise regarding lynchings. I didn’t come close to reading all the narratives, but many that I did read, the lynchings were done after some major hell had broken loose, rather than a black guy whistling at a white girl. From what I could tell, you had to work hard to qualify for a lynching. You had to pull some major crazy, and get caught in the act, or have a ton of circumstantial evidence working against you.
One story I recall was a few years after the civil war. One segregated community seemed to be doing all right. Blacks and whites got along well, cooperated with one another. No major problems. One night, a house caught on fire, killing a woman and her two children. It was determined that the woman’s husband, who wanted a divorce because he’d found a new girl, became livid when his wife wouldn’t grant him one, so set his house on fire at 1 AM, and ran off, killing his entire family. Since the house was on fire, and he was gone, as well as the other circumstances that were known, it was determined the husband was the culprit. This enraged the white folks, as well as the black folks. The white folks organized a search party, and they caught the black guy hiding in some nearby woods, who readily admitted that he’d set the fire. He was strung up that night, by white folks, with blacks looking on, to the applause of whites and blacks alike. Everyone agreed justice was served.
I thought to myself, “now that’s a story we’re not going to see in a Quentin Tarantino move.”
Anyway, I urge anyone who wants to know just what black people who don’t know much about their own history are complaining about, to check out the slave narratives at the library of congress website. I think you might come up with different conclusions than what historians would have you believe.
That is, our american history is not all “black and white.”
Sure a lot of it was shitty, but unless you were rich, most of american life back then was a slow-motion crash for everyone, regardless of race. There weren’t a lot of happy endings. I wouldn’t have wanted to live in that era. When you delve in to people’s diaries who lived in that era, it reads like Gothic Noir. Humorless, passionate, dark, and crazy. Not many clear heads anywhere.
* Lot’s of unmentioned racial/HBD aspects to this review:
* “Some researchers say the single strongest predictor of gun homicide rates is the proportion of an area’s population that is black. But race, they say, is merely a proxy for poverty, joblessness and other socio-economic disadvantages that help breed violence.”
Looking at R squared values, its actually the opposite. Poverty, joblessness, credit etc are all decent indicators of blackness.
* Black-on-Black violence and drug addiction are not new. Years ago my wife picked up a few worn volumes from a library “giveaway” cart. They were a partial set of a Princeton “History of the United States” written in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One volume written in the 1890s caught my attention. It described wide-spread Black-on-Black violence and cocaine use in the Black communities in the South.
In the late 1990s, I had to commute past a Black public housing project on the way to work. It was not unusual to see Black males in fist fights. One day I saw a Black male pounding on another Black male with a 2×4.
At what point is it reasonable to conclude that violence is a persistent characteristic of Black culture rather than a “proxy for poverty ….”?
* Doesn’t all of this fall under the category of “This is why we have separate countries.”
I mean, everyone (including many here) keep wringing their hands about how blacks aren’t acting like whites. Maybe, just maybe, it’s because they aren’t white. As Steve has noted many times, blacks like being black. While repugnant to whites, the violence in black neighborhoods seems to be something that blacks accept, even embrace to an extent.
Fine. Let them create a culture and society that works for them. We’ll have our culture and society someplace else.
The hubris of whites (certainly liberal whites) always amazes me. We think that we’re the pinnacle of human evolution, that any variance from our norms and behaviors is wrong. Even when other groups outperform us in something that we care about, we feel that its wrong. (NE Asians study too much.) To whites (again, especially, liberal whites), diversity just means people with different skin color acting just like liberal whites.
* The media is effectively the nervous system of the body politic so if the media won’t tell the truth about a problem then it can’t be fixed and the media won’t tell the truth about this because it messes up their anti-white narrative.
* In Leovy’s book Ghettocide, the detectives refer to the constant violence between blacks as “the Monster.” Clever detectives! They know that to attach any moral opprobrium to the perpetrators in front of a reporter would end their careers.
* Fertility rate or average number of children per woman: white 1.8, black 2.1, Hispanic 2.4. LINK.
When you hear a stat that 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock, it actually means that 70 percent of black women have children out of wedlock. The CDC looks at the mother’s race not the child’s nor the father’s. LINK.Studies on interracial births are simply ignored. I didn’t know about this 2015 study until I decided to respond to your post. “92% of biracial children with African American fathers are born out of wedlock and 82% end up on government assistance.”Be sure to save the study immediately or view privately with your ip address hidden otherwise you may get blocked from viewing a second or third time due to ”overuse”: LINK. Short article on the study: LINK.Slightly related, for decades the percentage of children in foster care who were black hovered around 40 percent. By 2014, the black percentage dropped to 24 percent. This is due mostly to the new biracial category in which 10 percent of children fall. Three percent of children are classified as unknown. LINK.
