Every media portrayal of the KKK that I remember painted it as a horrible organization.
I don’t share this view. What is wrong with people standing up for maintaining sovereignty of the country their ancestors created? The KKK wants to keep WASPs in charge of America. What’s so horrible about that? That they might use violence to further their aims also makes sense because often the only way to maintain sovereignty is through violence. How do you think Israel was established? Jews used violence to establish and defend the Jewish state.
All groups are engaged in a fierce struggle for scarce resources such as land, water, and power. Most Israelis, for instance, wish that all Palestinians disappear. Most Muslims wish that the Jewish state would disappear. What person with the slightest self-awareness does not understand the desire to subjugate your enemies? The KKK aimed to intimidate outside groups so that they would not behave in ways contrary to the interests of WASPs. What’s so shocking?
If you hate your enemies, you naturally want them to disappear. That’s how it has always been in human history. The KKK didn’t invent genocide or even carry it out. It was never a mass murder machine. How many deaths in America can be laid at the feet of the KKK? A few thousand? As many in a century as Muslim terrorists caused on 9/11?
Every thinking person has a KKK approach to life (intimidation and subjugation of their enemies) just under the surface. It doesn’t require heroic efforts of moral imagination to put yourself in their shoes. From the perspective of Palestinians, Jews are poison. From the perspective of Jewish Israelis, Palestinians are poison. From the perspective of groups hurt by the creation of a Jewish state, Jews are poison. From the perspective of groups hurt by Muslims, Muslims are poison. From the perspective of Tibetans, Chinese are poison. From the perspective of the Chinese, the Japanese are poison. From the perspective of the aborigines, white Australia is poison.
“We need a new lexicon in Hebrew and so we need to add ‘Jewish terror’ to the dictionary,” Ami Ayalon, the director of the Shin Bet from 1996 to 2000, says in a deliberate manner, choosing each word carefully.
He has a baritone voice and a clear passion for this issue. “Maybe, maybe, maybe, the murder last week will wake us up to the fact that it is not a hate crime, it is not ‘wild weeds,’ it is terror and it is Jewish terror. It seeks to change the government,” he says, referring to the killing of Ali Dawabsha in the Palestinian village of Duma.
Since the burning of the Dawabsha home and an adjoining residence on the night of July 30, Israeli society has been convulsed by internal soul-searching.
In an impassioned speech to thousands in Tel Aviv, Nasser Dawabsha described the burning of his sister-in-law’s home.
“My brother Sa’ed and his wife Riham caught on fire. Despite the burns, Sa’ed carried his four-year-old son Ahmed outside the house. Riham grabbed a blanket, she thought that the child Ali was in the blanket. But they learned the child wasn’t in the blanket.”
He recalled her crying, “‘Where is Ali?’” He called on the IDF to find the killers, and for the Palestinian people to “get our freedom.”
Duma sits on a ridgeline about 15 kilometers southeast of Nablus near Route 458. In more pleasant times one might enjoy the view here over the pastoral hills that lead down to the Jordan Valley.
Now the village displays large posters with the picture of murdered Ali.
Last Saturday, protesters clashed with Israeli police and soldiers on the road leading to the village. Tear gas was fired, the empty canisters littering the road.
The sign to the village had been covered partly with a poster of Ali.
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki announced that the PA would file suit with the International Criminal Court about this murder and what the PA said were more than 120 attacks by Israeli Jews on Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israeli society came together last week to condemn both the attack in Duma and the stabbing attack at the Gay Pride Parade on July 30. Shira Banki, 16, died of her wounds Sunday after the attack.
“The flames are spreading in our land, flames of violence, hatred and of false, distorted and twisted beliefs,” President Reuven Rivlin said to a large crowd gathered in Jerusalem rallying against violence.
But how to confront those responsible is not clear.
Jerusalem Report 2014: Ku Klux Klan faction offers membership to Jews and other minorities
A faction of the Christian-terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), will now open its membership to Jews, African Americans, Hispanics and gay people.
The notoriously racist white-supremacist group has decided to undergo a re-branding to expand its reach and mission. They will leave behind their legacy of burning crosses, lynching African Americans and committing other horrific racist attacks.
The new, more expansive group, known as “The Rocky Mountain Knights,” is meant to be a subsection of the KKK, based in Montana in the United States.
John Albarr, a KKK member from Great Falls, Montana, spearheaded the re-branding effort after reportedly having discussions with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His goal is that the new group will help to create a stronger and better America.
“White supremacy is the old Klan. This is the new Klan,” Albarr said, adding: “It thought it was a really good organization. I don’t feel we need to be separate.”
Despite this supposed re-branding, all members of Albarr’s “Rocky Mountain Knights” will have to wear the KKK’s traditional white robes, masks, and pointed hats– a uniform that historically conjured images of hate, persecution and terror.
It is unclear how many members this new sect of the KKK has.
In 2011, Abarr attempted to run for the Montana seat in the US House of Representatives as a Republican, with the goal of “saving the White race” on his manifesto. As a result, Albarr was denounced by other mainstream Republicans for his racist attitudes and political views.
The KKK is a protestant Christian organization considered to have an extreme right-wing political stance. It is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League.
When the KKK was first founded in 1865, after the American Civil War, they called for the purification of society and the elimination of non-white races.
Doesn’t every exclusive group look down on outsiders and maintain strong barriers against them?
Every victimhood contains a nationalism and every nationalism contains the capacity for genocide.
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* What a terrific reveal of the thinking of young asian-americans! Their voting patterns certainly suggested as much, but it’s becoming pretty clear that asians hate Whites even more than NAMs, but given their higher IQs (relative to NAMs) are much more classy about it. And of course they have swank degrees from cool schools to camouflage everything. This Chang guy’s fantasy world involves butchering Whites on a mass scale. Fantastic. He’s little different from the Korean guy with that Gagnam Style song a couple of years back who couldn’t say enough bad things about the US. The buggers jsut hate us Whites a lot. Could it be that too many American servicemen took too many liberties with these guys’ mothers and grandmothers on the Peninsula in the last 65 years. The Jews have their ancient grudges involving “exclusive” golf courses. At least the Koreans’ seems a little more understandable.
