On the Reality of Race & the Abhorrence of Racism Part II: Human Biodiversity & Its Implications

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Professor Brian Boutwell writes:

If you observe the residents of Japan and compare them to residents of the rural southern United States, you’ll note some differences. Some differences will be stark, others less so, yet they will not be isolated to religious and cultural practices. The differences that emerge will bleed into psychological and temperamental traits that also vary in noticeable ways across populations.

The reason for the existence of these differences, though, admits of no simple answer. Prevailing wisdom holds that the cultural and psychological differences that exist across human population groups were shaped largely by a confluence of history, sociological forces, and pure chance. This is likely true to some degree, but the prevailing wisdom — from my point of view — is incomplete. In Part I, we argued that human races exist, meaning that humans can be meaningfully classified into coherent groups based on genetic ancestry. If we’re going to take seriously the existence of meaningful racial variation we also have to at least consider that the genetic differences that exist across racial and ethnic groups also contribute to psychological and ultimately cultural differences across those same groups.

To suggest that races might possess slightly different temperamental, cognitive, and other psychological traits, and that some of these differences are partly genetic in origin, is to violate a powerful — perhaps the most powerful — academic taboo. The incendiary nature of the subject seems to flow largely from the fear that discussing biological group differences will foster racial prejudice among the general public. Indeed, people bent on quantifying human worth have erected racial hierarchies, propped them up with pseudo-scientific theories and folk understandings about group differences, and conscripted them into service towards reprehensible ends. History, in places, is a wasteland of tragedy when it comes to the treatment of minority individuals. Yet, the reprehensible treatment of minority groups currently, or in the past, does not constitute empirical evidence that race is a fiction, or that differences in the psychological constitutions across racial groups are purely environmental in origin.

COMMENTS AT STEVE SAILER:

* Race is the beginning of separation of species. This was the spark that kindled the idea of evolution in Darwin when he saw this. The idea is you take one species and divide it into different areas. The first difference that appears is color. If they stay separated long enough they become two species.

* What’s remarkable is that all those racial scientists from a hundred years ago; like Grant, Stoddard or Guenther, were basically right on the money, even without the benefit of modern genetic knowledge. It’s taken decades of incessant propaganda to prevent people from seeing what’s right in front of their eyes.

I focused on color because that seems to be the first marker. Maybe there are others. Color is what got Darwin thinking and I also noticed the same thing. Take a species lets say squirrels and separate it. Put one set into the USA and the other into the USSR. After some time one comes out grey and the other brown. Same with birds in England. There are lots of examples.

I sometimes feel like we’re just rediscovering “lost knowledge”, like Babylonian mathematics or Roman-style arch building or something.

It requires a strenuous effort to imagine the Parthenon or the cathedral of Notre Dame are just the same as one-storey mud huts and that identical worth-values can be assigned to their relative builders.

Actually, the current racial war that the Sandpeople are waging against us has its advantages too. Now we can see that treating them like civilised white Europeans doesn’t work. People are surely starting to piece together that culture is a function of biological inheritance. Every year that this nonsense continues, the more unpleasant the solution will be.

* I’m sure Darwin was not thinking of Germans and Ukranians.
His comments on Australian aborigines have become notorious but they are more relevant.
This is very much a live issue. The equalizers have mandated ‘closing the gap’, following an expose of brutal treatment of uncontrollable teenage brutes in the Northern Territory correctional system.
The indigene ‘leaders’ themselves are not too sure if they really want all the dirty laundry exposed by a Royal Commission. The white do-gooders are stunned at the rebuff. They thought they were doing the right thing. Anyhow, it’s all been resolved by putting a part aborigine judge onto the Commission.
Still, 65 IQ humanoids will run around with knives, clubs an

* “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.” (Darwin)

* The race narrative serves the globalist agenda, otherwise it would be a fringe view like creationism. Celebrating diversity means rejecting the idea that there is anything special about your own race or nation. Having given up the identity you were born with, you are ready to purchase your new identity as an iPhone user or a Pepsi drinker.

* Speaking of minorities who should be given special consideration and deserve protection, humans with blond hair number only 1 – 2 % of the world’s population while those having blue eyes constitute only 8% of the world’s population. By any objective standard, both are endangered.

Brown/blackies gloat and love to point out that inasmuch as both the above traits are recessive, then it is likely that they will ultimately disappear from the human gene pool. Of course, this isn’t deemed racist, it is simply realistic. By means of this sleight of hand they deny their implicit agency and so the race war continues apace.

Certain tribes of brown/blackies say this with a tone of vindictive glee, as though they will be perfectly happy to sacrifice the higher standard of living that the blond/blue Industrial/Scientific Revolution has wrought in exchange for a promised, largely-imaginary Age of Peace that will dawn just as soon as they get their mitts on the tiller. With little to offer but promises and, lacking fundamental navigational skills, it is unlikely that this will take place as envisioned.

* The problem of people applying different rules to humans than to the natural world would be easily solved if humanity could get over the delusion that we are somehow separate from the natural world. We are animals, in most ways quantitatively different from the rest of the animal kingdom, but not qualitatively. We are genetically similar, inhabit the same closed system, and have identical needs for survival. Religious people have a set of beliefs that include a divine spark (or whatever the terminology) that sets humans apart. I disagree, obviously, but at least devout Jews and Christians also adhere to other, societally beneficial, ideas that go along with that. Atheist liberals have taken the simplest and most reductive approach to removing God from the culture that is unavoidably ingrained in them — they think if they just take out the icky religious words it’ll all be fine. Sadly, “All men are created equal” doesn’t mean the same thing as “All men are equal.” Evolutionary theory is only valid if we are animals too. “Scientific” liberals really don’t want to admit this, they’re too bogged down in being Christian believers with only the blind faith and no Christianity.

