Paul Singer & Anti-Semitism

Billionaire Paul Singer, who supports Marco Rubio, stands for gay rights, open borders for goyim and secure borders for Israel. He is the anti-thesis of a Torah Jew. He stands in open rebellion with the traditional Jewish way of life.

When Jews such as Paul Singer leave the Torah Corral, they sometimes make the world better and sometimes worse.

If Jews such as Paul Singer act in ways that hurt non-Jews, anti-Jewish feelings can only result.

Jews are sometimes weak and sometimes strong, depending on where they are in the world. In some spheres of the world, such as media and finance, Jews are strong and thus have the power to hurt non-Jews who will react with anti-Jewish feelings and behavior.

The world is composed of groups with clashing interests struggling to survive. It is in every group’s interest to become as strong as possible, but in this wrestle for supremacy, there is inevitably conflict.

When Jews invent financial instruments that help the world, the world and Jews benefit. When risky financial instruments pushed forward by Jews backfire, then Jews and non-Jews get hurt and an anti-Jewish whirlwind gathers force.

Jews tend to have higher IQs than non-Jews, more of a work ethic, they are more rooted in reality and this world as opposed to the next world, they have a more flexible code refined over millennia living among people who are frequently hostile, and this give Jews great advantages, but with great power, comes great responsibility.

Every people, every nation, tries to become as powerful as possible but every people are uniquely adapted to thrive in various locales. Africans are best suited for thriving in Africa, Tibetans in Tibet, the Japanese in Japan, etc. Different groups competing in the same place is brand new in history and conflict and tragedy inevitably results. Diversity plus proximity sometimes equals prosperity and sometimes equals tragedy.

Groups tend to fear each other. Jews, for instance, fear criminal violence by non-Jews. Non-Jews fear Jewish influence in politics, law, academia, media and finance. Non-blacks tend to fear criminal behavior by blacks. Blacks tend to fear that other groups are smarter than them and will take advantage of that fact.

No human being and no group only has benign intentions. Every person and every group is a mixture of benign and malign intentions. What makes a group scary is when it has power and it has an incentive to hurt you. Jews, remembering the Holocaust and centuries of bad will with their East European gentile neighbors, instinctively fear and loathe white power. Gentiles often have instinctive fear of Jewish power based on gentile history.

It is a weird type of Christian who has no burn against Jews and Muslims. It is a weird type of Jew who does not have some fear of Christianity and Islam. It is a weird Muslim who has no negative feelings towards Jews and Christians. These three monotheistic religions compete for world dominance. The more Muslims enter the West, the less power and security Jews and Christians have. The more Israel thrives, the weaker and more vulnerable its neighbors feel.

We can all say nice words to each other, we can often finds ways to cooperate, but in the final analysis, groups are in a fierce competition with each other for scarce resources and conflict is inevitable.

You can do a great deal as an individual or as a group and totally annihilate the other party, but it may well end up doing you more harm than good. We can never predict with 100% accuracy how other people will react.

When China was weak in the 19th Century, the Sassoon family was able to harness the power of the British empire to protect its opium trafficking, which devastated the Chinese and other Asians. On the other hand, the Sassoon family (along with their British protectors) got rich from selling death to the Chinese.

It’s impossible for Jews (or any people) to completely know what is going on with outsiders and to accurately predict their behavior. What we can know is that when we are useful to other groups, they have a stronger incentive to keep us around than when we are damaging to other groups.

I’m freely adapting the realist school of foreign policy to inter-group conflict.

The traditional Jewish way of looking at Jewish suffering is to try to see where we fell short in our observance of God’s commandments. Where did we sin?

I learned in Twelve Step work that when it comes time to make amends, you don’t ask, where did I do wrong? You ask, where did I harm somebody? You may feel you were wrong and selfish and lustful, but where exactly did you hurt someone?

So too I think it is useful for any group living as a tiny minority to ask where are we harming the majority. Every living organism has an instinctual response against anything that threatens it (“Who’s f***ing up my s***?”). The tiny group needs to be particularly sensitive to things it might be doing that tick off the majority.

We can never predict how the majority will act towards us. We can never predict the shifting alliances of our competitors. All we can do is to make ourselves as strong as possible and as useful as possible to those whose support we need. Jews have always done best in individualist Protestant countries such as the USA, England, Canada, and Australia. So it is in the Jews’ interest that these nations thrive. If we break down their individualist identity through pushing immigration and multi-culturalism, we are putting ourselves in danger.

Down deep under layers of repression, everybody has a part of themselves that regards the different as sub-human.

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Obama Administration Supports Muslims Filing Suit For Discrimination

The Obama administration, like all the major American Jewish organizations, are on the side of the fringe against the core.

REPORT: After months of refusing to step in among several religious liberty lawsuits filed by Christians involving same-sex weddings, the Obama administration has jumped in feet first to aid Muslim truck drivers who don’t want to deliver liquor products for their employers.

