Spotlight (2015)

Comments:

* Spotlight is the most grown-up film I’ve seen in a good long while.

It ultimately serves as an indictment (presented in the most humane manner imaginable) of the gradual atomization of our best and brightest (which is how the journalists are depicted) from the social ties that once kept them connected to the common life of the community.

It finally dawns on Keaton that everyone knew but him, and the lawyer for the church (his lifelong friend) asks him, “why didn’t you?”

It was his job, after all.

The unspoken answer: because he’d fallen away from the church that raised him, as did all the other journalists who were the last to know. Throughout the film, there’s a longing for that lost connection.

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Steve Sailer: Bumhunting as the Economic Paradigm of the 21st Century

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Bum hunting is the media’s preferred tactic of fighting the culture war too: Westboro Baptist, that Starbucks cup controversy guy, Dylann Roof, etc.

That’s one of the funner angles on Trump. He walks, talks and acts like a bum, which draws the media to him like piranhas every time he wades into the pool, but he beats them every time. But they are so convinced that he’s a bum that they keep on coming after him. He’s the perfect hustler.

* I do math for casino games professionally. I prefer beating the casino to bumhunting, you don’t have to feel guilty about that and there are a lot of games that can be beaten if you do the scouting for opportunities and the practice. Card counting blackjack is the best known form of advantage play and the only one you don’t have to scout for, but it’s a terrible grind. There are many opportunities but I earn much better money as a math consultant than I would as an advantage player.

The difference between advantage play and cheating is a fine line — counting cards is OK but using a computer for it is illegal, catching a peek at a sloppy dealer’s down card is OK but stationing a confederate behind the dealer out of the ordinary play area to signal you is cheating, observing irregularities and asymmetries in playing cards that have not been handled skilfully is OK but marking or crimping the cards is illegal, finding a biased roulette wheel is OK but sneaking your bet after the cutoff is cheating, figuring out that progressive jackpots have made a slot machine temporarily positive is OK but kicking the power strip or tilting the machine so no one else can play it while you go to bed is cheating, etc.

I have no emotional connection to gambling, and I won’t play a game where the odds are against me. The problem with poker is you don’t know how good your opponents are, and the odds are never mathematically in your favor, but it is certainly the best way to make a living as a gambler. I have always said that by far the most important skill for a poker player, much more valuable than a memory or math skills or strategic theory or money management or keeping a poker face, is simply finding people to play with who aren’t as good as you.

Online poker can be done securely in theory, but there have been too many examples of cheating and theft by insiders. In the fantasy sports games, there is extreme ignorance about how much of a game of skill it is. In poker, it’s harder to dismiss continual losses as bad luck, so if bumhunting works there, it should work even better at fantasy sports. Anyone who would condemn it just because better players win and worse players lose has no understanding whatsoever of what gambling is. (On the other hand, cheating and theft by insiders should be treated very harshly.)

* I read the book The Sting was based on, David Maurer’s The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. One of his interesting observations is that con artists themselves are generally easy to con, as was depicted in The Sting when the Redford character quickly loses his money to a rigged roulette wheel. Maurer said that few con artists were able to hold onto their winnings for long.

* “Almost all the great popular sports of the world come from Britain. But what Britain has not been able to export is the amateur ethos of the game. Most foreigners, and now many Britons, want to win at any cost within the rules; and they keep to the rules only because a game without rules is war.”

– John Fowles, The Aristos, 9:68

* I think it is no surprise that traditional western Christian culture frowned on, if not prohibited things like usury and gambling. There was an understanding that there needed to be limits on the bright being able to take advantage of the dim, lest it undercut the society, and gambling and usury or clearly great methods to take money from the weak minded. It is really no different than the belief that men should not take advantage of women, children or the elderly because they are weaker. This was recognized as behaving in a civilized manner.

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Maine’s governor: Out-of-state drug dealers like “D-Money” are impregnating white girls

NEWS: Speaking on the opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, made an unbelievably racist remark at a town hall on Wednesday:

These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These types of guys, they come from Connecticut and New York. They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue that we got to deal with down the road.