So much for Derbyshire’s alliance of the “Ice People”.
That’s why Steve’s coalition of the fringes argument isn’t very good. What unifies all non-Whites is their hatred of Whites. Asians hate us Whites a lot more than they fear AA or Blacks “dating” their daughters.
* You can tell this is a snow job by the fact that he lists a bunch of “boring” baseball superstars without mentioning the counterexample of Bryce Harper, the white Mormon reigning MVP with a highly colorful personality who is the biggest star in the game right now.
* Kang wrote probably the worst bit of Millennial* navel-gazing in this article that is ostensibly “about” Ichiro:
As a Mariners fan who liked Bill Simmons, I was excited that Grantland was doing a feature on Ichiro, but then bummed to find out that it was a feature on Jay Caspian Kang.
*I am a Millennial, so I’m free to gripe about this.
* Suppose I migrated to Asia or Africa and complained about the unbearable dominant human color in either place because it ia what it is – though changing for sure – in the U.S. and Europe – but not fast enough? The New York Times and mainstream media generally are owned and operated by whom and with what agendas? Is “white” in the way of those recently come to considerable power in the West? In the way of what? These are questions that should be asked openly and answered truthfully. Why aren’t they? Bad for business? Whose business? What if I migrated to “Israel” – or would I not be allowed? Why not? I pay taxes to help support that country. These are valid questions, are they not?
* “Mauer has probably made 10-15 times more money in baseball than he would have in the NFL.”
There are so many factors that make this true:
1. Baseball careers last longer, due both to injuries and the fact that skill is more important than pure athleticism.
2. Baseball has 10 times as many games in a season, which means way more tickets and hours of live TV programming to sell.
3. Baseball’s players’ union is stronger, because the players are not as desperate for an immediate payday and can wait out a strike, as compared to NBA and NFL players, for demographic reasons.
4. In fact factors 1 and 2 compound into factor 3 because they know most of them can look forward to a few more years of paychecks.
5. Baseball you can start making money right out of high school. NFL you have to be three years out.
* That CBS article mentions that MLB has the most minority managers.
It should be pointed out that baseball is the major sport where the head coach has the least impact on outcomes. MLB teams can take a flier on a well-liked guy who is kind of a flake, like Ron Washington. But football coaches have to be Belichek/Saban types, because that’s the only way you can win.
* Vladimir Guerrero got his big payday in 2004 from the SoCal Angels owner Arte Moreno, the billboard king who is a genuine self-made Mexican American billionaire (the only one, last I checked). Moreno pays a lot for Spanish-speaking superstars like Albert Pujols — part of his strategy is to win away the Los Angeles Dodgers Mexican-American fanbase.
One problem with Moreno’s strategy, however, is that the best Spanish-speaking ballplayers tend to be part-black Caribbeans like Guerrero and Pujols rather than mestizo Mexicans. The Dodgers cemented their hold on Mexican-Americans back in the 1980s with Fernando Valenzuela, a tubby but heroic highly Indio Mexican pitcher. They also got a few years out of East L.A. product Nomar Garciaparra, and now they have a solid first baseman in Adrian Gonzalez, a Mexican-American born in California. So the Dodgers still have done better at representing Mexican-Americans so far.
* The problem with a baseball career is you have to have specific skills rather than just all around athletic talent. For example Toby Gerhart, the runner up for the Heisman in 2009, was a decent college baseball player at Stanford, but his college batting statistics suggested he just wouldn’t get his bat on the ball at the major league level often enough to make use of his strength and speed. So he went to the NFL and backed up Adrian Peterson at running back.
* One thing he overlooks is virtually all umpires are white.
Umpires can play with the outcome of a game, like the 2011 world series when they refused to strike out Cardinals players until they scored a hit.
* Ta-Nehisi Coates made the front page of the Boston Globe today…for guest writing a comic book.
Let me just say that Coates isn’t doing anything new; many “nerdy” celebrities have guest-written a comic book for a while. Kevin Smith was a big one who did a Batman and a Green Arrow, but others have as well. It’s a gimmick marketing ploy and produces the typical subpar fair you’d expect when a celebrity in one field is given creative control in another field simply for the celebrity name value.
Normally, such a gimmick is given little publicity, since it’s largely cheap attention-whoring, like having hot chicks work your booth at a comic convention. But Coates gets front page of the Boston Globe, a paper he doesn’t write for, and an alleged “serious” paper than just had an Oscar-winning movie made about its “work” (Spotlight).
Man, to be black and whiny and to know the right people….
Too bad that still won’t make him any less of a disappointment and embarrassment to his father.
* So, basically, he figured out that no one much cares about an Asian man writing about his inner turmoil over his “Asianness,” unless he masks it with a lot of faux concern about Blacks….
* Or, perhaps the market incentives in the American media merely encourage ambitious Asian-American verbalists like Seoul Brother #1 to dwell publicly on how much they hate whites as a way to justify rule by the Coalition of the Fringes?
* While in high school college football recruiters were salivating over the prospect of Alex Rodriguez as a college qb. He was said to have a cannon arm. Instead he opted for baseball. The steroid controversy notwithstanding, he clearly made the right choice.
* Baseball isn’t nearly as punishing on the body as football, so baseball players tend to play longer. I remember thinking at the time Bo Jackson was crazy for playing both football and baseball instead of just the latter, and sure enough, after just four years he was seriously injured playing football. He did manage to play baseball for a few more years, but I’ll bet even with all the extra look-he-plays-both-sports endorsement money whether he would have been better off financially (not to mention physically) just playing baseball.
* As a baseball player on the major league level, Michael Jordan was a total bust. Ted Williams once said that the single most difficult act in sports is to make solid contact with a round bat on a round ball being thrown with “movement” at between 90 and 100 mph. Notwithstanding that he may have been the greatest hitter who ever lived, even Williams was successful only 34% of the time. In terms of skill sets, basketball, football and hockey simply pale in comparison.