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Does Baltimore Suffer From Too Much Law Enforcement?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment at The Atlantic:

* I was riding in a truck through Northeast Baltimore, today. And saw dozens of young men openly selling drugs. And saw at least 5 different women selling themselves on the streets for drug money.

So I’m confused about this narrative of Baltimore being some sort of authoritarian society? What I see on a regular basis is cop cars driving right past drug dealers. 911 operators refusing to send police officers to scenes of crimes in progress. Even when 5 or 6 people on a block call to complain about a fight, or drug dealing. And I’ve personally seen young kids ride illegal motor bikes right in front of police. To the point that they popped wheelies about 20 inches from a cops face. And laughed at the cop while they taunted him with the wheelie

Pot is openly smoked in Baltimore. Many streets and local parks reek of pot smoke.

Young teens openly walk through alleys. Looking into each back yard. Looking for things to steal. Or walk up to each car on the street. Blatantly peering into he car or trying the lock.

I wish that Baltimore was as authoritarian as David Grahm claims. But the sad fact is that criminals in Baltimore are pretty much allowed to do whatever they want to. Up to, and including, burning down a CVS while the police are told to stay out of the way.

COMMENTS AT STEVE SAILER:

* Seen from another perspective, the Blacks in Baltimore will soon get the low-key policing they ask for, balanced with the cliche that you had better be careful about what you ask for because you might get it. The Black citizens of Baltimore will soon get the law and order they deserve. Predict that Baltimore will eventually become another African “bantustan” within the contiguous United States.

One might call all of this … BLM, anti-cop, low marriage rates, high out-of-wedlock pregnancy rates, mindless violence, pervasive drug addiction … a Back to Africa movement. Regardless of affirmative action, diversity, safe spaces, and reparations camouflaged as welfare can make Africans into Northern Europeans. The cultural and social (and perhaps genetic) divide between sub-Saharan Africans and especially Northern Europeans is simply too broad to bridge. It is a permanent condition.

The United States tried a 52-year long experiment in racial and cultural integration costing trillions of dollars. The experiment destroyed model school systems, neighborhoods, communities, and whole cities in a social experiment to change the culture of its citizens … by force. It displaced tens of millions of people as internal refugees as citizens lost the fundamental right of association. The program was perhaps modeled on the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War, although this time it was imposed on the entire population. It failed.

* It’s been pointed out here many times that one of the most important determinants of a nation’s success is the median IQ…same thing with cities. For most of my adult life I lived in DC and spent a lot of time in Baltimore as well since I had many friends who moved there for cheaper housing. In short, the average black resident of either city is just not smart – I grew up in a large city that was 30% black and both of my parents are from large cities with large black populations and the blacks in all three places are just smarter than those in DC/Baltimore, which also means everyone gets along a lot better too.

I recall the Washington Post pointing out in an article on education that poor black kids in NYC are two grade levels ahead of comparable kids in DC – the piece looked for technocratic reasons why this might be the case, but the simple answer is that one city just has a more intelligent group than the other and no amount of educational “reform” is going to close what is essentially a built in gap. Some cities have an unusual amount of human detritus – the only answer is to try and make them someone else’s problem, which is what administrations in DC and Chicago have tried to do over the last 10-15 years, with some success.

* The criminal trials of the Baltimore cops ended in a debacle, making the (black) mayor and (black) prosecutor look silly. The whole White Cops Killing Blacks narrative is losing momentum as a result. What to do?
Have the politicized Justice Dep’t issue some fabricated report , finding that there are Other Bad Things going on, seize control of the Baltimore Police Dep’t , and move on to the next crisis.

* Let’s see – about ten weeks before a hotly contested general election, the highly politicized Obama Justice Department releases a report detailing widespread abuses and racism in the Baltimore police department. No surprises here – just what we should expect. Baltimore (about two-thirds black) has a black mayor, a black states attorney, a black majority city council and a police department that itself is half black. No wonder there’s such extensive racism. Oh, wait – the police commissioner is white. There, that proves it. I feel better now.

* …having to deal with the dregs of Baltimore society on a daily basis would turn just about anyone into a callous, brutal asshole, if you weren’t one in the first place. How could one even survive in that job without being kind of an overbearing dickhead? That’s why the problem is more or less unsolvable.

* Steve,

if you ever seen the documentary “12 O’Clock Boys” (about black, illegal dirt bike riders who take over Baltimore whenever they want), you know law and order doesn’t exist in 65 percent black Baltimore.

Trailer –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMQY6k16TU

Worse, the cops KNOW most of the bikes are stolen and do nothing about it, because they fear what would when the black community gets upset that their black sons lose the ability to ride around on stolen bikes unmolested…

http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2015/09/if-almost-all-of-dirt-bikes-in.html

From the above article (http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2015/08/09/police-in-riot-gear-attempt-to-clear-large-crowd-of-dirt-bikers-in-baltimore/):

“They impose a very immediate and extreme danger, to the community as they do not ordinarily follow traffic rules and regulations,” said Marc Partee, Commander North West District.

“This is not a sport, this is not fun, and it continues to drain my resources and the individuals that actually live in the community are not happy with it all,” Partee said.