In the case of a pair of Muslim truck drivers who were fired for refusing to deliver the loads required by their employers, the Obama administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) intervened and won a wrongful termination lawsuit on their behalf.

An Illinois jury awarded $240,000 in damages and back pay to two former truck drivers who were fired in 2009 after refusing to make beer deliveries. The Muslims cited their religion as a reason for refusing to do their jobs.

The Obama administration, though, reversed its recent practice of ignoring religious liberty lawsuits by adding its voice in support of the Muslims in this case. Along with informing the courts that the administration sided with the Muslims, the EEOC sent a congratulatory message after they won their suit.

“We are proud to support the rights of workers to equal treatment in the workplace without having to sacrifice their religious beliefs or practices,” the statement read. “It’s fundamental to the American principles of religious freedom and tolerance.”

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Musings

* My favorite sentence: “Could you look at this and tell me if there are any mistakes?”

* I saw this poor little black kid (about 2yo) of a single mom with no teeth, no shoes. I guess he’ll get both when he grows up and goes to prison.

* Just told a friend: “I heard your cry for help via Twitter and I’m ready to drive you to a meeting!”

* I notice that when I speak to someone in service, when they speak English fluently, they are much more effective and reliable and trustworthy, while those in service who speak in slang or bad English tend to be a disaster. In other words, when they sound white, they tend to act white.

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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage

From 2013:

A far-right French historian shot himself in the head beside the altar of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris today apparently in protest against the legalisation of gay marriage in France.

Dominique Venner, 78, a former member of the nationalist terrorist movement, OAS, placed a pistol in his mouth and shot himself dead in front of scores of tourists inside the most visited building in France.

Mr Venner, a presenter on a Catholic-traditionalust radio station and controversial historian and essayist, posted an essay on his website earlier in the day calling for “new, spectacular and symbolic actions to shake us out of our sleep, to jolt anaesthetised minds and to reawaken memory of our origins”.

His long essay was a tirade against gay marriage but also a warning that the “population of France and Europe” was going to be “replaced” and brought under “Islamist control” and “sharia law”.

Mr Venner placed a sealed letter on the altar of the cathedral before shooting himself. His choice of the altar – associated with religious marriage ceremonies -appeared to be a symbolic gesture of protest against the law permitting civil gay marriages in France which took effect last weekend.

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Do White Lives Matter?

From the New York Times:

Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds
By GINA KOLATA NOV. 2, 2015

Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.

That finding was reported Monday by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.

Steve Sailer writes: “Remember, merely saying “All Lives Matter” is racist. Thus, the concept that “White Lives Matter” is close to unthinkable.

The suicide of novelist David Foster Wallace might be an example of the impact of the demoralization of white Americans.”

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* White people don’t thrive in captivity.

* I know a lot of people here will blame economics or diversity, but the true culprit is feminism and sexual liberation, which is infinitely more harmful.

You can survive just about anything if you’ve got a wife and kids in your life. That’s why the suicide rate in the Middle East is pretty much 0.

* Excellent point, but think about it: why should a guy in, say, the bottom quarter of the attractiveness distribution (and a quarter of guys are) bother trying to ‘man up’ and raise a family?

The only women we can get are porkers. If we marry them, we risk paying alimony for years if things go wrong.

And remember, someone will always be in the bottom quartile.

Comments at NYTimes.com:

* Some of the comments by readers of this article mention the poor economy, the great recession and the lack of jobs is a contributing factor in the rise in death rates for middle-aged white Americans. I grew up in a steel and coal town in West Virginia. As a young person I witnessed layoffs, the closure of coal mines and steel mills. This made quite an impression, and this was in the late 70s and early 80s, so the loss of jobs and the impact on the middle class is nothing new to me. What I got from it was the following five points: First, commit yourself to life-long learning to upgrade your skills; Second, don’t rely on any government programs to pull you up or improve your life, Third, don’t be dependent on your employer to sustain your lifestyle. Change jobs frequently and challenge yourself. Fourth, stay out of debt at all costs. Fifth and last point, don’t make your life worse than it is. This in reference to the increased use of drugs like heroin and the use of opioids. I understand life can be difficult, but I can’t understand the need to turn to drugs. No government program exists that can intervene on a persons behalf to prevent them from such bad decisions. The economy is still bad. While the unemployment rate is considered “low”, if you take into account those that are no longer looking, the rate is about 8 to 9%. Given the length of this recession, I can understand the difficulties people are having, but no reason to get addicted to drugs.

* Much of the hopelessness that leads to this situation is based on lack of work. It is an absolute sin that USA companies are allowed to use the H1B visa program to bring in staff from overseas when there are hundreds of thousands of Americans ready, willing and able to take these jobs. This program should be eliminated and the sooner the better.

