According to The Week: “Francis eventually turned into a something resembling an all-out white nationalist, penning his most racist material under a pen name.”
Yair Hoffman writes: Every so often a speech comes along that not only has a remarkable impact upon its audience, but it changes the trajectory of where that society is heading.
Churchill gave such a speech in May of 1940 to the House of Commons. England was at the point of yi’ush – giving up hope in light of Nazi victories. Churchill gave his promise of nothing but blood, sweat, toil and tears. The trajectory changed. The British were inspired to a level of resiliency that eventually carried them to victory over the Nazis.
There have been others as well. Patrick Henry’s speech against the Stamp Act of 1764. His speech of “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” inspired the colonists to eventually cast off the oppressive British government. That speech too, changed the trajectory of apathy and hopelessness in the face of oppressive tyranny. And America was born.
Last night too, a speech was delivered in Lakewood, New Jersey. It was a powerful, emotional speech that cut to the very heart of a grave and critical problem that is uniquely affecting the Jewish community in Lakewood. It was delivered by Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz.
It was a speech that will, no doubt, change the trajectory.
The problem Mr. Rechnitz addressed was the growing number of rejected children – children that have been excluded or precluded from attending any of the fine mosdos in Lakewood. He addressed the bullet-like blow to the self-esteem of these children – to the instantaneous destruction of the self-worth of our youth, possibly never to be restored again.
He first spoke of almanos and young children who have lost their fathers. He spoke of the daily tzaar of the almanah. How they had lost the man who stood with them under the Chuppa not so long ago.. Who smiled, laughed, and danced before them. He spoke how he had spent Shabbos with yesomos and yesomim. Young boys under Bar Mitzvah, who don’t have a hand to hold onto, when they walk to Shul on Shabbos.
And then, Reb Shlomo Yehudah spoke of our own self-made problem – a problem we ourselves have created because of our attitudes. He spoke 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 tender young age, try to put on a normal face, but hide in their room and cry and cry more. 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.”
He spoke of a 13 year old girl, who clearly sees that nobody wants her. She’s the town’s Pesoles. “Can you imagine,” Mr. Rechnitz asked, “an innocent Bas Yisroel, putting on a face for her friends, claiming she hasn’t had enough time to decide which school to go to, only to lay her head down on her pillow at night, the pillow which is still wet from the tears of the night before?”
He remarked that just on his drive into Lakewood that day, he receieved three calls from parents who asked him, “I hear you’re coming to Lakewood, can you speak to so and so. And I will address every one of them, because how can I not? We are a nation who is Noseh B’oel Chaveiro. How can we be comfortable just because everything is fine and dandy by us, while someone else is clearly suffering. Forget Ahavas Yisroel. I won’t ask for that much, but another Yid needs us, another Yid is crying out to us. How can we not answer him, yet expect Hashem to answer us, to take care of our needs?”
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Israel’s press is usually far more critical of Israel than America’s press. European news coverage of Israel is more similar to Israel’s news coverage of Israel than it is to America’s news coverage.
Israelis are realists, Americans tend to have utopian notions about democracy, human rights and American exceptionalism. Israelis are more like Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Serbs in their realism and unabashed ethno-nationalism.
Israelis regard Americans as naive and foolish.
You have never had a Gentile country with more than a 5% population of Jews without massive anti-Semitism and disruption. It’s safest for Jews to keep our percentage in a goy country well below 5%. As Jews rise in numbers and power and out-compete goyim for scarce resources, the goyim fight back. It may well be the same in the media. It may be best we keep our numbers small in gentile lands so gentiles can shape their own myths and media. Jews can study Torah.
With a circulation as low as 6% market share of Israeli print media according to recent research, Haaretz is utterly unrepresentative of the Israeli public and political system at large. Yet, Haaretz is still considered by outsiders to be the Israeli equivalent of the New York Times.
To be clear, Haaretz, even with a low circulation, is still a vital part of Israel’s dynamic and democratic free press. But the fraught and often aggressive discourse that characterizes so much of the Israeli debate sounds very different to a foreign audience.
Indeed, Haaretz, through its English-language website, has demonstrated that it is more concerned with its international audience than its domestic Israeli one. Haaretz, unable to exercise any meaningful influence at home, is using its English-language website and print newspaper to encourage external pressure on Israel.
Schocken’s piece would not be amiss on anti-Israel hate sites such as Electronic Intifada or Mondoweiss. Schocken refers to “nearly 50 years of Israeli apartheid,” and compares Israel to the former South African regime:
The Israeli apartheid regime is also illegitimate, and it is no surprise that the complete identification which the government is creating between Israeli policy and apartheid is causing the world to question not only Israel’s control of Palestinians without rights, but also the legitimacy of the state itself and the whole Zionist idea. If, as in the government’s policy, apartheid is a necessary condition for the fulfillment of Zionism and the existence of Israel, then Zionism and the state are illegitimate.
Schocken is entitled to his opinions, even to the extent of portraying Israel as an illegitimate state. However, he is apparently hell-bent on “weaponizing” his newspaper in order to delegitimize Israel:
Whoever fears Israel’s insistence on maintaining its apartheid regime and understands that there is no chance of eliminating it from within, should view the EU labeling of settlement products, the pressure FIFA has placed on Israel and Brazil’s refusal to accept Dani Dayan as ambassador as encouraging signs. This is a crucial beginning of global action against an illegitimate situation that Israel insists on maintaining, but will be forced to give up. The government will predictably take “appropriate Zionist responses” to this pressure and pass anti-democratic initiatives to suppress and silence Israelis who, understanding that only external pressure will bring change, draw world attention to displays of Israeli apartheid.