According to authorities, a majority of these dirt bikes are stolen and encourage people to report them when spotted.

* Since Baltimore’s power structure is almost completely black, and the cops are ignoring crime, I predict the remaining whites and non-welfare blacks will move out of the city to avoid the rise in crime and the tax base will utterly collapse. At this point, Baltimore will turn into Detroit.

The only thing that might potentially bail the city out is its location on the Northeast population corridor, and the extreme high prices of real estate and cost of living in that region. A future Maryland governor may attempt a coup (ala Michigan’s governor) to undermine the city’s black political structure, ship out the poor blacks by refusing to give them new housing vouchers in the city, and in sum, attempt to gentrify the city. Baltimore’s location and housing prices are such that there’s too much potential money to be made by the elite white power structure to allow it to descend into black chaos. It’s not a bad commute from Washington. It could become one big bedroom community for whites and nice whitetopia. It’s located on the water and is well connected by highways. If you could get rid of all the blacks, Baltimore would be great place to live.

* On the subject of whether having more black police officers would be a solution, I recall an interview with Bob Teague, a black reporter who worked for NBC in New York in the 1980s, in which he said, “Blacks are more inclined to create police work than to perform it.”

* Everyone would love to believe that the black community is just filled with untapped potential, with Good Will Hunting type janitors who are secretly math geniuses. It just ain’t so. You could reform the schools (that’s been tried up the wazoo), reform the black community, reform the black family (all easier said than done in a free society), etc. and gentle giant D’Shavious and his girlfriend Jeantel will still have an 85 IQ and will still be best suited for life in an agrarian society and have no useful role to play in a post-industrial society, so they will be, one way or another, wards of the state for their entire life (or else they would literally starve). No matter what you do, you can’t make a housepet out of a hyena.

Yes, there is a smarter fraction in the black community (by smart I don’t mean Feynman smart, just above 100 IQ and capable of working in a modern society smart) of around 15 or 20% but these have moved out of the ghetto long ago so what is left behind is largely devoid of untapped potential.

* I remember DC trying to boost the number of black police officers a decade or so ago.

It didn’t turn out well.

* It’s time for a strategic retreat from blm cauldrons of criminality. Surrounding gated communities and livable suburbs should support a George Kennan inspired version of containment. Odd that such a dated cold war concept like that should now have internal domestic application.

* In a ghetto community, either the police are out there kicking ass and trying to keep some semblance of public order or else they are eating donuts and letting the feral wolves rule the streets. There is no in-between possible. It’s the same as places like Iraq and Egypt – either there is someone there to keep a lid on things or else people will run wild. There’s no internal superego in these places – if there is not some external force keeping them from taking your rims (or maybe even your life), they will take them in a second with no qualms. The idea that you can have a police force in those places that spends its time giving anti-drug lectures in schools (that seemed to be the main job of my local suburban police force) and stopping old white ladies and young black dudes in equal proportions, like some urban TSA, is laughable.

* And smack dab in the middle of this festering reservation: Johns Hopkins University, America’s premier medical college.

The history of prestigious academic institutions once located in white centers of influence and culture that now require their own police forces is an under-reported one.

* The quote pointing out the stench of pot smoke in Baltimore parks lets me bang another drum, for whatever purpose. Has anyone done research on to what degree marijuana usage permeates ghetto culture? In fact, many, if not all, of the blue on black non-compliance shootings seem to involve young guys cooked out of skull on pot, or worse. Yet it’s never noted at time, and if revealed in autopsy it seems as if by fiat it is not a big thing. Add marijuana usage to low IQ, bad decision making and no moral guidance, and you’ve got a young man who is looking to get tagged by a 9mm. Yet again, all these episodes are laid at the feet of the po-po (as the cops are called in Baltimore) and not depicted as the low-character stupidity they really represent, Kid, don’t want to get popped? Don’t go do crime while high. Don’t do ANYTHING while high. In fact, don’t get high at all. That’s only for ironic whites who can giggle, listen to old Garcia vinyl, then go to the Pancake House when it wears off.

* When you look at the agenda of the Black Lives Matter movement, it appears to be that of a lynch mob. If a white cop shoots a black, whatever the circumstances, even if the cop is completely exonerated, they want to lynch him. So to me, “BLM” stands for Black Lynch Mob.

* There may be kids who have potential in the ghetto, but is it really worth the time, effort, and resources spent to identify those “kids with potential” and then do everything we can to make sure they achieve that potential by showering them with affirmative action and letting all the other detritus run wild? We’re at the point we’re an old lady isn’t allowed to clutch her purse and cross the street when she sees “this youth with potential” because of the terrible psychological impact of this heinous microaggression on the poor “youth with potential.”

I say screw it. We all have obstacles to success in our lives. The obstacles to these “youth with potential” are primarily other blacks and the fact that they look like them. They can transcend those obstacles or they can not, but they aren’t being held back by any kind of institutional racism or anything silly like that. Best of luck to them, but I’m not interested in turning everything on its head to pick the grain from the feces. That’s an incredibly stupid thing to do. We should be maximizing the potential of our very best, not sifting through feces.

* “But who cares about the Black Lives Matter movement inspiring a 63% increase in murder victims? The problem with Baltimore, according to the Justice Department, is too much law and order.”

To make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs. Gotta agitate for those Hillary votes- otherwise we might get stuck with Trump and really have a tragedy if we couldn’t bring in more Democrat voters and pool boys for our Overlords.

