Noxon’s childhood was mostly devoid of religion. He described his father as having some Quaker stock, though he identifies as Canadian and atheist. His mother, on the other hand, he described as “Buddhist and a lesbian and a feminist.” She came out when he was 10, and Noxon said the experience of growing up in an estrogen-fueled environment softened him. “I’m a huge girly man,” he said. “I wish I had more of that agro-male testosterone that needs to be curbed.”
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Israel’s policy toward African asylum seekers is to pressure them to self-deport or, as the former interior minister Eli Yishai put it, to “make their lives miserable” until they give up and let the government deport them. About 60,000 African asylum seekers have entered Israel since 2005, most of them Muslims from the Darfur region of Sudan, and Orthodox Christians from Eritrea; today that number is closer to 45,000.
The government and some media call them “infiltrators,” a word that for most Israelis evokes Palestinians illegally crossing into Israel to launch attacks, painting them as a threat. A law passed in 2013 requires male African asylum seekers already in Israel to be detained automatically and indefinitely in the open detention center, Holot, in the Negev desert. Detainees are allowed to wander the desert between three obligatory check-ins every day, and they must also remain in Holot overnight. If they miss a check-in, they can be transferred to the nearby prison. Their only alternative is to accept a sum of $3,500 to return to their country of origin, or a third country, usually Uganda or Rwanda, often without proper documentation to stay…
As the continuing refugee crisis in Europe demonstrates, Israel is not alone in trying to deter refugees. But according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, it has the distinction of having one of the lowest asylum acceptance rates in the Western world. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once warned that the arrival of African people poses a demographic risk to Israel: “If we don’t stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000 could grow to 600,000, and that threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state.”
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I think John J. Mearsheimer is the most important political scientist of the past forty years.
John Derbyshire writes: After taping this weekend’s Radio Derb, with its segments about U.S.-China tensions and geostrategy, I was browsing through my blog roll when I came across this at Steve Hsu’s site.
The whole thing is over an hour and a half long, but well worth the time if you’re interested in the topic.
On the realist side, arguing that big nations will always seek supremacy and the U.S.A. will (and should) always act to prevent the rise of peer competitors, are Peter Brookes and John Mearsheimer. For the other side, arguing that a Metternichian (and Derbyshirean) balance of power is possible and should be sought, are Robert Daly and Kevin Rudd.
The Metternichians won on a TKO by the usual method of debate scoring, but Brookes and Mearsheimer made some powerful arguments that, I must admit, gave me pause.
Mearsheimer was particularly effective with both sabre and foil. This, for example, at 1h30m34s into the show.
They [i.e. Daly and Rudd] have a theory, and it revolves around agency, or diplomacy. They believe that the competition can be managed; and that’s very different from the way I think about the issue.
But I want to ask you this: When you look at American diplomacy over the past twenty years, does that give you confidence… [laughter]… seriously, does that give you confidence that American leaders can manage this relationship over the next thirty or forty years? [more laughter]
You know about Afghanistan; you know about Iraq; you know about Libya; you know about Ukraine; seems to me the United States has the Midas Touch in reverse.
I still prefer the Metternichian solution, but are our politicians smart enough to get us to it? Hmmm.
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Hah! Take this, racists: the top three runners among the men in today’s NY City Marathon were a Mexican, a Chinese person, and an Italian. Among the women, the top three were an Arab, a Jew, and a Samoan.
Just kidding! East Africans took all three top spots in both categories.
Chaim Amalek: “The race ends right in my amazingly white neighborhood, the Upper West Side, where I get a close look at who the non-elite runners are. Almost entirely white. When will the NY Times report on the racist policies and customs that are keeping African Americans away from such events? The race ends right in my amazingly white neighborhood, the Upper West Side, where I get a close look at who the non-elite runners are. Almost entirely white. When will the NY Times report on the racist policies and customs that are keeping African Americans away from such events? Lamarck and Lysenko taught us all the genetics any right-thinking person needs to know.”
Miriam: “Wasn’t it an Israeli official who commented on all the Ethiopians that were brought into Israel ‘now we can win some medals in running.'”
