December 28, 2015 Black Violence Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Black Violence

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Luke Ford

Here are some tweets from this important account:

* It’s time for white Americans to boycott black Hollywood and their supporters.

* Published on Dec 28, 2015: In this footage, released 6 days ago, a Muslim immigrant in Germany brags about how he and his buddies gang raped a virgin until she was “full of dirt and sperm” and “completely devastated” on the ground until “she could go on no more”. His friend is very interested in the details, but is visibly disappointed because they did not violate her anally. They did, however, “spit on her like pigs”. This man walks free while thousands in Germany are in prison for speaking their mind.

* Police searching for black males who robbed and shot elderly woman

* Muslim in NYC bomb plot stabbed child in the neck, was a audition for ISIS

* Non-white youth attack man with metal pipe two days after he arrived in Syracuse.

* Black male sexually assaults and robs woman in Hackensack, New Jersey.

* Black male on bail shoots pregnant woman to death on Las Vegas Strip.

* Black male beat and stole from developmentally-delayed woman.

* Four black culprits arrested in robbery spree targeting the elderly

* Philly muslim to stand trial for attempting to join and support ISIS.

* Black male pleads guilty to beating his white girlfriend to death.

* Black male doused woman with gasoline and set her on fire, burned alive

* Black police officer arrested for kidnapping and rape, sodomy, while on duty.

* Black male arrested for shooting woman to death in Dallas.

* Black male exposes himself, asks for sex act, then shows gun at restaurant to lower his bill.

* Black Normandy church employee charged with child molestation, sodomy.

* Black brothers arrested for raping two girls, ages five and six.

* Pizza shop owner, muslim invader, admits trying to recruit for ISIS.

* Three black males arrested for shooting white college student to death.

* Black male attacked white man with machete while screaming fu*k white people.

* Black male sentenced, stabbed white wife in neck/back and beat her to death.

* Black male beat white girlfriend’s head in with a cinder block.

* Black muslim who helped plan cartoon attack charged with supporting ISIS.

* U.S. Marshals arrest black male for rape and sexual abuse against a child.

* Black male sentenced for rape, sodomy of child under the age of 14.

* Prison for black HIV positive male who didn’t warn 3 sexual partners.

* Three life sentences for black inmate who choked and brutally raped clerk.

* Black males appear in front of judge for murder, shot white man to death.

* Black male shoots white man in back of head w/ shotgun, dies from injuries.

* After black youth attack, white St. Paul teacher plans to sue school district.

* Black male murdered his elderly father, multiple stab wounds to head.

* Black male followed woman off train, robbed and sexually assaulted her.

* Black Philadelphia Sheriff indicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges.

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How 2015 Fueled The Rise Of The Freewheeling, White Nationalist Alt Right Movement

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Buzzfeed:

