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LAT: Latinos’ rising fortunes are epitomized in Downey

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Luke Ford

When Rick Rodriguez Sr. moved into a three-bedroom home in Downey in the mid-1980s, he recalled a neighbor interrupting his yardwork with a question: “You’re not going to be one of those guys that parks in the frontyard and lets chickens run around in the frontyard, are you?”
Rodriguez, 54, one of a few Latinos in what was then a mostly white suburb, replied: “No, sir. I’ll make sure to keep the chickens away from the frontyard.”
…”People believe that once they kind of made it, and living in Downey is a symbol of making it,” Vallejo said, “that they should behave in a certain way to demonstrate or signal their class status.”
…When he moved to the northern part of Downey 25 years ago, Alarcon said he felt out of place. There was no graffiti, no homeless people, no brassy ranchera music blaring late into the night.

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A Jew In Inglewood

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Luke Ford

Amy Dresner writes: My first night in Inglewood, I hugged a crackhead. Let me explain. I headed to 7-11 for a late-night snack snoop because I have no curfew now and can do whatever the fuck I want whenever I want! A very skinny black guy with glossy eyes sporting an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt, asked me for money.

“Hey, excuse me, miss. Can I get 65 cents for a hot dog?

I hand him a dollar and say, ”I used to be a drug addict. I get it.”

A huge smile comes over his face.

“Thank you for your compassion. Can I get a hug?”

So I hugged him.

One day, I go to get some spare keys made at a nearby kiosk. This guy is stocked with everything you’d need if you were up to no good: druggie bags in every size, stun guns, pepper spray, batons, handcuffs, fake police badges, ropes, pipes.

“Quite a selection, brother,” I say impressed.

He laughs. “Variety is the spice of life.”

“Wish I’d known about this place before I got on the straight and narrow,“ I said.

I join the local 24 Hour Fitness. It’s not my swanky West Hollywood gym with free towels and wifi and pretty actors. The weights are left everywhere. It’s 99% black. And you check in with your fingerprint. Uhhh, ok. Every time I go to workout, the black guy at the desk fistbumps me. I’ve never felt so stupid or white in my life. There is also a security guard in the cardio room. I guess there are a lot of brawls and stabbings on the treadmills? I’m confused and a little terrified. Nobody fucks with me though. I’m invisible here.

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The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America by Irish-American comic Colin Quinn

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: Quinn’s chapter on Jews is particularly worth reading. It begins:

I’m cautious with this section, because I know that Jews are the only ones who are actually going to read this book.

In his view, Jews dominate the media today because “They’re the only ones who care.” Granted, sometimes Jewish control of the culture gets out of hand and becomes bad for art.

If you kill a guy like [Mel Gibson] over a couple of anti-Semitic remarks, you reinforce all the beliefs that the Jews control the business and will take you down if you mess with them. I mean, even if it’s true, you don’t want to make it that obvious.

On the other hand:

Without them the whole country would be like Branson, Missouri. Go to a cultural center anywhere in the country, no matter where, and even if there are no Jews it’s the Maurice and Florence Rosenthal Center for Art of Wyoming, the Herman and Lillian Tannenbaum Historical Museum of NASCAR of Rural Arkansas.

The Jewish critical attitude is key. Jews encourage each other to offer well-considered judgments on quality:

Jews only listen to other Jews anyway, so this is falling on deaf ears, I realize that…. Their big word with each other is “recommendation.” Do you recommend we go see that show? You say it was a good resort but would you recommend it?

The urge to ask questions helps drive Jewish business success as well:

They have to understand how the system is set up. To get anywhere you have to incessantly ask for explanations…. Jews are here to remind us that it’s okay to ask Why? How much? Who owns this? How come he owns it? How hard could it be? You do the paperwork, you get the loan, you get the license, you get the documentation, you find a manufacturer and a shipping company, and you open up a store, what?

In contrast to Coates’ overt antiwhite animus and covert negrophobia—the poor soul grew up terrified by black bodies, whose bad behavior he publicly blames upon people who believe they are white—the worldly Quinn is confident that we can learn from each other’s strong points (and even from each other’s mistakes). Of course, as the success of Coates demonstrates, Quinn’s pro-diversity optimism is falling ever further out of fashion.