* A few years ago, Buffalo had the “City Grill Massacre” where an unwanted guest, Riccardo McCrea returned to an anniversary party and opened fire with a large caliber handgun. Four were killed and four grievously wounded, including one who will live out his life in a vegative state. McCrea actually “executed” two of his victims, one a wounded male who he held down with his foot while he finished him off and a young women, who he shot, point blank in the neck, while she cowered in a doorway. Last year a Buffalo man celebrated his 29th birthday with a party that attracted at least 100 “guests.” The party ended when an uninvited guest opened fire on the crowd. The birthday boy lost his life and left behind, if my memory serves me right, six or seven daughters, with nary a former, ex or otherwise wife in sight. He did, however, leave behind a grieving “fiancée”. There is a thread that runs through both stories, seven of the eight City Grille victims and the deceased birthday boy all had prior criminal records. McCrea also had priors. So, not only is it black on black, but mostly black criminal on black criminal. One other point, a middle aged Chicago city employee was shot and killed last week while she was exiting a Starbucks within walking distance of Police HQ. Don’t know if there was any message about “race” on her coffee cup but she was described as an unintended victim, also frequently described as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and yes she was black.
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There is a right-wing, nationalist electoral trend both in Europe and in America. But in real-life terms the left-wing trend continues – the number of third-worlders in Western countries keeps growing, WWG and WWT were resounding successes, feminism marches on.
What happens when two opposing forces run up against each other? A collision, sometimes an explosion. It’s like two accelerating trains running towards each other on the same track.
What would an explosion look like in the modern West? Military coups, terrorist campaigns that are not motivated by Islam. That stuff could come back.
In most countries most military and police officers are politically conservative, but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any left-wing coups. In fact it is the right that’s doing better and better at the polls now. So the left would have an incentive to counter that with violence. And there HAVE been left-wing military coups in the past.
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* Freddy was a slip and fall scam artist. And his family won the ghetto lottery, they got a six million dollar payout from the city.
* Too many Blacks try to resist or escape arrest. While trying to do so, some of them get killed. This was such a case.
* The narrative just keeps breaking down. The Freddie Gray case was initially packaged by the MSM as another example of police brutality against a harmless black citizen. Just the predictable type of incident the DNC house organs of the MSM like to headline during an election year, designed to stoke the sense of grievance and alienation among the black community so they’ll get good and fired up to turn out in force in November and vote for you know who. Except…. half of the cops involved were black, which mirrors the racial composition of the Balamer PD. Also, the mayor, the chief of police, the DA, and the judge who acquitted Nero are also black. The first trial (of a black officer) ended in a hung jury. Now the second trial has resulted in an acquittal. Hmmm – maybe it’s time to flush this egregious example of racial injustice down the old memory hole.
* The Baltimore Sun website has several “banners” that divide the home page into sections.
There is a “National News” banner, a “Maryland News” banner, “Sports”, etc.
They have had an entire “Freddie Gray” banner section for “in-depth Freddie Gray coverage” on their website every day since the incident occurred.
Think about the absurdity of devoting an entire section of the newspaper, every day, for over a year, to this pathetic case.
* Without looking it up, I think that the left vs. right terminology arose during the French Revolution. At that time the people who called themselves the left were anti-clerical, in many cases astheist. The right was religious. That’s still true. So there is some consistency to these terms.
200 years ago the right was associated with monarchy and the aristocracy. Those things are almost entirely gone from Western political life – that was a victory of the left.
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Islamic State aims to destroy Israel, ‘liberate’ Jerusalem with Sinai Peninsula terrorist force
Arabs and Muslims, not just ISIS, want to destroy the Jewish state of Israel because they believe that land belongs to them. For this crowd, the liberation of Jerusalem means destruction of the Jewish state.
I don’t think the terms “hate” and “bigotry” and “anti-Semitism” are useful. There’s nothing sinister or satanic or unique with the Islamic antipathy to Israel.
What we might have here is a failure to communicate.
Different groups have different interests. For instance, it might be in the interests of Arabs and Muslims to destroy the Jewish state of Israel. Meanwhile, it might be, in certain contexts, in the interest of the Jewish state to expel its Muslims. For Arabs to feel liberated in Israel, they might have to expel the Jews. That’s how the world works. Much of life is zero sum. You either kill or get killed.