WASHINGTON — Old-guard racists like David Duke aren’t the only white nationalists to have been encouraged by Donald Trump’s candidacy this year: His bid has also provided a tremendous boost to a newer movement calling itself the “alt right.”
Up until now, the alt right labored mostly in obscurity, its internal fights and debates hidden from anyone who wasn’t directly looking for them. But all that’s starting to change, and it’s only getting stronger.
“This is really a phenomenon that’s been happening over the last year,” said Richard Spencer, president of the white nationalist National Policy Institute. “2015 has been huge.”
The movement probably doesn’t look like anything you’ve seen before. The alt right is loosely connected, and mostly online. The white nationalists of the alt right share more in common with European far-right movements than American ones. This is a movement that draws upon relatively obscure political theories like neoreaction or the “Dark Enlightenment,” which reject the premises on which modernity is built, like democracy and egalitarianism. But it’s not all so high-minded as that. Take a glance at the #altright hashtag on Twitter or at The Right Stuff, an online hub of the movement, and you’ll find a penchant for aggressive rhetoric and outright racial and anti-Semitic slurs, often delivered in the arch, ironic tones common to modern internet discourse. Trump is a hero on the alt right and the subject of many adoring memes and tweets.
In short, it’s white supremacy perfectly tailored for our times: 4chan-esque racist rhetoric combined with a tinge of Silicon Valley–flavored philosophizing, all riding on the coattails of the Trump boom.
Spencer himself can claim credit for coining the term “alt right”; in 2010, he founded AlternativeRight.com, which is now RadixJournal. But he says the term has gotten a second life in the past year due to a confluence of external factors. “I think it has a lot to do with Trump,” he said. “I think the refugee crisis is also an inspiration. I just think things have gotten so real.”
Jared Taylor, the American Renaissance founder who along with Spencer is considered one of the chiefs of the intellectual wing of white nationalism, also acknowledged Trump’s influence, but said, “It doesn’t have to do only with Trump,” citing Black Lives Matter and “the current rowdiness on college campuses” as other inspirations.
“I think it goes by a lot of different names,” Taylor said. “I consider it a dissident right as well.”
Spencer believes the alt right is “deeply connected” with his work. “I would say that what I’m doing is we’re really trying to build a philosophy, an ideology around identity, European identity,” he said, “and I would say that the alt right is a kind of the take-no-prisoners Twitter troopers of that.”
The alt right’s targets don’t include just liberals, blacks, Jews, women, Latinos, and Muslims, who are all classified a priori as objects of suspicion. (Though this has not gone unnoticed: “It’s definitely something we’re aware of and tracking,” said Marilyn Mayo, director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. “There are more white supremacists who are defining themselves as part of the alt right.”)
The alt right’s real objective, if one can be identified, is to challenge and dismantle mainstream conservatism.
It’s in part responsible for the spread of the “cuckservative” slur that gained currency over the summer and likely originated in forums on sites like My Posting Career and The Right Stuff, and has come to define a far-right contempt for conservatives they view as weak or sellouts — often those who oppose Trump.
So far, they haven’t garnered much attention from mainstream conservative figures, though they’ve begun to intersect a bit with national political commentary.
“You are on fire tonight, Alt Right!” conservative commentator Ann Coulter tweeted in August at an account called @_AltRight_ whose current avatar is a photo of Front National scion Marion Maréchal-Le Pen. Coulter’s rant about Jews over the summer was met with approval by Spencer. Her public persona has become more and more tied to a kind of white identity politics; Coulter’s book Adios America! may have had some influence on Donald Trump’s hard right turn on immigration, and her Twitter feed has lately seemed of a piece with alt right ideas about America being a white nation (“All trying to imitate Trump on immigration, but it’s not just security!!! Its CULTURE!!!! See Miami, Houston, Nashville etc etc”) and secretive Jewish influence (“I love how the media assumes all Americans know Yiddish.”)
…The alt right’s current moment in the sun has actually been a long time coming. The movement is undergirded by some of the ideas espoused by Dark Enlightenment or neoreactionary thinkers like the English philosopher Nick Land and the the American computer programmer Curtis Yarvin (aka “Mencius Moldbug”). Land and Yarvin have for years espoused a rejection of democracy and a return to traditional authoritarian structures. But the Dark Enlightenment thinkers are the definition of inaccessible; both Land and Yarvin’s writings are eye-glazingly verbose. A representative Land sentence, from his manifesto on the Dark Enlightenment: “The war on political incorrectness creates data-empowered, web-coordinated, paranoid and poly-conspiratorial werewolves, superbly positioned to take advantage of liberal democracy’s impending rendezvous with ruinous reality, and to then play their part in the unleashing of unpleasantnesses that are scarcely imaginable (except by disturbing historical analogy).”
The alt right’s genius is in dispensing with the self-marginalizing pseudo-intellectual stuff and getting straight to the point, and not in the creaky hit-you-over-the-head fashion of, say, Stormfront, but the slangy and freewheeling argot of the internet in 2015. The Right Stuff has a page devoted to the lexicon of the alt right, a collection of terms that pop up frequently on Twitter once you know what to look for. “Fash,” for example, for fascist. “Merchant” for Jews. “Dindu nuffins” for “an obviously guilty black man.” Where neoreactionary thinkers refer to “the Cathedral” as shorthand for the politically correct elite establishment, The Right Stuff is more pointed in calling it “the Synagogue.” Rare Pepes, the frog meme native to 4chan, are common. The Right Stuff forums are rife with memes targeting, for example, Jeb Bush as a weakling (a recent Bush-related thread is titled “Suicide Watch Headquarters”) and portraying Trump as a hero (see “Memes of Der Trumpenfuhrer”). The culture clearly draws on 4chan — the /pol/ board is another hub.
…One of the central figures on the alt right internet is Paul Ramsey, a 52-year-old in Oklahoma who makes YouTube videos as RamzPaul. He agreed to an interview with BuzzFeed News on one condition: that he would record it.
I agreed to his terms, and interviewed him over the phone about the alt right movement and his role in it. Right after we got off the phone, Ramsey started tweeting about me and the interview. Immediately, a stream of anti-Semitic tweets came my way, without a word of this story having yet been written or published: “Oy vey! Look at that nose! I can’t imagine this ending well,” read one. “She looks like she echos,” read another, using a slang term on the alt right for being Jewish (see: The Right Stuff’s glossary). “She @RosieGray interviewed me once my .1% Jewish DNA results were published. We MOTs stick together,” Ramsey himself tweeted. Ramsey tweeted about my being “nice” and exhorted his followers to be nice to me in turn, but he also tweeted about how he planned to post the recording online so his followers could assess it — a not-so-subtle invitation to troll me.
Ramsey characterized the alt right as being neither mainstream conservatism nor neo-Nazism. As an example of the differences between the alt-right and neo-Nazis, he stated that the 14/88 crowd (14 for the “14 words” white supremacist slogan and 88 as shorthand for “Heil Hitler”) don’t like Trump because his daughter is Jewish (Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism), whereas the alt right doesn’t care about this and generally support Trump for his policies. Ramsey objects to the word “supremacist,” saying he’s a nationalist and doesn’t hate other people or think he’s better than them. He repeatedly invoked the example of Israel as a template of the kind of nationalism he seeks for the United States. In keeping with the alt right’s affinity for European identity movements, Ramsey often visits Europe and said he has recently been in Romania and Hungary, though he said he isn’t affiliated with any specific groups there.
I pressed him on the ideological specifics of the alt right. For example, does he believe that the Holocaust happened?
“I believe it should be able to be discussed, let me put it that way,” Ramsey said. “And that’s because — and it depends what you mean by the Holocaust. Do you mean that 6 million figure? You know that 6 million figure has been used many times before World War II, did you know that?”