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9% of San Bernardino County Public School Students Are Homeless

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Too many Mexicans and Blacks, they are the source of it. Import enough of them and they’ll degrade any community and drive out productive whites. Why do you think Hesperia and Victorville grew like crazy? I watched it happen. Because the illegals and black gang bangers drove the more productive whites out.

* The American taxpayers are paying for their children so the more the merrier. Meaanwhile white women are restricting the size of their families because they can’t afford more children. I wonder how long whites put up with this.

* Can anyone name a reasonably decent nation which is:

1. run by blacks;
2. has a majority black population;
3. run by hispanics (Spain excepted);
4. has a majority hispanic population( Spain excepted);

which is a first-world nation?

If not, why is anybody surprised?

* The problem here is that immigration leads to overpopulation, which puts affordable real estate out of the hands of many lower-paid workers. Even if every immigrant was hard-working and had “strong family values”, no one can deny that immigration makes housing less affordable.

Back before California was hit by the immigration deluge, places like San Bernadino were underpopulated and affordable. Heck, there was a time when LA was affordable.

You want to know what America would look like even if we admitted only high-IQ immigrants? Hong Kong. Unless you want to live like a sardine, immigration is not to your advantage.

* America would be a much better off country today if we’d cut off immigration in the late 1800s. By that point, there was no need for mass immigration.

Even Japan is a vastly overpopulated country. Despite being a first world country, real estate prices are insane and living space is limited. I’m pretty sure the Japanese would be happy if they had half their current density.

Japan’s declining population is not a curse, but a blessing. The Japanese have also very wisely invested in robotics technology, which will eventually automate much of the labor currently done by humans. When robotic devices do eventually supplant human workers, America will be left with a large class of unemployable workers. These workers will need to be supported by welfare transfer payments, which will further weaken the US economy.

* What do you have against low IQ Mexicans…

For one, they tend to park numerous vehicles in various stages of repair all over their yards…front yard, mind you, as well as all up and down the streets of the neighborhood so that no one else can find a parking space. For another, they play loud music, VERY loud music, all day on the weekends (yes, at least it’s not rap), and the whooping it up occurs EVERY weekend. Third, their kids are placed in special classes in your kids’ schools, which eats up a lot of resources, human and financial, as those classes have lower student-teacher ratios than those of your kids. Fourth, stats show the resources spent on those kids never really do pay off, not even a couple of generations down the road. Fifth, the occasional family that “qualifies to buy a house” (I use scare quotes, of course, because the phrase doesn’t mean what it once did) often paints it turquoise or chartreuse, not a good look for the neighborhood and property values, and yes, they even put burro statuary in the yards–so much for “assimilation.” No, not joking. Lastly, many of them produce gangsta offspring….take a look at the population of Hispanics in the extensive CA prison system.

* If it weren’t for illegal Mexicans and their corrupt employers, construction would still be a well-regarded, well-paying job for White guys so their wives can stay home and mother their own kids, no damn nannies needed.

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Texas Christian University Student Punished for Expressing Conservative Views on Social Media

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

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Students who disapprove of the Baltimore riots or of the blood-drenched death cult Islam risk punishment if they don’t keep their views to themselves at Texas Christian University:

TCU banned Harry Vincent from most campus activities, ordered him to perform 60 hours of community service and attend a diversity training class.
The 19-year-old, who is a member of the College Republicans and the Young Americans for Freedom, said he was told by the university that his conservative views were “inappropriate.”

Vincent’s crime:

On April 29 TCU sent Harry a letter accusing him of violating the university’s code of student conduct – specifically he was accused of “infliction of bodily or emotional arm” and “disorderly conduct.”
The charges stemmed from a half dozen tweets he had posted online referencing radical Islam along with a Facebook message about the Baltimore riots.
“These hoodrat criminals in Baltimore need to be shipped off and exiled to the sahara desert,” he wrote. “Maybe then they’ll realize how much we provide for them (welfare, college tuition, Obama phone’s, medicare, etc.)”
In regard to Islam he wrote, “This is clearly not a religion of peace.”

Vincent compounded these thought crimes by using the term “beaner,” a mild pejorative equivalent to the politically acceptable term “gringo.”

For this, Vincent fell victim to the liberal mob.