* The talk about baseball ratings skewing white male is not a bad thing for baseball economics.
Blacks and hispanics have less money, watch more TV, and watch even more commercials by being less likely to have commercial avoiding techs and premium channels. Those factors combined make the attention of a white male to an advertiser about 5 times more valuable than a black or hispanic male.
* The fact that the NYT even published this article shows its low quality (in absolute terms… I know it’s still high-quality relative to the abysmal quality of most publications). In my ideal world, the editor would have called Kang up and said “You know Guerrero has chosen to never learn English, right? Do you really think anyone but Guerrero is to blame for his lack of fame in the US? If you send me another garbage pieve like this then you will never see one word of yours published in the NYT. You understand me, son?”
* I don’t think I’ve ever read a newspaper column or op-ed piece by a Korean-American journalist that wasn’t all about castigating whitey for his “racism” and trying to suck up to blacks. Korean-American journalists must win the prize for having the most boringly limited repertoire of any writers. Even black journalists exhibit more variety in their subject matter.
* Several NFL QBs like Russell Wilson and Brandon Weeden tried to play baseball and couldn’t get out of the minor leagues.
* Basketball is a close second, but basketball players still have to coordinate their actions during the game in a way that baseball players don’t. Baseball really is a mostly individual sport masquerading as a team sport. That’s why the baseball All-Star Game is, apart from all of the substitutions, played basically the same way as a regular game, while the NBA All-Star Game bears almost no resemblance to normal basketball, and the NFL Pro Bowl even less so.
The season prior to Kerr’s arrival with the Warriors, they had basically the same personnel and won 62% of their games. Since he was hired, they’ve won 85% of the time and will probably have two championships in two years. It shouldn’t be counted against Kerr that the system he put in place works so well that his assistant could run it to perfection during his absence. Plus there’s no way to know whether Luke Walton might be a great coach in his own right.
* Danny Ainge was at one time a two-sport guy, but couldn’t manage to achieve an acceptable MLB batting average. One story indicated that he was encouraged to leave the Toronto Blue Jays by an unusual message. It seems that there may have been a basketball thrown from the stands toward him in the outfield to suggest full-time relocation to the NBA. O, Canada.
* Turgid prose completely disconnected from reality? Check. Oh so serious attitude about an oh so serious subject? Check. I predict this young man will go far. But not far enough to suit me.
* Coach [Steve] Kerr comes from a family of WASP Arabists who helped found the premiere educational institution in the Middle East, the American University of Beirut. When I was at UCLA in the early 1980s, his father Malcolm Kerr had a nice job as UCLA’s Vice-Chancellor. But then Dr. Kerr quit to go back to Beirut in the middle of the civil war to rebuild the American University. He was assassinated there by some terrorist in 1984.
* It is sort of interesting that we are forever being told of the impending hispanic surge in America as they are ratcheting up their percentage of the population. They have now grown to 20 percent of the population and are possibly headed to 50%. The one game hispanics seem to participate in proportion to their numbers is baseball. Whether baseball embraces its hispanic stars or not, at least baseball has hispanic stars. Football and basketball have very, very few hispanic stars.
If anything baseball is diverse and more accurately represents the US population. Football and especially basketball do not.
BTW baseball does try to attract hispanics. Each year my local team has a special Viva Los Royals night that caters to our hispanic community. They also have a Los Royals website that is written in Spanish.
Football and basketball might be more popular at the moment, but baseball seems to have the demographics behind it. If the US is going to become part of Latin America it would appear that baseball and soccer are going to be the big games.
Maybe tomorrow the NYT can do a story about how football and basketball need to identify and nurture young hispanic talent so as to better diversify. But like you have pointed out before, the liberals only seem to be interested in uplifting blacks. Hispanics don’t really matter except for their potential at the ballot box. And as we’ve been told, they’ve been a great disappointment consistently punching below their weight.
* Asians are copiers. The overwhelming social dynamic in America in media and education (at all levels) is the SJW. Americanized Asians, hence, become SJWs. And since they have little religion, their religious impulses go towards Social Justice, which coincides PERFECTLY with their real religion, which is status climbing.
Chinese, Indians, Koreans — they are all insufferable when they get the SJW bug.
* Take out the Asian thing for a moment. He went to Bowdoin and then MFA from Columbia. How high is the chance that he is an assimilationist (citizenist, in your phrasing) conservative? He could be a white male with those credentials, and the chance of him being a self-loathing (in rhetoric, in anyway) SJW is pretty high.
Of course, posting something like this is a dog whistle move of sorts – it riles up the white nationalists: “See, yellows hate whites too!”
In reality, residential and marriage patterns show that, far from hating whites, most Asians are quite comfortable living next to, and marrying, whites.
I will concede this one point – the likes of Kang are certainly an indication that the universities are engines of indoctrinating the relatively ideologically naïve Asians into ersatz white SJWs… because I am pretty certain that the parents of the same are not.
* Unbearable straightness of professional sports
Unbearable gayness of the fashion industry
Unbearable Jewishness of Hollywood
The possibilities of this approach are endless…
* Where are the screams for diversity in the Korean Baseball Organization or the Nippon Baseball league? Koreans are probably some of the most racist/xenophobic people on the planet. I have no problem with that, but just shut the hell up when you come to the US. Funny how he keeps a Caucasian name as well.
* Baseball is actually more reflective of American demographics because 80% of Dominicans – a huge chunk of the Latino cohort – are in fact black, by conventional judgement of race. But don’t tell Dominicans that they are black. No, they are pure blooded criollos of ancient Castilian stock, at least that is what they tell themselves.
* Friend: “At least Sanders and Trump are honest.”
Luke: “I don’t think Trump is particularly honest.”
Friend: “He’s basically honest.”
Luke: “As honest as my invoices.”