The comment, surfaced by Get Right Maine, plays on clear racial overtones by using names typically attributed to black culture and rap, and suggests that black people are outsiders, criminals, drug dealers, and rapists that take advantage of young, white women. (This racial trope in the war on drugs goes back to at least the late 19th century and early 20th century, when local, state, and federal lawmakers pushed drug laws by suggesting that minority people would lure and harm young white women with drugs.)

Studies show white and black Americans use and sell drugs at similar rates, although African Americans are much more likely to be arrested for drug possession. So there are simply no statistics to back the governor’s implications.

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Is it time to ban pit bulls, rottweilers, presa canarios, cane corsos, mastiffs, dogo argentinos, fila brasieros, sharpeis, boxers, and their mixes?

Tweet: “This is extremely racist. These dogs must be biting people because they are poor and lack opportunities.”

REPORT: Each day, about 1,000 U.S. citizens require emergency care treatment for dog bite injury.1 The following studies examine injury occurrence and the dog breeds most likely to bite.
Dog Attack Deaths and Maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to December 31, 2014
By compiling U.S. and Canadian press accounts between 1982 and 2014, Merritt Clifton, editor of Animals 24-7, shows the dog breeds most responsible for disfiguring injuries and deaths.
The combination of molosser breeds, including pit bulls, rottweilers, presa canarios, cane corsos, mastiffs, dogo argentinos, fila brasieros, sharpeis, boxers, and their mixes, inflict:
86% of attacks that induce bodily harm
81% of attacks to children
89% of attack to adults
76% of attacks that result in fatalities
86% that result in maiming
Embody 9.2%+ of the total dog population

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‘Intelligence can be measured directly from brain scans, without tests of any sort.’

REPORT: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies typically collapse data from many subjects, but brain functional organization varies between individuals. Here we establish that this individual variability is both robust and reliable, using data from the Human Connectome Project to demonstrate that functional connectivity profiles act as a ‘fingerprint’ that can accurately identify subjects from a large group. Identification was successful across scan sessions and even between task and rest conditions, indicating that an individual’s connectivity profile is intrinsic, and can be used to distinguish that individual regardless of how the brain is engaged during imaging. Characteristic connectivity patterns were distributed throughout the brain, but the frontoparietal network emerged as most distinctive. Furthermore, we show that connectivity profiles predict levels of fluid intelligence: the same networks that were most discriminating of individuals were also most predictive of cognitive behavior. Results indicate the potential to draw inferences about single subjects on the basis of functional connectivity fMRI.

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A Nation of Fly Larvae: Obama and Gun Control

Fred Reed writes:

Who is this President? How did we get him? Does he have anything in common with me? Is there anything even American about him? He is an African of Islamo-Indonesian culture, deeply hostile to America and white people and ruling with a dictatorial style more like that of Shaka Zulu than Thomas Jefferson.

Yet I confess to a grudging admiration. He, belonging to one of the virile peoples—blacks, Hispanics, and Moslems–has keenly diagnosed the weakness of American society:

There is no one who will say ”No.”

The Supreme Court? Nine corpses in a wax museum. Congress? If they all poisoned themselves nobody would notice. Though it would still be worth doing.

A President with brass balls—and god knows Hussein Obama has them—can do anything with an executive order. Anything. And we obey. “Yass, Bwana. What you say, Bwana.” Gun control? No problem. The Constitution? Say what? Wars anywhere and everywhere? Congress can read about them in the papers. It is astonishing.

More correctly, the European population–pale, white, feeble things wriggling like fly grubs in the corruption of a putrefying body politic—obey. Blacks and Moslems do not allow themselves to be pushed around. They are, whatever else they are, virile. They look to be history’s winners. Though not civilization’s.

Hussein Obama is something new, a President completely unconcerned with law, the principles of American governance, or the wishes of the majority. Most presidents engage in corruption and pillage within the Constitution, or at least within commuting range of it. This is the American way: Malfeasance, but within the rules. There are proprieties.