Haaretz, for Amos Schocken, is an integral part of this “global action” against “Israeli apartheid.” Where does Schocken draw the line? If labeling settlement products or refusing the credentials of an ambassador are a “crucial beginning,” what exactly is the end game?
For the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, Israel is also an illegitimate apartheid state that deserves to be destroyed. If Schocken has adopted the narrative and language of BDS, then, presumably, he is content to see Israel as the pariah amongst the nations. Haaretz then becomes the token Jew, much like those small yet very vocal anti-Zionist (and sometimes even antisemitic) Jews who serve as fig leaves for the BDS campaign. After all, if Jews and even a major Israeli newspaper are in favor of boycotting the Israeli “apartheid state,” then this form of assault on Israel’s wellbeing must be legitimate in the eyes of the uninformed observer.
Haaretz is striving not for objective and accurate reporting but for promoting a political agenda. It is incumbent, therefore, that the foreign media see Haaretz as a political entity rather than a primary news source. Using Haaretz as a cover for biased reporting is unacceptable.
While Haaretz is a product of Israel’s vibrant democracy and free press, it also plays a major role in the demonization of Israel. Amos Schocken’s latest opinion piece sadly acknowledges that Haaretz is anything but an unwilling accomplice.
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During my first trip to China in the summer of 1985, I visited English Corner in People’s Park in Shanghai one Sunday afternoon. It’s one of the places where young Chinese people used to practice their English with visiting foreigners. Officials from the university where I was teaching in Shanghai escorted me there, and a big crowd quickly gathered to talk with me—a tall, curly-haired foreigner—and pushed closer to shower me with questions.
Some of the questions seemed strange to me (“Do all Americans have AIDS?”) but most were routine, such as, “Where are you from? How do you like China? Are you married? Do you like Chinese girls?” After two months in China, none of this was surprising to me except for one additional question: “What is your religion?”
I was taken aback at first—it’s not a question I often hear when I travel abroad—but after a brief pause I answered, “I am Jewish.” The young questioner gave me a thumbs up and said, “Jews are the best.”
I got a similar question—and similar response—everywhere I traveled in China later that summer: Kunming, Chengdu, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Guangzhou. My unscientific survey suggested that the Chinese liked and admired Jews, although they didn’t seem to know much about them. I knew that there had been Jewish communities in Shanghai and other Chinese cities until shortly after WWII but that there was little evidence of their presence after the Communist takeover in 1949. There were a handful of Jewish tourists and visiting faculty at the time of my first visit. But I was curious about how average Chinese people had developed an image, seemingly a positive one, of Jews.
I visited China several times after that summer, but it wasn’t until 2008, when I was selected as a Fulbright lecturer at Nanjing University, that I had a chance to explore the popular Chinese image of Jews. By then, there were many Jewish visitors and business people from the United States and Israel. And economic reforms were transforming the country. Making and spending money seemed at least as important as Communist ideology.
When I first arrived to teach in Nanjing in the fall of 2008, I was joined by Yan Li, a history graduate student from my home university who had been staying with her family in Beijing. Yan and I visited bookstores throughout the city. We started at a small bookstore that featured books about evangelical Christianity. Yan asked the young woman who worked there if they had books about Jews, but the clerk had trouble answering the question. She didn’t know what Yan meant by “Jew.”
At larger bookstores, we found entire sections devoted to books about Jews. Most of the books focused on finance, such as 16 Reasons for Jews Getting Wealthy by Chu Ke; The Secret of Talmud: The Jewish Code of Wealth by Jiao Yiyang; and Secret of Jewish Success: Ten Commandments of Jewish Success by Li Huizhen. Yan helped me translate the books and we found they were filled with misunderstandings and stereotypes. And books purporting to be based on the Talmud were mostly pithy sayings about wealth with little or no connection to actual Talmudic passages.
Some of the misunderstandings are almost comical. One of the best-selling books is What’s Behind Jewish Success by Tian Zaiwei and Sha Wen. “It is said that Jews are distinguished by their noses,” the authors write. “All Jews have hooknoses. This is not accurate. Despite hook-nosed Jews in cartoons, only Jews in Russia and the Near East have hooknoses in real life.” They also write that “to save time, Jews never beat about the bush in negotiations as Chinese often do.” Jews control the diamond market, the authors also write, since diamonds are “valuable and easy to carry which is ideal for Jews who are always drifting.”
The most prominent author and editor of Chinese books about Jews is He Xiongfei, who identifies himself as a literary critic, orator, Jewish studies expert, and visiting professor at Nankai University. He is director of Xiongfei Limited in Hainan and has edited a number of book series on intellectual, literary, and cultural studies. His most popular series is titled “Revelations on the Jews Superior Intelligence,” launched in 1995. His books include Jewish Wisdom of Family Education: The Cultural Code of the Most Intelligent and Wealthy Nation in the World (2005); Secrets of Jewish Success: The Golden Rule of a Miraculous Nation (2004); and Uncovering the Enigma of Jewish Success in the World (2002). He also has edited Collection of Jewish Strategies (1995); Jewish Life of Money (2002); Jewish Magnates of Ideas (1995); Legend of World Famous Jewish Celebrities (1996): Riddle of Jews (1997); and Jewish Bigwigs’ Skills of Making Money (1996). His most recent publications are cartoon books for children about Jewish wisdom and the Talmud.
