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* Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner; Maria Hamilton, mother of Dontre Hamilton; and Geneva Reed-Veal, mother of Sandra Bland
Yeah it’s interesting to note how the last names of the mothers don’t match up with the kids. Like Mike Brown’s mom’s last name was McSpadden. Trayvon’s mom’s last name was Fulton. I wonder if it has to due with what sociologists refer to as “multi-partner fertility”
* “Matrifocal family”
“Serial polygamy”
“anthropogenic r-selection”
“temporary amazonian zone”
“arachnid mating mimicry”
“hyphenated surname empowerment”
“patriarchy-free zone”
“Great Society mating patterns”
* When two populations have different levels of violence (as blacks and whites do, there being far greater percentage of violent black males than there are white males) and different levels of empathy, it is very hard for the two populations to understand each other or live together.
* Nobody here can look at the bright side.
In many countries people can’t quickly tell who is and who is not physically dangerous to them. In America, especially recently, you can.
* If there could be such a thing as “Fathers of the Movement,” there’d be no need for a movement.
* John McWhorter, who I generally respect, has a piece that touches on the tension blacks feel towards the police in Time.
I am somewhat sympathetic to this in that many black people are treated with suspicion they do not deserve – but on the flipside, it’s a product of the much higher rates of criminality in that segment of America. And while being sensitive to McWhorter’s point, it ignores the fact that black criminality has a hugely destructive effect on the communities in which this problem is concentrated, and non-blacks have a legitimate interest in wanting to see this social problem suppressed as much as it can be through law enforcement.
At the end of the day, it was a depressing read because it illustrates how different parts of the nation are just talking past each other because there is no reconciling their different viewpoints on this issue.
* Hillary probably thinks the way Obama does about black riots. They ‘help her’ by keeping blacks riled up, and she’s hoping they’ll turn out to vote for her instead of staying home, assisted by whites rather like my boneheaded liberal relatives. My mother and father were both carrying on about how horrible the shooting of this poor black guy was, who was just minding his own business reading a book. I pointed out the cops said the guy had a gun, not a book, and that he had an extensive criminal history, but they were not willing to listen or consider the facts. Hillary knows her supporters well.
* Leaders of protests in Ferguson, Baltimore and Baton Rouge were flying into Charlotte Thursday as a third day of action against police violence loomed.
Leaders of some of those protests, such as Michael McBride, a California minister who leads the Live Free campaign against mass incarceration, and Traci Blackmon, an organizer of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Mo., traveled to Charlotte.
Corine Mack, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP branch, said Thursday that Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, including Chief Kerr Putney, have worked with local groups to build the kind of relationships that could improve treatment of African-Americans and build trust.
But she and other leaders said the department’s rush to depict Keith Lamont Scott, who was shot to death Tuesday by an officer, as a gunman eroded that progress. So, they said, did the city’s rush to say that the man shot Wednesday was the victim of another protester, even though little was clear through Thursday about what had happened.
* The mainstream left, with Hillary bordering on center-left, are now in favor of engaging in drawn out and exquisite scrutiny of every single officer-involved shooting with a black man in this large country, with the explicit goal of smearing the police and stopping the good policies that has lead to huge reductions in crime since the mid-70′s to early 90′s peak.
That’s how the left loses in American politics.
Ross’s Steve Sailer-naming NYT’s column does good work capturing how the Democrats are flirting with a self-inflicted loss this election, and how they did it once before in the Nixon-Reagan era:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/opinion/campaign-stops/clintons-samantha-bee-problem.html
This spirit of political-cultural rebellion is obviously crucial to Trump’s act. As James Parker wrote in The Atlantic, he’s occupying “a space in American politics that is uniquely transgressive, volatile, carnivalesque, and (from a certain angle) punk rock.” (The alt-right-ish columnist Steve Sailer made the punk rock analogy as well.)
Ross not only winked over at us, but also at too at those of us who make the effort to know and understand the history of Western Europe.
Trump’s extremism also limits his appeal, of course. But if liberals are fortunate to be facing a Johnny Rotten figure in this presidential campaign, they are still having real trouble putting him away … and if he were somewhat less volatile and bigoted and gross, liberalism would be poised to close its era of cultural ascendance by watching all three branches of government pass back into conservative hands.
Something like this happened once before: In the 1960s and 1970s, the culture shifted decisively leftward, but American voters shifted to the right and answered a cultural revolution with a political Thermidor.
That Nixon-Reagan rightward shift did not repeal the 1960s or push the counterculture back to a beatnik-hippie fringe. But it did leave liberalism in a curious place throughout the 1980s: atop the commanding heights of culture yet often impotent in Washington, D.C.
* Donald is going to LOVE having Obama hand the keys to the White House over to him. I’m sure he’ll get a little dig in, something like, “Hey, now that I’m president, I’m going to have the CIA locate your actual birth certificate and academic records. I’m really looking forward to reading them.”
* Way wait. Ross is putting Steve in the alt-right camp? Really? I never knew whether Steve accepted that designation, or whether he would decline being included in the alt-right in any official capacity. Sometimes various groups like HBD; Milo; Breitbart; etc. blend together and can appear to be an official part of the alt-right, but its very confusing as to which groups are part of the alt-right and which ones are technically not a part.