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Puerto Rico policeman fatally shoots 3 officers after fight, authorities say

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Luke Ford

LATIMES: A Puerto Rico policeman fatally shot two high-ranking officers and a policewoman on Monday following an argument at work that temporarily shut down the station in the U.S. territory’s second largest city, authorities said. The suspect was immediately placed under arrest.

The suspect held a female lieutenant, a male commander and a policewoman hostage in an office before he killed them, police spokeswoman Mayra Ayala told the Associated Press. Other police officials identified the officer as Guarionex Candelario.

Ayala said authorities were about to start negotiations with the suspect when the victims were killed. She said police did not yet have information on a motive.

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Concern in Israel over bill on foreign-funded NGOs

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Al Jazeera:

Israeli cabinet ministers have approved a bill that critics say could severely curtail the influence of foreign-funded non-governmental organisations, including human-rights groups.
The legislation, which was accepted on Sunday and expected to be passed into law this week, requires organisations that receive foreign funding to declare their financial sources on every documented report.
It also mandates that their representatives wear tags publicising their funding in parliamentary meetings.
The bill, proposed by Ayelet Shaket, Israel’s justice minister, and backed by Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, could in turn harm the legitimacy of organisations receiving foreign funding.

RamzPaul tweets:

* Inspired by the recent Israeli attempt to ban unfriendly NGOs, we the people of USA have decided to ban the following – ADL, SPLC, AIPAC

* When Hungary and Russia banned NGO groups, the media screamed “HATE”.

* Trump’s religion test for immigrants is standard practice in Israel.

* “We will not allow Israel to be flooded with illegal migrants“

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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994)

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Robert Stacy McCain writes:

Charles Murray (@charlesmurray on Twitter) co-authored with the late Richard Herrnstein one of the most controversial books of the 20th century, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994). When it was first published, the harsh criticism from liberals — who claimed the book was practically neo-Nazi propaganda — led me to believe that it really was a bad book.

Liberal propaganda works this way. If enough people tell you they see smoke (sexism, racism, homophobia, etc.) you tend to assume that there must actually be some kind of hateful fire. So in 1994-95, after reading numerous reviews, articles and op-ed columns condemning The Bell Curve as crypto-racist pseudo-science, I just assumed the critics were correct. It wasn’t until 1996, when I made a dismissive remark about The Bell Curve in an Internet argument, that I found myself challenged: Had I actually read the book? So . . .