Your Southern patriot in America might well feel that to liberate his people, he needs to expel some people. Your average non-Muslim Belgium or Dutchman might well feel that to liberate his people, he needs to expel Muslims.
Having different subspecies in the same place competing peacefully for dominance is sometimes natural and sometimes deadly. Normally in nature one subspecies will destroy his competitors and then expand his territory as far as he can. More room for Germans to roam in the early 1940s meant there less freedom and survival for Germany’s neighbors, including slavs and Jews.
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Comment: “The neocons are desperately trying to get a spy/saboteur into the Trump camp as a wrecking move. Rice, Rubio – whoever – it’s all crap. There’s two ways to be pro-Israel, one is indirect by making nation states the default again and the second is the neocon thing, globalism for everyone else except Israel. I’d suggest the neocon method is in the process of back-firing spectacularly and it may even be too late.”
The Hill: The rise of Donald Trump is threatening the power of neoconservatives, who find themselves at risk of being marginalized in the Republican Party.
Neoconservatism was at its height during the presidency of George W. Bush, helping to shape the rationale for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
But now the ideology is under attack, with Trump systematically rejecting each of its core principles.
Whereas neoconservatism advocates spreading American ideals through the use of military force, Trump has made the case for nationalism and a smaller U.S. military footprint.
In what Trump calls an “America First” approach, he proposes rejecting alliances that don’t work, trade deals that don’t deliver, and military interventionism that costs too much.
He has said he would get along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and sit down with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un — a throwback to the “realist” foreign policy of President Nixon.
As if to underscore that point, the presumptive GOP nominee met with Nixon’s Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, earlier this week, and delivered his first major foreign policy speech at an event last month hosted by the Center for National Interest, which Nixon founded.
Leading neoconservative figures like Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan have assailed Trump’s foreign policy views. Kagan even called Trump a “fascist” in a recent Washington Post op-ed.
“This is how fascism comes to America, not with jackboots and salutes (although there have been salutes, and a whiff of violence) but with a television huckster, a phony billionaire, a textbook egomaniac ‘tapping into’ popular resentments and insecurities, and with an entire national political party — out of ambition or blind party loyalty, or simply out of fear — falling into line behind him,” wrote Kagan, who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution….
John Mearsheimer, a preeminent scholar in realist theory, says there’s a parallel in history to the way America turned inward after the Vietnam War.
“There’s no question that Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger went a considerable ways to pursue a less ambitious foreign policy, and they talked about allies doing more to help themselves, and they began to pursue detente with the Soviet Union.”
“And this was all a reaction to Vietnam. Vietnam of course was a colossal failure. The body politic here in the United States was deeply disenchanted with American foreign policy, especially in its most ambitious forms and the end result is we ended up backing off for awhile,” he said. “We have a similar situation here.”
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On Wednesday, the Charles Koch Institute, a think tank funded by one of the conservative movement’s most generous donors, will host a conference featuring some of the academy’s most virulent foes of Israel.
Eli Lake made it almost through a whole sentence without giving away he wasn’t really a journalist. But then he just had to stick in “virulent” foes of Israel. Wasn’t “big” or “vigorous” foes of Israel enough? “Virulent” is defined as venomous or poisonous, as in a virulent disease. So now the intelligent reader has a decision. Does he or she want to risk becoming an anti-Semite by continuing to read Eli Lake right now? Because if history is any guide, the reader knows a lot of nasty things are about to be said about usually decent people.
Charles and David Koch, scions of the Koch Industries fortune, have always leaned libertarian in their political giving and nonprofit work. The two brothers have supported criminal-justice reform and other free-market initiatives in education and labor. In foreign policy, the Kochs have stayed away from the uglier fringes that blame Israel and its supporters for hijacking U.S. foreign policy. That is, until now.
Koch brothers, we used to think we had an understanding with you guys. You stick to your “conservative” issues, we stick to ours. What you’re doing would lead to a turf war on “The Wire.” You already know you can have all the conservative issues you want except for our “conservative” issues like the “special relationship”, overall Middle East policy; and of course we insist on being the “intellectuals” of the movement, too.
OK, time to meet our foaming-at-the mouth friends. Let’s recap. Virulent, uglier fringe, blame Jews Israel for “hijacking” US foreign policy.
The institute’s conference scheduled for Wednesday will feature separate panels with Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, co-authors of the 2006 [actually 2007] book “The Israel Lobby.”
While Walt and Mearsheimer are hardly household names, they are known in U.S. policy circles. Their book prompted Abe Foxman, who was then national director of the Anti-Defamation League, to write a response, “The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control.”