* Dermatology is the best medical specialty, because your patients never die and they never get well. You just keep prescribing ointments.
* There seem to be more and more Muslims in full regalia around West LA. Every day at the Century City mall is Sharia Day.
* “Goy: In that book, Submission, by Houellebecq, the protagonist, a French Lit professor in full decadent mode, says that he has heard that middle eastern women wear all black and hijabs and burquas in public and then come home and put on six piece lingerie and heels and wax etc etc. whereas western women put on sexy heels for work and then come home and put on sweatpants and burp in front of their husbands. Seems true.”
* How many people who follow my posts are clinically insane? One in three?
* Most people who want to convert to Judaism are insane. The rabbis know this and reject 99% of them.
* Does your husband ever make you wear a hijab around the house?
* Ever made your woman wear a hijab to honor our multiculti society? And because you love the Prophet?
* Apparently the direct approach works best on Tinder; “Wanna smash?” Goyim! At least I have Torah.
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When I see somebody’s use of themselves, I’m looking at how they talk to themselves. Unnecessary compression results from a punitive attitude to the self. I rarely find someone with terrible use who’s at ease with himself and I rarely find someone with good use who hates himself.
Take someone who complains of tight shoulders. What’s going on is that they are subconsciously tightening their shoulders. But what’s underneath that unnecessary tightening? I bet a punitive attitude to the self, a feeling that I am not good enough, that I need to make myself smaller so others won’t hurt me.
Another client might discover that he unconsciously tilts his head to the right. That feels normal to him. He goes through life with a weird tilt while he feels like he’s straight. So what is going on underneath that unnecessary compression that’s pulling him to the right? It may well reflect strain in his self-talk.
When people are happy, they are at their most buoyant. When depressed, they are pulled down.
Comments from other Alexander teachers:
* Emotional shields, makes people feel safer.
* This not only true some of the time, it is always the case. We address habits of mind along with all other habits of use, don’t we? How can it be otherwise?
* I agree wholeheartedly, Luke. And the ‘wholeheartedly’ is important, too, because it’s not necessarily when we can release/cease the unhelpful self-beliefs that we begin to flow better in our self, but when we simply drop the judgements about having the beliefs in the first place; giving ourself our whole-heart. I work in both arenas as one all the time now.
* You can’t address someone’s posture without addressing their emotional state. And many postural habits make people feel emotionally safer, and that need to feel safe needs to be respected.
* Luke, I mused and mulled more over what you say in your first post, and find it very interesting, and worth while to ask the questions you ask. It is a bit like me asking myself – and others sometimes – what I am really up to when I am doing something. What am I really up to right now, pulling my shoulders up and typing on that keyboard? I mean, apart from typing, pulling up my shoulders, and responding to your post, what am I really up to? And I find that I am in a desperate hurry to get my word in! Hence the pulling up of shoulders…. Your questions are definitely worth asking and considering.
* The Law of Correspondence was a statement that the inner and the outer are reflections of one another. But like musical notes, the same tone played in a different moment, or with different companion notes, could be part of a different effect. Having feelings is not an imperfection.
In my early forties, I decided I wanted to experience a form of body therapy known as structural integration (or, more popularly, “Rolfing,” after the originator of the method, Ida Rolf). This process involves deep massage and manipulation of the muscle fasciae to realign the body in more appropriate relation to gravity, to correct imbalances caused by entrenched muscular contractions, and to open areas of blocked feeling and energy. When treatment is successful, it leads to a general freeing up of the capacity to feel, greater awareness of and sensitivity to one’s own physical processes, improved overall coordination, superior balance, and increased energy. Not everyone gains these benefits to the same degree (or at all), but for me it was very much the right treatment at the right time in my development. I felt lighter than I had in years. I experienced a general deepening of self-awareness. I felt freer emotionally. I felt as if walls within myself had dissolved. And I had more energy. I was not surprised that I felt better. What did surprise me-what I was completely unprepared for was the change in my perceptiveness concerning other people.
During this period I was leading a number of psychotherapy groups, and my clients volunteered that they could notice changes in me week by week as the Rolfing progressed. I had had very little formal training in working with the body in psychotherapy, yet I found I was now able to “read” bodies to a new and astonishing degree. Slight changes in facial expression or eye movements, shifts of posture, subtle variations in ways of standing or sitting, changes of skin color, alterations in breathing patterns all suddenly seemed to convey volumes of information to me as clearly as articulate speech. It was as if, in becoming more transparent to myself, I had shifted to a space that allowed others to become more transparent to me.
* [When we look at someone at peace] we see eyes that are alert, bright, and lively; a face that is relaxed and (barring illness) tends to exhibit natural color and good skin vibrancy; a chin that is held naturally and in alignment with one’s body; and a relaxed jaw.
We see shoulders relaxed yet erect; hands that tend to be relaxed and graceful; arms that tend to hang in an easy, natural way; a posture that tends to be unstrained, erect, well-balanced; a walk that tends to be purposeful (without being aggressive and overbearing).
We hear a voice that tends to be modulated with an intensity appropriate to the situation and with clear pronunciation.
Notice that the theme of relaxation occurs again and again. Relaxation implies that we are not hiding from ourselves and are not at war with who we are. Chronic tension conveys a message of some form of internal split, some form of self-avoidance or self-repudiation, some aspect of the self being disowned or held on a very tight leash.
* We deny and disown our emotions when we (1) avoid awareness of their reality, (2) constrict our breathing and tighten our muscles to cut off or numb feeling, and (3) disassociate ourselves from our own experience (in which state we are often unable to recognize our feelings).
I don’t find George Will and Charles Krauthammer profound, nor such publications as the Wall Street Journal and National Review, while Paul Johnson and Tom Sowell are hit and miss. Important intellectuals in my view include Steve Sailer, Paul Gottfried, and Christopher Caldwell. In my view, these dissident right intellectuals overwhelm the conservatives.
I love this bit from a book review today by Paul Gottfried: “…he suggests the hatred directed towards the Dissident Right is motivated by fear of the intellectual threat we represent.” Bingo!