Charles Murray’s critics were not merely wrong, they were dishonest (because SJWs Always Lie, as Vox Day has recently explained). The recognition that I had been scammed, hoodwinked and bamboozled by liberal smears of The Bell Curve angered me. The first 125 pages of the book, which have nothing to do with the subject of race, are perhaps the most valuable part of The Bell Curve. Standardized testing and nationwide recruiting by elite universities have resulted in cognitive segregation, the creation of something very much like a caste system. The educational apparatus by which high-IQ children are tracked into “gifted” programs in elementary school and “honors” programs in high school, with the goal of sending every smart kid in the country to an elite university, has the effect of dissolving the social and cultural affinities between the elite caste and the vast majority of Americans. (At age 11, I was placed in an experimental “gifted” program, the first of its kind in our community. I hated it — a ridiculous waste of time, a burdensome “honor” conferring no actual benefit — and rebelled against the system, becoming a teenage hoodlum in middle school.) Once you get past page 125 of The Bell Curve, really, it is an attempt to explain why liberal policies have failed to eliminate socioeconomic disparities between racial and ethnic groups. If you keep in mind that the argument is about the efficacy of public policy — what the government is doing in our name, with our tax dollars — the accusations of “racism” directed at The Bell Curve must be recognized as an attempt to silence a cogent criticism of five decades of blundering, misguided wastefulness. “The Ivy League is decadent and depraved.” But I digress . . .

On Saturday, the Harvard-educated liberal snob Matthew Yglesias smeared Charles Murray by way of attacking Donald Trump, with the unintended consequence that a quote by Murray was called to my attention and, considering my own interest in radical feminism, I asked Murray via Twitter, “Did you ever tackle the ‘innate differences’ controversy that got Larry Summers fired at Harvard?” He replied with a link to an AEI paper he published in 2005, “The Inequality Taboo”:

The president of Harvard University offered a few mild, speculative, off-the-record remarks about innate differences between men and women in their aptitude for high-level science and mathematics, and was treated by Harvard’s faculty as if he were a crank. The typical news story portrayed the idea of innate sex differences as a renegade position that reputable scholars rejected. . . .
One such premise is that the distribution of innate abilities and propensities is the same across different groups. The statistical tests for uncovering job discrimination assume that men are not innately different from women, blacks from whites, older people from younger people, homosexuals from heterosexuals, Latinos from Anglos, in ways that can legitimately affect employment decisions. . . . Affirmative action in all its forms assumes there are no innate differences between any of the groups it seeks to help and everyone else. The assumption of no innate differences among groups suffuses American social policy. That assumption is wrong.
When the outcomes that these policies are supposed to produce fail to occur, with one group falling short, the fault for the discrepancy has been assigned to society. It continues to be assumed that better programs, better regulations, or the right court decisions can make the differences go away. That assumption is also wrong. . . .

Here we may interrupt to point out that the phrase “innate differences” refers to average differences between groups. Anyone who watches the NBA cannot help but notice that most of the players are black. This doesn’t mean, however, that there are no good white, Asian or Hispanic basketball players. Nor does it mean that all black people are good at basketball. Also, it does not mean that the NBA is engaging in discrimination. Whenever we see any disproportionate outcome that might be explained by average group differences, we must keep in mind that such differences do not tell us anything about any individual‘s potential, abilities or tendencies, and it is generally a mistake, in a free society, to leap to the conclusion that discrimination causes disparities in outcomes. (The Bell Curve carries many such disclaimers, by the way.) Now, we return to Charles Murray’s 2005 article:

The technical literature documenting sex differences and their biological basis grew surreptitiously during feminism’s heyday in the 1970’s and 1980’s. By the 1990’s, it had become so extensive that the bibliography in David Geary’s pioneering Male, Female (1998) ran to 53 pages. Currently, the best short account of the state of knowledge is Steven Pinker’s chapter on gender in The Blank Slate (2002). . . .
Regarding women, men, and babies, the technical literature is as unambiguous as everyday experience would lead one to suppose. As a rule, the experience of parenthood is more profoundly life-altering for women than for men. . . . Among humans, extensive empirical study has demonstrated that women are more attracted to children than are men, respond to them more intensely on an emotional level, and get more and different kinds of satisfactions from nurturing them. Many of these behavioral differences have been linked with biochemical differences between men and women.
Thus, for reasons embedded in the biochemistry and neurophysiology of being female, many women with the cognitive skills for achievement at the highest level also have something else they want to do in life: have a baby. In the arts and sciences, forty is the mean age at which peak accomplishment occurs, preceded by years of intense effort mastering the discipline in question. These are precisely the years during which most women must bear children if they are to bear them at all.
Among women who have become mothers, the possibilities for high-level accomplishment in the arts and sciences shrink because, for innate reasons, the distractions of parenthood are greater. To put it in a way that most readers with children will recognize, a father can go to work and forget about his children for the whole day. Hardly any mother can do this, no matter how good her day-care arrangement or full-time nanny may be. My point is not that women must choose between a career and children, but that accomplishment at the extremes commonly comes from a single-minded focus that leaves no room for anything but the task at hand.