Mr. Eli Lake– you were about to introduce us to some bad, bad people; and now we learn this is on the “word” of one Abe Foxman– and who is this Abe Foxman? He “was then” the “National Director of the Anti Defamation League.” Here Mr. Lake is where anti-semites are made. You led us to believe we were going to get as a “witness for the prosecution” an impartial witness. Do you not understand that people look at “Abe Foxman” the same way they look at, say, Ralph Reed talking about abortion rights? And if you ask why would they look at Abe Foxman like that, then you’re not being very objective. So already a dispassionate reader is thinking, If this is the best evidence you can marshal, the accused is probably innocent because everyone already knows you throw the proverbial kitchen sink at your enemies.
The institute’s decision to host a conference that features Walt, Mearsheimer and a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Chas Freeman, is in keeping with a general realignment of U.S. politics in 2016. Under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, conservatives have embraced Israel and accused their partisan foes of not supporting the Jewish State, but this year has brought a shift. This week for example, the conservative website Breitbart featured a story that accused Weekly Standard editor William Kristol of being a “renegade Jew.”
OK; so it used to be that conservatives embraced Israel and accused liberals of not supporting Israel. But something has now changed and the example you give is a very, very vocal and combative pro-Israel American, David Horowitz, who is angry that another very, very vocal and combative pro-Israel American Jew (Kristol) is trying to sabotage Trump who Horowitz says is good for Israel and the Jews. This is evidence of what? One crazy Jew called another a “renegade Jew” and now you’re saying it’s Trump’ s fault? Or it’s Walt’s fault? Or maybe it’s the Mufti’s fault?
What it looks like is going on here is that you want to create a certain “impression” about the discourse of your enemies– but you take the discourse of your friends (Horowitz and Kristol) and say, See what I’m saying?? Well that’s just plain dishonest, isn’t it Eli? Horowitz himself insisted on that “renegade Jew” title; it wasn’t some anti-semitic Breitbart editor.
In recent years Walt and Mearsheimer have gotten a cold shoulder from the right, but have been embraced by the anti-war movement. For example they were the featured speakers at a 2011 conference sponsored by Code Pink and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. It was called Move Over Aipac, a reference to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
You’re supposed to be an objective journalist. You’re writing for Bloomberg. But the reader can sense for sure that some “smearing” is going on here. Look what you did, connected them to Code Pink and to a conference called “Move over Aipac”. But again Eli, this is where anti-semites are made. A smart reader says, Wait, isn’t this the same Eli Lake who put up an article last year on what a cuddly outfit Aipac is — “AIPAC is no different than the National Audubon Society.” And they also know from reading other Jewish journalists that AIPAC isn’t as innocuous as you make them out to be. And they heard Hillary’s AIPAC speech where she promised to take the relationship with Israel to “the next level,” and they thought to themselves WTF. And maybe some readers leave your article now to google “Move over Aipac” because it sure sounds interesting.
This made sense. Walt and Mearsheimer have doubled down against the pro-Israel lobby. In 2011 Mearsheimerblurbed a book from the notorious Holocaust denier Gilad Atzmon. During the Iran deal debate last summer, Walt tweeted his praise for an article that asserted the opponents of the Iran agreement were puppets of Israel’s prime minister.
Before you can even catch you breath, here comes the next volley of shit! And this is it: Here’s the evidence. This is going to be the best the opposition researchers came up with to explain why the Koch brothers made such a big mistake inviting Walt and Mearsheimer.
And first off, I couldn’t help but notice you offering that Walt and Mearsheimer were “not household names,” but now you give us the “notorious Gilad Atzmon” who has been giving kids nightmares for years. After all they’ve done, they’re still nobodies! What a childish knock. Then what do we get? A blurb from 2011 and a retweet from last summer. This is your evidence. Mearsheimer put a blurb on a book no one has even heard of; and on this basis the Koch brothers should throw out his 30 years at the University of Chicago and countless books.
Eli, seriously, you know you can’t be trusted with these things. Let’s cut to the chase: you want your readers to believe you when you say that Walt and Mearsheimer hate Jews. And you will do everything within the limits of the law to convince people of that “truth.” You and your friends will have no compunction about destroying their lives. Because like many, many people before Eli Lake and many people after, regular rules of civility, fair play, honesty, don’t apply when you “know” you are on the side of the angels and your opponents on the side of the devil. Of course it is lost on Eli Lake and his friends that their behavior is the strongest case for the thesis in “the lobby.” But other people are aware, the “lobby” had a fatwa put on it by Jeffrey Goldberg and the other warrior scribes have been tormenting Walt and Mearsheimer ever since.
