Collapse Prevention

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Chateau Heartiste: 1. Close the borders to Western nations indefinitely. (Reason is self-evident.)
2. Create voluntary incentives to reduce dysgenic fertility. (Dollars for Depo.)
3. Discourage IQ- and education-based assortative mating. (Successful men pairing off with pretty, but less educationally attained women, is eugenic. The smart, industrious genes are passed more fully around the general population.)
4. Reinvigorate protectionism. (Gutted native wages only intensifies public pressure for government largesse to a growing segment of long-term unemployed.)
5. Eliminate all female-friendly public policies. (No more Title IX, mandated day-care, freebie contraceptives, etc. The evidence is strong that publicly catering to women’s fickle pleasures incentivizes bad things like single mommery, latchkey kids, late marriage, low fertility of the higher classes, and punishment of creative iconoclasts who are the engine of progress.)
6. Reduce proximate diversity. (Social atomization encourages short term time orientation, distrust, and corruption, which lead to incompetence and decay.)

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Basic Male/Female Differences

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

LINK: It seems a new book comes out every week now detailing the results from scientific studies proving that ingrained biological sex differences are real, and the “social constructivism” beliefs of feminism are wrong in every way. Here is the latest, a book offering a compendium of evidence into neural sex differences that defy the Standard Social Science Model. Excerpts:

– The biological differences that can be found between the bodies and brains of males and females are largely due to the way these embryos develop in the womb.

– There are also fundamental differences in brain development between men and women, which are clear from the early behaviour of children. A few hours after birth, girls are more sensitive than boys to touch, and 40 hours after birth girls look longer at a face than boys, while boys look longer at a suspended mechanical mobile.

– At four months old, if babies are frightened in a strange room, twice as many girls as boys cry.

– At 12, 18 or 24 months, girls look at dolls much more than boys, while boys look at cars much more than girls. It is hard to attribute these basic differences at such young ages to purely social influences.

– The development of the brain leads to many other differences and it has been claimed that clear sex differences exist in every brain lobe. There are some visible structural differences, such as a cluster of cells in the hypothalamus that is believed to relate to sexual behaviour and which is twice as big in men as in women. Evolution has selected differences between men and women so as to make their reproduction as successful as possible, which is its overriding aim.

– Small boys often get erections after the age of about seven, and by puberty more than half of all males will have tried to masturbate. It is only when girls reach puberty that they may begin to do so.

– About half of men think about sex every day or several times a day, which fits with my own experience, while only 20 per cent of women think about sex equally often.

– Men are far more likely to be sexually promiscuous, a throwback to evolution where procreation was all-important. The need for a more emotional attachment found in women must also have an evolutionary basis.

– Men are more likely to have an orgasm when sex includes vaginal intercourse, while many women are more likely to experience it when they engage in a variety of activities such as oral stimulation

– Hard-wired into the male brain, after millions of years of evolution, is a desire for sex in response to the sight of a good-looking young woman. In contrast, both male and female erotica cause sexual arousal in women, whether heterosexual or lesbian.

– A recent worldwide survey showed that visual stimuli play a much greater role in male sexual behaviour than in that of women, who value status, ambition or wealth more highly.

– Women show their emotions more than men and are more facially expressive for both positive and negative feelings.

– A major difference between the emotions of men and women lies in the expression of aggression, for which men enjoy a pronounced physical advantage. It has an evolutionary origin related to hunting and protection. This matters, as men have discriminated against women and dominated them in all societies from the earliest known times. Women can be aggressive but their aggression tends to be less physical. But girls and women with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), which increases testosterone in the womb, are more like males, with an increase in physical aggression.

– Almost the opposite of aggression is empathy, an emotion that marks a fundamental difference between the two sexes, being much stronger in women.

– Simon Baron-Cohen’s theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, while the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for systemising, that is, for understanding and building systems. So, for example, it is claimed that a systemiser will probably choose to read about computers, technology or science, whereas an empathiser will choose romance or fashion. Significantly, boys born with an insensitivity to testosterone are worse at systemising, and girls born with CAH have enhanced systemising capability and lower empathy.