* It’s probably all of your former readers giving up from the constant negative mentioning of their race and sex in your titles and articles. You certainly contribute to the overall cultural angst and stress. Every time I read something nasty in your paper, I read a paper from your archives (an issue from 1950, for instance). It proves to me that your writers and editors didn’t used to heap out so much bias and negativity on any given group (this heaping being a new form of racism.) In the meantime, and on the positive side of this equation, I’m gaining in my cultural education by having access to your old, good writing.

* The changes we’re experiencing in what we used to call middle class life are at least partially responsible for this. The massive layoffs and loss of funds since late 2007 were devastating, and the so-called ‘recovery’ has not restored anyone’s faith in the system. There is a tremendous amount of insecurity now, jobs have no benefits, medical insurance is readily available but still costs a fortune, even those with jobs fear another layoff, and when you’re middle-aged a layoff in this country means: start treading water until Social Security kicks in. That sort of stress is damaging, both physically and mentally, and no doubt contributes to the mortality rate.

* Why is this surprising? Because many people – including those in my neighborhood – think if you are white you are well to do and comfortable? If you are white, that means you’ve never suffered, right? The face is that MANY people in my generation in this very age range are living hand to mouth while balancing on the edge of a cliff. Have family members in Florida who are well aware of my living two steps from the gutter, but do they care? Nah, they’re too busy have fun in the sun in FLORIDA.

* Our labor participation rate is at one of the lowest levels in living memory — whom do we suppose make up that large number of people who are not merely long-term unemployed but no longer make serious efforts ever to be employed again? What do people who are capable of employment, were once employed often at significant incomes but can’t find jobs any longer, supposed to do other than be depressed? What happens to the deeply depressed when independence becomes involuntary dependency but fall victim to substance abuse and commit suicide?

I wonder whether this has happened at every boundary between ages, when the assumptions that supported labor in one age give way to new assumptions that some can’t embrace? We may leave a large number of people who can’t cross the boundary emotionally marooned.

* If we work at it by continuing the negative drumbeat of media messages about lower-class whites being worthless people, then, with any luck we can raise their mortality rates per 100,000 to equal that of black people, thus achieving true equality for a good percentage of our population. Isn’t equality what we want in America?

* I presume that lower educated whites are most threatened by illegal immigration. Seems it isn’t good for their health or welfare.

* Can we stop talking about white privilege and, worse yet, supremacy now?

* Oh, do they mean those middle-aged white Americans, especially males, who have repeatedly been told they are the problem with the country and the entire world, so they do not deserve jobs or health care or any helping hand whatsoever, because every single one of them is part of The Patriarchy?

* I think that on 9/11/2001, many middle aged white Americans, males in particular, found out a very depressing truth. The U.S. was not untouchable. And they had no control over it. Then the housing bubble burst. Again, beyond their control. Add to that the jobs and pensions lost during the Bush recession and the future got more bleak. Then that black man got elected, not once but twice!!! And with Congress is doing it’s best to insure he fails, there will be no SS or Medicare for them to depend on if Republicans have their way. Well, it is a pretty bleak future.

Too bad Congress isn’t willing to invest in America, outside of defense.
There could be millions of secure jobs rebuilding our infrastructure, but that would harm those 138,000 taxpayers at the top.

* It may be the degradation of our small- town communities that is contributing to this problem. Small towns, especially in rural America, once were the pride for many Americans–now they have few resources to “lift people up” because there are few quality jobs in many of these communities. Choices? Work in a fast food restaurant or big box retail establishment for minimum wage. It’s depressing and, therefore, it is no surprise that many rural communities are experiencing an epidemic of meth labs and drug/alcohol addiction. Communities are losing their unique identities, and I feel strongly that personal happiness is intertwined with a vibrant community which offers decent jobs, good nutrition, education, and neighbors who look out for one another.

* The epidemic of suicides among middle-aged white males is hardly news to those of us who follow these things. It’s been known for nearly two decades now. And it would be considered a social catastrophe if it were happened to any other group.

* Perhaps the difference in death rates between middle aged white males and those of other races is caused by life expectations.

In America, white males have always ruled–at home, at work, in social settings, etc. But no more. And the white males who have experienced the greatest drop in status thus far were born in the 1960s and are the least educated. By contrast, death rates for Black and Hispanic males have not spiked because their expectations and status are relatively unchanged from the past: American life has always been hard for a black male.

Thus, so long as white males have higher expectations about their lives, and those expectations tend to be unrealized, then, as compared to other groups, this spike in suicides, and drugs and alcohol abuse, will probably continue and even worsen.