By contrast, all of the finalists since 1984 in the Olympic men’s 100 meter dash have been of West African descent.
It seems every time I check the news, some Jew in the nursing home business is getting attacked by government regulators and/or the media.
Why won’t the goyim leave us alone?
Chaim Amalek: “When my time comes I hope I will have the money to give to some torah yidden to take good care of me.”
The more successful you are, the more of a target you become.
Why do so many Torah Jews own/run nursing homes? I suppose that an education in Torah Judaism makes you more adept at navigating a legal system, such as the bureaucracy around senior care.
Not every Jew is smart enough to run a bank.
David Shirel with Shmuel Sackett, Ben Landa and Teddy Pollak
The state’s “character-and-competence” reviews are supposed to weed out operators with histories of violations and fines— but regulators don’t always act on the full story.
The nursing home is one of several in a group of for-profit homes affiliated with SentosaCare, LLC, that have a record of repeat fines, violations and complaints for deficient care in recent years.
Despite that record, SentosaCare founder Benjamin Landa, partner Bent Philipson and family members have been able to expand their nursing home ownerships in New York, easily clearing regulatory reviews meant to be a check on repeat offenders. SentosaCare is now the state’s largest nursing home network, with at least 25 facilities and nearly 5,400 beds.
That unhindered expansion highlights the continued weakness of nursing home oversight in New York, an investigation by ProPublica found, and exposes gaps in the state’s system for vetting parties who apply to buy shares in homes.
State law requires a “character-and-competence” review of buyers before a change in ownership can go through. To pass muster, other health care facilities associated with the buyers must have a record of high-quality care.
The decision maker in these deals is the state’s Public Health and Health Planning Council, a body of appointed officials, many from inside the health care industry. The council has substantial leverage to press nursing home applicants to improve quality, but an examination of dozens of transactions in recent years show that power is seldom used.
Moreover, records show that the council hasn’t always had complete information about all the violations and fines at nursing homes owned by or affiliated with applicants it reviewed. That’s because the Department of Health, which prepares character-and-competence recommendations for the council, doesn’t report them all.
By Michael Amon and Ridgely Ochs
Sept. 23, 2007 p.A4 to A8
Faced with a crisis over complaints about its treatment of Filipino nurses, Long Island nursing home group SentosaCare turned for help last year to a friendly politician it had supported in the past — Sen. Charles Schumer.
The Democratic senator then wrote four letters over the course of two months to Philippine government officials, including President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. They asked the officials to meet with SentosaCare’s executives or to “consider reviewing” the Woodmere company’s case after the country suspended the company’s affiliated recruitment operation. Macapagal-Arroyo’s former chief of staff said the Schumer letters were unprecedented.
Shortly after two Schumer letters sent the same day, the Philippine government lifted the suspension. SentosaCare’s Filipino recruitment pipeline was back in business. Over the next two months, a national campaign fund headed by Schumer received nearly $75,000 from investors, attorneys and vendors for SentosaCare-affiliated nursing homes.
The involvement of New York’s senior senator triggered a storm of controversy 8,500 miles away in the Philippines that also has reached Long Island. Amid the dispute, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota agreed to meet in private with SentosaCare’s principals and their lawyer. They asked him to investigate the 10 nurses at a Smithtown nursing home who were among 26 who prompted the uproar when they resigned abruptly from SentosaCare facilities in New York City and Long Island.
An investigation followed immediately, and 10 months later the Smithtown nurses were charged for endangering patients when they quit without notice. The indictment is apparently the first of its kind in the state.
THEY are recruited in their homeland with perks like free airfare. Some have been offered thousands of dollars in bonuses to relocate. And in the process, they have become a mainstay of the New York area’s hospitals and nursing homes.
They are nurses from the Philippines, and they are highly prized here because they speak English, are trained in American-caliber medicine and enjoy a reputation for tender care — the legacy of a society in which families tend to their own sick and aging relatives.
“We’re honest, industrious and don’t complain a lot,” explained Elmer Jacinto, 32, a registered nurse.