Paul Gottfried writes: Dr. George Hawley, [Email him] an assistant professor at the University of Alabama, has provided a badly-needed public service by producing Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism. Hawley’s work, published by an outstanding press for American studies at the University of Kansas, should bring him much deserved attention….
Hawley in contrast devotes respectful attention to his subjects’ scholarship, which leaves the impression that he is truly struck by the force of their ideas. He even explores my sometimes (alas) abstruse tracts on German political thought and devotes considerable space to Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and other mentors of the European New Right and its American disciples. In short, he suggests the hatred directed towards the Dissident Right is motivated by fear of the intellectual threat we represent.
My views have changed since then. I now think the paleos were largely a new movement of the Right born of a lost cause, trying to counter the rise of neoconservatives to a position of control over the Conservative Movement. But though the paleos gave it their best shot, they went nowhere as a counterforce after the defeat of Pat Buchanan’s briefly successful presidential runs in 1992, 1996, and 2000.
Hawley ascribes the view that “paleoconservatism is no longer a meaningful force in the United States’’ to me, and I won’t deny it. He says there are two reasons for paleoconservatism’s eclipse: first, the passing of the generation that identified with it and its defeat in trying to take back the movement; and second, the changing social and cultural face of America, which would be even less receptive to paleoconservatives than were the 1980s.
But that doesn’t mean the fight against Conservatism Inc. (and its neoconservative masters) is over. Both Hawley and I have discerned a new populist Right emerging, which focuses on the high costs of mass immigration and capitalizes on growing popular resentment against Leftist elites.
VDARE.com is obviously a part of this emerging political force. Peter Brimelow and VDARE.com are cited and Peter is singled out (not unfavorably) for his “scathing attacks on American immigration policy.” As a result, we are told, Peter “is no longer published in mainstream venues.”
Three other contributors to VDARE.com who have at least four pages lavished on them in Hawley’s study are: Steve Sailer, for his daring commentaries on sociobiology; John Derbyshire for his examinations of IQ differences and their effect on human behavior and professional achievements; and, well, me, for my studies on European political thought and for being a long-lived nuisance to the neocons. To his credit, Hawley reviews the purge of John Derbyshire by the shameful National Review with sympathy.
Donald Trump in the United States and the National Front in France are two examples of the emerging populist political force—sometimes called “National Conservatism.” In the present historical circumstances, a coalition of the dispossessed, built on the white working class is probably the best the Right can hope for. Hawley is already at work on a sequel dealing with this alternative, populist Right. From having seen his prospectus, I expect it to be entirely on target.
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Traditional Orthodox Jews usually avoid shaking hands with women (or any touching of women who aren’t family).
Not only the traditional Jew and Muslim are worthy of respect, but so are the norms of the nations, which insist on such hand shaking. If you won’t shake hands with your teacher, perhaps you shouldn’t live in Switzerland? Or perhaps you shouldn’t go to public school? You should go to your own kind of school. That way these questions won’t come up so much.
Awake Goy says: “It does seem like getting Israel established sorta changed the game. For some reason, I’d feel much more inclined to sympathize with Jews if they were truly wandering and homeless upon the earth. But it’s not that way now. I guess it’s still a silly question though to say, to you or to other Jews, why do you remain in Babylon?–why not go to the holy land?”
It’s widespread practice for schoolchildren in Switzerland to shake the hands of their teacher at the beginning and end of each day. Now, one school’s decision to exempt two children from this tradition – because the children are Muslim and their teacher is a woman – has caused a storm of controversy across the European state.
The two pupils at the school in the town of Therwil, near Basel, had requested an exemption from shaking a female teacher’s hand, citing their belief that it would go against Islamic teachings. The local school district later came up with what they felt was an acceptable compromise that could avoid discrimination: The pupils, who are age 14 and 15, would not be required to shake any teachers’ hands, whether they were male or female.
However, the plan hit a hitch when the Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper reported on it, sparking a public debate about the compromise. “We cannot accept this in the name of religious freedom,” Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said in an interview with Swiss-German broadcaster SRF. “The handshake is part of our culture.”
Others agreed. “Today’s it’s the handshake, and what will it be tomorrow?” Felix Mueri, a member of the anti-immigration Swiss People’s Party and head of the Swiss parliament’s education commission, said in an interview with the 20 Minuten news site.
Both the Swiss Teacher’s Union and the local Therwil council have also come out against the plan. However, the school itself has defended the decision, despite the controversy. “They are no longer allowed to shake the hand of any teacher, male or female,” headmaster Jurg Lauener told SRF. “For us, that addresses the question of discrimination.”
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* He is not a flake. All you have to do is look at his wife, or wives, and his kids. The kids seem well adjusted. The wives have been pretty sharp and attractive ladies. Just because one has money doesn’t mean he gets the nicest girl. Just look at Jeb!
Trump is also a successful businessman who has the support of guys like Icahn. He wouldn’t get that support if he were a flake.
The reason you think he is a flake is because he has been under the microscope for 9 months. Not only that, but he has been under a hostile microscope. Think about how your perception of Trump would be if he were treated like the media treated Obama. Every hour of every day, every time he speaks, the media is out for that gotcha moment on Trump. That is a lot of pressure that I don’t t think many of us could handle.
The fact that Trump has not had a nervous breakdown is quite telling. He travels non-stop, sleeps 4 hours per night and almost never gives guarded answers. If anything that is his problem. He doesn’t know when to pipe down. But I suppose he is learning. From his Hannity interview last night I think he realizes the last couple of weeks were tough and that he contributed to it.
So no I don’t think he is a flake. He is just a guy who has undergone more attacks than any other politician in recent memory. From his own party, the democrats, the president, the loons in the British parliament and even the pope, who hasn’t attacked him? And he is still in first place and hasn’t lost his mind yet!
* BW: And why did Lincoln succeed? Thought about that at all?
