There’s a surly black clerk in the latest episode who reminds me of some of the blacks who staff the Los Angeles Superior Court system. Lawyers tell me that they treat other blacks better. For non-black lawyers, however, the service is usually awful. Most of the black judges are pretty bad too. They have a chip on their shoulder against whitey.
Most of the clerk positions at the District Attorney’s office are held by black women who almost all have iPads so they can watch movies all day long and they get annoyed when interrupted and asked to do any work.
If you’ve ever gone to the Post Office or the DMV, you know what I’m talking about. About 20% of federal government jobs are held by blacks and many don’t seem to be dedicated to providing good service.
Posted inBlacks|Comments Off on Better Call Saul S2E5
I think I first heard Rush Limbaugh on KPFK in the fall of 1985 (I was 19). He was fine. He was like a disc jockey of conservative talk radio. He was entertaining and he shared most of my political leanings. On those rare times I was driving around when he was on the radio, I turned him on for a few minutes.
Rush Limbaugh was never going to change my life. He was a DJ. He was an entertainer. He was like a lot of other DJs I knew. I worked at KAHI/KHYL radio in the Sacramento area for two years in high school (1982-1983) and from 1985-1987, reporting the news and anchoring on the weekend.
I encountered Dennis Prager when I moved to UCLA in the fall of 1988 and from about the first time I listened to him, I knew that Dennis Prager was going to change my life (and I knew that I was choosing him to be an instrument in changing my life back towards God and the Bible). He was like the ultimate father figure I had long sought. He had perspectives on God and religion and morality that excited me. Here at last was a rational sounding road to God that I could embrace. So I converted to Judaism.
Up until about 2012, I’d tell anyone who would listen that Dennis Prager was the greatest Jewish thinker since Maimonides.
Yeah, I’m nuts.
In that August of 1988, when I was hanging out at UCLA for a month before the dorms opened and classes started, I found Rush Limbaugh was now nationally syndicated and a big success. He sounded much sharper and more compelling than his Sacramento days. I liked listening to him even more now, but I never carved out time to do so. By contrast, I carved out time to listen to Dennis Prager on the weekends.
As the years went by, friends of mine who were every bit as smart as me, and better educated and more successful and more sane than me, said that they enjoyed listening to Rush Limbaugh more than Dennis Prager. He wasn’t as repetitive. He was more fun. He had better guests. He was more interesting. Some argued that Rush was a genuine conservative, while Dennis was only “conservative” in the current lingo. They found that Limbaugh had more insight into the political system than Prager, and that Rush was not as obsessed about Judeo-Christian values and Israel. Prager struck many of my intellectual friends as “pretentious on many levels, politically, intellectually, historically and religiously. He may be a nice guy, but I can’t take listening to him for long.” Limbaugh was also hard to take for my intellectuals, but he went down easier than Prager because Rush didn’t pretend to be an intellectual. Prager came to conservative politics late, as a byproduct of his support for Israel and his affinity for the neo-conservatives and evangelical Christians (and as a result of the Democratic party turning left). A friend noted, “Limbaugh grew up in a Republican milieu, suburban Missouri which is the crossroads between the south and the Midwest, and he paid his dues toiling as a disc jockey before becoming a political talk radio host in Sacramento. He is much more of a Republican insider, yet he is willing to criticize them as well.”
As 2015 rolled through, Limbaugh was much more attuned to the Donald Trump phenomenon than Prager.
From 1988 to 2012, I considered Prager to be on a completely different level from other talk show hosts such as Limbaugh. I thought of Prager as a genuine intellectual who could read and speak many languages, had a graduate education from Columbia, and was the author of four respected books that were much deeper than Rush’s pulp. I thought Prager was smarter, finer, kinder, more religious, and just generally superior to Limbaugh, though Rush was usually more fun to listen to.
As I had more and more therapy, however, I realized I was a narcissist, an emotional addict on many levels, and that I needed to get some serious recovery and wean myself off some of the hero worship that served me during my dark years of 1988 to 1993 but could now be left behind so that I could become my own man. While I have retained some respect, affection and admiration for Prager, by 2014, I was done believing he was a great thinker and I quit my Pragertopia subscription. Over the past two years, I’ve heard no more than a total of four hours of his show. I think his approach to Judaism and to politics and to much of life just doesn’t work. He doesn’t realize it, but much of what he’s doing is a con, just like so many other rabbis I’ve met. Over the past 25 years, almost every charismatic Jewish religious leader I’ve wanted to follow has turned out to be running a con.
I have a weakness for cults and for charismatic leaders. I have a weakness for anyone who makes me feel whole and offers to adopt me.
Bloggers start out with exuberance. The hits come in, and the attention and the emails, and the growing circle of acquaintances.