Hussein simply ignores the rules. He has no affection for European culture because he has no roots in it. Africa did not develop democracy or constitutional government, perhaps because doing so would have required writing. The Moslem world is equally dictatorial. Neither culture is much given to abstractions. Obama wants what he wants. Period.

Now he wants gun control. This means disarming people he doesn’t like. Controlling guns doesn’t prevent crime. Mexico has strict gun control Does anyone get shot in Mexico?

Nah. Never.

Guns? What have guns got to do with our problems? I, having a romantic attachment to the far-off days of constitutional government, law, low crime, and what was once called “civilization,” find myself asking:

When murders are overwhelmingly committed by blacks and Hispanics, do we have a gun problem, or a black-and-Hispanic problem?

When terrorism is overwhelmingly committed by Moslems, is the problem Islamophobia, or Moslems?

When malls are looted and cities burned overwhelmingly by black mobs, is the solution to outlaw malls and cities, or to control the mobs?

When Moslems mutilate their daughters, is the problem Patriarchy, or Moslems? (I have daughters. For such mutilation there should be a death penalty.)

We know the answers to the foregoing. However, there is the now-standard American approach of refusing to admit the obvious nature of problems. This precludes solving them. The downstream consequences are going to be fascinating.

I know, Hussein knows, we all know, that outlawing guns means disarming whites. Nobody is going to go into the depths of darkest Chicago and try to de-gun the occupants. As the looting and burning and destruction grow, as the looters and burners realize that no one is going to stop them, wise people want guns, for when. This will not have a happy ending.

Hussein, in what looks like racial vengeance brings in, as fast as he can get away with, large populations of his two ethnic groups, Africans and Mohammedans and, apparently because they are not white, Hispanics. This will have, is having, enormous consequences for the country, all brought about by one man with the will to do it. No popular vote, not a whimper from Congress. When poked, the vaunted American polity turns out to have the strength of a continental beached jellyfish.

In Third World countries with high rates of violence, the civilized population moves into gated communities with guards, often armed, at the entrances. It is what happened in the declining days of the Roman Empire, the gated communities being called “castles.” It is happening in America.New York Times: ”The phenomenon of walled cities and gated communities is a dramatic manifestation of a new fortress mentality growing in America….”

As the kids say, “Duh.”

Now I see that American whites are buying “safe rooms.” “A safe room or panic room is a fortified room that is installed in a private residence or business to provide a safe shelter, or hiding place, for the inhabitants in the event of a break in, home invasion….”

Now, who do you suppose the people in their safe rooms are afraid of? Is it Norwegian tourists of Viking persuasion waving swords, or feral Girl Scouts selling exploding cookies? Or hunting bends bands of savage rabbis armed with lead-weighted violins?

In reality of course it is blacks and Obama’s imports who drive the enfortressification of America. In a white neighborhood, or for that matter Chinese or Indian or Korean, you don’t need “safe rooms.” (Only occasionally are innocents found beaten to death with Ming vases. Usually wearing a helmet is sufficient protection because the porcelain is thin.)

Here we have yet more symptoms of America’s descent into the Third World. At all levels America’s governments cannot or will not enforce the laws. Standards of living fall, a rich oligarchy rules for its own benefit, merit gives way to racial nepotism, moronic students control the universities, and educational standards fall sharply to disguise the failures of, of course, the affirmative-action classes.

“Safe Rooms” are the last, pathetic, contemptible line of defense of frightened, passive white people against uncontrolled crime. The first and best defense is a culture that doesn’t commit crime and slams hard any intruding criminal. But this is racism. The second is a Ruger Redhawk and the will to use it, but if the remains are of the wrong color it’s a hate crime. Gated communities are subject to being found racist and forced to let in inner-city hunter-gatherers at subsidized rent. That leaves Safe Rooms.

Realistically–Oh! Odious word!—what can be done about the crime and looting of shopping centers? Nothing. Nothing, anyway, without igniting an epochal conflagration. The only way to stop confident looters is with force—and twenty cities would go up in flames. Who is going to risk it? And, one might ask, how is all of this going to help blacks?