* I seem to remember Atlantic magazine making a cameo in The Wire. Brother Mouzun – a legendary Nation of Islam hitman-for-hire from NYC – had a couple of lines about finding a copy of the Atlantic before he set to work icing and/or maiming a few baltimore drug dealers.

IIRC his gofer had to go a long way to find a copy of the Atlantic since they were in the hoods of baltimore.

So maybe the Atlantic is just playing to their drug-dealing, islamic, underworld killer-for-hire base with this article?

* There is something impressive about the big media’s ability to pick a patently false story (e.g., police racism in Baltimore, Haven Monahan) and then as the absurdity of it becomes more and more apparent, double-down and triple-down and dodecuple-down on the phony story.

As an aside, this Conor Friedersdorf is a bit of an interesting case. He’s occasionally presented as something of a house conservative by the organs who publish him, yet he’s never written anything conservative that I’ve ever noticed. His initiation into big journalism was as “underblogger” to notorious juicer sodomist Andrew Sullivan, which sounds dangerous as well as uncomfortable.

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Trump Speaks About Immigration

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: Trump gave an excellent speech today in Fort Lauderdale.

Go to 2:41:50 and watch for 1 minute.

Trump criticized mass immigration into the United States. He displayed a chart showing the past increase in the immigrant population in the U.S. and the projected future increase through 2060.

Then the crowd chanted “Build that Wall!”

Trump’s response: “How stupid are we? How can we have leadership like this? Hopefully, it won’t happen much longer.”

* I LOVED the Trump charts!

It’s like the boss showing his boys some charts in a cut scene from Glengarry Glen Ross.

Maybe that’s why liberal voters are so crazy eff’ed up over him. They literally can’t function in a “Coffee is for Closers” world. It’s not really the enriching domain of feminist cat ladies.

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Doing Business With Jews

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

A gentile friend of mine who does not tend to be anti-Jewish, tweets:

* Media playing Trump’s statement to literal truth vs their side using lies is the business MO of every Jew I’ve worked with

* The 2nd basic Jewish biz MO is to threaten “deal will not happen unless I get this special thing for me”. Call their bluff. Trust me.

* Third basic Jewish biz MO they pay for *everything* at strip clubs. Abstain. It’s just blackmail they use later for sweeter terms for deals.

These tactics are not uniquely Jewish. Indeed, most Jews in business don’t use them. But these are typical traits, in my experience, of people from the Middle East.

Jews don’t always do business like WASPs. Many Jews are more like other people of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern origin who often haggle and bluster and charm and berate and try any tactic (many of which are out of the comfort zone for WASPs who tend to be more reserved) to win.

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Is Race A Valid Organizing Principle?

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Luke Ford

Chaim Amalek writes: “When a man attacks nationalism or race as an organizing concept among nations, I assume he hates the fact that Israel was founded as an ethnostate especially for Jews. In other words, I fear he may be a Jew-hater. Don’t hate Jews. Embrace race.”

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HBD At The Olympics

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: In the past, the judges gave taller, more elegantly moving young women advantages because they looked better. But that gave an advantage to Eastern European girls raised in the traditions behind the Bolshoi ballet. The Americans have lobbied to make scoring more objective, which gives the advantages to muscular human cannonball body types like Biles’.

Over time, the various Olympic sports have become hyper-specialized by body type, so medalists tend to be rather freakish looking.

One interesting question is which sports have the best normal looking athletes: i.e., the winners look like movie stars rather than people selected at an early age for their odd proportions.

Traditionally, men’s pole vaulters — an event that requires both lower body speed and upper body strength — have been good looking guys.

When women’s pole vaulting was introduced, they tended to be good looking too.

Slate recently ran an article by a woman journalist claiming that Allison Stokke is the most popular lady pole vaulter in the world for a “gross” reason: i.e., people think she’s pretty. (Slate has since memory holed their old headline and replaced it with “Allison Stokke Is the Most Popular Pole Vaulter in the World, and I Wish That Weren’t So Depressing.”)

But Stokke is only the 168th ranked women’s pole vaulter in the world.

* The ol’ First Law of Female Journalism. The existence of pretty people is psychologically ‘problematic’ for ugly people.

* There’s an old axiom in basketball, “you can’t teach height”. This true in volleyball as well. Tall girls are at a premium for both sports, but it doesn’t take long to notice that female volleyball players tend to more feminine and attractive when compared to their basketball counterparts. This is true at all levels of the respective sports, high school, college and at the Olympic level.

* Female basketball players aren’t at all hot. They look like men with women’s heads attached.

Female volleyball players are often hot though. Especially at the pro level.

* In the US, at least, there’s a cultural component to that. Higher class women do tend to be more attractive for various reasons. I dated a tall girl who played volleyball in high school and got the impression that volleyball is higher class than basketball at the high school and college levels (big surprise, I ignored both while in high school). What I also learned is that high school and college volleyball is mostly a scam. High school volley ball players often use the sport as a way to gain college admission and a year of free school at college and then quit the team. I went to an ACC volleyball game and was amazed at the number of freshmen who were starting. Universities don’t really care because volleyball isn’t a revenue sport and it’s sponsored for Title IX compliance. In particular, schools that have rushed to create football programs in the last 10 years have created women’s indoor and beach volleyball teams in order to offer relatively cheap lady athletics scholarships. I got my masters at an urban university that added a beach volleyball team as part of starting a football team. What’s funny is that the beach volleyball team is now one of the best in the country, albeit being a few hundred miles from the coast, and the football team is one of the worst in the FBS.