DT: Well, I think Lincoln succeeded for numerous reasons. He was a man who was of great intelligence, which most presidents would be. But he was a man of great intelligence, but he was also a man that did something that was a very vital thing to do at that time. Ten years before or 20 years before, what he was doing would never have even been thought possible. So he did something that was a very important thing to do, and especially at that time. And Nixon failed, I think to a certain extent, because of his personality. You know? It was just that personality. Very severe, very exclusive. In other words, people couldn’t come in. And people didn’t like him. I mean, people didn’t like him.
* Trump is his own worst enemy but I’m not seeing any other option for change.
The Republicans are intent on Hispanic outreach but how, exactly, do they achieve this without going the racial bribes route? If Trump loses the powers that be will treat that as a voter repudiation of his agenda and they’ll feel empowered to go full steam ahead with amnesty and other racial bribes which they think will work to bring in Hispanics.
Also repudiated is white identity as a basis for a political movement. What follows is the racial bribes business comes at the expense of whites, in a who, whom contest.
Everyday I wish there was a candidate other than Trump who was positioned with his popularity, independence and positions, but there isn’t and because Trump’s candidacy is such a black swan event, I can’t see a path forward for a more typical politician who will have to depend on funding in order to get air time, so institutional interests are always going to be favored.
It’s Trump or bust. There is no upside to any other candidate and society is going to have to be more destabilized before institutional interests can be brought around to some of Trump’s policies. I saw a report today that 70% of voters supported the Muslim ban. Trump is the only one who is independent enough to actually dare put something like that in place.
Trump may well flake if he gets into office, but that’s a better outcome than not getting into office, for his defeat repudiates his policies, while his reneging on the policies doesn’t undermine their validity and appeal, the reneging simply becomes a reflection of Trump, the man, not the policy agenda he ran on.
* Never underestimate the stupidity of the average Republican. They voted for Ford over Reagan in ’76. 40% voted for Bush over Reagan in 1980. And they nominated:
– Bush in ’88
-Dole in ’96
-McCain in ’08
-Romney in ’12
And about 40% wanted McCain in 2000 ’cause Bush II was too ‘radical’ for them. Seriously, about 40% of Republicans are status quo, don’t rock the boat, everything’s fine, let’s just cut the capital gains tax and pray to Jesus dimwits.
Take away Reagan and you’re looking at the party of Nixon and 50 years of failure. And loving it.
* This is the first time I can remember a political party trying to damage their own leading candidate. It is not that they are backing someone else, that has happened before, but they are trying to damage Trump. They want him to lose, if he wins the nomination. Their criticism is relentless and is having an effect. I hear people questionong Trump’s conservatism. These were Bush voters. Well I would not vote for Cruz in the general. He reminds me of a tent preacher and he is just as phony. He is a complete fraud on immigration and his recent paean to NATO, an utter waste of money designed to give generals a good tour of duty in Europe, was the kind of robotic thinking that has walked America to the edge of a cliff. Trump was right, although it might have been better to simply ask why are we paying money to defend a wealthy Europe from …a Soviet tank attack?
* Trump’s bravado; his showiness, vindictiveness, self-aggrandizement, etc doesn’t play very well in the upper Midwest or Mormon territories.
* If the Establishment plays the long game, they challenge Trump brutally during the primaries, but avoid stealing his nomination outright. Disaffected Establishment Republicans, Neocons and 4 months of media onslaught from the New York Times to Fox News, The National Review and The Wall Street Journal would defeat Trump without destroying the system. Then the Republican Establishment can say that they gave the new realignment a chance and it failed miserably.
If the Establishment tries to run Paul Ryan at the convention, it seems like a high risk strategy with little potential pay-off and a high degree of downside if Trump voters abandon the Republican Party. If you view the political parties first and foremost as businesses, the Republican Party will have to assume low revenues in 2016 in order to reap the benefits after the Trump campaign. A Hillary Presidency would likely be great for fundraising, but have little downside in terms of policy for the Republican Establishment. Of course, it is quite possible that the Republican Party cannot think that far ahead and will spite its future prospects just to maintain the gravy train in 2016.
* If you can, watch a rerun of last night’s (4Apr16) Hannity show on Fox. Trump was on the full hour. He acknowledged he should not have tweeted out that stuff that caused the big distraction over the past two weeks. His wife was on as well and she said Donald’s problem is he tweets too much and she wants to keep him off twitter.
I took this to mean that Trump and his wife know that he hosed things up with his impulsiveness. Hopefully he learns and focuses in on NY. Trump thrives off winning. It juices him up. And NY is the next battle and he stands to win big. Hopefully he will regain his mojo.
* Everyone else has a personality like drying paint, so they’re not going to get coverage. Trump is newsworthy in his own right and so gets coverage one way or the other, the problem is that Trump is shooting himself in the foot so damn often that the coverage he was going to get anyway gets diverted onto his cock-ups.
It’s these screw-ups which are playing a large part in alienating people who could/should vote for him. There are, essentially, two groups of opponents, those who disagree with what he’s saying and those who think he’s unfit for office. He could address the concerns of the latter group by showing that he can, indeed, master the nuance of policy. I was cutting him a lot of slack, I figured that he was bombastic in the beginning in order to clear the field, that this way buying him time to go deep on policy, to build up the campaign staff, and that we’d see a more in-depth Trump, but my patience is running thin.
People ragged on Palin but I defended her because I had actually seen her demonstrate mastery on Alaska’s energy politics, so I knew she could go deep on policy and perform her job and once schooled on other topics could do the same. I’m not seeing even unschooled Palin, winging it, kind of policy mastery from Trump. In the tread on Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos someone posted a video of her giving a presentation and the buzzwords were flying and that’s what I’m seeing from Trump. I’d bet that there are hundreds of us in the Steve-o-sphere who could take his issues and clean the clocks of opponents who challenged his positions but Trump isn’t doing that.