It would be nice to have the rule of law, the same laws for everybody, but it is not the American way. Fly larvae. I’ll write from Mexico.

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Memo To My Fellow Jews: Immigration Restriction Is NOT Nazism

Charles Bloch writes:

Donald Trump has released his first campaign ad repeating his call for halting immigration by illegals and Muslims, and sure enough, he’s being called xenophobic and racist [Donald Trump’s new TV ad: Make America great by keeping the darkies out, by Greg Sargent, Washington Post, January 4, 2016]. Of course, ever since Trump first called for a Muslim moratorium, he’s been openly compared to fascists and Nazis. Memo to my fellow Jews (among many others): immigration restriction is NOT Nazism.

For example:

This same political class is trying to compare any limits on the influx of Syrian and Islamic refugees to the supposedly shameful episode where Americans turned away Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Thus the Holocaust Museum, while not allowed to opine on public policy, opined “Nobody can reasonably argue that the response from the international community has been enough. As an institution we have a mandate to be the voice that the Jews of the 1930s did not have” [Holocaust Museum Sees a U.S. Duty to Syrian Refugees, by Josh Rogin, Bloomberg View, November 17, 2015]

Literally dozens more articles have appeared with headlines like:

A question: if our immigration policy must be determined by nightmares about Jews being forcibly sent to Nazi Germany, why do journalists want refugees to come to a country where Hitler Reincarnated may be the next President?

A small number of conservatives are pushing back against the Trump=Hitler, Syrian Refugees=Jews in Nazi Germany meme. But most do still accept that the US was in the wrong for not accepting Jewish refugees in the 1930s. For example, Jonathan S. Tobin noted in Commentary that “the refusal of the United States to take more than a token number of those Jews fleeing was a death sentence for those stuck in the Nazi empire of death” [Why Syria is not the Holocaust, November 20, 2015]. Breitbart contrasted the security concerns over Muslim immigrants to the supposedly racist concerns of Americans in the past: “One of the main reasons immigration laws restricted Jewish entry into the U.S. was to promote the racial, i.e. genetic, superiority of the national ‘stock.’ (Such eugenicist ideas were widespread, far beyond Nazi Germany.)” [Why Syrian Refugees are not like Jewish Refugees in WWII, by Joel Pollack, November 17, 2015]

But this assumption of American guilt about the death of Jews is simply a collection of tropes, easily disproved. Let’s examine them in turn.

  • The 1924 Act’s preference for Nordic Europeans prevented German Jews from immigrating to America.

Even accepting for the purposes of argument that Nordicism, anti-Semitism, and/or eugenics influenced the 1924 Act, it had no racial or ethnic test. Rather it set “nation of origin” quotas. Under the quota system, Germany had the highest allotment of quotas. Between 1933 and 1939, 95,000 German and Austrian Jews immigrated to the United States, making them proportionally more likely to immigrate than any other ethnic group.

  • Anti-Semitism led Americans to reject Jewish refugees.

Even a Washington Post story that tried to shame America into accepting Syrian refugees acknowledged “To be sure, the United States was emerging from the Great Depression, hardly a climate in which ordinary folks would welcome immigrants and economic competition.” [What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II, by Ishaan Tharoor, November 17, 2015]

Indeed, the WaPo story noted “Support for accepting refugees was slightly lower” [when refugees were described in generic terms] “than when they were described as mostly Jewish.”

Furthermore, after Kristallnacht in 1938 support for accepting a limited number of refugees increased.

Americans were sympathetic to the Jewish persecution, but they were not willing to undermine their immigration policies when Americans were suffering.

  • The Jewish refugees had nowhere else to go and were sent straight back to Nazi Germany.