His voice, however, carried a palpable note of sarcasm. He and nine other Filipino nurses on Long Island did complain, and now they find themselves caught in what he called “a nightmare” — a disturbing new chapter in the upbeat story of one of this nation’s most successful immigrations.
The 10 nurses are under indictment in Suffolk County on charges of endangering the welfare of five chronically ill children and one terminally ill man. They are accused of walking off their jobs at the Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Smithtown in April 2006 without providing sufficient notice for the nursing home to replace them on coming shifts.
Although their resignations were prompted by a seemingly commonplace dispute with their employers over what the nurses say were broken promises and shabby working conditions involving a total of 26 Filipino nurses and a physical therapist, the 10 defendants could each be sentenced to a year in jail and lose their nursing licenses….
The case has drawn wide attention and outrage in the Philippines, where legislators have held hearings into how the nurses were treated by the company that recruited them. Filipinos there and in the United States have rallied to support the nurses, joined by the American Nurses Association, which has said in a statement that “the real patient endangerment lies in the deplorable conditions that led the nurses to leave.”
The pushback has even taken on a political tinge. Commentators in both countries, citing an investigation by Newsday, have questioned whether favoritism was shown the nursing home owners because of their political influence and campaign contributions, and because of letters written to the Philippine president and other officials by Senator Charles E. Schumer. The senator and the owners have denied exerting any unusual pressure.
But what no one denies is that the case is a startling anomaly in what has been a remarkably successful migration of people seeking to work in a single occupation. More than half of American nurses trained abroad are from the Philippines, and they alleviate a perennial shortage of nurses in this country.
Of the New York area’s 215,000 Filipinos, 3 out of 10 work as nurses or other health-care practitioners, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by Susan Weber-Stoger, a Queens College demographer. Many of the rest are their spouses, children or aging parents. That migration explains the large colonies of Filipinos in places like Jersey City and Bergenfield, N.J., a middle-class suburb, where Robert C. Rivas, mayor from 1999 to 2003, claimed to be the only Filipino mayor in the Northeast.
The indicted nurses pose a strange counterpoint to that success: the image of highly educated legal immigrants complaining about being exploited as green, overly trusting newcomers….
MR. Jacinto, a soft-spoken native of a small Philippines island, saw medicine as his ticket out of poverty. He not only received a nursing degree, but also graduated from medical school in the Philippines in 2004 with stellar board scores.
Deciding to leave one’s homeland is always wrenching, but American salaries were a large incentive. “You can earn here $3,000 a month in America while a doctor in the Philippines earns $400 a month and a nurse $200,” Mr. Jacinto said.
He came to New York in November 2005 with 21 other nurses who had been recruited by a Filipino agency that works mainly for SentosaCare, a network of 16 nursing homes with headquarters in Woodmere, N.Y., and operated by Benjamin Landa of Brooklyn and Bent Philipson of Monsey, N.Y. Mr. Landa owns eight other homes independently, and together with SentosaCare, the network of 24 homes has more than 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees. The 22 nurses who came over here in November 2005 say they were promised they would earn the same pay as American nurses and would quickly receive green cards giving them the status of permanent residents.
But Mr. Jacinto says he soon got some surprises: for two months, he was paid as a clerk, at a salary far below that of a nurse. It took more than half a year to get the green card. And he was not assigned to the SentosaCare-affiliated home in Queens that had sponsored his entry, but to Avalon, 40 miles east.
For weeks, he said, he slept on a couch in a frigid living room of a nurses’ staff house in Smithtown where the only toilet was frequently clogged. When he finally received nurses’ pay, he said, it was $24 an hour instead of the $34 that federal law requires immigrant nurses be paid to prevent undercutting of American workers’ salaries. He did not receive the same health insurance and workers’ compensation benefits as other nurses, he said, and was not paid for sick days or holidays.
Ms. Anilao said Avalon employed so few aides on the night shift that she regularly had to change soiled diapers and sheets and cart them away. The nurses complained that raises they were promised were wiped out by a reduction in work hours from 37.5 per week to 35.