Freeman, another panelist at Wednesday’s conference, has a similar record. In 2009 many Republicans led a campaign to stop his nomination to be the chairman of the National Intelligence Council in part because of his extreme views on Americans who support the Jewish State. In 2012, Freeman delivered a speech in Moscow on the topic, where he said, “In some countries, like the United States, Israel can rely upon a ‘fifth column’ of activist sympathizers to amplify its messages.”
So Chas Freeman gave a speech in Moscow! Is that here to suggest Chas Freeman is some sort of traitor? Or is it supposed to remind people of the Pale of Settlement? Definitely “Moscow” means something bad for Freeman. Maybe Eli Lake just put Moscow there to let each individual reader make their own negative association. So Chas Freeman in “Moscow” said that Israel has some fanatical supporters who are very aggressive in pursuing what they claim is in the American Interest but was ALWAYS in the state of Israel’s interest. Perhaps “fifth columnist” is too strong a term, but then again it may not be. We are going to explore that question in the coming weeks. And what if we discover together that 5th columnist is the most appropriate word; well then we are stuck in a situation where the truth is anti-Semitic.
Will Ruger, vice president of research and policy at the Charles Koch Institute, pushed back on the idea that his think tank was providing a “platform” to Walt, Mearsheimer and Freeman. “They are all very respected members of the foreign policy community and the academy,” he said.
Big student of propaganda that I am, I have a 6th sense for trickery. What is the only fact in the above paragraph? It is that Will Ruger said of Walt, Mearsheimer and Freeman “they are all respected members of the foreign policy community and the academy.” Now read the paragraph again. Who is interpreting that statement as “pushback”? Eli Lake. Eli, did you just make that up to imply that Will Ruger is “defensive” about hosting them? Because his statement is pretty straightforward.
When asked whether he endorsed Freeman’s view of American supporters of Israel, Ruger backed off: “We’re not endorsing anything or everything these people have said; we are trying to have a broad conversation about foreign policy.” But he stressed that Freeman was a former ambassador and assistant secretary of defense and that he wrote the entry for diplomacy for the Encyclopedia Britannica. “His voice as a practitioner is relevant to a foreign policy conversation,” he said.
Look what a trick Eli Lake is playing on the reader. Ruger said what every person in the history of conferences says: “we’re not endorsing anything or everything…..” But look what Mr. Eli Lake adds here: “Ruger backed off.” What did Ruger do that showed the great journalist Eli Lake that he was “backing off?” Nothing. Eli Lake put those words in to show again some defensiveness which just isn’t there.
Do you feel any sense or responsibility to be honest, Mr. Lake? Do you expect “non partisans” to read you and believe you’re in the right? Why all the dishonesty if your cause is just?
“We went out of our way to invite a broad, diverse set of panelists for this conference,” Ruger said, pointing out that the institute had also invited two prominent advisers to Hillary Clinton, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Michele Flournoy, who both served in the Obama administration at senior levels. Neither Slaughter nor Flournoy could make it, but Kathleen Hicks, who served as a senior Pentagon official during Obama’s first term, will appear on a panel at the conference with Mearsheimer.
But the ideological diversity for the Charles Koch Institute has its limits. When asked whether the institute invited any neoconservatives to the conference, Ruger said, “Since I don’t want to assign labels to people, I don’t want to say.” He added, “We are trying to get away from labels, and we’re trying to focus on ideas.” The same cannot be said for Freeman, Mearsheimer or Walt.
So Mr. Lake ends this great polemic by saying I think Freeman, Mearsheimer, and Walt don’t “focus on ideas” but labels. I guess that means when those three have lunch together at the conference, while other tables are discussing ideas, these guys will just be “labeling.” I think the image Mr. Lake wants the reader to be left with is: Walt, Mearsheimer, and Freeman eating off in a corner (everyone else keeping away to not catch the virulent disease) and everyone else is discussing the big ideas of the conference but these three will just be chanting “Jew” in between each bite.
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Daily Mail: Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood claims that young actors in Hollywood are being sexually abused by predatory high-powered ‘vipers’ working in the industry..
The Hobbit actor, 35, told The Sunday Times that the child abuse is ‘probably still happening’.
Shocking allegations that top Hollywood figures have been protecting child abusers have circulated widely in recent years.
Several industry figures have been convicted following claims of sex abuse and former child actors – including The Goonies actor Corey Feldman, 44 – claimed he was ‘surrounded’ by molesters when he was a teenager.
Anne Henry, co-founder of Bizparentz – a group to help young actors – said that Tinseltown is currently sheltering around ‘100 active abusers’.