To the contrary, the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust discusses the efforts of the Joint Distribution Committee, the major Jewish organization that sought to resettle German and Austrian Jews, and reports:

JDC tried actively to find safe havens for refugees in Latin America. In 1938, in response to an offer to accept 100,000 Jewish refugees in his country, the JDC founded the Dominican Republic Settlement Association, which brought several hundred refugees to the experimental farm of Sosua. . . In 1939, when 907 passengers on the ship St. Louis were denied permission to land in Cuba despite the JDC’s efforts, the JDC arranged for the passengers to be accepted to England, Holland, Belgium, and France so they would not be returned to Germany. [page 368]

In 1933, there were 716,000 Jews in Germany and Austria. The vast majority of them fled, as the US Holocaust Museum notes that “by October 1941, when Jewish emigration was officially forbidden, the number . . .had declined to 163,000 from 716,000 in 1933,” the majority of whom were elderly. In other words, almost the Jews who wanted to leave Germany, left. Hundreds of thousands ended up in the United States, Palestine, the United Kingdom, however, many ended up fleeing to neighboring countries of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland. With the exclusion of Switzerland, all these countries ended up under Nazi control.

  • Americans should have known the Holocaust was imminent.

By most accounts, the Nazis conceived of the “Final Solution” at the Wannsee Conference in 1942. In 1941, Nazi Germany banned Jewish emigration, so the issue of accepting German refugees became moot.

Thus, in order to attribute blame to Americans over the Holocaust, Americans must be credited with clairvoyance in the 1930s—to foresee that Germany would both take over much of Europe and then begin systematic killings of Jews.

But if we are to go by what economists call revealed preferences, even the majority of European Jews did not have this fear. As noted above, the JDC arranged for Jews, including those on the now infamous M.S. St. Louis, which ultimately returned to Europe, to settle in the Dominican Republic. Yet the Jews chose to return to other European countries, which weren’t Nazi-occupied at the time.

By the time the time Hitler began his Final Solution, almost all of Europe was engulfed in total war. The fate of millions of European Jews during the war was tragic, but a total of fifty million people died in that war, many of them civilians. U.S. immigration policy cannot begin to solve the world’s humanitarian problems.

VDARE,com Editor Peter Brimelow famously began his 1995 book Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster by calling American immigration policy Hitler’s posthumous revenge—because it led the American elite, ”passionately concerned to cleanse itself from all taints of racism or xenophobia,” to go overboard on the other side. In other words, our Ruling Class began to see Hitler in any attempt to protect America’s ethnic integrity. Hence the current attacks on Donald Trump.

In the same way, refugee policy has become part of Hitler’s Revenge. Every group suddenly becomes oppressed Jews, and denying them entry equivalent to the Holocaust.

This misconception is just as dangerous as any amount of indifference. It is a libel and we must fight it.

After all, if mass immigration continues without limits, it will be Americans themselves who will be needing asylum.

Charles Bloch (email him) considers himself an unhyphenated American.

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The Long Silence—The Cologne Sex Attacks And The German Media.

From VDARE: It took four days for the German Mainstream Media to report New Year’s Eve mass sex assaults on women by up to 1000 heavily intoxicated immigrants of “Arab or North African origin “, as the German police describe the still-unapprehended perpetrators—now. The internet and social media alone forced the MSM’s hand. And the German political class has plans for that.

What happened on a Cologne square near to Germany´s most famous Catholic cathedral recalled the sexual mob crimes on Tahrir Square in Cairo during the infamous “Arab Spring. “ While Germans welcomed the New Year with fire crackers, well-organized groups of immigrant men 18-35 surrounded and isolated their victims. So far more than 118 women have reported to the police that they were mugged by dozens of men who groped, insulted and robbed them. At least one woman was raped. [‘I Feel So Dirty. So Used’ — Harrowing Testimony Of Cologne Victims, Breitbart, January 6, 2016]

Significantly, similar attacks happened on New Year´s Eve in Hamburg, in Stuttgart and in other German towns. [Germany shocked by Cologne New Year gang assaults on women, BBC, January 5, 2016]

As in most cases of crimes committed by immigrants and “refugees” in Germany, the news was available only in the social media. At first, only two MSM outlets—the online editions of a local paper in Cologne and a magazine in Munich—reported the assaults.