– Other emotional differences are that women generally report greater disgust than men, especially sexual disgust, and men engage in more risky behaviour.

– As regards humour, according to Prof Robert Provine, professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, “Females are the leading laughers, but males are the best laugh getters.”

– A surprising finding is that distinctive words, syntax, colloquialisms, repetition and other features of written text can expose the gender of an author. An analysis of 14,000 text files from 70 separate studies found that, while men referred more to the properties of objects and impersonal topics, women used more words related to psychological and social topics.

– The areas in the brain where men and women generate their intelligence differ significantly. Men excel at mental rotation, where a subject is asked to compare two three-dimensional objects or shapes, and say if they are the same or mirror images, while females struggle. Women do better on precision manual tasks involving fine motor co-ordination, such the assembly of circuit boards in a factory, which may be a result of foraging skills that evolved long ago.

– Women perform better than men, on average, in tasks related to declarative memory, the retrieval of long-term memories of specific events and facts, and on tests of object-location memory. They are thus better at remembering family history and where they left the car keys.

– Many illnesses are strongly genetically associated with one or the other sex. Those that are more common in women include certain mental illnesses such as depression, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, panic attacks and phobias. Also more common in women are autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome and osteoporosis.

– Very few autoimmune disorders show a male predominance. Males suffer more physical illnesses such as heart attacks and stroke. Other diseases more common in men include neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, autism, attention deficit syndrome, dyslexia and addictions such as alcohol and drug abuse.

– Women live longer than men but only by an average of about four years.

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‘There is always something new out of Africa, and it’s all bad.’

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

LINK: The elites in the West are so terrified of seeming racist that they’re apparently willing to kill us for it.

The West is like the stupid white girl at the bar who gets invited to go off on her own by a black guy. She is terrified of looking racist in front of her friends, one of whom is a black girl from the office who she likes to impress with her liberalism.

So she goes happily with the black fella, who turns out to be a savage niqger. Later, after the niqger brutally rapes her without a condom and leaves her in an alley for dead, she thinks, well, at least now everybody knows I’m not a racist.

A day later she sits in her hospital bed, recovering from her internal and external injuries and having contracted Ebola and AIDS. She will not survive this combination compounded by her weakened, broken body.

She hoarsely tells her friends visiting her, including the sassy black girl from the office who she wants so desperately to impress, “It’s not his fault. He had a hard life. He’s experienced racism his whole life. I know in my heart he just made a mistake. White people are so racist, and we made them slaves for like 800 years, sometimes they get angry. I don’t blame him.”

That’s the mass of Western whites right now.

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The Old Turns Out To Be True

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

* LINK: Essentially, the common ideas about race up to about the mid-1950’s are all turning out to be true – I.Q., creativity, aggression, conformity, sexual differences and desire of non-whites for white females, etc. The next 20-30 years will be the history of our race and culture relearning all that was once commonly accepted as obvious truth and discarded, and figuring out what to do with the mess that denial of these truths has created in the white western world.

* LINK: “More than once I saw disappointment in the eyes of women when I didn’t fulfill the leadership role they wanted me to perform in the bedroom. I realized that women don’t just desire men, they desire men’s desire―and often they don’t want to have to ask for it.”

“Men are the risk-taking sex. It’s biologically ordained. And so women expect men to push the envelope. When a man fails to do that, she’ll wonder what other chances at greatness he’ll choose to decline.”

“Either women are infantile, or they’re adults with agency. If the former, then they need to be treated like infants across the board. This would include removing their right to vote or divorce without cause. If the latter, then these feminist-inspired policies and laws need to be trashed. That means Title IX, affirmative action, and all the rest of the “level playing field aka anti-white male” nonsense must go.

Affirmative-consent laws are in practice Affirmative Resentment laws, because a woman will resent any man who seriously abides a law that requires him to ask her permission to crave and profane her body. Even feminist slags with a two-ton chip on their shoulders will be unable to control feelings of revulsion toward men who accept their demands for slavish foreplay petitions.”

* LINK: “Less glibly, yet another reason to avoid a long-term relationship with a woman who has amassed an above-average number of sexual partners in her life is that the odds increase that she has dated, fucked, and fallen deeply in love with an asshole. And though she was able to extricate herself from his intoxicating grip to one day go on a half-hearted date with you, his memory continues to scour her dreamscape. What man who isn’t a desperate loser needs the extra headache?”