In the best-seller The Spirit of Jewish Culture (the English title on the cover is Whats [sic] Behind Jewish Cleverness) by Sai Ni Ya, one of He Xiongfei’s pseudonyms, he writes that Jews “are the most intelligent, mysterious, and the wealthiest people in the world. In a sense, not knowing about Jews equals not knowing the world! When Jews sneeze at home, all the banks in the world would catch a cold one by one. Five Jews together can control the gold market of the humankind; the antagonism between the East and the West, in a sense, can be said to be that between two Jews—Jesus and Marx.”
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Comment: I haven’t watched any telenovelas recently, but — at least up until a few years ago — the standard plot-line was:
episode-1) Boy meets girl
episodes 2 – 25) Boy gets distracted by various sulty temptresses with heaving bosoms while girl gets distracted by various ultra-macho caballeros
episode-26) Boy and girl get married by a priest (or maybe even by the Bishop) in a grand colonial church with a lot of white doves fluttering around.
Hard to criticize, really.
Chaim Amalek: Sounds racially healthy to me. Whenever I channel surf through these shows, I see a bunch of white people, albeit of the Ricky Riccardo set. Never any short dusky sorts. Is that real life?
* Christopher Donnellan: You’d think Mexico was a predominantly ‘white nation’ judging from the complexion of most cast members of their Telenovelas.
* Chaim Amalek: One reason home delivery is so popular among the women of New York is that it gives them a reason to meet such men.
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ESPN: The percentage of African-Americans playing Major League Baseball is at an all-time low and Gary Sheffield says he has a theory why that’s the case.
In an interview with GQ magazine that’s currently on newsstands, the typically outspoken Tigers designated hitter said Latin players have replaced African-Americans as baseball’s most prevalent minority because they are easier to control.
“I called it years ago. What I called is that you’re going to see more black faces, but there ain’t no English going to be coming out. … [It’s about] being able to tell [Latin players] what to do — being able to control them,” he told the magazine.
“Where I’m from, you can’t control us. You might get a guy to do it that way for a while because he wants to benefit, but in the end, he is going to go back to being who he is. And that’s a person that you’re going to talk to with respect, you’re going to talk to like a man.
“These are the things my race demands. So, if you’re equally good as this Latin player, guess who’s going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.”
According to a 2005 report by the University of Central Florida
Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, only 8.5 percent of
major leaguers were African-American — the lowest percentage since
the report was initiated in the mid-1980s. By contrast, whites
comprised 59.5 percent of the majors’ player pool, Latinos 28.7
percent and Asians 2.5.
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Nobody has adequately zeroed in on the underlying triple whammy — government blindness to the problem of Muslim integration, police failure to act and media-government collusion in “seeing no evil” — that underlie this European — not just German — tragedy.
For years, Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmo, led by popular Mayor Ilmar Reepalu, failed to ever hold to account Muslim perpetrators of hate crimes against the city’s tiny Jewish population. Muslim attacks on local Jews were even condoned by city fathers as understandable “payback” for Israeli actions against Palestinians. Reepalu is now retired, but the culture of denial and complicity he helped foster has contributed to inaction and silence in the face of a tremendous surge in rapes by predominately Muslim immigrants in Sweden, with the third-largest number of rapes worldwide.
In France, the culture of denial and inaction against hate crimes targeting Jews set the stage for today’s threat by Islamic radicals to social peace and French ideals. Back in 2000, before then-Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy tried to do something about it, French authorities stood by as Jews were attacked in religiously mixed Parisian neighborhoods. There followed firebombings of synagogues, incited by fiery street-corner imams, with tepid police response. One incident tells all: Two Arab men, one with a gun, commandeered a Jewish school bus, terrorizing the students and smashing the windshield. The police refused to label it as a hate crime, only as an act of vandalism. The most then-Prime Minister Lionel Jospin would do was “pray for harmony.” The escalating hate and violence laid the groundwork for the Muslim terrorist attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012, killing a rabbi and three little children.
Today, France’s struggles with homegrown and imported Islamic terrorism are a direct outgrowth of its years of cynical indifference to anti-Jewish Muslim violence and the no-go zones that emboldened Islamist extremists.
And as the political and social dynamics continue to roil, Jewish leadership wonders aloud whether there is any future for Jews in democratic Germany.
Looking forward, it is clear that while police and intelligence agencies can do more to protect us from the next Cologne or San Bernardino, the key lies within the Muslim world. ISIS and al-Qaida deftly market their extremist agenda on social media. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, our supposed NATO ally, said this during a speech in Cologne in front of a Muslim immigrant audience drawn from as far as Belgium, the Netherlands and France: “I understand very well that you are against assimilation. One cannot expect you to assimilate. … Assimilation is a crime against humanity.”
Belatedly, the White House has announced it will launch a new effort to counter ISIS’ inroads among young Muslims. We urge President Barack Obama to seek the counsel of Americans such as Zuhdi Jasser, the Phoenix cardiologist who helped found the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) and the Center for Islamic Pluralism.