You can read the whole thing, to which I wish to add this: It does not matter whether male-female differences, as they relate to parenting, are “innate” or “socially constructed.” Biological realities of pregnancy and nursing mean that women have a greater personal investment in parenthood. Without any resort to Darwinian explanations, there are numerous practical reasons why we should expect mothers to be more nurturing than men.

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What Do You Do For Americans With Two Digit IQs?

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Bring back those low-skilled, labor-intensive industries we outsourced to China. Trump has the right idea here and I predict it will appeal to working class people of all races, who are bright enough to understand this much if explained to them at a fourth-grade level (which is exactly the level at which Trump explains it). A family-friendly six-hour day with double or even triple pay for overtime would also increase the demand for, as well as the hourly wages of, of low-skilled workers. These are old-fashioned remedies, tried and true, and there are no other remedies anywhere in sight.

* For high school, better than different degrees would be different tiers of graduation.

Basic: 8th grade proficiency in reading and math.
Standard: 10th grade proficiency in reading and math (say, algebra 1 & some geometry)

Two levels aren’t eligible for state funded universities or community colleges, only adult education, which could upgrade graduate tiers with additional study.

College 1: lexile 1000, algebra 2.
College 2: higher than that.

College 1 eligible for junior college, college 2 eligible for public universities. Or something like that.

Create graduation database for citizens only.

Then government could give employers incentives to hire from the database, and maybe give incentives for them to make management positions open only to Standard tier diplomas. This would give people an incentive to educate themselves (with tax credits or whatever).

This would functionally ban college remediation for all but private universities, and also give high schools incentives to teach students at the needed level.

But barring these reforms, any uptick in grad rates means, by definition, we’ve lowered standards. Twas ever thus. I’ve written about this several times.

* I’m simply curious as to the correspondence between IQ and grade level.

Does this sound about right to you?

Below 30 – illiterate
30 to 50 – 1st to 3rd grade
50 to 60 – 3rd to 6th grade
60 to 74 – 6th to 8th grade
74 to 89 – 8th to 12th grade
89 to 100 – 8th grade to 1-2 years of college
100 to 111 – 12th grade to bachelor’s degree
111 to 120 – Bachelor’s to master’s
120 to 125 – Bachelor’s to non-technical Ph.D.
125 to 132 – Any Ph.D. at 3rd-tier schools
Beyond 132 – No limitations

* First, that’s bizarrely granular. Second, many of you have absurdly off-base understanding of the cognitive ability required to even fake your way through high school.

I wrote here (https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/noahpinion-on-iq-or-maybe-just-no-knowledge/) about two actual, documented, below 90 IQ students I taught in algebra and geometry. One was in “special day” school, one had been misdiagnosed and should have been. In all but an all black high school, an IQ below 90 is going to put you in the special diploma category.

So if you don’t have an IQ above 90, you won’t be doing anything approaching high school level work. You will struggle to achieve 8th grade as whites and Asians define it.

Not much point in going through everything else that’s wrong. But as I wrote once, best not to get granular with IQ. https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/the-available-pool/

Whoever said:

“The more I look at this issue, the more convinced I am that a quota system, with employers free to choose how to get the required number of blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women, etc. would be better than what we’ve got now.”

I don’t disagree, although I’m hesitant. But back then, universities would pick and choose their lower tier admits. Now they use grades, which basically means kids in all black or all Hispanic high school will get in over kids in diverse high schools, who often are much smarter.

“Based on anecdotal info, suspect B+ high school gpa in 1960′s corresponded to 100-110 IQ then, whereas today it is ~95.”

This is delusional. See above.