“If you want a shoulder to cry on about your ex, there’s a gay guy I know who’s much better at this. Don’t worry, he won’t judge.”

* LINK: “Game is applied charisma. Charisma is status + a charming personality. These characteristics will lift an ugly man to a desirable man in the hearts of women.”

* LINK: “Expensive rings and weddings are classic provider beta male game. And, as science is showing and the Chateau has warned, beta male game is ultimately self-defeating. Women don’t fall in love with a wallet; they fall in love with a man. They don’t desire a mate guarder who has to pay fidelity money; they desire a self-assured jerkboy who expects love free of charge.”

* LINK: Women say one thing but do another.

Male ambiguity, coyness, overconfidence and entitlement are sexy.

Men value female looks far above all other considerations.

Women value male social status above male looks.

Niceguys finish last.

Sexual desire is immutable.

* LINK: “When a man hears “I’ll hit you”, his immediate instinct is to gird for violent battle. When a woman hears “I’ll hit you”, her immediate instinct is to wonder just how unbelievably sexy this man could be.”

* LINK: “Slut pride” is synonymous with “civilization perishing”. By the time your culture gets to the point where women are proud for doing something that their grandmothers were proud of NOT doing, you should have your post-collapse plans squared away.

* Short-Haired Women Are An Affront To Male Desire

* LINK: Maxim #29: Think of female egos and female vaginas as opposing forces. The more one is stroked, the less the other wants to be stroked.

* LINK: Female sexuality, when left unattended and free to do as it pleases, often travels into very dark and depraved cul de sacs, and can circle there for generations, creating a vortex that sucks in all civilized life to a pathetic and predictable doom.

* LINK: Signs is a woman is cheating in her heart:

She has stopped spontaneously touching you.

She’s stopped acting jealous when other women talk to you.

She’s nagging all the time.

She’s stopped asking for your opinion about mutual concerns.

She’s stopped dressing like a feminine woman in your company.

She’s staying longer hours at work.

She’s making impossible demands.

She shows no appreciation for what you do.

She’s never satisfied.

* LINK: “Happy people are people who more closely adhere to the normal expression of biological sex traits and sex roles. Anyone who veers far from the archetype for her sex will experience unhappiness, dissatisfaction, bitterness, and an unrelenting urge to undermine social norms, get back at her dad, and post tumblr pics of her gross body in a fatkini while insisting she’s sexually attractive to hot, studly men.”

* LINK: “The working European woman of 1539 was working for her husband. Her lover and her comfort and her family was also her boss. In this arrangement it would be hard for her not to look up to him, and to admire him, and this admiration would translate quite easily into happy sexual submission. Her instinctual compulsion to surrender to a better man would be sated, and her marriage would thus be stronger.”

“This is why I argue that feminist-inspired, female-aggrandizing public policies should be repealed. “Pro-woman” (aka pro-r-selection) policies like Title IX and mandated maternity leave create perverse incentives for a sub-Saharan female-forager style social system that channels natural female hypergamy toward company men and away from family men. Men — particularly men with little experience bedding women — have a hard time understanding this primal craving of women for higher status mates, because men don’t give a fig about female status. To help focus minds, recall what you as a man feel when a beautiful young woman poured into a slinky cocktail dress sits close to you and smiles. That’s what women feel in the presence of powerful male bosses commanding them to do their bidding.”

LINK: Economic success contains the seed of its own destruction. As a people become wealthier and their miseries alleviated by technology, equalism (formerly known as egalitarianism, or in its looser form as liberalism) finds fertile ground in social discourse, and welfare safety nets grow in breadth and complexity, thwarting the natural evolutionary culling process until the reproductive rewards are shared equally between the fit and unfit, and finally reaching a nadir when the economically unfit become reproductively favored at the expense of the economically fit.