At first you get many detractors, but if your work blazes new ground, if you make a contribution, you eventually get your recognition, even fame. You might make just enough money to get by. You develop thick skin. You get good at the conversational style and you can pump out a dozen blog posts a day.
And then as the years roll by, you don’t build up any financial assets. You barely scrape by. You get old. Your peers pass you by. All of your peers pass you by. In your 20s, you were right there with them, and now they’re out of sight and you can’t afford to socialize with them much, if they even want to go downmarket to hang out with you. You still aren’t married. No children. You burn bridges. You leave people feeling betrayed. There are favorite haunts you can no longer frequent. The thrill of blogging is gone. Back trouble begins. Resentment builds. “When am I going to get mine?” you think. You have contempt for sell-outs aka those who are more successful than you. You hate your friends who are succeeding in their careers. You call them careerists because it seems like they will sacrifice all of their free speech just to get ahead. You by contrast aspire to a higher nobler calling. You have a mission to tell the world the truth.
You get old. You get isolated. You get weird. You make mistakes. You feel shame. You have nightmares about the innocent people you hurt. You develop a fear that you are not on a good path. You tire of the abuse and the anger. You read some of your old blog posts and you are appalled. Sometimes at 2 a.m., you wonder, where did I go wrong? Surely there is more to life than this.
Some offers to sell out come your way. At first you reject them, but eventually, fatigue and isolation and poverty overcome your scruples. You take the money and you move on with your life. You either wind down the most controversial parts of your blog or you walk away entirely.
You miss the attention. You miss the feeling that you are changing the world. You miss your delusions and that sense that you are at the very center of things. You miss the groupies. You feel empty. You feel stripped of your distractions. You face yourself and others. Your walls come down. You talk to people without a gun in your holster.
When other bloggers confide that they are thinking of selling out, you tell them that it might be a good idea. There’s more to life than pissing people off with blog posts.
Check out these excerpts from Kevin D. Williamson’s latest National Review article. I can’t believe they give him a platform to print this racist trash!
National Review’s Kevin Williamson believes Hillary Clinton’s appeals to African-Americans are “immoral” because that demographic’s way of life deserves to die out. […]
Williamson, a long-time critic of The Harridan, essentially agrees that he doesn’t support any policies or rhetoric directly tailored to African-Americans — particularly about jobs being taken by outsourcing and immigration — because it would be wrong to do so.
“It is immoral because it perpetuates a lie: that the African-Americans that find themselves attracted to Clinton have been victimized by outside forces,” the NR roving correspondent writes. “[N]obody did this to them. They failed themselves.”
He then goes on to state that all the ills associated with downscale blacks are a result of that race’s inherent depravity.
“If you spend time in hardscrabble, black Detroit, or Ferguson, MO, or my own native Texas bathhouse, and you take an honest look at the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchy—which is to say, the whelping of human children with all the respect and wisdom of a stray dog—you will come to an awful realization. It wasn’t Beijing. It wasn’t even Washington, as bad as Washington can be. It wasn’t immigrants from Mexico, excessive and problematic as our current immigration levels are. It wasn’t any of that,” Williamson states.
He then goes on to make the conclusion that it’s great these communities are dying out because they have a warped morality and are a dead weight on the economy.
“The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale black communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible,” the conservative writer says. “The African-American under-class is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and murder. Hillary Clinton’s speeches make them feel good. So does crack cocaine. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul. If you want to live, get out of Atlanta [a heavily-black town in Georgia].”
If you haven’t figured it out yet, Williamson’s racist screed was actually aimed at Whites. Just substitute “whites” and “white working class” everywhere you read “blacks” and “African-Americans”. The racism against Whites gets published; the version of it with “blacks” replacing “whites” would get Williamson fired from National Cucktacular and his penis-shaped head on millions of network broadcasts as the featured “two minutes hate” antiracism whipping cur (which he’d probably enjoy).
Prying into Williamson’s GRidS, I can think of at least three motivations for this latest Williamson article revealing his hatred of BadWhites who don’t genuflect before the MLK monument or rave about the unconventional conservatism of piss porn.
The article is an elaborately insincere troll of the foes he really hates: the “White identity” alt-right. In this reading, Williamson appears to be sarcastically mocking an assumed hypocrisy among White identitarians to support the White working class against elite machinations while simultaneously blaming blacks’ miseries on their race’s inherent deficiencies. The premise is flawed, though, because it relies for its ideological grounding, like all cuck declarations do, on the religion of race creationism (i.e., the belief that evolution stopped at the neck up and the skin down and that therefore all races are equal in every way except on the most superficial traits). The alt-right recognizes intra-race as well as inter-race differences in aptitude and character, and understands that this fundamental view is not incompatible with the indictment that the ruling class and their lackeys push policies that bring unnecessary hardship to the non-ACELA classes. This worldview is a far more consistent stance than anything the cuck-right has attempted to elucidate.