* It couldn’t have anything to do with the lousy economy, the fact that many of us know that we’re not going to be able to retire, afford any health care we might need, leave anything behind for our children if we have them, or live lives that are at least as comfortable as our parents had? Nah, that’s not it at all. It’s not the fact that our politicians refuse to do anything to help the middle and working classes, that affordable housing has become hard to find all over the country, that we can’t take any vacation or sick days without worrying about being fired. It’s probably just the fact that we’re being told on all sides that we’re useless and the country would be better off without us. Just the subtlety of the messages I heard when I was unemployed: it was my fault, I was stupid and useless, too old to learn, didn’t take the right subjects, etc. I still think of suicide every other day and I’m working now. But, like any person in America, I know how quickly a job can vanish and how long I can remain unemployed: forever since I’m now over 50 and businesses don’t want to pay for experience and we have no real safety net. Being dead would be better.

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Steve Sailer: The Campaign to Demographically Overwhelm Australia

From Steve Sailer:

A key part of imposing the Camp of the Saints on Europe is to demoralize Europeans with the argument that it’s impossible for European countries to maintain land and sea borders: Whaddaya whaddaya? Dontcha know, the migrant always gets through!

Two obvious counter-examples, however, are Israel and Australia. Israel is tricky to demonize for obvious reasons, especially in America, but demoralizing Australians into giving up their quite effective system that keeps out boat people is straightforward. White Australians are evil and therefore deserve to lose their country.

The chief salient of the offensive at the moment is the vague story of a Somalia boat lady called Abyan (pseudonym) who has gotten pregnant while interned on Nauru. She claims to have been raped, but won’t give any details of the alleged rape to allow her story to be factchecked.

Over the last two weeks, the New York Times has devoted five articles, plus part of a sixth, to this one undocumented story, apparently on the hope that this case will shame white Australians into trashing Australia’s border controls:

Lawyer Tried to Keep Somali Rape Victim in Australia

keeping her in Australia before the government suddenly flew her to Nauru without providing the abortion she had requested. The case of the 23-year-old woman, known by the pseudonym Abyan, has amplified criticisms
WorldPrint Headline: “Lawyer Tried to Keep Somali Rape Victim in Australia”

Asylum Seeker’s Rape Claims Overshadow Australia’s Bid for U.N. Rights Body

policy of turning back refugee boats and holding asylum seekers in prison camps in poor South Pacific island nations such as Nauru and Papua New Guinea has undermined any goodwill. Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Malcolm
WorldPrint Headline: “Asylum Seeker’s Rape Claims Overshadow Australia’s Bid for U.N. Rights Body”

Australia Debates Asylum Seeker’s Fate
A pregnant Somali asylum seeker, known as Abyan, has become a focal point in the continuing dispute over Australia’s refugee policies.
WorldPrint Headline: “Australia Debates Asylum Seeker’s Fate”

Australia’s Migrant Rules Criticized Over Abyan, a Somali Asylum Seeker

tried to reach Australia in a rickety boat that was intercepted at sea two years ago. She ended up in a detention center on Nauru, one of two remote Pacific islands where Australia sends asylum seekers. Her lawyers say she was raped WorldPrint Headline: “Australia’s Migrant Rules Criticized Over Abyan, a Somali Asylum Seeker”Australia to Fly Somali Refugee From Nauru for Abortion CANBERRA, Australia — A Somali refugee who alleged she was raped in Nauru will be flown to Australia for a second time to potentially have an abortion, Australia’s government said Wednesday, a day after the United Nations’ human
WorldPrint Headline: “Australia to Fly Somali Refugee From Nauru for Abortion”
Tony Abbott, Ousted Australian Leader, Urges Europe to Take Hard Line on Migrants
offshore camps has dropped much less. More than 600 people are still being detained on the small Pacific island nation of Nauru, and more than 900 remain in a camp on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. As public criticism of the
WorldPrint Headline: “Tony Abbott, Ousted Australian Leader, Urges Europe to Take Hard Line on Migrants”

COMMENTS TO STEVE SAILER:

* Whenever I hear “European values” cited in support of the migrant invasion, I reflect on actual European history and actual European values. And I smile.

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The Pacific

Jennifer Senior writes a New York Times book review on Simon Winchester’s latest — Pacific:

But what I learned most unexpectedly, to my depressed amazement, is how much the United States of today has in common with Australia … of the 1970s. Back then, a member of the Australian Senate threatened to shut down the government. (Under very different circumstances, admittedly, than House Republican have done here. But still.) Australia also suffered from xenophobia, because the government finally ended restrictions on immigration, and the country’s ambivalence about embracing the polyglot future persists today, which Mr. Winchester fears may keep it “pinioned and fettered firmly in its past.”

Steve Sailer writes Oct. 17, 2005:

The Cochran-Harpending theory is not good for the Jews, according to the cover story in New York magazine: “Are Jews smarter? Why the controversial new study of Jewish intelligence has everybody plotzing,”. For over a year, I kept telling Gregory Cochran that he was going to get roasted alive.

At first, though, most of the publicity was favorable. After all, it’s hard to be publicly against a scientific breakthrough that might someday help ease the suffering of victims of hereditary Ashkenazi diseases. But, Jennifer Senior has pulled off that feat. This article should remind us of just how brave NY Times genetics reporter Nicholas Wade really is.