Wood, who stars in his new film The Trust told The Sunday Times that his mother had protected him from abuse when he first arrived in Hollywood aged eight.
But he said: ‘I’ve been led down dark paths to realise that these things are probably still happening.’
The actor, who played Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings, believes that other actors remain in danger.
He added: ‘If you’re innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world and you want to succeed.
‘People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey. What upsets me about these situations is that the victims can’t speak as loudly as the people in power.’
Wood was talking to the Sunday Times about Jimmy Savile, a British entertainer who sexually abused dozens of victims over five decades.
He was knighted by the Queen and his crimes were only revealed after his death, despite years of rumor and innuendo and led to allegations of a cover-up by government figures and broadcasting chiefs.
Henry believes that around three quarters of child actors that ‘went off the rails’ later in their life had been abused in Hollywood.
Following up on this post, I’m thinking that if elites through the media can convince much of the world to celebrate same-sex marriage, then is there nothing they can’t do in shifting basic moral values?
Does anyone seriously think that if elites were against same-sex marriage, we would have same-sex marriage?
Jews provide most of the funding for the Democrats, much of the funding for the Republicans, we dominate some media and finance, and some academia and law. We help set the agenda in America. For instance, we got the country to provide Israel with over $100 billion in aid.
Traditional Judaism is 100% against gay marriage, but only about 12% of American Jews are Orthodox, and most of the rest appear to support same-sex marriage.
Jeff* emails:
There are three things that interest me about this story: (1) I got the link from Instapundit which is very widely read and usually sympathetic with gay issues, (2) that Moira says some things about male homosexuality that are anathema to the general narrative; first when she says that young men who are used by older gays see themselves as gay because the activity produces an orgasm, second when she says that homosexuals need to get to young men before they have their first experience with women and three that she believes that homosexuality is “imprinted” by conduct and environment rather than having a genetic cause. (3) that despite her feelings and experiences she still loved her father and her musical work is inspired by her mother.
There are few things that separate her from most of the anti Gay marriage activists: (1) she is not religious. So much of the opposition to same sex marriage comes from religious people, (2) she has first hand knowledge of same sex relationships, (3) she has first hand knowledge of the rationalizations gay people go through and (4) she has first hand knowledge of the consequences inflicted on others by at least those gays who share her parents’ perspectives.
The New Republic has a story (sympathetic to gays) about how gay marriage will change the nuclear family.
Concerning the Gawker story outing Tim Geithner’s brother for trying to set up a tryst with a homosexual porn actor, Nick Denton said that if he hadn’t pulled it he would have lost 7 figures worth of advertising.
I was born into a family of famous gay pagan authors in the late Sixties. My mother was Marion Zimmer Bradley, and my father was Walter Breen. Between them, they wrote over 100 books: my mother wrote science fiction and fantasy (Mists of Avalon), and my father wrote books on numismatics: he was a coin expert.
What they did to me is a matter of unfortunate public record: suffice to say that both parents wanted me to be gay and were horrifed at my being female. My mother molested me from ages 3-12. The first time I remember my father doing anything especially violent to me I was five. Yes he raped me. I don’t like to think about it. If you want to know about his shenanigans with little girls, and you have a very strong stomach, you can google the Breendoggle, which was the scandal which ALMOST drummed him out of science fiction fandom.
More profoundly, though was his disgust with my gender, despite his many relationships with women Moiraand female victims. He told me unequivocally that no man would ever want me, because all men are secretly gay and have simply not come to terms with their natural homosexuality. So I learned to act mannish and walk with very still hips. You can still see the traces of my conditioning to reject my femininity in my absolute refusal to give in and my outspokenness, and my choice of theatrical director for much of my life. But a good part of my outspokenness is my refusal to accept the notion that “deep down I must be a boy born in a girl’s body.” I am not. I am a girl reviled for being a girl, who tried very hard to be the “boy” they wanted.
Suffice to say I was not their only victim of either gender. I grew up watching my father have “romances” (in his imagination) with boys who were a source of frustration because they always wanted food and money as a result of the sex they were subjected to, and didn’t want HIM. (OF COURSE!) I started trying hard to leave home when I was ten, after the failure of my first suicide attempt, and to intervene when I was 13 by telling my mother and her female companion that my father was sleeping with this boy. Instead of calling the cops, like any sensible human being, they simply moved my father into their apartment, which I called “The Love Nest” and they moved back into our family home.