Williamson is psychologically projecting his hatred of black dysfunction onto Whites. He’s too cowardly to come out and say “blacks are violent and allergic to civilized norms of behavior” so he sublimates his hatred into a rage against the White working classes who, for all their faults, are nowhere near the level of dysfunction that your typical majority-black ghetto exhibits.
Williamson is a gay homosexual who was rejected by his redneck Texan father, and his slanders against the White working class are essentially an elaborate F YOU DAD act of negative transference.
Whatever Williamson’s psychological peculiarities, his stated and implied reasons for hating working class Whites are utterly bankrupt. Non-elite White men aren’t coddled like blacks and hispanics and women. There is no affirmative action for non-elite White men. No government contract set-asides. No 24/7 mass media engine to blame all their woes on nonWhite racism and celebrate their White working class cultural contributions to America. No White Lives Matter or Black Privilege movements to shore up their egos and make them feel like under-appreciated valued members to society. No education industrial complex to glorify their history (or make it up if insufficiently glorious) and to simultaneously diminish the history of nonWhites.
But Keven D. Williamson knows all this. He’s just doesn’t care. Which makes him a dirtbag. Nothing more.
He’d better hope that when his dreamed-of Diversitopia in America is fully realized, that the numerically overwhelming nonWhite races, whom I guarantee won’t share his ACELA Whites’ pathologically cucked impulse to leapfrog moral loyalties to outsider races, keep him around as the funny-looking court faggot instead of feeding him alive to a pit of crocodiles like they do to Boer farmers.
Posted inAmerica|Comments Off on National Review’s Resident Cuckmug Kevin D. Williamson Pens Racist Screed
When Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz got up to give the keynote speech at a Monday night fundraising dinner in Lakewood, N.J. for the largest yeshiva in America, everyone in attendance expected he would praise the rabbis and those who make great efforts to learn Torah. They figured he might spice up his talk with a few words of Torah and return happy and satisfied to his seat on the dais, as befits an ultra-Orthodox – or Haredi – who supports a great many yeshivot in Israel and America.
Instead, the Haredi businessman from Los Angeles, who owns the largest nursing home provider in California, used his moment at the podium to give a scathing speech of rebuke that wiped the smiles off the faces of the rabbis sitting alongside him on the dais, and set off a storm in the Haredi world in both the United States and Israel.
Rechnitz was quoted by all the Haredi media in Israel for rubbing salt into the open wounds of the ultra-Orthodox community.
In his 50-minute speech, Rechnitz accused the Lithuanian, non-Hasidic Haredi community in Lakewood – a Jewish suburb in New Jersey with a large Jewish community built around the prestigious yeshiva and other institutions – of acting in a way that borders on “bloodshed.” Its educational institutions, said Rechnitz, begin selecting children at a young age, and the rabbis and the community turn their backs on those who are not “good enough” or “not really worthy.”
Rechnitz said that unfortunately, there was a sickness – mahala in Hebrew – in Lakewood. “No other out-of-town community would ever allow a child to be left without a school. In Los Angeles, if a child wouldn’t have a school the first day, the whole community would be all over it. The same thing would happen in Baltimore, Chicago and Toronto or anywhere else.” His words made their mark not just in America, but in Israel too, where there are similar problems in many communities. Every year, students, girls in particular, are left at home for weeks and months after being rejected by Haredi schools.
Rechnitz’s businesses also sell medical supplies all over the United States, and he is best known as a major philanthropist. He has given money to units of the IDF and U.S military, too. He has contributed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign in the past. Rechnitz was in the news recently after he bought 18,000 Powerball lottery tickets for his employees for the $1.5-billion draw two weeks ago. He said in the opening to his speech at the event in honor of Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Kanarek, the dean of six schools in the Lakewood community, that he has the right to speak about such things because he has gotten many children into schools in Lakewood – and because many people turn to him for help when their children are left without a place in school. He spoke of the rivers of tears, “of fathers who don’t know where to turn, who were made to feel that they failed their innocent children. Of mothers who cry themselves to sleep every night.”
He spoke of the children who at a young age try to put on a calm face but hide in their room and cry. “This child’s parents have already cried their hearts out to their rabbanim, to the school administration. ‘Please, please take our child. It’s six weeks, and he’s still not in school,’” said Rechnitz.
He wondered how a community that performs so many good deeds, such as helping the ill, can abandon its children: “Many of us have created for ourselves a new Torah, a new Yiddishkeit [Jewishness], that makes us feel good about ourselves, but has little to do with the Torah that He gave us 3,300 years ago. We turned our Frumkeit [religiousness] into an idol, and we have forgotten some of the basic tenets of Yiddishkeit,” said Rechnitz.