For a decade, I’ve assumed that the Bell Curve controversy wasn’t really about blacks having lower than average IQs, but about Jews having higher than average IQs. After all, history shows it’s much more dangerous to be thought of as smarter than to be thought of as dimmer. So, if all mention of IQ could be banned as insulting to blacks, the thinking went, then nobody would notice how smart Jews are.

On the same day, Steve Sailer writes:

Making Jennifer Senior of New York magazine look like an IQ expert appears to be the goal of the new article in Slate, “Moral Courage: Is defending The Bell Curve an example of intellectual honesty?” by Stephen Metcalfe, whose qualifications are, apparently, that he is “a Slate critic and lives in Brooklyn.”

Metcalfe’s denunciation of Charles Murray’s recent Commentary magazine article “The Inequality Taboo” is full of howlers such as:

“Before I casually took up the cause of the race realists and assumed that only an overprogrammed PC hysteria had kept their work from gaining widespread legitimacy, I’d want to know a couple of things. I’d want to know why “the data” are always so selective and incomplete, if not hidden or misrepresented, and I’d want to know a whole lot more about the movement’s two leading lights, J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur Jensen. Rushton and Jensen came to my attention when Murray fingered them, along with Lawrence Summers, as the impetus for his new Commentary article.”

Slate is paying Metcalfe to write about the validity of IQ research, and yet Metcalfe admits that he had never heard of Arthur Jensen until a few weeks ago! Jensen, who has published 435 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, became a national figure in 1969 with the publication of his long meta-analysis “How Much Can We Boost I.Q. and Scholastic Achievement?” in the Harvard Educational Review. President Nixon even assigned his top domestic policy advisor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, to keep him updated on Jensen’s research.

You really have to read this article to believe the quality of screeds that can get published these days.

From the comments:

* Yeah, Metcalf isn’t really equipped to deal with this stuff. Allow me to elaborate on Sailer’s critique of Metcalf’s self-congratulatory smear job:

“… the same daunting statistical hoodoo that left laypeople unable to evaluate the merits of The Bell Curve 11 years ago.” Hoodoo? Meaning, statistics is magic or statistics doesn’t really work? Actually, I really admired the statistical primer Herrnstein & Murray included in The Bell Curve. It was fairly lucid and brought back memories of my best stats professor. It is one of the many things they wrote to shield themselves from criticism, but of course that only shields them from criticism by people who have actually read the book (and who expect their critiques to be evaluated by others who have).

“Unless Sullivan has a degree in cognitive psychology we don’t know about, he’s as unqualified as the rest of us to determine whether Murray’s arguments are sound science….” No specialist background in cognitive science is required, just a basic ability to understand statistics, read for detail, and follow the reasoning. Psychometrics is its own field anyway, peopled mainly by those who agree with Herrnstein & Murray.

“In his own book on human intelligence, The Mismeasure of Man, Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould….” In his own book on how human intelligence can’t really be measured, non-psychometrician Gould made up claims that Jews had substandard IQs in the 1920s, in order to demolish those claims. Gould is an anti-intellectual, a socialist, and a Lysenkoist, which is pretty glassy house to be living in if you’re going to be throwing stones about anti-semitism, particularly if you go around making up Jew-bashing legends. Metcalf’s implication that mid-Century Germany was less racist than the United States is probably the most telling part of his piece.

“… the motives of people who spend their entire professional lives trying to prove black people are dumber than white people escape all scrutiny.” Difficult to address this claim, since I can’t think of anyone who has spent their entire professional life trying to prove any one thing. What he’s trying to make the reader think is that Herrnstein, Lynn, and Jensen never came up against any serious criticism, which is more evidence that he’s simply out of his league with the ten minutes of Google that would be required to learn the facts.

“… in front of the likes of David Duke, he argues that white women’s birth canals are larger than black women’s, allowing white women to give birth to larger-brained babies.” It’s certainly a shocking claim, but I wonder why no one bothers to even try to disprove it. Could it be because leftists would rather herd people with shocks than try to inform?

“As superintendent of something called the Eugenics Record Office, Laughlin’s testimony before Congress helped pass the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924. (“The Jew is doubtless here to stay,” Laughlin confided to his associate Madison Grant, “and the Nordic’s job is to prevent more of them from coming.”)” Funny, then, that he supported a law which did not put any special limitations on Jews, or even recognize them as a category. Then again, people who haven’t read the law probably don’t know that the country with the most generous quota was Germany.

“These are people who openly admired the people who committed the worst crime in human history.” I wonder if Metcalf read visited the Pioneer Fund website. “They never disavowed that admiration or denounced that crime.” Oh yeah, I’ll bet my bottom dollar that Metcalf did some intensive quote-mining to see if anyone in Pioneer Fund ever said anything against mass murder.