Naturally that made things much worse. I had already been couch-surfing at the home of my directors from the Renaissance Faire for some time, but nobody could take me all the time. As might be imagined, where my father was, there were teenaged boys, drugs, and not a whole lot of food, though I wasn’t really starved in my teens once my mother’s books began to sell really well. I lived all kinds of places as a teen, though I moved back in with my father when I started college…
…Now it should be noted that boy lovers do not think of what they are doing as “molestation.” To them it is sex, they imagine it is consensual, and any objections will certainly be overridden by the orgasms they are certain they can produce, and it is the shame of these orgasms that silences the boy-victims, and persuades them they “must” be gay. (Regardless of subsequent heterosexual marriages and children.)
…Years ago I read [Jeffrey] Satinover, who believed that gays were largely “pansexual” that is, preferring sex with EVERYONE of EVERY age and EVERY gender rather than wanting to be limited to one person, and he regarded it, credibly, as a moral and ethical problem, rather than a sexual “orientation.” I can’t tell you how many lesbians I know who simply hate men, or who have been raped and can’t face sex with men because of that.
…My observation of my father and mother’s actual belief is this: since everyone is naturally gay, it is the straight establishment that makes everyone hung up and therefore limited. Sex early will make people willing to have sex with everyone, which will bring about the utopia while eliminating homophobia and helping people become “who they really are.” It will also destroy the hated nuclear family with its paternalism, sexism, ageism (yes, for pedophiles, that is a thing) and all other “isms.” If enough children are sexualized young enough, gayness will suddenly be “normal” and accepted by everyone, and the old fashioned notions about fidelity will vanish. As sex is integrated as a natural part of every single relationship, the barriers between people will vanish, and the utopia will appear, as “straight culture” goes the way of the dinosaur. As my mother used to say: “Children are brainwashed into believing they don’t want sex.”
…This March I met Katy Faust online: one of the six children of gays who filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court opposing gay marriage. We corresponded, and I left CA. I am still reeling from the death of my last bits of denial. It IS the homosexuality that is the problem. It IS the belief that all sex all the time will somehow cure problems instead of creating them that is the problem.
So I have begun to speak out against gay marriage, and in doing so, I have alienated most of even my strongest supporters. After all, they need to see my parents as wacky sex criminals, not as homosexuals following their deeply held ethical positions and trying to create a utopia according to a rather silly fantasy. They do not have the willingness to accept the possibility that homosexuality might actually have the result of destroying children and even destroying the adults who insist on remaining in its thrall.
Now for all well-meaning people who believe I am extrapolating from my experience to the wider gay community, I would like to explain why I believe this is so: From my experience in the gay community, the values in that community are very different: the assumption is that EVERYONE is gay and closeted, and early sexual experience will prevent gay children from being closeted, and that will make everyone happy.
If you doubt me, research “age of consent” “Twinks,” “ageism” and the writings of the NUMEROUS authors on the Left who believe that early sexuality is somehow “beneficial” for children.
Due to my long experience with the BSDM community (bondage/discipline, Sado-Masochism) it is my belief that homosexuality is a matter of IMPRINTING, in the same way that BDSM fantasies are. To the BDSM’er, continued practice of the fantasy is sexually exciting. To the gay person, naturally, the same. However, from what I have seen, neither one creates healing. My mother became a lesbian because she was raped by her father. My father was molested by a priest–and regarded it as being the only love he had ever experienced. There are a vanishingly few people who are exclusively gay, but far more who have relationships with people of BOTH genders, as my parents and other relatives did.
What sets gay culture apart from straight culture is the belief that early sex is good and beneficial, and the sure knowledge (don’t think for a second that they DON’T know) that the only way to produce another homosexual is to provide a boy with sexual experiences BEFORE he can be “ruined” by attraction to a girl.
If you’re OK with that, and you might not be, it is worth your consideration. If you think I am wrong, that is your privilege, but watch out for the VAST number of stories of sexual abuse AND transgenderism that will come about from these gay “marriages.” Already the statistics for sexual abuse of children of gays are astronomically high compared to that suffered by the children of straights.
Naturally my perspective is very uncomfortable to the liberal people I was raised with: I am “allowed” to be a victim of molestation by both parents, and “allowed” to be a victim of rather hideous violence. I am, incredibly, NOT ALLOWED to blame their homosexuality for their absolute willingness to accept all sex at all times between all people.
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NTS can be thought of as a form of inverted cherry picking, where: instead of selecting favourable examples, you reject unfavourable ones. Thus, the NTS fallacy, taken to its logical conclusion, paves the path to other logical fallacies, such as letting the “best” member of a group represent it.
Thanks to these remarkable qualities, the NTS fallacy is a vital tool in the promotion of denialism.