One key reason for the delay: the reluctance of the local police themselves to report crimes linked to asylum seekers. “Exuberant atmosphere—celebration mostly peaceful” was the title of the Cologne police report published the morning after. [Archived copy: POL-K: 160101-1-K/LEV Ausgelassene Stimmung – Feiern weitgehend friedlich]

But in fact the police were very well informed about the events in the historic center of the city. Apart from anything else, a police woman had been assaulted too. Several police officers witnessed what was going on but were not able to intervene because they were surrounded and threatened by hundreds of aggressive and violent delinquents.

But only on Monday January 4—four days later—did Police Commissioner Wolfgang Albers denounced “criminal offenses of a completely new dimension” with a thousand suspects whose appearance indicate their “Arab or North African origin”.

Nevertheless, although the delinquents could not be identified arrested, the commissioner was sure that there were no asylum seekers among them!

On Tuesday January 5, the story finally entered the MSM—accompanied by the usual warnings not to blame Islam, mass immigration and Angela Merkel’s welcome policy towards “refugees,” which allegedly have nothing to do with the marauding gangs of Arab sex offenders.

It was a worst scenario for Leftists of all colors, Open Borders activists, feminists and Merkel´s cabinet because it affected women and immigrants, two of the most coddled client groups of the German welfare state.

But what happened in Cologne was simply too big to be ignored like the numerous individual cases of sexual violence committed inside and outside Germany’s refugee centers, the brawls between different ethnic and religious groups, and the continuous harassment of Christian refugees by Muslims.

Germany’s rulers prefer not to see what really happens in their country. In their eyes, the real danger are not militant Islamists and violent gangs of young men “with an immigrant background”, but Germans who Notice those crimes and are therefore regularly insulted as “racists” and “Nazis”.

A solid majority of the Germans does not trust politicians and the MSM. But multiculturalism and the ideology of perennial German guilt still dominate televised debates and op-eds in Left-leaning newspapers like the influential Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The tyranny of Political Correctness is supported by legal constraints, which do inhibit the police and the MSM’s ability to mention the ethnic origin or the religious affiliation of a perpetrator, particularly if he is part of a “vulnerable minority”. As a rule, the police do not report it at all.

(In December the Ministry of The Interior in the German state of Baden-Württemberg published for the first time figures on criminal offenses related to asylum applicants between January and November 2015. They represented one percent of the total population of Baden-Württemberg but were involved in five percent (27,255) of all registered crimes— among them 1000 cases of grievous bodily harm, 22 of attempted homicide and 700 of domestic burglary. Syrian asylum seekers were on top, with 5,576.)

The German “Press Council”, instituted in 1956 to head off government regulation by voluntary self-regulation, allows in its Code of Conduct the mention a criminal’s affiliation with an ethnic, religious or another minority only if the crime is directly related to that affiliation. [Guideline 12. 1 Reports On Crimes]You may report it, for instance, when Muslim gangs attack Christians because of their religion, or when Palestinians march together with German Communists and Nazis shouting “Hamas! Hamas! Jews to the gas!” as in Berlin last June. [Wave of anti-Semitic rallies hits cities across Germany, Times Of Israel, July 21, 2014] But you must not mention it in the case of sexual assaults, robbery, burglary or other crimes, because these crimes are not exclusively committed by these ethnic or religious groups.

In Cologne, there were simply too many women who described the sexual mob as of “Arab or North African origin” to be ignored. But one or even several individual cases would not have been enough to break the wall of silence.

Not less alarming are the attempts to shut down dissent voices against Merkel´s reckless policy of Open Borders. Take the case of Akif Pirincci, a German writer of Turkish origin, who warns constantly against the danger of Islamization and the transformation of Germany into a “Muslim dumping ground”. His books, among them Germany Gone Mad, [Deutschland von Sinnen ] were bestsellers—until this fall, the big publishers and bookshops decided not to distribute them anymore. It was the first time since the Nazi era that such a boycott had occurred. But instead of protesting, most German public intellectuals defended censorship.