A former middle school classmate took great offense at Harry’s tweets and launched what became a Twitter lynch mob. The unnamed woman, who has no ties to TCU, urged her followers to contact the university and complain.

Under mob rule, punishment is swift.

The university took swift action. Associate Dean of Students Glory Robinson ordered Harry to apologize for what he had written on his private social networking pages.
“Dean Robinson said I was going to need to write an apology letter and a letter stating what sort of punishment I thought I deserved,” Harry told me. “She told me not to use Freedom of Speech as a defense – or else I would be more severely punished.”

Vincent regrets using the word “beaner,” but stands by the rest. Libs haven’t eradicated the last American yet.

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I Am Not Shocked By Terrorism In Israel

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

I am not shocked when a haredi Jews slashes Jews at a Jerusalem gay pride parade. A gay pride parade in Jerusalem is an affront to traditional Jewish values.

I am not shocked when Arabs commit terror against Jews and I am not shocked when Jews retaliate. Different groups have different interests and these interests conflict and hence there’s often violence in life. War is a form of diplomacy.

Many Arabs are a terrible fit for the Jewish state of Israel just as the presence of a Jewish state in their midst must drive Arabs nuts. From their perspective, Israel is a terrible fit in the region.

From a Jewish perspective, many Arab citizens of Israel are a curse.

I am not shocked with Mexicans and Afghans make money from the narco trade. Why should they feel bad about shipping cocaine and heroin to gringos and making bundles of money? I am not shocked when white Americans hate the Mexicans who are invading their country.

JewishJournal.com:

Any decent person – any decent Israeli – any decent supporter of Israel – must respond with horror to the two violent events that occurred in Israel last week. Any decent person should be disgusted by the brutal murder of a Palestinian infant in what seems to be an attack by Jewish terrorists. Any decent person should be disgusted by the attack at the gay pride parade in Jerusalem, an attack in which a Jewish extremist murdered a 16-year-old girl and injured five other gay Israelis.
But give Israelis credit for being decent: most of them were shocked and dismayed by the attacks. Like Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog, many of them followed the news with “a heavy heart”. Their political leaders responded swiftly and without equivocation. “I am shocked by this horrific, heinous act”, said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu following the death of Ali Saad Dawabsha, the Palestinian 8-month-old child from the village of Duma. The child died – burned – in an arson attack. “This is a terror attack in every respect. The State of Israel deals forcefully with terror, regardless of who the perpetrators are”, said Netanyahu. President Reuven Rivlin took an unusual step and issued a statement in both Arabic and Hebrew. “I feel a sense of shame, and moreover a sense of pain”, Rivlin said, “pain that from my people there are those who have chosen the path of terrorism, and have lost their humanity”.

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Asabiyyah: What Ibn Khaldun, the Islamic father of social science, can teach us about the world today

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Asabiya will be low if the people had civilization/strong states earlier. Imagine people living under strong states for 5000 years. (Iraq for example) You lived/reproduced more if you bowed down to authority. You and your relatives reproduced more if you spent most of your energy on your close relatives, family, tribe etc. instead of whole population. You and your relatives reproduced more if you were nepotistic. Strong states killed all the rebels during those 5000 years. You reproduced more if you were ok with the dictator. Today this creates a corrupt, authoritarian, tribalistic/sectarian, cousin-marriage society with dysfunctional army. (still i’d say without the Islamic Golden Age iq decline (probably around 15 points) Iraq would be something like more authoritarian Singapore)
Similar pattern is there in Europe too. Two most corrupt countries in Europe are the earliest civilized/state ones, Greece and Italy. Least corrupt ones are later state ones like Finland, Sweden.

* Ariel Sharon, and the Saudis opposed removing Saddam, who was a thorn in their side but useful against the Iranians who they rightly regarded as the real, major threat to their regimes.

However, it was proposed that removing Saddam, and allowing Western investment in Iraq’s oil fields, would do the following:

A. Make America feared again by removing a convenient example of defiance, repeatedly, of American demands.
B. Be accomplished relatively quickly as armies and air forces could be supplied by the sea, instead of a land-locked region in Central Asia that required iffy Russian cooperation (Afghanistan).
C. Re-inforce the Carter Doctrine guaranteeing US Military dominance of the Gulf.
D. Give the US a convenient client state with lots and lots of oil that could prevent the Saudis from EVER jacking up the price of oil.
E. Give every Iraqi a share of oil receipts and produce a Gulf-like moderation based on keeping the peace and dialing down Jihad to keep the money flowing.