* I’ve wondered if East Asians have an advantage in “precision sports” compared with other nationalities. Ping pong, badminton, archery, and stationary shooting events tend to be very East Asian heavy. Oddly enough, East Asians tend to be very good at marksmanship events, but not at skeet/trap shooting. It’s something that could be evolutionary or cultural. South Korea considers archery their national sport and Chinese Communist revolutionaries had a passion for ping pong, so maybe there are just cultural reasons for these results.

* The precision sports are about self control which they have an abundance of. Shooting between the heartbeats, that kind of stuff. That’s why PEDs in the shooting sports are primarily beta-blockers, which slow and regularize your heart beat.

Ping-pong, despite being viewed in the U.S. as a silly parlor game, is actually extremely technical and very, very fast. I.e., it requires instant reading of spin, which is much more important than in slow made-for-TV racquet sports like tennis, quickness, precision, and outstanding reaction time. Reaction time is, of course, highly correlated with IQ, and precision requires tremendous practice and self control. Given the dimensions of the “court” and the paddle, the relatively short limbs and small hands of East Asians are much less of a disadvantage then in, say, basketball or American football, and the other qualities are prototypically East Asian.
Which is why the Austrian delegation flag at these Olympics was carried by a Chinese, a ping-pong player.

* Human biodiversity: the most interesting and essential subject to be constantly and consistently derailed by crude, subjective value judgments. Seriously, Steve: can’t you just enjoy the diversity on display from a purely prurient perspective? In most cases “freakish…odd proportions” don’t negate the raw, native attractiveness that comes from symmetrical bodies, perfectly toned muscles, and the general glow of good health that radiates from these champions. There should be something for everybody at the Olympics, so to my mind Slate’s headline isn’t entirely wrong: it’s depressing that everybody seems to have been trained to want exactly the same thing.

* Female basketball players from other countries tend to be quite a bit better looking than their U.S. counterparts, though gigantism in the taller players doesn’t help. Besides, how many heterosexual women are there on the U.S. National basketball team? Some may not even be women genetically.

The key to winning women’s athletic competitions in highly contested sports (for women) is to field teams with as few feminine and actual females as possible.

* Also, while volleyball and high-jumping favor height, a high center of gravity and light weight are also an advantage. This tends to results in competitors with long legs and gracile builds, producing the classic tall, slender, long-legged volleyball and high-jumper look, which looks more feminine in women.
In basketball, while height reigns supreme, a husky build can be an advantage, or at least less of a disadvantage, particularly in the ground-bound women’s game. Not sure about the center of gravity – Epstein claims that having a higher center of gravity of helps in basketball, but I’m not so sure it’s not confounded with race. Having long legs seems unhelpful in quickly changing direction laterally, a major athletic requirement in basketball, though if you are loaded with fast-twitch fibers as most players of West African origin are, it may be overcome.

Many a tall, white, supremely offensively skilled player could not make it in (or into) the NBA because of the lack of lateral quickness, which is murder on defense, Kyle Wiltjer of Gonzaga being the latest example. On the other hand, the (relatively) short-legged Chinese Jeremy Lin has done just fine, all the anti-East Asian hate notwithstanding.

* Short legs tend to be good for complicated dancing, which is kind of like the skills needed to play good defense in basketball. A tall dancer, like 6’6″ Broadway song and dance man Tommy Tune, is pretty wonderful to watch, but they are rare.

* When I was in high school, the Compton High kids would arrive to compete with us at track meets, and for two years straight, they only had one black kid representing them in the pole vault. Nobody else was interested.

He was a short kid, muscular, and the funny thing was, his pole was way too flexible for his weight. He’d plant his pole, and it would bend like you wouldn’t believe, before sending him up like a freaking sling shot. We said at the time that it was like we were in a Cosby kid cartoon.

He outscored us in the pole vault almost every time, and none of us could believe it. The kid had no technique. No anything. Just a lot of balls, the will to win, and a pole he shouldn’t have been using. On the last day of his last vault, the pole broke on him. He was lucky he wasn’t maimed.

* American gymnasts have always been stockier than their Eastern European and Asian counterparts. People used to complain about Mary Lou Retton’s weight but she would just laugh it off. The generation after her stopped eating. Shannon Miller’s coach bragged that she could train all day on just one baked potato. American gymnasts were routinely experiencing all sorts of horrific injuries that aren’t heard of today.

In 1994 gymnast Christy Henrich died of anorexia and the 1995 book Little Girls in Pretty Boxes exposed eating disorders in gymnastics and figure skating. Reforms were made and by 1996 the US had a well fed gold medal team. I remember gymnasts’ weights being televised but now it is difficult to find the official weight of any female athlete.

* There aren’t any knock-outs in women’s tennis. Sharapova was as good as it got, and you could easily find her level of quality and far beyond, any summer by the Huntington Beach pier.

* “How many heterosexual women are there on the U.S. National basketball team? Some may not even be women genetically.”

It’s uncanny. I think the entire team and certainly the majority of it are out lesbians or clearly lesbians and heavily rumored to be so.

The one I was holding out hope for and thought was fairly attractive adjusting for her 6’5″ height, Elena Delle Donne, just “came out” and is engaged to her female live-in partner. N.B. She dropped out of Geno Auriemma’s UCONN program her freshman year to play volleyball at Delaware before returning to basketball, so the volleyball is more attractive thing may still hold.