In general, people with IQs of 110 or higher are the only ones getting through college. The exception is blacks and Hispanics in particular degree programs where the program is highly motivated to get URMs through, or highly motivated blacks and Hispanics with IQs over 95, but that last is a small group.

The simple truth is there’s no sympathy for whites or Asians who “aren’t smart enough” for college, so they won’t be supported.

* The reason for keeping teaching algebra and testing it is that it acts as a proxy for general IQ in professions that want to sort out the sheep from the goats in terms of analytical ability.

* Suspect the collapse of American public education tracks closely with desegregation and affirmative action, main drivers being:

1) High school academic standards being watered down to ensure acceptable NAM graduation rates. Based on anecdotal info, suspect B+ high school gpa in 1960′s corresponded to 100-110 IQ then, whereas today it is ~95. Today’s low-level honors classes are likely reflective of typical high school work from previous decades, and not shockingly today’s AP and honors class demographics are comparably segregated.

2) The effects from 1 have swamped lower-tier universities, as enrollment has swelled in less-rigorous departments. Administrators, wanting the tuition dollars and not wanting to fail minorities, further lower the bar. Basically, outside of engineering degrees, related technical degrees ( computer science, math, and physics) , and Top 10 schools, the signaling component to an undergraduate degree is gone. Also suspect that the recent preference employers have for STEM grads is basically a non-discriminatory way of preferring 120+ IQ white and Asian candidates, likely from two-parent homes.

* I teach a remedial class at a community college. My impression is that remedial classes work as an excellent pipeline of FAFSA funds from the federal government to the schools. These, often illiterate and innumerate students, wouldn’t be there if not for these classes so it’s money sitting on the table.

Oh and a lot of them want to be doctors and lawyers. To which the administration replies “Dream big, you can do anything!”

Your tax dollars at work.

A great area of research would be raising IQ and/or impulse control.

* A great deal of the problem from the standpoint of the employer is that they have considerable difficulty devising tests that separate potentially good from probably indifferent to bad employees. It’s not that such tests don’t exist, but they almost invariably lead to different results in different racial groups (disparate impact). Since the Griggs v. Duke Power Supreme Court decision, results like tht mean that employers have a lot of explaining to do. It’s possible to defend the test and its results, but it’s expensive and uncertain. It’s a perfectly reasonable employer course of action to let the “educational” system performing the sorting out process by requiring more and more of it, however unrelated to actual job requirements they might be.

The more I look at this issue, the more convinced I am that a quota system, with employers free to choose how to get the required number of blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women, etc. would be better than what we’ve got now.

* The conversion of the American public school from a place of learning to that of indoctrination is complete.

The biggest topic on my town’s message board is NOT the decline in test scores for the third straight year, but propaganda supporting the new LGBTXYZMSNBC Club being established in the middle school! Because no “gender-confused” 11-year old should feel uneasy.

* When I got my first computer in the early 80′s, I felt I had to hire a secretary who was familiar with the new technology. So I wound up hiring a part-time secretary who worked at night for a big D.C. law firm using a computer. (When she left me at 2 pm, she went to her main job from 3 to 12.) She was black, and, even though my computer was different from what she was used to, she was able to become acclimated to the new system fairly quickly. She was a pretty decent secretary. One day we were chatting, and she said something along the lines that she should like to get involved in computer programming, apparently having heard or read about the big bucks “computer programmers” were pulling down. Not that I was an expert about computers, but I asked her whether she had a good background in mathematics, which I assumed was essential to write computer programs. “Uh, no.” Then I replied, drily, that I always wanted to be a brain surgeon and could have been one if only I had taken pre-med courses in college and then gone to med school. I don’t know whether she got my humor or my point. But I was struck at how unreal her expectations were. She thought just because she was adept at typing on a computer keyboard and had a basic understanding of how computers worked she could easily become a computer programmer.