Howard Fensterman, SentosaCare’s lawyer, denied that the nurses were mistreated or shortchanged, and rejected complaints that staffing was inadequate. SentosaCare, he said, had successfully employed 350 nurses from the Philippines over the years and had never experienced a wave of resignations.
The nurses say that when their complaints went unaddressed, they turned to the Philippines consulate in New York, which put them in touch with an immigration lawyer, Felix Vinluan. Mr. Vinluan concluded that their contract had been breached and on April 6, 2006, he filed a discrimination complaint with immigration officials in Washington. He also advised the nurses that one option was to resign.
BY MICHAEL AMON AND RIDGELY OCHS
Sept. 23, 2007 p. A7
Benjamin Landa and Bent Philipson have built the largest nursing home network in the state with good timing, smart business moves and the right contacts.
In 1987, Landa bought his first nursing home – a facility in Far Rockaway – from his late father’s estate. A few years later, as he acquired more nursing homes, he started raising money for political candidates from both major parties. By 1994, he was a top fundraiser for future Gov. George Pataki said Jeffrey Weisenfeld, a former Pataki aide.
Then in 1996, Pataki named Landa to the Public Health Council, a state board with broad powers to approve health care facility projects, including nursing homes. That year, Landa teamed up with Philipson, who was a supervisor in one of his nursing homes.
During Landa’s eight-year tenure on the council, Landa,Philipson or their wives secured the purchase of 20 nursing homes and became the state’s leading players in the nursing home industry. They now run 25 facilities.
“Their approach is new,” said Neil Heyman, president of the Southern New York Association, a trade group of 64 nursing homes. He added that nursing homes in New York historically had been family run businesses. “They are part of a general trend toward giving nursing home organizations corporate names and structures.”
SentosaCare does not own or run the facilities, which have about 80 investors with Landa, Philipson or their spouses as the common denominator. Rather, the company centralizes administrative functions and provides a brand-name marketing tool.
Their strategy is the only way to, in effect, form a nursing home chain in New York state, said health care experts. Legislation passed after Medicaid fraud and patient abuse scandals in the 1970s required all nursing home investors to be vetted by the state. The laws essentially banned publicly-traded nursing home chains because of the impossibility of vetting thousands of investors behind publicly traded companies.
As the group grew, many nursing home owners said Landa’s council position and friendship with Pataki helped his projects.
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Different groups, different nations, have different interests. Israel spies on America, America spies on Israel.
I still can’t stop hating what Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard did to America (stole its nuclear secrets, gave them to Israel, which traded them to the Soviet Union for the release of Jews).
JPOST: Channel 2 reported Sunday that the information security department, part of the IDF’s intelligence force, issued a call to its officers and soldiers to beware of recruitment attempts by the CIA.
The advisory called on soldiers to “be aware and report any unusual incidences.”
The warning was issued to all officers and soldiers of the IDF.
Attached to the warning was an article from Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot chronicling a phenomenon circa 2012 in which post-army youngsters, upon arrival in the United States, were taken in for extensive questioning by American authorities in an attempt to recruit their services.
“Every security body fears having its confidential information leaked,” an Israeli security source told Channel 2.
It remains unclear why the IDF chose to issue the warning now.
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Steve Sailer writes: Here’s a funny clip from MSNBC: the professional Hispanic named Alfonso praises Paul Ryan for being pals with arch-immigration advocate Luis Gutierrez and for being a “hard worker.” Professional (sort of) black lady Melissa Harris-Perry reads him the riot act about how the phrase “hard worker” is racist.
Don’t you know that Melissa Harris-Perry has to work twice as hard as Tim Wise?
It’s almost as if these folks don’t really like each other and if they didn’t have the cisgender straight white man to hate, they really wouldn’t get along.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* Melissa Harris-Perry, who easily passes the brown paper bag test, must work double-plus hard to demonstrate her affirmative action bona fides. Our beloved leader, BO, and all his affirmative action colleagues e.g., Eric Holder, all share the same predicament. They must out-Negro the Negro to retain their places. All this would be LOL amusing if it were not having such a corrosive effect on culture and society.