Being exceptionally tall and slender with a rectangle build from all the aerobic exercise probably makes them feel less feminine, which in turn keeps them away from social situations and boys.

It’d be interesting to get hand measurements from the WNBA players (and even more interesting to get accurate information on their sexual preference/same sex attraction with which to compare if that was possible). The prevailing belief is that the longer ring finger correlates to high prenatal testosterone in the womb and its evolutionary use is to better throw things accurately (e.g., stones at some animal you wanted to eat or some bad dude from a few huts over), and longer ring fingers on women relative to the index finger correlate with same sex attraction/lesbianism (the reverse is true for men). So maybe in aside from height, ball handling and shooting skills in basketball favor the longer ring finger in both men and women accounting for the very high proportion of lesbians (and rumored lesbians) at the highest levels of women’s basketball (and probably few gay men in the NBA). I did an image search for Delle Donne and sure enough in pictures where one was able to see the relative lengths of her fingers, her ring finger was noticeably longer.

With regard to the perception, I think Gilbert Arenas recently got in trouble for saying “most WNBA players are ugly lesbians” and later Andre Iguodala’s baby mama testified in a custody proceeding that he doesn’t want his daughter to play basketball because it “would turn her into a lesbian.” But more to the point, if you google players’ names usually one of the top results is some lesbian lifestyle site speculating about whether their basketball crush who isn’t officially “out” is a lesbian too but then supporting the conjecture with some pretty persuasive photographic evidence of the player suggestively nuzzling up with other women. It’s such a phenomenon I think over half of the WNBA’s fans have to be lesbians themselves.

It’s modern heresy to ask whether culture or environment can influence sexuality (in spite of ready examples like the British Navy) but I have to wonder if the ether of the WNBA isn’t so tending towards lesbianism that it has some influence, maybe only on those who could be persuaded. “Everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn’t I?” IIRC, Griner seduced another previously “straight” WNBA player and married her before the whole thing blew up in domestic violence arrests. From a practical perspective, exclusive lesbians don’t get pregnant without some real planning and medical intervention, so you’re not interrupting your career and your team’s season to have a baby.

* Mexico the nation of over 125 million people has so far not won a single medal of any type. Mexico punching well below their weight as usual, it’s what they are good at.

You have countries with significantly smaller populations than Mexico that are winning medals right and left.

Mexico has a higher obesity rate than The United States, so that could explain why they do not produce a lot of world class athletes on a per capita basis for a country with a population that large.

* The real college concubines are the recruiting interns that try to convince prospective basketball and football players to attend their university. Andre Tippet played for the New England Patriots for 12 seasons. His daughter is a recruiting intern. Bad Dad.

* Men’s Volleyball has just too much power, it makes rallies much harder. It’s just boom boom boom. People want to see rallies and because women don’t have so much power, you see much more rallies.

* I watched a ton of indoor volleyball games during the 2008 Olympics, probably all of the American women’s and men’s games. Listening to the announcers chatter it quickly became apparent that male coaches use their own women’s volleyball team as their personal dating pool.

The coach of the American men’s team was married to a volleyball player. I don’t know if he coached her but I believe there was an age difference. Her father was the American who was stabbed to death in Beijing and her mother was seriously injured.

In 2013 after Bev Kearney, the former U of Texas women’s track coach, was fired for having an affair with one of her athletes she filed a $1 million lawsuit alleging gender and race discrimination. I wasn’t surprised to read that, “The lawsuit said that UT showed a double standard by punishing Kearney for an inappropriate relationship with a student athlete, but hired former volleyball coach Jim Moore, who married one of his athletes.”

* Depending on the social dynamics of a particular high school, cheerleading can be expensive. Many of the girls probably grew up taking gymnastics and dance lessons. A cash-strapped school districts may charge a few hundred dollars for extracurricular activities. On top of that there are travel fees, uniform costs, and most likely cheerleading camp.

Back to Andre Tippett. He had two daughters before getting married. One of them was a cheerleader for the New England Patriots.

For those of you who listen to financial radio, Ray Lucia’s daughter was a San Diego Chargers cheerleader. After her divorce Ray bought her a dance studio. Her ex-husband is former quarterback Ryan Leaf.

* Soccer players who are really good at dribbling tend to have short legs and long upper bodies.

Different roles on a soccer team tend to be filled with people with different body types.

* Since Nadia Comanechi, who to me was the perfect female gymnast, the minimum age was moved to 16. I’ve run into Mary Lou Retton a few times in person. She looked like a midget you’d find working as a carnie. Nothing elegant about her at all. Just a mean little pitbull midget.

Nadia had the symmetry, proportion, elegance, and power to weight ratio that being 12-16 allows. Seeing her on the floor, without anything nearby to clarify her short stature made her look like a long, slender ethereal tree fairy. It was like Disney created her. Coupled with her technical skill, and the artistic sensibilities of her handlers, nobody has matched her before or since, except Olga Corbett somewhat.

We won’t see another Nadia unless they lower the age requirement. With the increased age requirement, the routines with an artistic flair and elegance is gone with it.

From now on, unless we get some kind of one-in-a-billion genetic freak, get used to the snorting power-midgets.

* I’ve met Mary Lou Retton: she seemed like a nice pitbull, not a mean one.