A devout Muslim who believes that “America in fact provides the best atmosphere for Muslims to practice our faith,” Jasser spoke a few weeks ago at the launch of a Muslim Reform Movement at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He made clear that Erdogan’s anti-assimilation gospel is a dead end, that religious pluralism is indivisible, and that anti-Semitism will lead nowhere good for growing number of Muslim newcomers who want to be benefit from America’s historic “open door.”
Embracing that Muslim-to-Muslim message should be a top priority of a president in search of a legacy. It will make America safer and pave the way for new Muslim immigrants to become a part of the fabric of our democracy.
COMMENTS POSTED ON THE ARTICLE:
* You are dreaming if you think we could take in hundreds of thousands of Muslims without it having a detrimental effect on Jews. If my grandchildren are assaulted by Muslims and if my parents’ tombstones are desecrated will you take responsibility for it, Rabbi Cooper?
I recently saw an article that defines liberals perfectly and pertains especially to Jewish liberals. The definition of a Jewish liberal is a masochist who defends sadists.
* Jews have always acted as the canaries of civilization, when you let them be attacked, the time is very close to when you yourself will be attacked without pity by the same hateful attackers.
The answers to a problem never lie with “the other” here Islam. We need to tell Islam in no uncertain terms that our women and our lives are sacrosant, and this, unfortunately involves violence and intransigency, distrust and discrimination.
Islam needs a good reason to respect the West. So far it has a good reason to disrespect it, taunt it, and a well founded belief it can get away with it.
* This is what happens when you stop listening to your citizens.
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From Breitbart: “Please help us!… It is… very hard to live day-to-day as a woman” says 16 year old Bibi Wilhailm, a German girl who has uploaded her personal experiences of Arab and Muslim migrants in a new video that some claim is being censored by Facebook under it’s new “hate speech” guidelines.
The 20 minute video, apparently created by the 16 year old Facebook user Miss Wilhailm, starts with her saying that she is, “so scared everywhere, for example if my family and I go out together, or if I see a movie with my friends. Usually I stay out until 6pm in winter, and it is so scary. It is just very hard to live day-to-day as a woman.”
The girl – who some social media users report has now been banned from Facebook, though others say she has removed herself – then goes on to talk about an incident that happened to her at a local supermarket saying, “I ran all the way home. I was frightened for my life. There’s no other way to describe it.”
She talks about her experiences over summer, when a group of Muslims said that her and her friends were “sluts” for walking outside in t-shirts.
“Yes, we were wearing t-shirts. It’s summer!” She adds: “Another day, I was wearing this. My friend and I purchased it while shopping. If we feel like wearing it, we will wear it! And you Muslims have no right to physically assault or rape us for it! God willing, never in my life. You have no right to attack us because we are wearing t-shirts. You also have no right to rape”.
Miss Wilhailm then turns toward what she sees on social media, describing how she has seen, “a 17 year old attacked, a 15 year old attacked, two 12 year olds attacked, so many,” and questions, “why should we, children, have to grow up in such fear?”
“I cannot understand why they do this. But more importantly, I cannot understand why Germany is doing nothing! Why is Germany standing by, watching, and then doing nothing? Please explain, why. Men of Germany, these people are killing your children, they are killing your women. We need your protection,” she goes on to say adding, “The politicians live alone in their villas, drink their cocktails, and do nothing. They do nothing! I do not know what world they live in, but please, people, please help us! Please, do something!”
Continuing, Miss Wilhailm tells of her own personal experiences with Arab and Muslims migrants saying, “One day, my friend and I were walking down the street, and a group of Arabs were protesting and demonstrating. They shouted, ‘Allah! Allah! Allah is the one God! Kill those infidels! Allah Allah!’ What should I do? Should I wear a burka? Why should I have to convert to Islam?”
“It’s fine if you believe in Allah, but why do you want to make everyone else believe in Allah too? I just think it would be better if there were no religion. Stop trying to make everyone else believe in your God when they do not want to”.
According to the her experiences, the police are no help. She alleges, “they say it is a problem and they ignore it. It is unfair. They laugh at us. They say we are dumb,” and that, “they don’t care about our fears.”
This description matches many other cases where police have been afraid to be labeled as racist for taking a hard line on migrant crime and even victims of migrant crime have been accused of racism for speaking up.
Free market liberal group Freiheitliche Aufklaerung or ‘Liberal Education’ posted the video on their Facebook group page and made the following comment when it disappeared from Miss Wilhailm’s page:
“How many have already noticed the video “You make Germany broken!” is no longer there. In this video, the 16-year-old girl said that she now is afraid to go out alone and that they can not understand the insane asylum policy of the German government. Europe and Germany are thus ruined… Unfortunately, we live in a social dictatorship, in what critics of the establishment and its illiberal policies are tackled and accosted in the strongest terms.”
The group claims it doesn’t have evidence, but says it “can not rule out a censorship by Facebook 100%”.
Breitbart London understands from Facebook that while the matter has not been fully investigated yet, the usual reason for videos disappearing are down to the user taking them down themselves.
The censorship fears come after Facebook announced last year that they would help the German government monitor for “hate speech” and as recently as this month Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has demanded Facebook remove posts and videos in the wake of the Cologne sex attacks. The company insists it does not comment on individual incidents.
The video ends with a stark message for German Chancellor Angela Merkel: “Thank you, Angela Merkel, for killing Germany! I have no more respect for you, Merkel. I do not think you know what you have done. You do not see how our lives have changed. Open your eyes! Is this normal? Should I, a 16-year old who is almost 17, be so scared to walk outside my house? No, it is not normal. You have killed Germany!”