* I think there’s a certain psychopathy to many crusader types in that they feel a compulsion to tear others down to build themselves up, and on the other hand to turn every conversation into an opportunity to pontificate, and finally to have everything be about them and their concerns. People with such enormous egos (or ego requirements) tend to be avoided by sane people.
I’m not sure the typology for the kind of person Melissa H-P is acting out is completely satisfactory. “America’s most foremost public intellectual” (as TNC dubbed her) definitely ain’t it. I’m sure there are some names in psychology or elsewhere to apply to this kind of syndrome.
Meanwhile, thinking about it, it reminded me of a couple of characters I saw on SNL years ago when my kids were growing, I found a couple of clips for Kristen Wiig’s Penelope and Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer. These are just representative, not necessarily the best ones. In short, M H-P is kind of a cross between the two.
* Ya know, if ya really want to troll NBC/CNBC/MSNBC—-and any non-lefty going on those shows should know the only way you’ll come out ahead is if you realize they’re just one giant lefty propaganda machine and not a news organization, and therefore deserve trolling—–you should just start spouting off every micro-aggressive “triggering” word/phrase you can think of to set they amygdala on fire:
hard-working
ladylike
feminine
articulate
clean
civilized
savage
lazy
manly
gay
homosexual
male
female
normal
disordered
southern pride
IQ
etc. I’m sure the Stevosphere readers could come up with reams of more words that we’re “not supposed to say” around lefties. Then keep saying them around lefties till their heads explode. Seriously, these people are mentally diseased.
* From Harris-Perry’s website, writing about her own mother:
A white woman in a Mormon family [isn’t that redundant?], my mom was raised in the racially homogenous enclave of Spokane, Washington and in 1960 went off to college at Brigham Young University. People are typically incredulous when I share this part of my mother’s biography. After all, if they know me as an outspoken, progressive, feminist, black woman, it might be hard to believe that I am the daughter of someone with these beginnings. [Regression to the mean?]
But my mother, Diana Gray, possesses an unmatched commitment to fairness, an unflagging belief in hard work [RACIST!!!], and more than a casual relationship with profound personal transformations.
These people are insufferable. No wonder Trump gets great applause by denouncing Political Correctness. The Republican nominee needs to make make Black Lives Matter Hillary’s running mate, to paraphrase Lee Atwater.
* Yeah, we’ve all met those “hardworking moms” who don’t got no healthcare, who plop out 3 kids with 4 different fathers by their 21st birthday, who set on da couch all day watching Judge Judy and Family Feud and whose kids wander around the house making messes that don’t get cleaned up for years, if ever.
* Even at the sharper end of African-American socio-political analysis, there is an erroneous perception that everything must have come easy to those who succeeded in life.
Ultimately this thinking leads to Zimbabwe, where the blacks took over all the farms and factories and thought it would be easy to make big money that way, because, well, whites did it, so how hard can it be?
We’ve seen the results. South Africa is 3/4 of the way down that path, and in the not too distant future, so will follow the US and western Europe. Then its ‘goodnight nurse’.
* Here’s a hint for the Republican party: when professional ethnic grievance jockeys on MSNBC are touting a guy for Speaker of the House, maybe he isn’t the guy your constituents want.
* I must admit MHP is a guilty pleasure. The Sylvester the cat speech impediment, her stumbling bumbling attempts at reading the Teleprompter, her half white guilt or whatever the hell it is that makes her need to be the blackest person in the world. It is so spectacularly awful I can’t turn away.
* Did MHP forget to take her retainer out before she went on the air. That lisp is pretty distracting.
Cotton fields? Why doesn’t she keep a picture of a black welfare recipient with her six kids by eight different fathers on the wall, if that’s such hard work?
* The progressive left is trying to put together a society where people would have to tiptoe around not noticing things and only speaking in approved platitudes so as not to inadvertently micro-aggress. It sounds exhausting, to to mention completely fun-free.