I have a feeling that both Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer would very much like Steve to have a more official part of their grouping, but who knows if he would accept their offer? Side note, I’m puzzled sometimes as to why Mr. Taylor hasn’t invited Steve to speak at his American Renaissance conferences.
I suppose one could always just ask him whether Douthat’s inclusion of him with the alt-right is accurate from his perspective.
* She will most certainly be acquitted of manslaughter given the circumstances. Suspect continually disobeys police instructions, walks away to his vehicle, shrugs off a taser, continues to the vehicle and seems to reach in the back window, whereupon the female cop shoots him.
Doesn’t matter if he was just reaching for a toothpick. That was the green light as far as police procedure is concerned.
* If Donald Trump becomes President he will sit on top of the largest information gathering organization in the world. I have no doubt that either all at once or little by little, Obama’s past, which he has spent so much time and resources hiding will get leaked out much to his ever lasting shame. Someday, it will probably be proven that BHO got over promoted just about every step of the way due to affirmative action. It also might be proven that he never registered for selective service and that he wrote all types of atrocious radical dreck in college.
Obama’s birth certificate was just a cap stone or cover story to hide his past. I have heard one long forgotten blogger who I wish I could name refer to it as a McGuffen. When David Axelrod hid Obama’s school transcripts, selective service records, medical records, Baptismal records, etc., he used the birth certificate as a poison pill or passive aggressive boobie trap to blow up whoever tried to uncover his past. After all, any one who is interested just cannot accept the legitimacy of the first African American President.
The only thing more enjoyable than watching President Trump rub Obama’s nose in the proverbial cow pie will be watching Obama’s supporters gasp when he does it.
* The first step is to legalize IQ tests for employment, universities get a lot of market power by being the quasi IQ test. LEgalize that and we (I am a prof) will have to compete and show people are learning something. Various ethnicity studies X majors won’t get any lift from the college degree as IQ test effect. I suspect those majors would add very little to employment opportunities in a world with IQ tests.
Second, don’t let Unis get away with hiring as many foreigners as we want. Every hiring process I have been in (~10) there have been perfectly qualified domestics ranked below foreigners. (Sometimes domestics got the job after foreigners turned it down.) All you need is a decent minimum salary around 120k. Universities can only afford that with superstars and thats fine.
International profs dominating departments means saying anything conservative, much less anti immigration or pro European, is very uncomfortable and will likely get complaints to the dean about you creating a bad work environment. Replacing with domestics will shift things somewhat.
Then, the Trump loan idea is great. Colleges have to help pay back loans that go bad. That will shift us to renumerative fields and also away from affirmative action. Only the richest schools will be able to do AA. An extension would be to make colleges have skin in the game for Pell Grants- they have to pay the government back if graduates don’t have jobs or something like that.
These things could start shifting universities back from the crazy marxist edge.
* Take it easy on that frail, diseased old lady unaccountably running for the presidency of Earth’s most powerful nation — it’s clear she has significant, perhaps severe neurological problems.
She can’t stand longer than a few minutes and needs the assistance of at least two stout men flanking her at all times.
She has seizures brought on by stress, heat, loud noises, and bright lights.
She has uncontrolled coughing attacks that last several minutes.
She undoubtedly qualifies for (and probably receives) Social Security disability.
It was HER TURN in 2008, when she was in better health, but had her coronation stolen from her by a magic negro (TM).
Her husband has humiliated her repeatedly, in public.
What a pathetic creature. And what a pathetic nation that this is the best the Democratic Party could do.
* They are not ‘different parts of the nation’. They are completely different nations altogether. Nor do blacks and whites have different viewpoints on this issue, so much as on every issue. Also noteworthy is that the black rent-a-mob rioters no longer even require a “racist” white cop to start their looting, arson and hysteria.
* The right needs to not just hold power, but also undermine the legitimacy of leftist ideas over the long run.”
Yes, this is the crux of it. Everything else is downstream.
There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that people like our host are doing just that, however (unintentionally) stealthily. The bad news is that you can’t beat something with nothing. The Left’s somethings (Cult Marx, White Privilege, Feminism, etc.) are all false and the Right’s criticisms of them are correct. But being correct as a critic doesn’t make you inheritor of the throne. To inherit the throne you not only have to depose the usurper, you have to show you’re the legitimate heir.
So far, the Right has been correct, if only partially effective, at discrediting the Left’s ascendancy. But the throne can’t just remain vacant. I don’t know if this is some natural law, or if it is just that people in general are too immature to go about their lives without some ruling ideology, but whatever the reason, it is apparent that a vacant throne attracts vagrants, so it needs to be occupied, and the more right and Right the occupier, the better.
Unfortunately, if the current Left is a Coalition of the Fringes united by the Left’s falsehoods and group-hate, the current Right consists of Confederation of the Anti-Fringes united by disgust with the Left’s lies and threats to their livelihoods and lives. Unfortunately, the Left’s lies are a Something (based on an identifiable though false theme) while the Right’s anti-lies are ultimately a Nothing because they lack any unifying theme other than resistance, and a Nothing, however true, will never beat the Something, however false.