He listed five false beliefs that have permeated the community. “I believe that ‘I am better than you.’ I believe that I have to show all my [strict observances], so everyone can see how [religious] I am. I believe that ‘your children are not good enough for my children.’ I believe that the Torah was given to perfect children and perfect families. I believe there is no room for individuality; we must all fit into the same perfect model.”
He said the community has developed “an elitist attitude, an ugly superiority complex.”
“Why are we all judging each other? Why do I and others feel like we are being judged by a Sanhedrin of 50,000 people in Lakewood? I feel terrible for most people who live here in that respect. Nobody here gives or gets any slack. Forget a second chance, that’s out of the question. You have better odds of winning the lottery,” he said.
In the last generation, many large donors who have given money to Israel, Zionist institutions and other organizations have stopped just writing checks and have demanded to know how their money is being used. Is this trend now reaching the Haredi community and its donors? A person involved in philanthropy in America said, “In the past, a philanthropist would see it as a great honor if they allowed him to donate to Lakewood, but today he expects at the very least for them to listen to him.” The great rabbis, the ones with stature and prominence have disappeared, and this has created the new type of relationship between the donors and those who take the money, he said.
Near the end of his speech, Rechnitz said he would put his money where his mouth is and promised to build more inclusive schools.
Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz was hailed as “one of the world’s greatest young philanthropists and businessmen” by broadcaster Larry King after the California nursing home owner won an award in 2012.
Rechnitz briefly seemed destined to win even bigger kudos this week when it was reported that a nurse at one of his facilities had scored the epic windfall from one of the 18,000 Powerball tickets Rechnitz bought and handed out to his employees.
It turned out to be a hoax: The nurse’s son was only joking that she had won a slice of the $1.6 billion jackpot.
The whole affair has now cast a fresh national spotlight on the 44-year-old Rechnitz, who owns Brius Healthcare Services, California’s largest chain of nursing homes.
The attention has mostly reflected Rechnitz’s long history of quirky good deeds along with his penchant for self-promotion.
“Rechnitz is always there with a helping hand,” wrote Josh Nass, an admirer who studied Rechnitz’s philanthropy. “The breadth of his philanthropy and the diversity of those he helps are astounding.”
There was the time last November he spotted 400 U.S. solders in an airport in Shannon, Ireland eating from paper sacks and bought them each $50 dinners instead. Or the time he paid off the mortgage for a Chabad house in Los Angeles.
But some of the attention has not been not so glowing.
The Powerball kerfuffle have reporters looking once more into a series of ongoing local, state, and federal probes dating back several years into the 80 facilities run Rechnitz.
Several of his employees have been criminally charged and there was a new FBI raid of his Riverside, Calif. operation last fall, The Sacramento Bee reports.
Rechnitz has said he is being singled out unfairly.
“All of a sudden, we show up to court one day and there is an emergency motion that refers to us as a quote-unquote serial violator of laws. It questions if we would pass the good character requirement … It basically makes us look like the Charles Manson of the nursing home business,” he told The Bee.
Rechnitz’s legal woes stand in stark contrast to what is an undeniable record of good deeds and philanthropy, not the least of which was his Powerball generosity.
Rechnitz was born in Los Angeles, California and went to Israel for college.
The musically-inclined exec released an album in 2014 entitled Shir, featuring famous Jewish artists singing his composed tracks. All of the proceeds go to the Keren Hashviis fund supporting Israeli farmers.
Rechnitz has a history of large contributions to Jewish organizations and causes. The Jewish Journal reports that he donated $5 million to Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, $2.35 million to bail out Chabad of California, and $1 million to help rebuild Orthodox Jewish schools after Hurricane Sandy.
In 2013, Rechnitz stepped in to rescue Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats after a controversy involving the former owner’s alleged flouting of religious oversight rules. Under Rencnitz’s ownership, kosher certification resumed, preserving a kosher entity in California on the eve of Passover.
Aside from Jewish-related organizations, Rechnitz also is charitable to law enforcement causes. He writes $10,000 checks for families of Southern California police officers who were shot in the line of duty.
Posted inShlomo Rechnitz|Comments Off on Shlomo Rechnitz – The Most Interesting Jew In Los Angeles?
Went there today looking for the scoop on Orthodox efforts to take over a neighborhood in Toms River NJ, the way they have completely taken over Lakewood NJ and many places in the lower Hudson Valley (linked on Drudge).
A check of FailedMessiah.com reveals there have not been any important posts since Scott Rosenberg left in January.
There’s a media mystery developing around the anonymous new owners of the muckraking blog FailedMessiah, and growing signs the site’s harsh criticism of the Orthodox community may be permanently silenced.
Shmarya Rosenberg, who ran FailedMessiah singlehandedly for more than a decade, announced February 2 that he was moving on. Days later, questions about the blog’s new owners are multiplying, and one Orthodox website has suggested that an Orthodox businessman bought FailedMessiah to “pull the plug” on Rosenberg’s hard-hitting reports on the community.