This failed obviously because the policy was oversold to the American people, done on the dirt cheap, and Bush was passive in not explaining what it was all about: OIL OIL OIL. Like oil was some original sin.

America runs on cheap oil. Examine your bank account when gas is $4 or above, and when its closer to $2. The cheapest oil is in the ME, and to guarantee its flow the US needs to dominate and have client states, ideally a few to play off each other.

This is the reality of your air conditioning, your computer, your car, your jet travel, your Amazon orders, pretty much everything in your life. It runs on OIL, not Unicorn Farts and Rainbows.

Since the Dems, Code Pink, and the rest got their way, we have Iraq controlled by Iran, a hostile power aiming at expensive oil, being fought by ISIS, also wanting expensive oil and world-wide Jihad, with the Saudis being our only alternative; the Iranians are not going to flood the market with cheap oil but demand the Saudis cut production as part of the nuclear deal. With nukes to back up their demands.

Americans deserved a vote on this: do we back off the ME, leave Iraq and the Gulf to their own devices, live in Pat Buchanon isolationism and moral splendor? And have gas at say, $8-9-10 a gallon or more? With everyone but the very rich living essentially like Depression Era poor? Or do a lot of Americans die in agony and we kill a LOT more people to keep gas at a reasonable price of $3 a gallon?

* Part of the problem with successful civilizations is that they allow EVERYBODY a greater chance for survival. “It’s better to be poor in a rich country than poor in a poor country,” is a well-known concept. If you want to see a population explosion among the ungifted, parasitic, and dumb, civilization enables them to start reproducing in Malthusian numbers. They’d win a Darwin award if they had to survive in a state of raw and unforgiving nature.

Eventually, the losers will overwhelm the original population because they breed earlier and more often than the responsible people. If you want to know what happened to the ancient Greeks and why their brilliance declined, there’s your answer.

The US and Europe, by making it so easy for losers to thrive, are eventually going to be overwhelmed by people with lousy genes because the liberal saps who run their governments refuse to cull them or keep them out. You have to cut off their ability to breed if they refuse to raise their own offspring. No welfare, period, and sterilization if they insist on dumping their kids on the state.

The death penalty should be for all felonies of every kind, and juries should be able to hear about your criminal past and take that into account before making their final decision. There’s no reason why we should endanger the welfare of everyone in a community just so we can coddle repeat offenders who are incurable sociopaths. That’s utter insanity.

Criminal justice is still stuck in the Victorian era when it comes to psychology. These days we know sociopaths are hard-wired, and once they go bad, it’s futile to attempt to rehabilitate them. The ridiculous thing is that liberals keep trying to rehabilitate and excuse sociopaths due to a type of religious thinking that comes from religions that liberals themselves don’t even believe in anymore.

* The vice known as gambling is also huge among Asians. The Asian people I have been friends with in my life, they have all admitted they have at least 1 family member who is a serious gambling addict. And Asians usually suck at gambling as the vast majority of them lose way more than they win. The vast majority of Asian gambling addicts always end up in the financial red.

And gambling addiction is even higher depending on which Asian group you are talking about. Filipinos are the worst even by Asian standards and that says a lot. I remember going to a casino just a few miles outside of the Sacramento city limits and it looked a like a freaking Little Quezon City/Little Manila in there even though Filipinos are a small Minority of the Sacramento metropolitan area.

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Is This Satire?

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

Jewish activists might be building a bridge too far here.

From The Guardian: “Jewish activists in Scotland have started a campaign to support the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors across the world, saying the trauma of the extermination camps continues to haunt the descendants of those who suffered there.”

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I swear. I did not realize how emotionally devastating it was. Its a wonder they can get up and go to their banker/lawyer/doctor/dentist/producer/director/writer jobs each day.

On the downside, once you agree to pay for free [Jewish] shrinks for them, how can you, as a Privileged White Gentile, deny Equal Shrinkage for Somalis, Guatemalans, Iraqis, Egyptians, Native Americans, Afghanis, Mexicans, Vietnamese, Chinese and all the other tortured and oppressed people living in your country?