* Making absurd claims is simply an another attention-gaining gambit in the very competitive libtard mediawhore sharkpool. It’s an attempt to one-up her colleagues, preen for her bosses, and make herself the sole viewer spotlight. Unfortunately, these mediawhores get paid a salary for spouting this Democrat party-line nonsense, which only encourages even more ridiculous statements.
* If you think that is narcississtic then you should meet Britain’s newest high profile feminist MP Jess Phillips. A Conservative MP (male) proposed a debate on men’s higher cancer, suicide and unemployment rates to balance the debates on International Women’s Day.
Ms Phillips chose to take umbrage at this, ignored the thrust of what he said and harrumphed at length about how there are still more men in the House of Commons than women.
Note the smirking and giggling she did at 4:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z60LUV3V0E
For another taste of her solipsism watch her speech in which she says it is disgraceful that her husband – an elevator engineer – got paid more than her when she was running a women’s sexual abuse charity.
* I have a thesis about this which I’m finding it difficult to articulate. If I try to put it into words, it’s going to sound sufficiently similar to many other things that have already been said that I’m afraid it will simply be taken as my own harrumphing assent to the general alt-right platform, and will not capture the subtle distinction I’m trying to express. However, let’s give it a shot. To sum the matter up in one pithy line:
The world is now run by former Student Council members.
In every arena upon which they have laid their befouling hand, but especially in mass media and education, the typical SJW crusader seems to me to embody the spirit of a high school student council member. And what are the distinguishing features of that spirit? It begins with the willingness to arrogate to oneself an entirely unmerited and excessive degree of social importance. The student council is important by definition, you see, not because it does anything that normal people would consider necessary or useful. This exaggerated self-regard needs some sort of field in which to operate, but that obviously cannot be any endeavor where skill, talent, or experience are required, where it would simply evaporate like the morning mist. Therefore it seizes upon “justice” and idle rule-making as its own particular gift to humanity; and, after gaining access to class time and to the PA system by representing itself as the organ of student life, busies itself by forcing a captive audience (the students) to listen to its edicts and pronouncements. Invariably these have to do with inculcating sensitivity and delimiting “abusive” (read: clear, expressive, and accurate) language. It’s not because these students are especially sensitive and high-minded themselves that they take this course; it is because inventing distinctions, assigning values to them, and crusading for a reordering of such values gives them something to exalt and feel engaged about. It is really just the outward extension of their ego. Thus, during Ramadan, the student council will tap its token Muslim member to inform the 2,000-strong student body via the PA system to be especially aware of the other Muslim students (which probably consist of half a dozen Somalians), because they will be weak and distracted from their fast (which they probably aren’t observing); and then, for good measure, will repeat the entire message in Arabic (which nobody, not even the Somalians, still less the teachers and administrators who are the principal enforcers of the sensitivity, understands).
From top to bottom this whole exercise was nothing but an ego trip. First of all, the spiritual value of a fast becomes void if you demand special treatment from others while enduring it. When you fast, you must keep it to yourself and “appear not to fast,” otherwise the attention you seek from others will be your only reward. Second, the only function of the Arabic version of the announcement was to showcase the speaker’s bilingualism. Since the intended audience of the message was ostensibly the “insensitive” white students and faculty who are unaware of the Ramadan fast, they could not possibly benefit from hearing it in Arabic. The content of the message was something quite the opposite of its iport, which was “Look at me, I’m different and I’m special.” O, how the teachers, such few sane ones as remain, must love having their class time commandeered for such high jinks!
And when you look at the media the student council chooses for its self-expressions (other than crashing the AV club to produce those 3rd period student news bulletins–another fine use of class time), you inevitably find wall posters, collages, and decorations as the preferred substrate. If battles are won on the playing fields of Eton, leftist ideas are first born and executed in the timeless media of Elmer’s glue and glitter. Natural propagandists all, the burgeoning leftists have an instinctive feel for the value of their gaudy displays. This childishness never departs from them. The modern news broadcast, in its content as well as its production values, is precisely what you would expect from the poster-makers once they finally got their hands on the expensive toys.