“If maybe, just maybe, the inability to utter one word of acknowledgment or apology or remorse…” Just one word of “acknowledgement”? Like, Rushton’s name in the bibliography? In fact H&M do express regret over the disproportionate importance people place on intelligence, but it’s difficult to defend a book to people who are forbidden to read it.

“Have I ceased to be a liberal “in the classical sense”?” Yes.

* A reader writes:

Saw Pinker’s lecture [on the Cochran-Harpending theory of the evolution of Ashkenazi Jewish high intelligence] last night, it was great. I didn’t feel like taking frantic notes like I was back in school so I quickly came to terms with the inevitability that I’d forget most of it. But I enjoyed it while it was happening. Though not even Pinker could prevent the most technical aspects from blurring beyond my comprehension, the talk overall was very much in his clear, amusing, engagingly constructed writing style.

Noah Feldman was the moderator and he asked if potentially “dangerous” ideas shouldn’t be airtight before they can be published.

Funny how nobody asked that question before whooping up Steven D. Levitt’s now-discredited abortion-cut-crime theory for the last six years… “A lie goes halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.”

As I recall, Pinker basically said “Maybe, good question, but no.” I didn’t quite understand how the theories are going to be sufficiently tested if they aren’t allowed into the open until they no longer require testing. Maybe Feldman meant “in popular venues like New York magazine” as opposed to “obscure scientific venues where people are comparatively safe from politics.”

Funny how the best overall critique of Levitt’s theory appeared in Slate.com within days of his theory first surfacing in the media. In contrast, professional economists were largely missing in action for years.

But it wasn’t clear and Pinker seemed to be saying No either way. (Feldman was asking the question in a fairly nonpartisan manner, by the way; he didn’t seem at all to be arguing in favor of the withholding.)

Since it was the segment that I think inspired the most questions, I would say one of the main sources of interest to the audience were the anecdotes Pinker told which went counter the idea that Jews are intellectually accomplished because their culture/parents put so much emphasis on academic achievement (amusingly, Pinker introduced this question as “Jewish Genes or Jewish Mothers?”).

Funny how Jennifer Senior in New York denounced attributing Jewish IQ to “Jewish genes” as a “stereotype,” when her preferred explanation was “Jewish mothers.” Nothing stereotypical about that concept!

One was a quote from Noam Chomsky’s mother describing her reaction to her son’s decision to study linguistics: “I go up and down the street all the time and I never see a sign that says: ‘Help Wanted: Linguist.’”

Pinker seemed to be saying that an emphasis on education to the extent that education helps one succeed in life is not the same as a love of intellectualism for its own sake. So if the latter is a characteristic of Jews it’s not the result of parents concerned about financial viability it’s the result of raw intelligence desiring a sufficiently stimulating outlet. The audience seemed to be rebelling against this idea somewhat.

I’d sympathize with the audience. Jews definitely have a tradition of unprofitable scholarship. Marx, for instance, was always dunning his capitalist relatives for financial support in angry letters that assumed that they had a duty to support a genius like himself.

It reminded me of John McWhorter responding in the paperback of Losing the Race to the critiques that, contra his argument that blacks don’t take enough interest in academics, blacks care very much about education because they realize it’s a means of economic success. McWhorter emphasized that he didn’t mean that they didn’t get the practical value of a degree but rather that intellectualism for its own sake is what makes one do well in school.

My impression is that the intellectual orientation of blacks isn’t bad, when you adjust for IQ. I’d guess that African-Americans are significantly more intellectually oriented than Mexican-Americans, who have a higher average IQ. Even adjusting for their high IQs, I’d guess that Ashkenazi Jews were the most intellectually oriented group on Earth, with the French in second place.

But, as Pinker seemed to be saying, that’s the reverse of the real cause and effect—being into intellectualism for its own sake is the result of having a highly intelligent mind, and a highly intelligent mind is the most important thing for doing well in school, more so than “Jewish Mothers.”

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Blacks On Juries

I served on a jury in Inglewood circa 2003 for a black man who blew blood alcohol tests way above the legal limit. He was clearly guilty but the three blacks on the jury said that enough young black men were in jail and they weren’t going to convict a brother. So the jury was hung.

In general, blacks and Muslims seem to exhibit a strong sense of group identity and group solidarity and that makes them a poor choice for juries and other objective roles.

What about Jews? Some Jews have such an attachment to their group that they won’t vote to convict a fellow Jew. I suspect most Jews in America are not that Jewishly committed, but I suspect Jews on juries will be less likely to vote to convict a Jew than would non-Jews.

This issues touches on the problems of a multicultural society containing groups that have more loyalty to their group than to the nation state. It seems to me that any group that has such loyalty to their own group that they won’t act in the interests of their country, is a danger.

What are good measures of citizenship? It seems to me that WASPs create the least corrupt countries. WASP countries tend to be high trust countries until they overrun by non-WASPs.