The coining of the term is attributed to professor Antony Flew,[5] who gave an example of a Scotsman who in his 1975 book, Thinking About Thinking, wrote;[6]
“”Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the “Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again”. Hamish is shocked and declares that “No Scotsman would do such a thing”. The next day he sits down to read his Glasgow Morning Herald again; and, this time, finds an article about an Aberdeen man whose brutal actions make the Brighton sex maniac seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that Hamish was wrong in his opinion, but is he going to admit this? Not likely. This time he says: “No true Scotsman would do such a thing”.
Thus, when McDonald is confronted with evidence of another Scotsman doing even worse acts, his response is that “no true Scotsman would do such a thing,” thus disavowing membership in the group “Scotsman” to the criminal on the basis that the commission of the crime is evidence for him not having been a Scotsman in the first place.
This reasoning is clearly fallacious, as there exists no premise in the definition of “Scotsman” which makes such acts impossible (or even unlikely).
Form
P1: All X are Y.
P2: Clearly, not all X are Y.
C1: All true X are Y.
In practice, application of the NTS fallacy is far more subtle than this, but the line of thinking always boils down to a denialistic attitude towards counterexamples.
“”No man can ever be opposed to Christianity who knows what it really is.
—Henry Drummond, the Scopes Trial
With respect to religion, the fallacy is well used, often even overused. Religious apologists will repeatedly try to use NTS to distance themselves from more extreme or fundamentalist groups (and vice versa), but this does not prevent such extremists actually being religious — they themselves would certainly argue otherwise. Moderate Muslim leaders, for example, are well known for declaring Islamic extremists as “not true Muslims” as Islam is a “Religion of Peace.”
Similarly, moderate Christians, such as those in Europe, are sometimes aghast when viewing their fundamentalist counterparts in the US, immediately declaring them “not true Christians,” even though they believe in the same God and get their belief system from the same book. Many of these statements stating that the extremists are not true believers are often used as a reaction against Guilt by Association. The NTS fallacy likewise occurs when believers attribute any and all good fortune to divine intervention on their behalf, yet insist that the same can never be true when things go awry.
The NTS fallacy can also run the other way when it comes to extremism. Extremists will make a religious statement and when someone points out that there are many believers who don’t believe the extremist’s viewpoint, the moderates are deemed to be not true believers (i.e., Christians who support gay marriage are not “real Christians” or Muslims who support women’s rights are not “real Muslims”).
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Pamela Geller writes: David Horowitz is under heavy fire from the Republican establishment for his article “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew,” in which he points out that, as the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump is “the only obstacle to the party of Obama and Hillary and Huma Abedin, of the Iran deal and the appeasement of Islamic Jew-hatred beginning with the Hamas terrorists of Gaza and the Fatah terrorists of the West Bank.”
David Horowitz is right.
It’s revealing how weak, spineless Jews go off when a proud Jew calls out them out. That’s what happening now in this brouhaha between Horowitz and Kristol. The GOP elite — The Weekly Standard, National Review Online, et al — has betrayed our key principles for years now and has gotten away with doing so. The Republican establishment has now jumped the shark with the #NeverTrump movement — happily throwing Republicans under the bus because Trump isn’t “controllable” or one of them.
Breitbart readers know that I have been a vocal supporter of Ted Cruz, coming out and endorsing him early, back in May 2015. I was and am critical of Donald Trump because of his dangerous and reckless remarks about the First Amendment and our Muhammad Art Exhibit in Texas and his personal attacks on me, as well as his position on eminent domain, free trade, etc. But the fact is that Cruz lost, and I will support the GOP nominee.
But instead of throwing their support before the man whom Republican voters have chosen out of a crowded field, GOP elites including Kristol and Mitt Romney are talking about an independent party run. What hubris. It is the height of stupidity and arrogance. Acting more like Democrats then Republicans, the #NeverTrump RINOs mean to upend the will of the people.
That is not who we are. The fact is that conservatives held our noses and supported RINO John McCain, and after that we supported weak sister Mitt Romney. Now it’s their turn, whether they like it or not. A third party run will destroy the GOP and hand the election over to the corrupt and criminal Clinton. See the groundbreaking film Clinton Cash to grasp the depth and breadth of Hillary Clinton’s crimes. There is no contest between Trump and Clinton.
Ben Shapiro also came out against Horowitz – yes, the Ben Shapiro who bravely staked his career on the laughable claim of assault of journalist Michelle Fields by a Trump staffer. Shapiro actually changed his Facebook description to “Michelle Fields’ former co-worker.”
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