Trump is going to get covered because he has a big personality and he’s engaging. He’d be doing us all a favor if that coverage was focused on substance rather than tweeting pictures of Cruz’s wife or alienating the pro-life crowd. Talk more about disbanding NATO. Show us that there is some damn thought behind the idea. Let’s talk about what a post-NATO world would look like. That’ll get lots of coverage. Talk about SCOTUS precedent for the Executive banning people from entering/immigrating to the US due to ideological positions and then make the case that Islam, religion of any kind, is simply a subset of a larger category we call ideology. Explain why the freedoms we extend to religion within the US do not have to be extended to people outside of our borders. I guarantee you that Trump talking about any of that is going to stir up controversy and will get lots of coverage but it will recast him to be a more substantive man instead of a boor.
* His failure to fund a serious ground game in the fly over states hurt him badly – all because he’s a cheap ass, his failure to address certain issues in some degree of specificity in public in a non flip flop manner like H1-B visa workers. In one debate he said he supported bringing in more H1-B workers then said the opposite afterwards.
I suspect he doesn’t listen to his advisers much or even read his position papers.
His rallies are all the same, he gives a generic rah, rah speech with next to zero specifics. It’s not bad, but with no ground game and ad campaign to follow it up, it fails to bring him the wins he needs.
His interviews aren’t much better, broad generalities and no specifics on much of anything. It’s not a confidence builder at all.
And what the hell was he doing even talking to Chris Matthews anyways. Was Trump taking his stupid pills or something? Mr. Tingly hates Trump and ambushed him good. And abortion is a serious hot button issue and he blew it. Even Roger Stone said as much in a polite manner.
And yeah on delegate selection he’s totally blown it. He let Cruz carve him up on this. I guess he couldn’t be bothered to hire the talent and invest the resource to make sure delegate flipping didn’t happen.
He’s so desperate for free PR he goes on every two bit radio or tv talk show he can find. All it does it bite him.
All these little wounds add up.
One other thing, He needs to show a more presidential persona in his rallies and selected interviews, he needs to tone down the rah, rah stuff and start talking like a statesmen. It really does impress a lot of people when it’s done right.
* The women in my family find Cruz repulsive and reptilian. These are GOP voters. I see what they mean. He looks in-bred to me. Every time he speaks I expect him to take a banjo out and begin playing the theme from Deliverance.
* I think it’s pretty obvious that, because Cruz is running against The Demon Trump, he is profiting from a premature Strange New Respect. Should he ever become the favorite, the powers-that-be will savage him every bit as much as Trump, and, I expect, he will crash and burn twice as fast.
* In the GOP civil war Cruz just had his Chickamauga, his last hurrah before a long, grueling and exhausting campaign that will end in what in hindsight will have been seen an inevitable defeat(just like the real Civil War). There are simply no states coming that are favorable to him, save New Mexico perhaps, and in recent polls in some of them he is trailing 20-30 points.
The worst part for Cruz is, that unlike the Civil War for the South, this campaign was actually winnable for him. Right from the begining it was obvious to everyone except GOPe (not for nothing is it known as “The Stupid Party”) that this is going to be a Trump vs. Cruz race. It wasn’t just the numbers, it was the fact that only Cruz understood what it takes to beat Trump: co-opt his message and present himself as a more credible messenger. GOPe in it’s arrogance and aloofness, however, insisted on their traditional platform of amnesty, open borders, free trade, tax cuts for the rich and perpetual war that was immensely unpopular as well as morally and ideologically bankrupt. They wen all-in with their boy Rubio who, on top of it all, was not the wonderful candidate he was made out to be. The decisive tactical mistake by GOPe was their desperate attempt to resuscitate the Rubio campaign between New Hampshire and First Super Tuesday. They tried to do it at the expense of Cruz and it only resulted in the latter being derailed just long enough (and in states that had favorable demographics for Cruz) to make the Trump Train unstoppable. Had a fraction of energy of what was spent to prop-up a dead end candidate like Rubio been used on helping Cruz, we propably would have been looking at a neck-and-neck race now where all bets would be off.
Cruz will lose and his supporters are deluding themselves if they think otherwise. He is a very capable politician in many ways, however. Unlike Rubio, I can actually see him rebounding from this loss however this race turns out.
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In 1999, I started an email group to discuss human biodiversity. Fortuitously, my project happened to bring Henry into contact for the first time with the physicist Gregory Cochran, who had developed an interest in applying and extending evolutionary theory. Together, they went on to set off sparks that might someday be recognized as the leading intellectual development of the early 21st century.
Their overarching breakthrough was the realization that the rapid development of human culture since the invention of agriculture roughly 10,000 years ago doesn’t mean that Darwinian evolution slowed down, as was nearly universally assumed in the late 20th century. Instead, the development of new and different cultural pressures on different continents implied that selection must have sped up, increasing the biodiversity of humanity.
In 2005, they illustrated their general thesis with a stunning paper on “The Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence.” One of the great scientific papers of the age, it elicited admiring attention from Steven Pinker and Nicholas Wade. Henry and Greg noted that the proliferation of European Jewish genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and torsion dystonia are likely offshoots of selection pressure for literacy and numeracy in white-collar occupations in medieval Europe. Just as black Africans are more prone to sickle-cell anemia because it’s a quick and dirty malaria-fighting mutation, European Jews may have evolved IQ-boosting mutations that extract a medical price.
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Johnnie Cochran (Courtney B. Vance) as depicted by “American Crime Story” understands the way the world works better than just about anyone. A complex man, driven by equal parts Christian charity and vanity, Cochran intuits the prosecution’s actions before they do, understands the perceptions of the jury before they can and generally luxuriates in the fact that he’s unquestionably the smartest person in the room.
But the series is careful to illustrate how Cochran’s brilliance isn’t enough to effortlessly free Simpson, as the lawyer’s true opponent isn’t Clark or the court or even public perception; it’s America’s institutionalized racism.
For all his insight and acumen, Cochran still fell victim to perceptions centered on the color of his skin. In “The Race Card” episode we see a flashback in which Cochran is pulled over by an unwitting LAPD officer who handcuffs the assistant district attorney in front of his daughters.