In a post on February 3, the new owners said they were “a group of people dedicated to protecting the reputation of the Orthodox Jewish community,” but did not identify themselves by name…
An unsigned post on the Orthodox website OnlySimchas.com reported “rumors” that California nursing home magnate Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz was among the buyers of Rosenberg’s site. Rechnitz, 44, is an enigmatic ultra-Orthodox businessman, a major donor to Orthodox charities and yeshivas, and the son-in-law of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, a leading ultra-Orthodox rabbi who died this January.
Rechnitz recently made headlines when he bought Powerball tickets for all his employees in his California nursing homes. One nurse briefly thought she won a slice of the $1 billion prize, but it turned out to be a hoax.
Rechnitz has shown a tendency to be gently critical of the Orthodox community. In early January, while accepting an honor at a gala dinner for a Lakewood, New Jersey yeshiva that he had funded, he attacked of Lakewood’s Orthodox schools for excluding some students. Days later, he issued an apology, saying that he had not meant to insult any rabbis or yeshiva heads.
Meanwhile, Rechnitz’s nursing homes are facing heavy scrutiny from state and federal regulators in California, according to a lengthy June report in the Sacramento Bee. According to the paper, three of Rechnitz’s 81 California nursing homes have been kicked out of the federal Medicare program in recent years, a highly unusual and drastic step. In the Sacramento Bee story, Rechnitz says that his regulatory problems are the result of bad relationships with state officials.
In its February 4 post, OnlySimchas suggested that Rechnitz had bought FailedMessiah to throttle its reporting. “The rumors claim that allegedly Rechnitz was simply fed up with the amount of hatred towards his fellow Jews, and simply could not bear to watch it continue,” OnlySimchas wrote. “If Rechnitz had any hand in the deal to have [FailedMessiah] pull the plug, his share in [heaven] will have just grown to an unimaginable level.”
It is just not possible for two people, let alone two countries, to have identical interests. That’s why all relationships have varying degrees of tension. We don’t see the world identically.
America has no vital strategic interests in the Middle East aside from assurance of an oil supply if needed.
If America shifts away from Israel, the Jewish state could form an alliance with Russia. Many Israelis have come from Russia in the past three decades.
Israel depends on an America that asserts itself abroad. Israel needs bipartisan support. It needs stable, predictable American foreign policy. It desires candidates who sing Israel’s praises as often and as loudly as they can. Mr. Trump, who looks poised to capture the Republican Party’s nomination, offers Israel none of those. Mr. Netanyahu has every reason to be concerned and disappointed by what the American political system has produced this election cycle…
Israel’s government hoped a new president would restore a more traditional definition of friendship — one based on mutual trust and support. But if the choice comes down to Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Trump, that’s unlikely. From a President Clinton, Israel’s hawkish government would come under more of the same pressure it received from the Obama administration. From a President Trump … anything is possible.
The rocky relations of the Obama era have damaged the American-Israeli alliance and eroded Israel’s standing in Washington and around the world. Four — or eight — more years of bickering could cause even more lasting damage to the one foreign relationship that is truly critical to Israel’s future.
Posted inIsrael|Comments Off on Are Israel’s Interests Identical To America’s Interests?
Most people prefer to be around their own kind. When people have a choice, they avoid diversity. They live, work, worship and socialize with their own race.
The right to freedom of association is being taken away from us. As that one freedom goes, so must the rest. Or to say it a different way, a barometer of diminishing freedoms in a multi-cultural society is the ever-diminishing freedom of association.
NYDN: De Blasio is pushing two zoning plans needed to achieve his goal of building 80,000 new affordable apartments and preserving another 120,000 existing ones.
One, known as mandatory inclusionary zoning, would require developers to include affordable housing in projects that need city approval, with options starting at setting aside 25% of apartments for people making an average of $46,000 for a family of four.
That has prompted protests from critics who say apartments are needed for people who make less than that. The levels may be adjusted in negotiations with the City Council before a vote by the end of March.
Posted inAmerica, Articles|Comments Off on Freedom Of Association
* Went to a southern university around the same time. Was a fraternity member.
We all KNEW it was a hoax from the minute the story came out. The reason why isn’t very PC, but it’s the truth — sexual market value and peer posturing.
A bunch of handsome white athletes at a prestige school for smart kids all get together… and they demonstrate sexual interest in a poor black stripper in front of each other? Um. No. A nude Beyonce clone wouldn’t get aggressive attention in that room. And what were the odds that a stripper in Durham, North Carolina would look like Beyonce?
We all KNEW that they wouldn’t have requested a black stripper. That it had to be a mixup.
I remember when the photos of that evening came out and all the guys looked bored, sad, annoyed about what the stripper looked like. “Surely this will end now,” I thought. So obvious. And yet it got dragged out for another 8 months.