She closes: “men please help your women. Help your children. I am so scared. My friends have the same fears. We are shocked that this has happened. I hope this video can convince you, and that these terrible events can stop.”
Social media users are posting the video to as many video sharing sites and blogs as possible in a bid to keep it online.
TRANSCRIPT:
Hello, you can read the newspapers but this video is about the real situation in Germany. I would like to tell everyone about this on Youtube and Facebook. I am almost 16. I would like everyone to know what is going on, what I am authentically feeling at this moment.
And I am so scared everywhere. For example, if my family and I go out together, or if I see a movie with my friends. Usually I stay at home, but sometimes I stay out until 6 pm in winter, and it is so scary. It is just very hard to live day-to-day life as a woman.
I just want to say that I am not a racist. But one day, a terrible thing happened at the supermarket. I ran all the way home. I was so frightened for my life. There’s no other way to describe it.
My aunt and her friend have said you have to grow up. Why should we, children, have to grow up in such fear? It’s not just me, my friends too. You can see on Facebook, a 17 year old attacked, a 15 year old attacked, two 12-year olds attacked, so many. It is really so sad that this is happening … because of YOU PEOPLE. 🙁
I cannot understand why they do this. But more importantly, I cannot understand why Germany is doing nothing! Why is Germany standing by, watching, and then doing nothing? Please explain, why. Men of Germany, these people are killing your children, they are killing your women. We need your protection. We are so scared, we don’t want to be frightened to go to the grocery store alone after sunset. The politicians live alone in their villas, drink their cocktails, and do nothing. They do nothing! I do not know what world they live in, but please, people, please help us! Please, do something! I cannot understand why this is happening. One day, my friend and I were walking down the street, and a group of Arabs were protesting and demonstrating. They shouted, “Allah! Allah! Allah is the one God! Kill those infidels! Allah Allah!” What should I do? Should I wear a burka? Why should I have to convert to Islam?
It’s fine if you believe in Allah, but why do you want to make everyone else believe in Allah too? I just think it would be better if there were no religion. Stop trying to make everyone else believe in your God when they do not want to.
Please, people of Germany. Do something!
When I try to tell the authorities about what has happened, they hold their hand up towards me and they say it is a problem and then ignore it. and they laugh. It is unfair. They laugh at us. They say we are dumb. They think this not only of me, but of the entire state of Germany. They don’t care about our fear. Please help us. This is an emergency! There are more and more of them.
One time in summer, the Muslims said we were sluts for walking outside in a t-shirt.
Yes, we were wearing t-shirts. It’s summer!
Another day, I was wearing this. My friend and I purchased it while shopping hehe. If we feel like wearing it, we will wear it! And you Muslims have no right to physically assault or rape us for it! God willing, never in my life. You have no right to attack us because we are wearing t-shirts. You also have no right to rape.
The life of Germany has changed because these people cannot integrate. We give them so much help. We support them financially and they do not have to work. But they only want more babies and more welfare and more money. Men of Germany, please, patrol the streets and protect us. Do this for your women and your children. If you do that, I believe that we will have a chance.
This sort of action would be wonderful. We would be so grateful and thankful. So many thanks, if steadily, more men would come to protect us. We are so scared.
I am so upset about what Merkel has done.
Thank you, Angela Merkel, for killing Germany! I have no more respect for you, Merkel. I do not think you know what you have done. You do not see how our lives have changed. Open your eyes! Is this normal? Should I, a 16-year old who is almost 17, be so scared to walk outside my house? No, it is not normal. You have killed Germany!
This is the truth. We are no longer allowed to walk outside. We are no longer allowed to wear our clothes. We are no longer allowed to live the German life. This is the sad truth.
I think it’s about time to end this video. I believe I have given a full account from a normal person. I hope others can see this and understand.
I only want to end with one message: Men, please, help your women. Help your children. I am so scared. My friends have the same fear. We are shocked that this has happened. I hope this video can convince you, and that this terrible events can stop.
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* That is so funny. The researchers didn’t think that what non-whites think would be of any importance and so didn’t even bother to interview them. They automatically bypassed them as though they were invisible.
* The left/academic label of “racist” is a slur only directed at whites. They would never call South African blacks or Gulf Arabs racist, even though they meet their definition.
* Lots of pushback in the comments. And this is The Atlantic! The cultural winds are definitely shifting. Can anyone envisage what a politically incorrect yet liberal future might look like?
* According to many liberals, it would look like Rwanda. That is the conclusion that many liberals jump to: equality or genocide – there is no middle ground. What does that tell you about them?
* Rawlsian arguments: African Americans didn’t choose to be born with lower median IQs, and they are still our fellow citizens, so they deserve our support and help. A recognition of IQ differences would support segregation by IQ in schools (it wouldn’t be strict segregation by race, since an African American with an IQ of, say, 90, would attend the same schools as a white American with an IQ of 90). Low IQ schools would be focused on basics – the three R’s – using simple rote learning methods, followed by vocational training with a pipeline to skilled trade jobs. This would be combined with a revival of the union movement to support higher wages for blue-collar Americans, as well as a reduction in immigration and targeted increases in tariffs and trade barriers to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. (much as Reagan did with the Japanese car industry in the 1980s to convince them to open American factories).