Idiocracy, as I have stated, may be the most prophetic movie of any time. The earth becomes overpopulated with mediocrities and dummies as technology interferes with the natural and healthy culling process, the equalist ideology hastens the dysgenic trend, and finally the barbarians swarm over their demographically dying equalist overlords, ending the civilizational project until the cycle renews and rebirth can find purchase in the smoldering ashes.

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Megyn Kelly: Hall Monitor For The Hivemind

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Chateau Heartiste: Trump effortlessly bats away her attempt to entrap him into cuckservative apologia for imaginary misogyny. Can’t stump the Trump! The audience (including women) applauds. MegYn fumes and tries to shout over Trump’s shit-eating grin (it’s a loud grin)….

If you want presidential debates to be female solipsism cranked up to jet engine volume, if you yearn for a political platform that is ALL ABOUT MEGYN KELLY’S FEELS and war on women garbage, and not at all about the mortal threats — immigration, debt, unaffordable family formation, foreign entanglements, anti-white antiracism, White dispossession of the nation they created, oligarch control of the political process — facing America, then by all means let’s bring ALL THE WOMEN into the political arena. They’re really good at turning what should be serious debate into feminist twaddle and their hurt feelings.

The more the Hivemind (and this includes Cuck News) goes after Trump with no pretense of fair play or objectivity, the more I’m convinced there’s a directive from the ruling class to their minions with the megaphones to take him down no matter the cost. Trump makes them deathly afraid. Why are they so afraid of him? They can’t buy him. Ok. That’s one reason. He shits on their Open Borders agenda. That’s another.

Mostly though, it’s that Trump isn’t a piss-ant, puling, wind-up betaboy toy, the controlled opposition ready and willing to dance to the tune of the Narrative Enforcers. He’s the renegade outsider, bringing the cleansing chaos of Realtalk, however fledgling, to the Old Order of Lies.

COMMENTS:

* He used Game in his response. Specifically he reframed her question. She tried to place him into the defensive frame of apologizing for allegedly sexist comments. But his answer proceeded from the frame of PC is what is destroying this country and this country needs strength not more PC. So he disregarded her frame and asserted his own. And he got one of the biggest responses of the night. That’s game. He passed her shit test.

* Let this be a lesson to us dissidents: never use sarcasm.

Sarcasm is the tool of women and cucks and lefties: it’s a way to snidely attack someone while maintaining some silly plausible deniability—meanness with a smile, a two-faced gesture.

Men insult each other to their face, and hard, and then fight if the insult is worth it.

The left also cannot mentally understand sarcasm thrown its way. Sure, it laps it up when Jon Stewart or Davy Letterman or steven Colbert act sarcastic to righties, but they literally cannot process it against them; their brains are too small, and their amygdala is too damaged. And subtle sarcasm can even be lost on close associates.

I great line I used once was when I got into a discussion with a group of hipsters years ago. One of them was talking about doing something ironically, and the others chimed in on how sometimes they wore things ironically, or had ironic tattoos, or listed to certain songs ironically, etc. They started to get into a subtle status fight on who was the most ironic!

And I chimed in, very smugly: “Life’s too short to live sarcastically.”

Balloon popped.

Sarcasm rape!

* Trump spanked Megyn so hard with his comeback that Trump just picked up the 50 shades of grey vote.

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Reworking The Twelve Steps

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

My previous efforts.

Step One. Admit that I am powerless over my addictions. I am powerless over my desires for attention, nurturing, beauty, and power. I am powerless over my debting and under-earning and under-achieving and under-being. I am powerless to take the steps that will lead to an honorable life. I am powerless over my tendencies to alienate those around me, to have contempt for them, and to then isolate myself. I am powerless over my perversity. I am powerless over my need to think I am smarter, wiser and more moral than those around me. I am powerless over my drive to push myself forward and to try to take over any group I join. I am powerless over my maladaptive daydreaming, my grandiose fantastic fantasies of ruling America, running the New York Times, directing a movie studio. I am powerless over mental obsessions so powerful that my will can’t break them. If I follow my own will, if I keep following my will, I will destroy myself and possibly those around me. Pursuing fame, excitement, attention, sex, romance, intrigue, significance, caused me to step on the toes of others and they retaliated. I took stupid risks, such as swinging of a bridge. I risked my health by over-working and over-studying. I converted to Orthodox Judaism to fix myself and only succeeded in alienating myself from my new community.