* I remember watching the sordid saga unfold — it was then that I realized that narratives create news stories and not vice versa.
After witnessing the UVA rape hoax and the Michael Brown fiasco, I’m not optimistic that this lesson will ever remain in our society’s institutional memory.
* And the dozens of Duke faculty members that signed on to the witch-hunt paid the price by losing their positions, right?
No? They paid no price at all?
Oh, I forgot. These are Leftists, and constraints like honesty, justice and integrity are too passe for them to observe.
And the ruling class wonders why a person with Trump’s defects is so attractive.
* One of the interesting angles to all of this is that hoaxes are easier to pull in the mass media age than in the prior age. The old line from Twain was that the truth was just getting out of bed by the time a lie was half way around the world. Today, the lie is an axiom by the time the truth stirs.
Just look at the Michelle Fields hoax from last week. She rolled out a whole media campaign on twitter and then the cable news shows. David French at National Review on-line, a lawyer supposedly, wrote a long piece on Friday falling for the whole thing.
Are people more gullible now? How has the media saturation turned us into rubes?
* If three black members of Duke’s basketball team had been accused of gang-raping a white stripper under otherwise identical circumstances, they wouldn’t have even been arrested -so preposterous were the allegations. And feminists would not have protested. Feminists wouldn’t protest even if a white student at Duke was gang-raped by black students who were guilty beyond any doubt -just as feminists never expose the horrific realities of the 50-year pandemic of black males raping and gang-raping white females.
* Leftists don’t usually notice anti-male and anti-white bias. When it’s undeniable then they simply rationalize it.
To unequivocally condemn anti-white and anti-male bias is to strike the leftist house of cards at its very foundation, and cannot be permitted if the structure is to remain standing.
* It’s almost like there is an thread in the undercurrent that binds these isteve topics into a cohesive political philosophy. Oh yea…”hate whitey” …it’s the logical opposition to that world view. And people are still confused by Trump’s popularity.
* Despite the hostility and frequently bizarre, anachronistic, ahistorical or even outright nonsensical paranoia to which many blacks are prone, one cannot help but respect them for their keen sense of racial awareness (or semblance thereof).
If only five percent of whites chose to advocate for white interests as vehemently as the average black advocates for black interests, our race problems could find a durable resolution within a generation.
* Their sense of racial awareness consists mostly of resentment towards whites and and delusions of being victimised by them. Remember they murder each other far more than they kill members of other races. In a sense, it’s their lack of racial awareness that brought them to America. People with strong racial solidarity and empathy don’t sell each other as slaves.
* Yea, the whole case is at a visceral level pretty messed up. Duke’s nickname was already “University of New Jersey in North Carolina” so there was already a bunker mentality in the student body that was greatly aided by the wet campus policy and 3 year on campus living requirement. We literally at times felt like we were some beachhead of carpetbaggers and California invaders in this dark jungle. At least in the Mid 2000s, this was before a lot of Durham’s redevelopment/gentrification. This literally made the Lacrosse players “us” in the awful game of us vs “them.” I’m just surprised at how so many liberal college students could hate the media so much at that time.
On a side note, funny enough. the celebrations when Nifong was disbarred, spent a night in jail, and sued to the point where he even had to give up his family guitar passed down generations definitely showed some class solidarity. For a few nights over my years at Duke, I swear 90% of the student body would vote Republican if it meant watching Nifong squirm. I’d say the campus would usually only vote 30% Republican. [30% of total males in Greek life with near monolithic Right wing support, and 50% total females in Greek life with about half Republican leanings].
* I knew it was a fake immediately because Mangum said she was raped orally by one of the men. I don’t know much but i know that’s not how men do their raping.
* Perhaps being a white man at Duke during that incident sharpens the appreciation of what’s in store for white men in the vibrant diverse future that, so-far, only Mr. Trump has shown any inclination in delaying.
* Even Feminists believe race trumps gender. Feminists do not hate White men because they are men, they hate White men because they are White. Hence why Feminists feel zero hatred towards Muslim rapists and African American rapists for example.
No Feminists in the media like Hillary Clinton and Gloria Steinem came out and called the Rotherham incident involving Pakistani pimps and underage White girls a war on women.
* It would appear Lee Kwan Yew is proven right yet again. Donald Trump is almost without question the most pro-Black candidate in living memory, offering with border closing and protective tariffs to vastly increase and secure Black people’s AA and social spending and status within America. And yet, most hate him with a passion because he generates White working class support and threatens the consensus that every White person must submit to any Black person.
Really, it is ridiculous how pro-Black Donald Trump really is with his policies.
* Anyone who has gone to a top ranked NCAA school knew that the Duke case was a fraud the minute they heard it. My large private school has had a top five men’s lacrosse program for decades, not to mention a basketball team that makes it to the NCAAs nearly every year with a few final four finishes and decent football. The athletes, especially of the prestige programs, like Duke’s lacrosse team, have women throwing themselves at them – they don’t need to slum it with a black stripper. The girls in my dorm made their way through the football team, checking off various players from the program they’d slept with.