Meanwhile, we would embark upon a massive, Manhattan-Project-scale campaign to find a method of increasing genetic IQ. This could conceivably be done in a decade or two with enough resources, though you’d still have lower-IQ older people around for a while even afterward. We would also do everything possible to remove any environmental hazards that can lower IQ, such as lead-contaminated soil.
* Study out today showing 42 of the 50 most violent cities in the world are in Latin America, based on murder rate per 100,000.
There are four cities in the US (you know which ones) and four in South Africa on the list.
21 are in Brazil, the site of the 2016 Summer Olympics!! Eight in Venezuela and five in Mexico.
Mexico somehow got lucky and had five cities fall off the list from last year, even though homicides were up in Mexico for 2015 over 2014.
* SJWism is the last respectable refuge of white supremacism.
I’ve had exactly the same thought: that when looking at the spectrum of ideologies, modern liberalism belongs as a sub-set of white racial supremacism.
It’s telling that liberals are obsessed with the Nazis, as political groups often despise the very groups they are politically closest to–the ‘Judean Popular Front syndrome’ if you like, because they are competing for the same support.
In an era when whites are denied any way of understanding their own history, or any kind of racial/historical identity, consciousness, or sense of destiny, is it outlandish to suppose that for some liberals White Guilt offers them the only acceptable way for them to have a racial sense of belonging–albeit and entirely negative one? One in which the Master Race willingly dissolves itself–imagine Angela Merkel as Arnie at the end of Terminator 2, lowering herself into the molten metal–for the sake of creating an Equality of Untermensch at some future date?
* Yeah, you should hear what they say on Spanish language talk radio. One of my favorites (on a San Francisco station) was Hispanics complaining about Philipinos snarfing up Affirmative Action jobs meant for Hispanics (in particular how they’ve established a lock on Postal Service jobs).
* Just flipped the channel to Supergirl … Strong, smart, sexy, competent black man (who apparently is a Martian in disguise) talking about how the WHITE martians brutally slaughtered his people, the green martians back on Mars ….
The good news is, the ratings are starting to drop for this sh*t show.
* Barrons: SAT Integrity Falls Victim to China Cheating Scandal
College Board under fire amid security breaches and calls for the test to be optional in U.S. college admissions.
* “I think it was Vonnegut who pointed out that, for human beings, ideas are more badges of group identity than attempts to understand reality. It is indeed the same thing for both religious believers and leftists.”
I’m with Vonnegut. That’s far more of a human flaw than a quirk of the religious or the left. The right and secularists (and libertarians, wishy-washy middle-roaders, etc…) are certainly not immune.
In fact, that kind of twisting is arguably more dangerous among those who insist that their faction is intrinsically less susceptible to it, but that, too, is a flaw that extends to most all of humanity.
* The Martians come to Earth, and, feeling superior to Earthlings, grant, say, Minnesotans a permanent sense of grievance and a permanent sense of virtue, despite evidence that both grievance and virtue are unearned and undue. Swap Martians for whites, often the offspring of wealthy industrialists, and Minnesotans for blacks.
The left-liberal/SJW mindset has, I think, more complicated antecedents, but respectable white supremacism seems to me at first glance to lie among them. The idea needs more work than I can offer.
* The moderators here should help out by pressing a heavier boot on the anti-Semitism. The simple fact of racial IQ distributions means that no intellectual operation can get moving in the modern world that systematically excludes Jews.
Incidentally, I reported some comments at a popular news website that uses Facebook comments for egregious anti-Semitism. Facebook says such comments are just fine with them. Offend Palestinians and your account is liable to be locked out permanently but that was fine. It’s no wonder we need ADL. And with mass migration from the most anti-Semitic populations of the world into the West, it’s going to get worse.
Anyway, I think a reasonable standard of someone being “really smart” is to have made a 30 or higher on the ACT. We could use different cutoffs, but this will suffice.
Three-tenths of one percent of blacks score a 30 or higher on the ACT. (Roughly 1,100 in the entire country).
1.46 percent of Hispanics score a 30 or higher.
Eight percent of whites score a 30 or higher (this includes Jews and American Indians; the former I couldn’t back out, the latter I was too lazy to).
Eighteen percent of Asians score a 30 or higher.
So there are roughly 24 times more smart whites than there are smart blacks, and 60 times more smart Asians than there are smart blacks. It’s certainly amazing how those college kids will notice things!
* The ACT benefits from not being paid as much attention as the SAT. The ACT folks probably want to keep it that way.
* One must also remember that in 2016 Trump is now mainstream.
Or rather, Trump represents opinions that are now mainstream. Alt-right opinion has been building for a long time now. Every year it has been gaining strength, building exponentially. Few people notice that when you lop off the end of the hocky stick curve and zoom in, it’s another hockey stick. The growth rate of the curve is the same, but when it builds from 10% to 50% of the population, it’s a lot more noticeable than the 2 to 10% jump.
Put it this way: If Trump had tried to run for president 4 years ago with the same campaign, would he have had the same success? Maybe, probably not. 8 years ago? Doubtful. 12 years ago? Would have been dismissed as a loon.
* Middle Eastern Muslim cities like Cairo have tended to be relatively safe to walk around, except during political turmoil.
Things change.
Mexico, for example, was fairly low crime in the 1960s-1980s. The mirror on my dad’s rental car got busted while we were playing golf outside Veracruz in 1974. That’s about the only crime I can remember in about 30 days of wandering around Mexico over the decades with my father. My dad was convinced it wasn’t just a minor hit and run accident, that it was done intentionally by the golf club members who didn’t like outsiders at their country club. I didn’t believe him then. Now I don’t know what to think.