Race was always going to be central to the story “American Crime Story” was telling, but it’s difficult to say if the producers had any idea just how resonant the themes of the Simpson trial would remain in these modern times.
In “Manna From Heaven,” the Dream Team receives word that Ito is disallowing the inclusion of Fuhrman’s inflammatory recordings, outside of proof that he perjured himself while on the witness stand. It’s a decision that enrages Cochran, undermining his argument that the detective and LAPD potentially falsified evidence to strengthen their case.
He rages and co-counsel Robert Shapiro (John Travolta) tries to soothe him, saying, “I’m sorry you’re disappointed. I understand everything you’re going through,” only for Cochran to assure him, “There’s no way you could understand what this is like, Bob.”
Cochran understands the plight of being a person of color in America, particularly when it comes to matters of law enforcement. What “American Crime Story” wants us to realize is that, for Cochran, and for many Americans, the trial was the continuation of a conversation that began a handful of years before with the recorded police beating of Rodney King, the acquittal of the officers involved and the riots that followed.
When I read this, I immediately wondered, what kind of ugly person would write something like this? So I clicked on her name and found this:
“Libby Hill is a television reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her TV analysis has appeared at Salon, Vulture, Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Hill, a native of South Dakota, has a passel of cats, too many books and a perpetually full DVR.”
Wow, she’s a reporter.
Who would’ve guessed she was a cat lady?
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She doesn’t feel any need to bring them to Israel. Only the West must absorb these refugees.
Physiognomy is destiny.
These are the women destroying Western civilization. She’s absorbed with tikkun olam and the refugees she’s bringing over will rape, torture and slaughter countless Jews and non-Jews. But at least she gets to feel good about herself.
I wonder how many refugees she shelters in her home? How many does Andrew Silow-Carroll shelter in his home?
According to Yale Law School: “Rebecca M. Heller is a Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2010 and received her B.A. from Dartmouth College. She founded and directs the International Refugee Assistance Project (formerly the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project) at Yale Law School, an organization that assists refugees in applying for resettlement from abroad and adjusting to life in the United States.”
Rebecca Heller awarded Charles Bronfman Prize for work providing free legal services to those fleeing war, persecution.
John Oliver was in the audience Monday night for the awarding of The Charles Bronfman Prize, and here’s the crazy thing – he may not have been the coolest or even funniest person in the room.
That’s because the honoree at the Manhattan ceremony was Rebecca Heller, the director and co-founder of the International Refugee Assistance Project, which wrangles law students and pro bono attorneys to provide legal assistance to refugees.
The Charles Bronfman Prize, established in honor of the philanthropist by his children, honors Jews under 50 who distinguish themselves in humanitarian work. As Rosalie Silberman Abella, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, put it in her introductory remarks, Heller represents the “alchemy of passion, fearlessness, resoluteness, entrepreneurship … and feistiness” shared by previous prizewinners.
Heller was at Yale Law School when she travelled to Israel in 2008. In neighboring Jordan, she met with refugees from Iraq and realized in order to navigate a “deeply entrenched” and patchwork system of resettlement, they needed – what else — a good lawyer. The student organization she founded upon her return became IRAP, which has provided legal assistance to more than 10,000 refugees and claims an 85 percent success rate with resettlement. (Oliver featured an IRAP client, an Afghani translator stranded after assisting US forces, on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight.”)
Among those resettled by IRAP was Farah Al-Khafaji, who spoke at the Manhattan ceremony. An Iraqi, Al-Khafaji and her father started an engineering and construction company that assisted American forces in building helipads, roads and security barriers in the wake of the 2003 invasion. This, as you’d imagine, was not a universally popular vocation in Iraq, and in 2006 she was assaulted, her father was kidnapped, and her husband was killed.
After waiting almost six years for the US to award sanctuary to her and her two children, Al-Khafaji had almost given up hope when she heard about Heller and IRAP. Heller got her an interview at the US Embassy, a safe home in Baghdad and eventually a one-way flight to Washington Dulles International Airport.
“My boys and myself would be dead and buried in Iraq” without IRAP, she said at the award ceremony.
In an on-stage conversation with publishing titan Tina Brown, Heller came across less like a global crusader than, I don’t know, a writer for Oliver’s show. (Oliver laughed as loudly as anybody in the audience.)
She recalled a colleague’s advice on making IRAP more professional: “‘We need a better intake system than running into me on the street.’” She described how the US would reject the claims of Iraqi asylum seekers because of dubious charges leveled against them during Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror — compounding their suffering because we “forgot to burn down the Iraqi Ministry of Justice.”
And she ridiculed the torturous screening process that makes refugees from Syria, Africa and Colombia have to prove, over and over again, that “the worst thing that ever happened to you happened.
“And this is the way we are saving people,” she deadpanned.
The award ceremony, postponed from last year so Heller could give birth to her daughter, took place in the genteel surroundings of the New York Historical Society. Meanwhile, a nasty and often misinformed national debate rages on immigration and refugees. Heller, who described herself as an “intensely neurotic and self-critical Jew,” decried the “false conflation between terrorism and refugees” and tied her work to Jewish history.
Today’s refugees are no different from those who wandered from “port to port” during World War II seeking safe harbor, she said. “What’s different is that we are calling them terrorists.”
Lest anyone fail to make that connection, Justice Abella described her Jewish family’s story. Her father survived Theresienstadt, her mother Buchenwald. Her father, a lawyer, was appointed by the Americans as head of legal services at the displaced persons camp where Abella was born.
Abella recalled when Eleanor Roosevelt visited the DP camp, and Jacob Silberman got to offer an official greeting. “These few children are our fortune, and our sole hope for the future,” he told the first lady.
“I was one of those children,” said his daughter, the first Jewish woman to sit on Canada’s high court.
Mike emails: “How appropriate. The Bronfman family has gone from bootlegging booze during prohibition to honoring human bootleggers today.”
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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