NYT Editorial Board: Excluding Blacks From Juries

In requiring prosecutors to give a “race-neutral” reason for excluding black jurors, the court wrote that racial discrimination in jury selection “harms not only the accused whose life or liberty they are summoned to try,” but undermines “public confidence in the fairness of our system of justice.”

Mr. Foster was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death. For nearly three decades since, state prosecutors have denied that race was a factor in their decision to strike all the black jurors from his trial. They have also steadfastly refused to turn over their jury-selection notes to defense lawyers.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case, Foster v. Chatman, to decide whether the prosecutors are telling the truth. The Georgia courts have all ruled in the state’s favor. But now those jury-selection notes are at the center of the case. Almost 20 years after Mr. Foster’s conviction, his lawyers finally got hold of them through the state’s open-records law.

The notes show that, contrary to prosecutors’ claims, race was indeed central to their decision to exclude certain jurors. Each black potential juror’s name is highlighted in green and marked with a “B”. The first four names on a handwritten list of “Definite NOs” are those of the black jurors who were struck. In a separate list, those jurors are ranked against one another, “in case it comes down to having to pick one of the black jurors.”

More wisdom is to be found in the NYT comments section:

* As anyone who has ever sat on a jury can tell you, juries are very unrepresentative. Most working people don’t want to sit on juries. To miss 6-8 days of work for an auto accident is just too much for most hard working Americans. You are left with young, unemployed people and retirees.

* I guess the prosecution of OJ Simpson was not guilty of stacking the jury pool. With a nearly all black jury, white Americans were shocked when known murderer Orenthal Simpson was acquitted of his gruesome crimes and millions of African Americans cheered. The OJ trial revealed that bias in the courtroom is a two-way street. Later of course, OJ all but admitted to murdering Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. How tragic that black bias prevented the families of OJ’s victims from receiving justice for their loves one. How biased and unjust.

* Google for a November 4, 1994 NYT article on the use of peremptory challenges to ensure a mostly black jury in the OJ Simpson case – there was only one white.

And how they cheered when he was acquitted!

Yes, the abuse works both ways.

* Now. Let’s ask the question “why?”. Why would potential jurors who are black be rejected?

* This is a two-way street. Given the concept of jury nullification, most notably demonstrated in the OJ Simpson trial, perhaps the prosecution is on to something. Johnny Cochran played the jury like a violin and used the subtle inference of “us vs. them” to let a murderer walk free.

* This article references a complex multifaceted area of the law/government in passing as its author conducts a racism shaming exercise based on biased and false assertions, it does us readers and our intelligence a disservice. This is not a scholarly article about peremptory challenges, it is paying lip service to it while using it as a vehicle to judge and condemn an entire legal system/branch of the government as racist. You could find a law review article that tells you more about the challenges and their history left out of this article that contradicts the author’s conclusion, and any trial lawyer will tell you there are many situations where whites are excluded from juries based on their race. This article is just embarrassing, starts nowhere, goes nowhere, gives you 1% of the information, makes grandiose claims about race without coming close to supporting it.

* So… a jury that INCLUDES African-Americans simply because they’re black will be a better judge of the innocence or guilt of the defendent than one that EXCLUDES African-Americans simply because they’re black? Or only when the defendent was black? How about when the defendent was white? Was poor? Was a repeat offender?…At some point, do we care about just getting a jury that just does a BETTER JOB?

* It’s common knowledge among defense attorneys with any significant experience that most prosecutors will strike as many black jurors as they can in cases involving black defendants. The responses of prosecutors listed in this article are typical of the lame responses I encountered in making Batson challenges. As long as the response is “race neutral”, the strike is allowed by the courts. Even boneheaded prosecutors can come up with race neutral excuses until the cows come home. The response doesn’t have to make any sense. It only has to be race neutral. I would assume that Batson was intended as an attempt to provide black defendants with a jury of their peers. If so, it is an abject failure, a toothless tiger.

* Both sides exclude jurors in any trial. The prosecution wants someone hard on crime. The defense wants someone leinent.

The fact is that the vast majority of blacks are sympathetic to other blacks. There is nothing wrong with that. Over 90% of blacks voted for Obama twice. It was their right. If 90% of whites voted white, Obama would never have been elected!

Over half of all blacks believe that the police are prejudiced against blacks. Why would a prosecutor ever want a person with that belief on their jury regardless of race?

If you were the prosecutor and had lost cases because a black refused to find another black guilty, what would you do? if you were a lawyer repesenting a black, would you favor a black over a white prospective juror? The fact is that they both do so most of the time.

You want to stop it. Don’t let either side see the prospective juror during questioning. Of course, both sides can often tell the race by the voice and answers to some questions.

* As a former prosecutor, I can tell you exactly why it is done. I’ve seen multiple examples of extremely guilty black defendants go free because a black(s) on the jury simply would not vote to convict one of their own. The game becomes being able to articulate a non race based reason to exercise a peremptory challenge against a black whom a prosecutor knows good and well based on experience will not convict a fellow black if left on the jury.