* Just as a rampaging idiot like George W Bush made it possible for a culturally Marxist, anti-American black man like Obama to be elected, Obama has made it possible for a nationalistic, non-pc candidate like Trump to have a chance.
* Steve, it looks like Denmark may be picking up on your idea to have immigrants require insurance, or at least a deposit:
Denmark is expected to adopt a law on Tuesday requiring police to seize cash and other valuables from some asylum seekers as they enter the country. The seizures, which would go toward defraying the cost of refugee care, are being widely criticized as a violation of human rights.
Mehran Ziai, a Kurd, …. says if he’d known about the proposed law when he came from northern Iraq five months ago, he might have gone elsewhere. “I had no choice but to come to Europe,” he says, “but maybe I wouldn’t have come to Denmark, because I see now they don’t like refugees here. Maybe I would have gone to Sweden or Norway or another country.”
Bingo.
* This was my problem with the new Star Wars – that every casting choice was so clearly laden with 2015-era political significance. The whole point of sci-fi and fantasy is escapism from our current cultural milieu, but in spite of some good scenes, the movie kept telling me the galaxy far far away was engaged in a titanic battle of Hillary’s Democratic Party versus the Space Nazis.
* Marty Peretz: “Well, I am extremely pessimistic about Mexican-American relations, not because the U.S. had done anything specifically wrong to our southern neighbor but because a (now not quite so) wealthy country has as its abutter a Latin society with all of its characteristic deficiencies: congenital corruption, authoritarian government, anarchic politics, near-tropical work habits, stifling social mores, Catholic dogma with the usual unacknowledged compromises, an anarchic counter-culture and increasingly violent modes of conflict. Then, there is the Mexican diaspora in America, hard-working and patriotic but mired in its untold numbers of illegals, about whom no one can talk with candor.”
The first thing that came to mind was my pet term that shows absolutely no sign of catching on: liberal white supremacy. Not Peretz, obviously, but his detractors at JournoList. I haven’t read the Two-Minute Hate yet, just Lying Eyes’ set-up, and the quote. But I don’t have to. I know what’s coming next; Liberal White Supremacy, which is the only way I can explain the absolute refusal on the part of liberals to take sentiments like Peretz’ seriously. The Great Big White Man can never be harmed by anything the little brown man does, so liberals are secure to play their insipid status games, where they prove they aren’t the kind of white trash threatened by LBMs. Of course, like everything else in liberalism, Liberal White Supremacy is a perversion of an underlying truth.
* By definition, since I only considered Caucasian girls when dating and courting, I must be racist. Good enough for me.
When someone calls me a name that I openly embrace, they’ve lost their little magic power (of incantations), haven’t they?
* Mexico’s recent murder wave is an initiative of the Presidente Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) administration. After years of cooperation with the drug cartels, Calderón — a recovering alcoholic — decided that the Gringo drug war had to be fought in earnest.
Since Gringos spend more on drugs than the entire Mexican military and police budgets by several times, the government forces were heavily outgunned. About half the Gringo drug money eventually makes its way south of the border to pay for smuggling the drugs north and the Gringos are willing to pay whatever it takes to keep the drugs flowing so cartel funds are effectively unlimited. Of course, much of the price of the impossible dream to stopping cartels is paid in blood.
Before Calderón, the anti-drug forces simply took cash from the cartels and distributed it among themselves under the table. Then the cartels set up friendly busts from time to time where the police would put on a big show for the occupying Gringo advisors pretending to collaborate with them by seizure of guns and powders and cash. It was peaceful and safe. Stupid Gringo bureaucrats didn’t know any better.
But Mexico is still safe to walk around in, except for a few northern cities. It would be astonishing if a 30-day visit resulted in any kind of contact with crime at all. Just stay out of places like Ciudad Juárez.
So I don’t know how dangerous many Arab cities are, but I expect a lot of them are dangerous. We simply don’t know much about places like Yemen or Gaza or ISIS. The Sub-Saharan and Afghan Moslem cities seem very violent from stories, but that isn’t data. I expect Sudan, Afghanistan, and the like might dominate a list of really murderous places with enough documentation.
Central America has always been both extremely violent — since Maya times — and good at orderly record keeping. That’s why the numbers there are so extreme. Unlike Mexico, the Mayans were never conquered by a European power and pacified. The Maya’s Guerra De Las Castas was bloody and horrible into the twentieth century and was resolved only by accepting democratic Maya majority rule. Then the Communists brought mass bloodshed again driven by Maya identity disguised as class conflict.
* if Leftists embraced HBD they would try and impose rules to encourage inter-racial mating. IQ is just one aspect of HBD and genetic engineering will first be available to the wealthy and too costly for use among the masses.
Leftists who embrace HBD would actively promote inter-racial mating. Just as the Left today fights against income inequality via taxes and quotas , they would use the same tools to wage battle against genetic inequality…..the government would subsidies a sperm donor program, so black females could get free sperm from East Asian donors….white and Asian females who have mulatto offspring would be given tax incentives , stipends , grants etc…to encourage miscegenation.
Most schools are already segregated, to encourage racial mixing leftists would work even harder to desegregate our schools, to encourage inter-racial mating. Schools which are less than 10% black would lose all government funding and no public school would exceed 20% black.