BTW I later had to go out of town for a 10-day business trip, and she quit without notice. When I got home, I decided I needed to master the computer because I had some correspondence to get out and interviewing for a new secretary would take too much time. After devoting the next several days to reading the material and experimenting with the computer, I was comfortable enough to get out some correspondence. Since I had taken a one semester course back in junior high and attained a speed of 30 wpm on old-fashioned typewriters, I had learned how to type with all fingers and both hands without looking at the keyboard. (That proved a godsend in college when I was able to stay up late at night and type a five-page essay that was due the next day.) Once I got the hang of using a computer, I discovered that it was much easier to compose documents directly on the computer instead of writing them out by hand. (For some reason, I never acquired the knack of composing on a mechanical typewriter, even though typing on a typewriter keyboard is essentially the same as typing on a computer keyboard, with two differences. With a computer, the return function when you reach the end of a sentence is automatic (I believe the IBM Selectric typewriter also had this function) and corrections to the text are a lot easier to make.) As a result, I was able to function largely without the aid of a secretary, once I eliminated the essential step of translating the text to the computer. Once the draft was prepared on a computer, the subsequent course of events was the same: you still had to read and revise the draft and make the changes to the final version. The last steps were easy and didn’t take a lot of time with a computer. When I heard Obama bemoaning the loss of bank teller jobs as a result of ATMs, I had to laugh at his lack of understanding. I’m sure the development of the personal computer has resulted in the loss of many high-paying secretarial jobs. Just as the development of self-fill has resulted in the loss of jobs for gas station attendants. It’s called efficiency. That’s why the U.S. at the beginning had nearly everybody working on a farm, and, now, we have about 1-2% of the population producing enough food to feed the entire nation and large parts of the world. (“In 1870, 70-80 percent of the US population was employed in agriculture.[16] As of 2008, less than 2 percent of the population is directly employed in agriculture.”)

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Conservative Principles & The Iraq Invasion Of 2003

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Not that I was aware of Ross Douthat back in 2002-03, but I recall reading later, around the time he was named as the NYTimes’ youngest columnist in history, that he was not only a strong supporter of the Iraq War but, in the style of the times, was actively criticizing anybody who was expressing opposition or reservations about the war. I don’t think he has ever admitted that his support of the Iraq War was wrong. I do remember when the Libyan War came up in 2011 that he wrote a column expressing reservations to the Libyan War based on “conclusions we learned from our involvement in Iraq,” or something to that effect. Not one word about how he supported the Iraq War and now thought it was a wrong decision.

In that way, Douthat is a lot like George Will, another prominent “conservative” columnist. Back in 2002-03, I was a regular viewer of ABC’s This Week, where George Will was a regular panelist at the time. I can remember him strongly supporting the Iraq War before it started and berating anybody who dared utter a word of opposition. A favorite target of his was Mohammed El Baredei of Egypt who was head of the international agency overseeing nuclear matters. Well, a few years later, around 2005, Will suddenly announced on This Week that the Iraq War violated every conservative principle in his body. As far as I know, Will never admitted that he had made a wrong decision about Iraq. I thought his admission that the Iraq War violated all his “conservative principles” was strange. I thought “principles” were deeply held beliefs that are arrived at through education and experience and were designed to guide your actions through life. I couldn’t understand what those “conservative principles” were that could be so easily discarded in the excitement of the moment.

* Much of the drive behind multiculturalism was the realization, I think, that the left (Jewish and otherwise) finally had at some specific point that biculturalism -that is blacks and whites- was never going to be a reality: that left to their own devices, blacks and whites would, either by state or voluntary action, separate themselves from one another and stay separate, blacks having their own media, entertainment, churches, doctors, barbers, funeral parlors, the whole gamut of things one could imagine.

I was witness to a recent discussion between some fortysomething white trendy college educated people about how “rap has gotten so shitty lately”. I am old enough now to know when to just stay silent and listen even though the ostensible premise of discussion is obvious horseshit, so as to hear the implicit assumptions. The discussion exactly echoed discussions I had had, in my blues guitar loving racially anticonscious days, about the black popular music that is now, itself, exactly the stuff these guys think is the benchmark of quality. We couldn’t understand why the young blacks had no use for or had never heard of the old blacks we thought were-as they say now-”the shit”. (I guess even that is passe’ now. Well, as they said fifteen years ago.) It is now understood that whites tend to approve of the black music of decades past while detesting that which is current, for two reasons. One is that blacks continually seek to differentiate their culture from white culture and so make it “more black”, and the other is this implicit feeling on our (the whites’) part that blacks at present must be specially decadent because they weren’t always this f***ed up.

Well, the answer is, most of them always were and always will be, short of a eugenic event of massive proportions. Multiculturalism-creating a continuum rather than a line of color-requires a number of different people to inhabit a space. So, they made it so.