* Cucky jock-sniffing Republican dads really do enjoy the costly ($50,000 a semester) thrill of having their darling little daughters pumped and dumped, and passed around by the Mandingos of the football or basketball team. After such a vibrant and enriching experience, these girls then go on to enjoy their “sex and drugs and hip hop” gap year. Further experiences include slutty unpaid internships; ten years of riding the big city carousel as they become cubicle drones and middle management concubines; an expensive marriage as they settle down with some poor beta chump; one kid and a half; and finally a ruinous divorce, this time on the other party.

* It’s more like girly girls are attracted to sports where victory comes from an more arbitrary and capricious judging system—i.e. a subjective score— rather than something objective.

Heartiste has pointed out two seemingly contradictory points: beauty is both objective and subjective. The objectiveness is on a macro scale and the subjectivity is on a micro scale—the latter being something referred to in polite company as “taste.”

For example, no man but the brain damaged would deny that a Gisele Bundchen or Farrah Fawcett or Cindy Crawford or a Kathy Ireland or Christie Brinkley in their primes were some of the most beautiful women alive —at the top end of the scale for beauty. That’s objective,. No man would deny those women are infinitely more attractive than, say, Amy Schumer. Every man meeting one of those in-their-prime supermodels in the flesh would have had a visceral, objective reaction of “holy moly, this chick is off the charts hot!!!!”

However, just which one is hotter than the others (in their prime) is entirely subjective, and depends on the man doing the judging. One guy likes Kathy Ireland’s smile, another has a fetish for Charlie’s Angels, another prefers brunettes to blonds, etc.

So ranking those mega-hot supermodels amongst each other is subjective—it’s up to the taste of the individual man. This is why guys can spend literally hours arguing over which of a group of famous beautiful women is the hottest and which they would prefer (a great game that passes the time for guys in the military or dudes on long road trips together).

This is why girly girls prefer the more subjective sports—both to watch and to participate. It’s built into their DNA that, if they are in anyway able to rival another woman, then they should do all the little subjective things that will make others—especially men, but women as well—-like them more. Everyone at the Olympics has to have certain basic objective standards—can they do a double lutz? Can they do a flip on the balance beam?

Uglier/mannish girls never get as close to competing for every man’s attention, so gravitate towards more manly sports where they can at least objectively beat a beauty queen.

But once that objective measure of talent is met, whether a judge likes their routine more—especially at the highest levels, like the Olympics—is 90% based on the judge’s personal preferences, and how well the female participant matched herself up to those preferences. E.g. Did the judges want a more up-tempo routine this time, with lots of bouncing around, or were they more in favor of an elegant routine?

Meanwhile, men’s sports tend to be objective: did the runner touch home plate before the catcher touched him? Did the runner cross the plane of the goal line with the ball? Was the ball released before time expired? etc. Lesbians and manly women are more attracted to these male sports.

Men’s sports therefore are to test objectively who is better. Women’s girly girl sports are to test who can manipulate/know the judges better.

* The USA women’s soccer team seemed pretty lesbian-heavy and they don’t even use their hands for any part of the game.

Women’s team athletics would seem to be an irresistible draw for women who love women. Opportunities for close camaraderie with other women, highly emotional relationships and bonds with women, group travel, segregation from males, etc. It would seem to be a prime avenue for aspiring lesbians to have opportunities to meet and date other women.

I knew a female college soccer player who related that on her team there was a soft butch player who was in the habit of seducing other “straight” girls on the team seriatim. She wrote the girl I knew a letter in what I was told a failed attempt to woo her as well. At a certain point the coaching staff had to step in to diffuse the high level of drama on the team.

* Dramatic improvement in the looks of female golfers? Not in the top ranks of the LPGA, quite the opposite. Ever since someone over there decided U.S. professional golf was something to a$pire to, we’ve been deluged with waves of exceptionally talented South Koreans with the sex appeal of wood blocks.

* It’s like saying that it’s unlikely that the majority of elite theoretical physicists in the U.S. would have been Jewish, given that Jews comprise about 2% of the population. Yes, it’s extremely unlikely, and yet they have been.

As you get farther into the right-hand tail of the distribution for a given ability, people with gifts in that ability will be represented disproportionately more until, in the extreme, they will be the only ones. That’s why the NBA is disproportionately West African more than NCAA, which is disproportionately more so than HS basketball. And that’s why the 2016 All-Stars and Team USA are all black (not counting injury sub Gasol in the former, and light mulatto Klay Thompson in the latter).

That’s Olympic 100M dash finals have been all West African for a long, long time. I believe the only white person who’s broken the 10 second barrier in the 100M, was a Frenchman. There has also been one Asian, and a couple of mixed (with some African) ancestry sprinters that have done so. All them just barely broke it, with times in the high 9.9s There are probably now over a 100 sprinters with West African and 100% of the sub-9.9 times are from those with West African heritage (though they claim that Fredericks of Namibia, which is in Southwest Africa, is not West African – how would you be sure?). See the pattern?

It’s the argument that Larry Summers made about male overrepresentation in elite STEM, to which female academics countered by saying that boys and girls do equally well in math in elementary school, thus proving his point that most of them don’t understand math well enough to be in elite STEM.

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Do We Fight For Values?

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Edward Norman (then Dean of Peterhouse) had attempted to mount a Christian argument for nuclear weapons. The discussion moved on to ‘Western values’. Mrs Thatcher said (in effect) that Norman had shown that the Bomb was necessary for the defence of our values. Powell: ‘No, we do not fight for values. I would fight for this country even if it had a communist government.’ Thatcher (it was just before the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands): ‘Nonsense, Enoch. If I send British troops abroad, it will be to defend our values.’ ‘No, Prime Minister, values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.’ Mrs Thatcher looked utterly baffled. She had just been presented with the difference between Toryism and American Republicanism.
John Casey, ‘The revival of Tory philosophy’, The Spectator, 17 March, 2007.