* The only purpose of a point spread is to ensure that a roughly equal amount of money is best on both teams.
Well, usually that’s what a book wants, and sometimes not, and how often a particular book wants that varies from book to book.
The advantage the bettor has over the book is that the bettor doesn’t have to play every game, while the book attracts a large clientele by offering odds on a lot of games in a lot of sports. When Jacksonville State plays Tennessee Tech in college hoops, most or all of the books are simply going to want to split the action. It’s a D-1 game, and they have to put up a number, so they do. They might have 100 college games plus 7 or 8 NBA games and 8 or 9 NHL games on the same Saturday (plus maybe pro tennis and European soccer and who knows what else). They’re unlikely to take a side, as they’re well aware that some people in Jacksonville, Alabama, may have a much better handle on what the line ought to be. However, in other cases, books will take a side.
First, the guys running the show generally like to gamble. I watched the Panthers-Pats Super Bowl with a party that included a former sportsbook director. He had 55 dimes on the side and 33 on the total. At one of the forums I frequent, we have posters who are inhouse at books in Costa Rica and other points south. They have opinions, and they shade lines to get uneven action. Not that long ago, when the Stardust used to put out the first numbers each Sunday during the football season, Roxy was always presumed to be inviting action on the favorite when he would make a team a 2,5-, 6.5-, or 9.5-point favorite or on the dog at +3.5, +7.5, etc.
Second, taking a side maximizes profits where the book is better at determining the true line than the public is. The Kelly Criterion remains applicable when you’re a sportsbook betting at +110 instead of -110, and you’re leaving money on the table if you don’t set the number somewhere between the true line and the split-the-action line. If your competitors do this (successfully) and you don’t, you may “conservative” yourself out of business.
* Kobe Bryant by himself never showed any ability to make his team better during his career. He won three titles with Phil Jackson and Shaq and Shaq was the MVP of all three championships. After having the streak stopped by San Antonio, the Lakers signed Peyton and Malone to push for a fourth one which despite being huge favorites they lost to the Pistons 4-1, largely because Bryant wanted to be “the man” more then in winning the title.
He pouted afterwards and got Shaq traded on unfavorable terms to Miami and de facto got Phil Jackson fired despite his then nine titles. The next three full seasons without a big man ( and with Jackson without a big the last two after being rehired after season one ) Bryant’s team missed the playoffs the first year and then had back to back first round exits. After this he pouted and demanded a trade from the Lakers because they couldn’t win with the team he demanded from Buss.
They were likewise going nowhere the following season when they got former Laker star and GM Jerry West who was know the Grizzlies GM to trade them their best players for gum and comic books and, lo and behold the Lakers became contenders again, winning the Western Conference, but losing to Boston 4-2 largely due again to Bryant’s inability to share the limelight with his teammates including the one that got him a new lease on life.
Now with a legitimate big man with passing skill the Lakers won two more titles the next two seasons after Bryant got Gasol for a full season for the first time. Eventually he got tired the little attention that Gasol got and eventually blew up that team as well, Jackson included, and have done absolutely nothing since. These last two seasons where the Lakers are one of the worst teams in the NBA are fitting end to career marked selfishness and an inability to play well with others.
* It’ll be interesting to see, btw, when the steroids revelations finally come out about the NBA. Clearly many of the players have been on them (check out the physiques in the 1990s!), and I think Lebron was one of them—his physique has been far too muscular compared to forwards of days gone by.
I usually judge physiques of baseball and basketball players by pre-1990s standards, since the late 1980s seems to be when athletes started to, en mass, drop the old superstitions about “weight lifting making you too tight to move”, which was probably due to the introduction of steroids, which offered bulk/strength without the loss of flexibility/agility ascribed to weight lifting. (Jose Conseco admitted being a sort of Typhoid Mary of Steroids in the late 1980s in baseball).
Anyway, Lebron took off his shirt once during an NBA game at the behest of his agent to show off for the crowd, and he was far too bulky and sculpted compared to pre-1990s power forwards/small forwards. Then you remember he was carrying that extra bulk down a hardwood floor 80-100 times a year, and it was clear the only way he could do so and remain that fast and agile was some sort of juice. Compare his body to, say, Tim Duncan, and he looked like Arnold.
Anyway, when the NBA thing hits, it’ll be great. Another circus.
* Both Newton and Russell Wilson were outstanding over the second half of the season, while this year the leading white pocket quarterbacks seemed to get dinged up and their effectiveness diminished as the season dragged on and weather got worse.
Here’s an interesting hypothesis that could easily be tested: white pocket passing quarterbacks tend to be better in the first half of the season before it gets cold and wet, while black running quarterbacks are better over the second half of the season.
I haven’t noticed this before 2015, so it’s probably not true in general, but it seemed to be true in 2015.
Or maybe it’s becoming more true as more rules get enforced to prevent quarterbacks from getting injured?
* They should do more to provide placekickers with opportunities to be heroes as well as goats.
Here’s a vague idea: put a 10 foot tall net between the crossbars between 20 and 30 feet off the ground. Kick it into the net you get two points, below the net one point, over the net zero points. That would encourage low kicks, which would make blocking kicks more feasible.
Blocked kicks are great.
My son’s JV team won their league on last play of the season blocked field goal run back 95 yards for a touchdown: it was the single most exciting play I’ve seen in 50 years of watching football.
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