The results are repellent to regular people, but someone must have seen the results in Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica and other places and said, gee, that’s for us!

Who that someone is is obvious to all, and therefore the natural feelings this induces in everyone else have to be suppressed. But such suppression only works for so long. The Catholic Church suppressed the heresies that Protestantism represented for a while, but the invention of Gutenberg made it untenable in the end.

The liberal order is scared and vulnerable. Its opponents, though, are divided and often dysfunctional. We live in interesting times indeed.

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Heredity Uber Alles

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes:

I finally saw the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, which is much like the old Star Wars movie of 1977….

As with Harry Potter and many other recent blockbusters, the central theme remains Heredity Uber Alles…

One of these days I’m going to have to write up an explanation for why heredity became such a magnetic force in popular culture in the 1970s, just as heredity was being driven out of serious intellectual culture.

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2016 Election Shaping Up As Battle Of The Sexes

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the Chateau:

COTW winner (repeat winner?) shartiste succinctly illuminates the battle tactics of the female id versus the male id.

Hillary vs. Trump is gonna be a great source for CH. Its unrestrained man vs unrestrained woman.
The unrestrained man builds monuments to himself, fucks hot chicks, and speaks his mind.
The unrestrained woman manipulates, lies, and social climbs her way to as much privilege as possible.

Give or take a little overlap (as with all things in the panoply of sex-based psychological traits), this is basically spot on. This election is shaping up to be a Battle Royale along a number of fronts: High/Low vs Middle, Elite vs Prole, Insane vs Sane, r-selected vs K-selected, Third World Swarms vs White Native Stock, and the “unrestrained man” vs the “unrestrained woman”. A confluence of so many societal and political fault lines like what is Happening now comes rarely; 2016 could be the Year of the Ids.

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COTW runner-up is The Question, offering a psychological diagnosis of the Left,

Theory of mine: The Left’s relationship with white men is akin to a borderline personality disorder girlfriend and her boyfriend, properly summarized in the “I hate you!/Don’t leave me!” slogan. They hate us, but they don’t want us to go anywhere. They want us to stay and do what we’re told because they need us or think they need us but they also hate us for that very reason.
On one hand, the Left insists we “need to be stopped!” We’re racists, we’re oppressive, we’re bigoted. We’re full of prejudice. We’re dangerous with all our guns.
i.e. I hate you!
On the other hand, they decry “white flight” when we move away from the city and into suburbia or out of leftist states. So they implement affordable housing requirements for residential buildings and Section 8 housing in apartment complexes or zoning and growth management policies to ensure people can’t choose who to associate with. Or they just scream racism and try to shame people into wanting to move away.
Also, anything that is predominantly white male, whatever it is, has to be “diversified.”
i.e. Don’t leave me!
You realize how ridiculous this sounds when you compare it to nativists or anti-illegal immigration types. Whatever one might think about them, they actually believe what they say when they complain about illegal immigration being a problem, so if illegal immigrants left their communities they wouldn’t scream about “(fill in the blank color) flight” or accuse them of racism for trying to leave.
Again, it has to be some form of BSD inherent in the political ideology. That’s the best explanation I’ve been able to come up with for their contradictory attitudes.

The Left is filled to brimming with effeminate men and masculine women. The Degenerate Freak Party caters to the needs of these Darwinian lab mistakes. That so many leftoids possess characteristics similar to skankpot drama whores with daddy issues is not a surprise; give them an inch (act beta) and they take a mile, but refuse to get caught up in the whirlwind of their childish emoting (act alpha) and they back the fuck down and assume their welcome submission to their betters.

In other words, America is crying out as loudly as she can for the irresistible ministration of a charismatic jerkboy.

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Al Jazeera Investigates – The Dark Side Of Sports Doping

Posted on December 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

I expect that most pro athletes are cheating with their supplements.

Where are the incentives? The incentives are massively in the direction of cheating. The chances of getting caught are low.

People react to incentives. If the incentives are strong to cheat, most people will cheat.

The best way to defeat the urge to cheat is with a homogeneous society that values honesty. That’s not the United States today. It was at one time.

In some classes I took at school, cheating was rampant. In other classes, it never happened to my knowledge. Every class had a tone and you quickly learned what was acceptable.

Few sports journalists have any stomach for investigating these matters. Most reporters don’t particularly like reporting. They prefer to simply shape the facts they are spoonfed.

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