Similarly, the Catholic journalist Matthias Matussek was fired by the newspaper Die Welt because he after the November massacres in Paris he posted on his personal Facebook page: “I think that the Terror in Paris will move also our debate about open borders and a quarter million of non-registered young Muslim men in our country in an entirely new and fresh direction”.

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That debate has not happened, but Matussek lost his job.

Although German government, Establishment political parties and the MSM do their best to protect multiculturalism against a dissenting public, the country still does not meet the Political Correctness requirements of supranational European institutions. Thus the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), arguably the most dispensable body of the Council of Europe, has lambasted Germany because “the notion of racism is often interpreted too narrowly”—it does not cover “certain statements about Muslims focusing on security issues or a supposed `integration deficit’.”[ECRI Report On Germany, February 25, 2014 PDF]

These European guardians of PC criticized the fact that German newspapers carried excerpts from Thilo Sarrazin’s best-selling book Germany Abolishes Itself, which allegedly contains arguments “close to the theories of eugenics espoused by the National Socialists”.

Here are some of the citations the ECRI regards as typically Nazi:

  • “Immigrants from former Yugoslavia, Turkey and the Arab countries are at the heart of the integration problem.”
  • “Many Arabs and Turks in this city have no productive function, except for the fruit and vegetable trade.”
  • “If the least intelligent people have a higher fertility rate, the average intelligence of the population decreases.”
  • “I do not want the country of my grandchildren and great grandchildren to be mainly Muslim, that Turkish and Arabic are largely spoken, that women wear headscarves and the daily routine is determined by the call of the muezzins.”

What can we expect from 2016? Recently, the European Commission estimated that 3 million “refugees” could arrive in the EU in the course of the year—three times more than in 2015. Ms. Merkel still refuses to fix an upper limit to the influx of asylum seekers. If anything, the debate in Germany about a tightening of the asylum law only increase the influx—they want to get in as soon as possible because they fear that the gate could close.

My prediction: the dictatorship of Political Correctness will be further strengthened in Germany. Dissidents will be persecuted. Violence will occur between different groups of asylum seekers and between asylum seekers and the native German population. Social assistance will be redistributed from the European working poor to Arab immigrants. Islamization will continue.

And not just Germany, but also Europe, abolishes itself.

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WaPo: “Germany Springs to Action Over Hate Speech Against Migrants”

Steve Sailer writes:

Germany does have a problem with violence by thugs who are anti-immigrant: cases of arson, and the poor mayoress of Cologne got stabbed by a rightwinger last fall. The co-founder of the PEGIDA protests is a nightclub promoter with a long criminal record from his younger days.

But I wonder if the sleaziness of some of the public opponents of immigration in Germany is an effect more than a cause of the legal and social restraints on freedom of speech on this crucial topic?

COMMENTS:

* Yes, please keep suppressing legal dissent to the current lawless Merkel regime. That will bring no problems whatsoever. It’s not like Germans have a ready made role model for how to deal with criminal minorities. When have the Germans ever been good at organized violence?

* Discourse which is socially unacceptable gets pushed to the fringes, and only those who have nothing to lose (ie have independent income or have no status to begin with) can engage in it openly.

* Most prominent subreddits deleted posts about the attacks and banned their posters even if they were articles from liberal sources like the NYT and the BBC. This is censorship on Reddit, an american website.
Ostensibly the censorship is done by moderators, who are also users, but it is well known that moderators of big subs are being coordinated by employees on speech policies, especially since several openly racist subs were banned and the new CEO (who replaced Ellen Pao) made it clear that some content is off limits.
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are allowing ISIS propaganda, but they censor this.

* You can’t have a democratic society where the citizens are told they aren’t allowed to know certain facts or say certain things, because the right to know those facts and speak them freely is critical to making informed decisions. Ergo, German officials have conspired to make Germany an undemocratic society, and treat Germans as far less than citizens.

That is the truth which logically follows from the behavior of the German government and press.