* How much does the average black person advocate for black interests on a day to day basis? I suspect the default level of black and Hispanic group interests is more or less the normal level for humans everywhere. There has been a decades-long campaign to tell blacks and Hispanics that race-based politics are good and right, and to tell whites that race-based politics are wrong and evil, and we can see the impact of that on everyday politics.
Personally, I’d rather we all adopted the rule that race-based politics are a bad thing–I think it tends to leave everyone voting for the crook “because at least he’s our crook.” (See the operation of the DC government for an example of why I think this.) But it’s pretty obviously unreasonable to have the rule that race-based politics are okay for everyone except whites.
* The nature of living in a bubble is that you have no idea how nutty or vile your ideas sound to someone outside your bubble.
Posted inAmerica|Comments Off on The Tenth Anniversary Of The Duke Lacrosse Rape Hoax
Reddit post: At 2:30 p.m., I arrived at the Donald Trump rally located at the UIC pavilion in Chicago, IL. There was light police presence at the Blue Line station, and the pavilion was short walk away. There I waited in line for about an hour until making it to the front doors, going through a security scanner, and finding a seat in the main hall.
For nearly two hours the pavilion filled until it neared capacity. It was clear that protesters were seated around the room, given easily away by their manner of dress. Most of the Trump supporters, being suburbanite or small town white people from outside of Chicago, were dressed strikingly normal—jeans and t-shirts, yoga pants or dresses, and the occasional suit.
The first protesters began around 5:30 when two young white males pulled off their coats to reveal t-shirts with anti-Trump slogans. At this point I noticed the police presence inside the rally was a mere 8 police officers, bolstered with hands-off event staff.
Before 6:00 p.m., a man spoke on the microphone and requested that rally attendees do not touch or harm protesters who interrupt the event. He reminded the protesters that Donald Trump supports the first amendment as much as the second.
Following this was a string of smaller incidents, such as people holding up improvised signs and shouting.
One entire bleacher row was filled with protesters and they began chanting and throwing around torn up signs.
A few people who began standing up and screaming, and were slowly escorted out by police. The police kept leaving the protesters unattended throughout this, taking 4-8 officers to escort protesters out one at a time.
A black man in a black jacket ran up to the front stage, bumped into the podium, and attempted to speak, but was wrestled down by two men in suits. As they escorted him through the crowd, he took a swing at a Trump supporter. The men escorting him were incredibly gentle and restrained themselves from using any force.
Then voice came on and declared that the event was postponed. A few minutes later, they informed us that Trump had landed in Chicago and spoken to Chicago Police officers, and that due to safety concerns, the rally was canceled.
At this point, the protesters began to descend into chaos. Aside from a few mild “TRUMP” and “USA” chants, the Trump supporters were mostly quiet and bewildered as the protesters began to scream, chant, and run around the main floor area in a huge pack, flipping off the rally attendees and swearing at them. There were a few tense altercations between the two groups, but from what I saw at this point, no violence.
The rally was instructed to leave the pavilion, and I have to admit, the Chicago Police messed up bad here.
We walked straight out of the building and into enormous packs of protesters screaming at us, with little police presence to protect the Trump supporters.
Following this, I wandered the protest grounds to see what was going on. My memory is a bit jumbled at this point because I was so pumped up, but let me string together the events as clearly as possible:
Many of Trump propaganda signs, most commonly depicting him as Adolf Hitler, but others showing him with a small penis, simple signs of text English and Spanish, signs.
Young women shouting anti-white racial epithets.
“THE PEOPLE ARE UNITED. WE WILL NOT BE DIVIDED” being shouted at Trump supporters who holed themselves up in a parking garage, quietly fearing for their safety. Another good one by the protesters was “FREEDOM FIRST! FREEDOM FIRST!” Strangely enough, there were a good amount of signs calling for peace and freedom. Lots of peace signs being flashed with the fingers.
A single white Trump supporter who held up a sign and stood quietly as three dozen people surrounded him, smiling and screaming, snatching and pushing at him until he had to run for police cover. Someone grabbed his American flag and threw it on the ground and he fought to recover it. The police escorted him away.
Two young men, perhaps 17-19, standing quietly as they waited for a ride home. They were wearing their MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN hats, looking terrified as people cursed and swore at them, and occasionally threw furious challenges for debate. The two young men held their ground. Only once did one of those hats come down, and it quickly went back on again.
A general atmosphere of pleasure and happiness from the protesters. A common chant was “WE WON!” and “WE STOPPED* TRUMP!” It honestly felt like a social event for the protesters. There was plenty of mingling
Plenty of shouts at Trump protesters that Trump and his supporters are not welcome in Chicago. I challenged one on the first amendment. He said he does not consider himself an American and continued insulting the grizzled old white man he was arguing with.