* It’s why (at least until every high school got a digital model) scoreboards were inscribed:

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It’s why the Olympics have a host nation, and all the other foreign competitors are visitors.

It’s why the accommodations for Olympic competitors are called The International Village and not The Global Multi-Culti Utopian Hangout.

It’s why the gold medalist atop the medalist platform has his national anthem played, instead of “Imagine” or “We Are The World.”

* It is one the sobering facts about the distortions of today’s political culture that the policies of Trump are regarded as potentially regressing us to the rule of Hitler, when plainly they hark back to the time and place of Eisenhower.

On what rational basis can anybody believe that we Americans, adopting nationalism, would behave like Nazis, rather than following the model of nationalism Americans embraced in the past — you know, the one under whose influence we fought and defeated the Nazis as a great moral abomination?

* Few seemed to worry that, say, basketball superstar LeBron James was not really a normal-looking 240-pound 17-year-old.

* In 2014 after the NBA announced it would test for HGH, Lebron James lost a significant amount of weight. He looked closer to how he should have looked in high school. Apparently it took him a few months to find another enhancement that would help him maintain his size and strength.

* I hate the Olympics. I think they’re stupid. I don’t watch them. The entire thing reminds me of some kind of stupid stunt put on in high school by all the kids that are “somebody” — the prom queen, the yearbook editor, the quarterback, etc. They get the approval of the most liberal faculty to spend taxpayer money on something that showcases their narcissism and supposed virtue — like sleeping in cardboard boxes to raise money for the homeless, or having a bake sale for UNICEF, or some such crap. If you’re not one of the ruling clique, they make you out to be morally indecent for not applauding their little self-serving game.

Yes, the Olympics are about nationalism. I remember well when I was a kid during the Cold War the big deal they made out of Communist Bloc vs. “Free World” competition, as if beating the Russians in pole-vaulting signified that capitalism was superior, or something. I remember quite well how Bruce Jenner was the worldwide symbol of American Alpha-male masculinity, and they put him on every Wheaties box. “Eat your Wheaties, kids, and you can grow up to be a REAL MAN like Bruce Jenner!”

Now he’s a transvestite, formerly married to a member of the Kardashian slut-clan, who was formerly married to one of the lawyers who sprang O.J. Simpson for double murder. Yeah, rah-rah America, land of the tattooed and the morbidly obese on disability, the perverts, the weirdos, the trannies, the illegals, and the race-mixers. See how superior we are? “I pledge allegiance/ To the flag/ of the United States of Anal Sodomy…”

Sorry, I’m not buying into any of the Olympic propaganda. It’s all designed to make the fat American slobs jump off their sofas and clap like trained seals at the television. Pah.

* People won’t even watch fencing for nationalist reasons. They streamed some of the matches and there was no one sitting in the audience except for the immediate relatives of the fencers. It’s basically unwatchable – even the refs cannot see the points being scored so they switched to scoring by sensor touch decades ago. What they really need is something high tech like vests that will light up at the touch point so that the spectators can actually tell what is happening. Slow mo instant replays for the audience, etc.

* Apparently, the swimmers in particular have been giving a cold shoulder to the Russians who have had doping violations in the past. The IOC says that these Russians have served out their suspensions and are legal competitors now, but the swimmers feel otherwise and they make no secret of it.

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When Your Masseuse/Alexander Teacher Is A Bloke

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Most of my Alexander teachers have been women but some of them have been blokes, prompting a panic well described in this Seinfeld episode (S3E1). I often have to deal with this panic with some of my bloke students, but they chose me, so we have some laughs and move on.

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I was doing a coconut oil pull this evening while watching Seinfeld (Busboy episode) when I burst out laughing… Oy.

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

I went out to the fridge afterward to calm down and this is what I found on top of my ripening mangoes:

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WP: A 179-pound Ethiopian male Olympic swimmer is being body shamed on the Internet

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Luke Ford

Poor dear.

Washington Post:

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People are being downright unkind to an Ethiopian swimmer, body-shaming him for having what, in one of the more charitable comments, is called a dad bod.

Robel Kiros Habte competed in the men’s 100-meter freestyle heats on Tuesday and finished last in the three-swimmer heat.

Overall, he finished last among the 59 competitors in the eight heats with a time of 1 minute 4.95 seconds. Habte confessed that his personal best was 59.08 seconds; Australia’s Kyle Chalmers won his heat with a time of 47.9 seconds.

Ecadf, an Ethiopian news site, called him “out of shape.” Others coldly called him “Robel the Whale.” Habte is 5 feet 9 and weighs 179 pounds. Chalmers, for instance, is 6-4 and weighs 194.

(Eric “the Eel” Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea completed the 100-meter freestyle in 1:52.72 during the Sydney Games.)

And still others noted that Habte is the, ahem, son of the president of the country’s swimming federation.

Whatever brought him to Rio, the 24-year-old college student was a crowd favorite and was pretty happy just to be there.

“I wanted to do something different for my country, that’s why I chose swimming,” he told Reuters. “Everybody, every day you wake up in Ethiopia, you run. Not swimming. But I didn’t want to run, I wanted to be a swimmer. It didn’t matter where I finished.”

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