On the upside, as fellow (or rather, continuing) “holocaust survivors”, the new holocaust victims could take the place of their grandparents at the mandatory holocaust education classes that many US states require all public school students to take several times during their K-12 education. Might even get paid for their trouble. So they’ve got that going for them.

* I went out to dinner with some friends about a decade ago when a Jewish woman I did not know informed the table that she was a Holocaust Survivor. She could not have been more than 28 years old. I immediately asked if she was talking in the reincarnated soul sense (which at least would have been interesting), but no, she staunchly believed because one grandparent had a connection to the Holocaust that she too was a Survivor. While this seemed strange at the time, it has gained a general credence in certain circles.

The reality is that there is a literally booming business in Manhattan for psychotherapy for the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors. This is most definitely a thing, and a very profitable one at that. I am surprised that it has not yet gotten a proper write up in the New York Magazine. Certainly dealing with inherited Holocaust Trauma is more enthralling than listening to millionaires kvetch about the trauma caused by Hamptons traffic.

While it is easy to scoff at all this, Transgenerational Trauma may have some genetic validity. Certain traumatic events may trigger certain gene receptors that are then passed on to future generations. In other words, LAMARCKISM LIVES!

Or at least it may apply for certain genes.

* The lesson of the Holocaust is simple, and difficult. Hard for rich, insulated, degenerated people to get their minds around. Never EVER EVER be disarmed. And always, always, have arms about, know how to use them, and be willing to use them. Preferably in your ethnostate.

The degenerate thought in Jewish American life has gone from celebrating Israeli force of arms as Jewish survival, to …. demanding psychotherapy because your great grandparents got murdered by Hitler’s Nazis. That’s pathetic. Sad. And mal-adaptive. History is brutal and ruthless in destroying stupidity.

* That is not the lesson of the Holocaust. The lesson may be to have the money to leave when things look they are about to go bad – like most German and Austrian Jews were able to do. The other lesson, if you are a Jew, is that the more assimilated the Jews are into the population the better your chances of survival – Polish Jews got very little support from the local population. Danish Jews were entirely protected by the local population. Italian Jews also generally were protected by the locals. Plenty of armed Polish and Ukrainian Jews who tried to resist were simply shot and killed by better organized German troops. Most of the millions of Soviet prisoners who died horrible deaths in German POW camps had been armed before being taken prisoner. A gun is just another tool in the survival kit, it can augment good judgement and survival training, but is no guarantee of anything, and is certainly no subsitute for organization and intelligence.

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Jewish Hedge Funders Push Gay Marriage

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

From CNBC:

The U.S. Supreme Court decision Friday in favor of same-sex marriage was welcomed by a perhaps surprising group: conservative hedge fund managers.
Dan Loeb of Third Point, Paul Singer of Elliott Management, Steve Cohen of Point72 Asset Management and Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management are among the prominent hedge fund managers who have worked in recent years in support of gay marriage even as they disapproved of President Barack Obama and Democrats.
“It’s a gratifying day for equality under the law,” Asness, a libertarian, told CNBC.com on Friday.
“We’re pleased with the Court’s ruling because we believe in social justice for all Americans and hope this serves as a catalyst for global change,” added Cohen, via a spokesman…
Loeb, Cohen, Singer and others helped successfully to push to legalize same-sex marriage in New York in 2011. And backers of nonprofit Freedom to Marry have been supported by KKR head of public affairs Ken Mehlman, a former Republican operative, as well as Loeb, Klarman, Singer and Asness.

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Jews Find East Asians More Of A Challenge Than The Goyim

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Luke Ford

Abraham Foxman writes:

When the Anti-Defamation League conducted its unprecedented public opinion poll in the spring of 2014, in which we surveyed 100 countries and 53,100 individuals on their attitudes toward Jews, the most surprising finding was the one that showed that 51 percent of South Koreans held anti-Semitic views.
This was the highest anti-Semitic rating by far of any non-Muslim Asian country, more than doubling the rates of China and Japan.
We did seek to understand those numbers, meeting with South Korean officials who assured us that the numbers must reflect a misunderstanding of the questions being asked (polling was, of course, conducted in Korean). But since we felt confident about our numbers elsewhere in the world, we left the South Korea numbers as they were, while continuing to wonder whether there was some cultural misunderstanding.
We still do not pretend to know all the answers to this conundrum, but recent developments stemming from a merger battle between Samsung Group’s Lee family and activist investor Paul Singer have revealed levels of anti-Semitism in the Korean business and media communities that we were told never existed.
Let’s be clear. The takeover struggle between Elliott Associates and Samsung over a merger of two Samsung companies is a business matter that is beyond the scope or interest of ADL. Clearly, strong interests were at work on both sides and powerful emotions were part of the struggle. (The merger was approved by shareholders last week.)
What was of concern to us, however, was the injection of anti-Semitism into the battle. Three Korean publications ran stories attacking Jews who they said were behind the effort to block the Samsung merger. One, the SISA Journal, published an article quoting both a former South Korean diplomat and a U.S. educated Korean lawyer about how Jews control Wall Street. Meanwhile, Samsung C and T depicted Elliot’s founder Paul Singer in cartoons as a vulture-like figure, seeking to take money away from the poor.

Here is a letter by a Jewish academic to the New York Times in 1987:

To the Editor:
I write to commend and comment on your March 12 news article on recent Japanese anti-Semitism.
First, Japanese anti-Semitism has a long history. It stretches back to the 1870’s, when Christian missionaries introduced the Japanese to an image of the Jews as a venal and despised people. This image was reinforced by Western literary works like ”The Merchant of Venice,” the first of Shakespeare’s plays to be translated into Japanese.
The notorious ”Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” which the historian Norman Cohn has called ”a warrant for genocide,” provides the basis for much Japanese anti-Semitic writing. This includes the currently popular books of Masami Uno (”If You Understand Judea, You Can Understand the World” and ”If You Understand Judea, You Can Understand Japan”), the starting point for your report. The ”Protocols” was first translated into Japanese in 1924 and continues to be reissued, most recently by the Shin-Jinbutsu Oraisha publishing company this year.
Second, anti-Semitism has greater intellectual currency and respectability in Japan than in perhaps any other industrialized society. In January 1986, an anti-Semitic novel titled ”Passover” by a Japanese woman residing in Los Angeles won the 94th Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s most prestigious literary award. It was awarded by a jury of Japan’s most respected novelists and critics, headed by the Roman Catholic novelist Shusaku Endo.
Third, it should be pointed out that the Japanese have also produced voluminous legitimate scholarship on Jewish history and culture. In 1979, the annual meeting of Japanese Germanists took up the topic of ”German-Jewish Symbiosis,” with papers on the work of Heine, Kafka, Elias Canetti and others. There was even a paper on Yiddish language and literature delivered by a Japanese Yiddishist.
The works of Elie Wiesel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem and virtually every other significant Jewish author have been translated into Japanese. The work of Masanori Miyazawa should also be noted in this context. A professor of history at Doshisha Women’s University in Kyoto, Masanori Miyazawa has analyzed in books and articles the long and perverse history of Japanese anti-Semitism, and has been an outspoken critic of it.
Finally, although Shichihei Yamamoto, author of ”The Japanese and the Jews,” whom you quote, is probably correct that, taken alone, anti-Semitic books in Japan are more annoying than dangerous, their popularity is disturbing in the context of recent events. Only last September, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone alleged that blacks and Hispanics were lowering the level of intelligence in the United States, and Masayuki Fujio, Minister of Education, was sacked the same month for strident defense of pre-World War II Japanese behavior in Korea and China. Furthermore, Japan has been re-editing its high-school history textbooks to delete any suggestion of Japanese culpability for that war.
In this context, Japanese anti-Semitism reveals itself as but one manifestation of widespread racist thinking that has permeated the highest levels of Japanese Government and business bureaucracy. What emerges is a self-image of the Japanese as a pure race, superior to other mongrelized peoples, but unjustly persecuted by them. We know from bitter experience the potential consequences of this state of affairs, and everything possible should be done by all people of good will to reverse it before this annoyance has real political repercussions.
DAVID G. GOODMAN Urbana, Ill., March 13, 1987 The writer, associate professor of Japanese and comparative literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has written two books in Japanese on the Jews and Israel.

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