* Having personally experienced two cases in which a black juror was the only “no” vote to convict an obviously guilty black defendant, (“I just don’t think he’s guilty”) and found the same situation encountered by several friends, I certainly understand the angst of having black jurors excluded based on race.
Just don’t complain about crime in your neighborhood or try to move into mine.

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Conversion, Attachment & Addiction

In my experience, most converts to Orthodox Judaism are unconsciously trying to fill a hole in their soul, fill up a deep sense of emptiness stemming from a lack of attachment (aka an unhappy childhood) and that without deep inner work, the conversion is not going to be successful (i.e., they won’t create the happy loving home they crave).

I wonder what percentage of converts to Orthodox Judaism could be called a success?

If I were doing conversions to Orthodox Judaism, I would demand that would-be converts enter a 12-step program of their choice and only come back to me once they’ve worked all twelve steps.

Addiction and connection are opposites.

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Steve Sailer: NYT Catches On, Finally … Sort of: “A Mass Migration Crisis, and It May Yet Get Worse”

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Polish soccer fans stand in defiance of “refugee” invasion and unveil huge banner. Pretty intimidating.

* It may get worse? But I thought making White countries more “diverse” (that is less White) was always good?

* But, Steve, surely the point is that ‘open borders’ is the prevailing political orthodoxy of our times – hammered in by the real opinion formers, movers and shakers behind the politicians – and all we are seeing now is the prelude to the actual opera.

Yes, the NYT might express faux alarm now, to garner a few controversial headlines and salacious stories, but don’t you think that the softening up process, the ‘shock therapy’ to a *real* regime of open borders – which means exactly what the label describes – has only just begun, and so far is working to plan?

I mean the whole idea is to habituate white Europeans, either by a process of ramping up gradualism, or by punctuated equilibrium of shocks, that somehow massive immigration to the point of displacement and extinction, is ‘normal’ and ‘inevitable’.

* When ISIS was headlines on cable news everyday, Sean Hannity was joined via satellite by a today Christian Crusader who looked like captain America, a straight T.E. Lawrence, he was wearing this garment that looked like a cool rug. He was locked and loaded and fightin on side one of the good guys over there. Frankly the thing screamed V for Vendetta set-up media. I don’t think that’s quite legal yet what he was doing as a US citizen, and the mien was too remarkable to feel real. But I strongly support the matter whether truth or vapid propaganda. Muslims got more heroes than we do right now, and I sense the jig is up in a sense, America is not going to walk into the middle of muslim civil war when it spent a damn decade trying to leave one, because the sand wars are not conducive for uncle sam heroes, basically, but Christian heroes…. Yeah I think the jig is up and coming. One of them politico type sites splashed a small truth from time out of mind and the timing was well enough on time I guess. When good people do the right thing nations really do heal. I’m serious. Because unhappy the land in need of heroes. “Unhappy the land in Need of Heroes.”

* The first five minutes of Al Jazeera’s “The Stream – Young and alone in Sweden” are amazing. Within minutes the host’s breadth is taken away as a Swedish official presents the current figures regarding the arrivals of “unaccompanied minors”. The already high figures just reported by Al Jazeera were outdated and way too low. Next, a person representing the “Swedish association for unaccompanied minors” who was said to have arrived to Sweden in 2012 is asked why he chose Sweden as his destination. He replies that he spent the whole summer of 2009 there – with his sister’s family – and that he liked the caring and good-hearted people…

* Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia (plus Austria minus Vienna) are all saying NO! along with the former DDR and Bavaria.

We are seeing a belt of conservative nationalist regimes rejecting the dictates of Brussels and Merkel coalescing in the former Habsburg lands (plus former DDR/Bavaria).

* Leftists relentlessly pushes policies that must inevitably result in either the extinction of their own societies or a return of Hitlerism. Like the scorpion on the frog, it is their nature.

* Sweden should make immigrants a deal. Each migrant should be given a Swedish-Arabic dictionary and grammar book upon arrival. After one year, anyone who can speak fluent Swedish and has no criminal record should be allowed to stay an extra year. Those that are gainfully employed and still law-abiding should be given long-term residency. Everyone else should be deported with prejudice.

* None of these “refugees” want to go to Eastern European countries, everybody knows that they’re poor and extremely xenophobic, they want UK, Germany, Sweden, France, Norway…

* I guess you use “Ms. Merkel” in imitation of the style guide of the NYT, Steve. I’d prefer you use Dr. Merkel, to reflect that she has a doctorate in physical chemistry.

I think that fact goes a long way to explain her: elementary particles don’t recall what other particles have collided with them in the past and have to be considered fundamentally equal. Extend this philosophy to people and you get her response to 2015′s invasion.

* The jizya was a tax levied by Muslims on non-Muslim subjects. It’s now being levied in four of Britain’s biggest prisons.

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