Extremely inefficient police presence. The cops were lined up on their horses or standing behind barricades, but generally were not present where Trump supporters were being hounded and occasionally struck by protesters.
The protesters were primarily composed of millennial-aged: white hipsters, African Americans, Hispanics, and Muslims. Some of the protesters were teenagers below voting age.
The protesters flew a big set of American, Mexican, and Puerto Rican flags. There were lots of small American and Mexican flags too. *The Trump supporters mostly fled for safety immediately. You have to understand, they were outnumbered by thousands of protesters.
There was media presence, but not as much as you’d think. Plenty of areas where chaos was going on had no media nearby. The reporters were mostly getting people to talk to them off to the side where nothing was going on, or focusing ongoing debates between Trump supporters and rally members.
A small amount of the protesters were smoking weed. (I have nothing against this personally, just included for accuracy.)
Plenty of chants for “BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE!” Some Trump supporters looked at each other in bewilderment. “But Bernie Sanders isn’t even running against Donald Trump,” was the common sentiment.
Edit: The Trump supporters had a general trust for the police, while the protesters saw their presence as antagonistic. This is especially interesting to me, because as a foreigner and person of color I am generally afraid of police.
Closing statement:
Obviously I did not see everything that occurred as I wandered the protest grounds outside the cancelled Chicago rally. What I did see, however, was fear. Fear from the rally attendees for their immediate safety, and fear of Donald Trump from the protesters.
More than that, I feel that I experienced today, for the first time in my life, true totalitarianism and authoritarianism, expressed laterally from citizen to citizen, in order to silence opinions from being shared. This enforcement was shared through sheer numbers and intimidation, and in a few cases, violence.
People brought their children, loved ones, and friends to attend the Trump rally. I saw an older Asian man and his white wife in attendance, and the looks on their faces when the rally was declared cancelled almost broke my heart. I saw scared children clinging to their parents’ sides as they exited the building to the screams of protesters. I saw a quiet, but excited crowd of Donald Trump supporters get thrown out of Chicago.
Worst of all, I saw the first amendment trampled, spit on, and discarded like trash.
This cannot go on. As I finish this, I feel a sense of utter dread and hopelessness for what is becoming of the youth in this country, particularly those of the regressive left. So polarized has political opinion become, that dissenting thoughts on college campuses are now seen as hateful. These people deal in absolutes. They are right, and whatever means they must take to achieve their ends, they will do it. They will not stop themselves from violence or censorship. They will do it, and they will call hell down upon you if anyone dare does upon them the same.
Tonight I went to the Trump Rally to hear the thoughts of not only the man who was supposed to come and speak, but the people who support him. I found respect. I found calmness. I found peace.
The truth is, I am a legal immigrant, not a US citizen. I am not American. I am not white. I cannot vote.
After tonight, I support Donald Trump.
* What’s interesting here is that the Left are quite happy to fight and intimidate their opposition, while the Right isn’t. What’s obviously concerning is that many of the right were cowered by their tactics. The establishment is letting this happen. I’m afraid that we might live to see the truth of Jefferson’s aphorism that the manure of liberty is blood. The goons won’t stop with kind words alone.
* These are socially marginalized college “students” (that’s a fancy way of saying young people who can’t get dates) play-acting Europe 1848, Russia 1917, the Paris Commune, etc. I’m not sure they’re really calling for workers’ of the world to unite since I’m sure most actual “workers” wouldn’t want to be in the same room with these people (they’re weird, they stink). It’s street theater. It’s not that different for them than going to see some band nobody’s ever heard of or a poetry reading (do they still have those?) Most of their “classmates” go to the football game; they get a buzz out of disrupting almost anything normal.
This is why the MSM’s treatment of these people is exasperating to me. They make it sound like the best and brightest young people, our “college students,” got wind of Generalisimo Benito Hitler staging a violent coup on their campus, and as much as it pained them, they just had to drop the calculus book to express their disapproval in a “protest.”
* I still find it amazing that the press can’t distinguish between Trump’s thugs meeting to enjoy each other’s company in peace, and BLM’s and La Raza’s thugs coming to a Trump meeting. The media wants to portray as innocent victims those arriving with the expressed purpose of shutting Trump up and dispersing his supporters.
Shakespeare provides us with a framework to consider the problem: “Here lies the water. Good. Here stands the man. Good. If the man go to this water and drown himself, …he goes. Mark you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself.”
* Listen Bernie Sanders actually saying that Trump must control all of his supporters, but that he, Bernie Sanders, cannot be asked to take responsibility for his own supporters. Unbelievable.
Posted inAmerica|Comments Off on What Really Happened In Chicago Friday Night?
"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)