When I think about giving up control of my life, I am frightened. It’s a leap of faith. It’s humiliating. I think of myself as so smart and disciplined and yet where am I? I am 49, never married, and with $45,000 in credit card debt.

By giving up control, I have to face that in my many conflicts with others, I was often wrong. Admitting I am powerless over my emotional addictions sends me into scary unfamiliar territory where I must be humble and learn from others and turn my life over to God.

My life is unmanageable because I am a chronic under-achiever. I’ve never married, never had kids, never stepped up to adult responsibility. I’ve leached off my family and friends and community. I’ve been more of a taker than a giver.

My emotional addictions have isolated me, made my life small, lonely, shameful, unhappy. I’ve become a manipulator and a beggar.

I made more money 31 years ago than I make now.

The progressive nature of addiction means that there are strong forces pushing me toward annihilation. I’m reduced to hanging out with those who are as sick as me, standing on the sidelines watching life pass me by.

STEP TWO. I come to believe in God who can restore me to sanity.

I’ve believed in God all of my life (except the years 18-22) but this belief has not been enough. I need a program to make God real in my life. Many of my previous attempts to turn my life over to God were either short lived, inadequate, fraudulent, or just overridden by my addictions. I have no problem intellectually in believing in God. It’s the part where I make God real in my life every day that is hard for me. That’s why I love the 12-Step world. It makes God real for me in a way that nothing else has. Every day I have to engage with the 12 Steps. Going to meetings and talking to a sponsor won’t make me well. Only working the 12 Steps will make me well.

I thought I could use my brain to float above everyone else but that didn’t work. I wasn’t so smart. I’m an all-time loser. I love to point out religious people who abuse their religious authority. Why do I have such a burn here? I love to feel superior to these frauds. My personality vibrates defiance.

MY NOTES FROM HERBK’s FOURTH STEP WORKSHOP: Discord comes from within me when people don’t live up to my idea of reality. I am the source of my suffering because I have beliefs about reality that are not reality. When you see the truth, you can laugh.

I don’t get to create reality. I get to observe it. It is my non-acceptance of reality that creates my suffering. I can detach from others’ interpretation of reality.

I might be creating my own health problems.

We don’t have control but we have influence.

You can be angry at many people but it might just be the same anger. It’s different people but the same resentment. There are only so many variations on the theme of distorting reality.

Symptoms of resentment include feeling hurt, damaged, changed, diminished.

If I am disturbed, there is something wrong with me. There is something unhealthy in my beliefs. I am denying reality.

I can’t change anything, necessarily, but my attitude.

My past is my asset for helping others.

If you are still reacting to a long ago event, it is your problem.

I wanted the power and money that came with the job, but not the responsibility.

Going to a meeting every day and talking to your sponsor is not going to change you.

Just because you have a resentment does not mean that you have harmed anyone. Did I diminish anyone?

Spiritual work isn’t a panacea. It smooths the ride. Spiritual shock absorbers.

I thought I was misunderstood, but I was understood.

In the third column of the Fourth Step work sheet, I thought I was misunderstood, but in the fourth column, I see that I was understood and that I am responsible for the reactions coming towards me.

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Torah Scholars Tend To Be Frail

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

One does not usually associate ruddy health with the most religious Jews.

Adam Kirsch writes: Yet Talmud scholars, the chapter also teaches, did not often get a chance to indulge in such dainties. Whether because they were too poor, too busy with study, or too ascetic in general, the sages were expected to be frail…

Rabbi Shimon would decline a dish of figs, saying, “These do not leave the intestines at all.” Here as at many earlier points in the Talmud, we see that the rabbis placed a particular emphasis on digestion, as we see in a story about Rabbi Yehuda. A “heretic” once tried to insult him by saying, “Your face is similar either to usurers or to pig breeders.” The meaning of this insult seems to be that Yehuda looked too well-fed, rather than having the refined pallor appropriate to a scholar. The reason for his glow of good health, Yehuda replied, was not that he followed a low and profitable occupation, but that he had regular bowel movements: “I have twenty-four bathrooms on the way from my home to the study hall, and all the time I enter each and every one of them.”