* There was an assassination attempt on Nigel Farage but Merkel is still safe? There seems to be a disconnect between the scaremongering about the Nationalists, who don’t do much, and the Globalists who are portrayed as peaceful and yet they’re the instigators of turmoil and assassination attempts on those who reject the Globalist destruction of societies.

Frankly, I’m surprised that no present-day Claus von Stauffenberg taken action. As was noted upthread, those with too much to lose simply submit to oppression and those with nothing to lose are free to speak and act, but those with nothing to lose have little ability to change the course of events.

* – It is the AntiFa “refugees welcome” crowd that are more violent than the so-called far-Right. It will not surprise me, in the wake of the sexual assaults in Germany, if they torch some refugee centers themselves and blame it on the Right.
– There is a hilarious video on YouTube where some AntiFa members giddily try to join a gathering of Muslims in Rosengard, Sweden, expecting to be warmly received as friends; and are beaten and driven off.

* There’s still too much to lose and nothing to gain. Middle class people with jobs are not going to duke it out with riot police nor engage in street fights with Arabs and North Africans at this point. But there are only two eventual outcomes: surrender or brutal violence. Western immigration policy is completely irresponsible, i.e., treasonous.

* I hesitate to say this since I am only 11 years old and don’t know what all the legal ramifications are, “But, Frau Merkel isn’t wearing anything at all.” There, I’ve said it. I wonder if unz.com will block my “hate speech.”

* Steve, you refreshingly clarified issues that the average German does not even dream of.

I had not thought of the issue that the German media forces social media to repress non-violent free speech against refugees, but is unconcerned about twitter and facebook use to foment riots and terror.

German Main Stream Media censorship is even more efficient than in the US. The German Pressecodex 12.1 is similar to the US Associated Press Stylebook [2], demanding that race, religion, national origin of minority criminals be hidden.

Due to Nazi past knee jerk fears, and lack of first amendment rights, German censorship is a lot more efficient. Germans are totally deprived of knowledge that can be found on alternative English language sites.

Bold language, like Ann Coulter’s could lead to fines and prison terms in Germany.

* They condemn ‘racism’ along with ‘sexism’.

But isn’t it ‘racist’ to deny interracial passion? Besides, if Germans say it’s okay for aliens to violate and trespass into German territory, why are they complaining about aliens violating the bodies of German women? If it is ‘racist’ to deny forced entry into your land by foreign men, it must also be ‘racist’ to deny them forced entry into your body. Not only your land but your body must be ‘welcoming’ and ‘inclusive’ and never discriminate.

Nationalism is said to be ‘racist’ for denying trespass into your land by foreigners. Then, it follows that women’s rights are also ‘racist’ for giving women the choice of who gets in and who stays out.
Shouldn’t they be welcoming to any man who seeks refuge from sexual frustration?

Help the sexual refugees. Poor lads, all of them.

* The other day, Steve posted a item about forecasting and the lack of efficacy thereof, as it is commonly practiced.
Well on that note, two lions of the mid 20th century, who more or less got the present state of affairs bang to rights – in contrast to a whole host of other rather overrated and over lauded pundits, happen to be two Englishmen, of that peculiar school of middle-class English ‘practical men’ who eschew over-intellectualizing snobbery, and when would never but never use that pompous French affectation of ‘public intellectual’ and all the affectations which go with it, but rather have the perscipacity for seeing the world as it is, and the honesty of calling it out as it is.

I am speaking, of course, of George Orwell and Enoch Powell.

* Laws against “hate speech” are already here in the United States camouflaged as anti-bullying laws:

New Jersey high schooler accused of violating New Jersey anti-bullying laws for making anti-Israel tweets.

“A social media storm erupted after administrators at a New Jersey high school accused a student of bullying because of anti-Israel comments that she posted on Twitter. They say that the tweets may have violated the state’s broad anti-bullying laws. Bethany Koval, a 16-year-old Israeli Jew, said on Wednesday that she was called to the principal’s office at Fair Lawn High School and reprimanded for making tweets criticizing Israel and mentioning that a pro-Israel classmate had unfollowed her on Twitter.”

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