…In addition to being physically frail, we learn, some mighty scholars were also unattractive.

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TabletMag: The White House and its allies shouldn’t need to smear American Jews–and a sitting senator–as dual loyalists to make their case

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

From TabletMag:

As heated as the arguments between us can get, we can all agree that all of these positions, and their many variants, are entirely within the bounds of legitimate political debate—and that none of them are evidence of anyone’s intent either to rush America to war or to obliterate the State of Israel.

What we increasingly can’t stomach—and feel obliged to speak out about right now—is the use of Jew-baiting and other blatant and retrograde forms of racial and ethnic prejudice as tools to sell a political deal, or to smear those who oppose it. Accusing Senator Schumer of loyalty to a foreign government is bigotry, pure and simple. Accusing Senators and Congressmen whose misgivings about the Iran deal are shared by a majority of the U.S. electorate of being agents of a foreign power, or of selling their votes to shadowy lobbyists, or of acting contrary to the best interests of the United States, is the kind of naked appeal to bigotry and prejudice that would be familiar in the politics of the pre-Civil Rights Era South.

This use of anti-Jewish incitement as a political tool is a sickening new development in American political discourse, and we have heard too much of it lately—some coming, ominously, from our own White House and its representatives. Let’s not mince words: Murmuring about “money” and “lobbying” and “foreign interests” who seek to drag America into war is a direct attempt to play the dual-loyalty card. It’s the kind of dark, nasty stuff we might expect to hear at a white power rally, not from the President of the United States—and it’s gotten so blatant that even many of us who are generally sympathetic to the administration, and even this deal, have been shaken by it.

We do not accept the idea that Senator Schumer or anyone else is a fair target for racist incitement, anymore than we accept the idea that the basic norms of political discourse in this country do not apply to Jews. Whatever one feels about the merits of the Iran deal, sales techniques that call into question the patriotism of American Jews are examples of bigotry—no matter who does it. On this question, we should all stand in defense of Senator Schumer.

If you identify as a Jew, that may be your primary peoplehood identity. An identifying Jew often has more loyalty to his fellow Jews wherever they are in the world than he does to any other group. As the Bible says, the Jews are a people who dwell apart. An Orthodox Jew who lives in Australia or America or England is a Jew who just so happens to be living in a Gentile country.

This tribal mentality is not unique to Jews. Chinese, blacks, Muslims and other groups have it too. Tribes don’t have the same commitment to the nation state that Anglos do.

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What Made Hurricane Katrina Different?

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

Walter Isaacson writes:

Walker Percy had a theory about hurricanes. “Though science taught that good environments were better than bad environments, it appeared to him that the opposite was the case,” he wrote of Will Barrett, the semi-autobiographical title character of his second novel, “The Last Gentleman.” “Take hurricanes, for example, certainly a bad environment if ever there was one. It was his impression that not just he but other people felt better in hurricanes.”

…Will Barrett’s hurricane insight is prompted by the recollection of a date he had with a girl named Midge. Driving through Connecticut, they are caught in a Northeastern hurricane and seek shelter at a diner. When the wind breaks a window, they help the counter attendant board it up. “Midge and the counterman,” Percy writes, “were very happy. The hurricane blew away the sad, noxious particles which befoul the sorrowful old Eastern sky and Midge no longer felt obliged to keep her face stiff. They were able to talk. It was best of all when the hurricane’s eye came with its so-called ominous stillness. It was not ominous. Everything was yellow and still and charged up with value.”

…That’s what makes hurricanes therapeutic. “Why is a man apt to feel bad in a good environment, say suburban Short Hills, N.J., on an ordinary Wednesday afternoon?” Percy wrote in one of his essays. “Why is the same man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel on Key Largo during a hurricane?” Part of the answer is that when a hurricane is about to hit, we no longer feel uncertain about our role in the world. Everyone is focused, connected, engaged. We know what we’re supposed to do, and we do it.

But Percy’s theory about the redemptive power of hurricanes goes beyond the fact that dangerous situations allow us to become action heroes or saints. “True, people help each other in catastrophes,” he wrote in “Lancelot.” “But they don’t feel good because they help each other. They help each other because they feel good.” The hurricane blows away our alienation. “I knew a married couple once who were bored with life, disliked each other, hated their own lives, and were generally miserable — except during hurricanes,” Lancelot recounts. “Then they sat in their house at Pass Christian, put a bottle of whiskey between them, felt a surge of happiness, were able to speak frankly and cheerfully to each other, laugh and joke, drink, even make love.”

Hurricanes may be redemptive for upstanding white communities because people pitch in and help each other. Hurricanes are disastrous for black communities because blacks don’t usually construct such supportive communities. What sane non-black wants to live in a black country/state/city?

From the Wikipedia entry for Steve Sailer:

Sailer’s article on Hurricane Katrina was followed by accusations of racism from left-wing organizations Media Matters for America and the Southern Poverty Law Center.[41][42] In reference to the New Orleans slogan “let the good times roll”, Sailer commented:

What you won’t hear, except from me, is that “Let the good times roll” is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society.[40]

Conservative columnist John Podhoretz, responded in the National Review Online blog by calling Sailer’s statement “shockingly racist and paternalistic” as well as “disgusting”.

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Who’s better at kvetching? Blacks or Jews or women? The black orthodox Jewess of course!

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Luke Ford

I wonder who will be the lucky man to catch this prize?

Is it egregious cultural appropriation when blacks play classical music composed by whites, perform in plays written by whites, play games invented by whites?

Elisheva Ester Rishon writes:

Single frum men, specifically, can be clueless morons. They come into adulthood thinking they can drop on me what they perceive to be great pick up lines such as: “Hey, I dated a black girl once. She wasn’t Jewish and you know we did lots of freaky stuff.” (Mind you, this was said to me during a Shabbat seudah. Needless to say, I was fuming and couldn’t wait to leave! I do not know what angered me more—the transference of the racist stereotype that all black women are sexually loose and like to be spoken to as such, or the audacity to wear a kippah and say such things to me with pride at a Shabbat meal of all places!)

But wait, there’s more. Back in college, a guy at a party I liked “complimented” me by saying, “Wow you have a really nice goy butt!” My crush instantly dissipated and I excused myself from the party. Yet whenever the occasional non-Black Jewish girl with a big butt chilled with me and my friends, she never received such a name for her ample derrière. She just had a “big booty.” That was all. Yet she would also refer to my endowments as a “goy butt” just the same.

I vividly remember sitting on park bench years back some with frum friends, including this stereotypical “white boy with a hoodie” who had his jeans hung low. While I was speaking to my friend, he interrupted me. ” Yo, you are the first Black girl I heard talk right,” he said. “Why do you talk like that?” As his friends nodded in agreement, I felt fiercely upset. And I felt cornered, too: To them, being black means talking “not right.” Couldn’t play into the “Angry Black Woman” stereotype, now could I?

Then there was the time when one of my non-black frum college friends braided her hair into cornrows. Everyone in our social circle said she looked “fierce” and “cool.” But when I braided my hair to preserve its health that same summer, my frum friends told me it looked “too black.” And I got a lot of attention from guys and spoken to like a slut. Apparently the more “black” I looked the easier I must have appeared. Apparently I didn’t have to be won over like any other Jewish girl.

Experiencing double standards of beauty and language when it comes to race, and watching members of my frum community appropriate black culture so as throw away their religious identity, brings deeper questions to the forefront: Why do these double standards exist within my Jewish community? Why do frum white Jews adopt black culture when they want to rebel against their religious upbringings? And what does that say about my existence?

Those that engage in this practice are telling me that involving themselves in what they perceive to be the representation of “Black Culture” is a complete departure from being a religious Jew, or Jewish at all for that matter. In essence they are saying that being “Black” is being “Not Jewish.”

This disturbing concept further reinforces the false ideology that being Black and Jewish is inconceivable and contradictory. If you want to rebel, rebel—don’t make your rebellion a “thing” by listening to rap music and acting “black” because it co-opts other black identities—namely Jewish people who also happen to be black. It goes without saying that not all black people are the same, talk the same, etc. However, I have come across many people who have yet to grasp this reality.

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