It eventually transpires that the individual members of the student council try to outdo one another in the application of their “fairness” ideology. The cleverer they can be in highlighting distinctions and asymmetries to be eradicated, the greater a claim they can lay to the true currency of their trade, viz. the ability to monopolize other people’s time and attention and extract tribute from them. Zany ideas like the transgender bathroom are the natural outcome of such a process–an internal leftist arms race to see who can be the biggest SJW.
If you’ve ever seen an activist judge in action, or if you can recall Obama’s first few months in office when he actually used to order Congress to have seminars and breakout sessions (there was a classic and highly illuminating video of this that I wish I could find), you will recognize this atmosphere of the schoolroom, the budding busybodies alongside the mature denizens of the faculty lounge, snickering to each other as they discoursed on fairness and justice, as if the real world ever paid the slightest attention to their theories.
* Social justice vectors colliding there. This is very telling, because it isn’t just any other fringeist co-traveler there but an Hispanic daring to use the W word. Melissa is nuts and impulsive but this outburst comes from the deep; she’s signalling him and his ilk that blacks are not pleased with them and their white defenders touting their work ethic, that blacks know just who it is they implicate by omission when they invoke this, and that they won’t be having any efforts by Hispanics to advance up the hierarchy either by overt or implicit suggestions they’re the harder working new brown folk. By bringing up slavery it’s as if she’s acknowledging this narrative but implying blacks, having had their turn, have earned a pass from “hard work”.
But how is it an executive of sufficient authority for this network doesn’t see this embarrassing display and immediately get on the phone to ask someone why in the f— is this crazy person on our network, already?
* Listening some days ago to a local NPR affiliate (?) I heard this clip, which I couldn’t locate on NPR, but tracked down.
The article, unfortunately, isn’t transcribed. It’s about the reduction of testing proposed by the Obama Administration. Around 2:00 into the audio they begin interviewing a teacher from a Title 1 school in Charlotte, NC. She makes some good points about how there is a lot of time spent prepping for tests. She says, perhaps correctly, that they must focus on teaching kids how to pass a test and thus aren’t spending enough time on teaching kids how to pass the biggest test, i.e. life. To prep them for college or the workforce.
Ok, no problems so far….
Around 3:20 into the audio she says that there is less time for literature and novels or things the students “enjoy” because they need to keep scores up. Regrettable, and understandable…
So around 5:00 we learn that she has taught in places without such time constrictions, starting from 5:36 we learn about “what actually matters” and what she would do with we learn what she would do when given time (and why I have no sympathy for, and I pray fervently for such a day, when nice white ladies all lose their jobs or insanely more demands and stress are placed on them).
One of her favorite unit/topic is diversity and stereotypes.
Ok, so basically, no quizzes. Just gripe sessions.
So, while No Child Left Behind was an exercise in colossal stupidity, one positive [most certainly] unintended consequence was preventing time for activities like this teacher would engage in.
* Yes that is pretty much the black narrative: only they have suffered slavery, only they can work hard – no one else has any idea what hard work is except a black who has never worked, etc.
No one else is allowed to claim these because blacks wouldn’t be unique and special in all the world.
It’s all about promoting BS narratives so one can practice emotional and monetary blackmail or extortion on others.
* Her chastising the Hispanic guy is to put Hispanics in their place. That blacks were, are, always will be, top of the racial grievance pecking order. Because only blacks were slaves (and worked damn hard! in the sun!!! picking cotton!) while Hispanics were not. And at any rate they just got off the banana boat.
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Chaim Amalek: “I really love these guys. Honest, and focused on advancing their group interests no matter what the idiot white goyim think.”
REPORT: Australia: Muslims complain that singing anthem is “forced assimilation”
“Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir decries ‘forced Muslim assimilation,’” by Ean Higgins, The Australian, November 1, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):
Requiring schoolchildren to sing the national anthem, and the citizenship pledge supporting democratic values, are part of an oppressive campaign by Australian authorities of “forced assimilation” of the Muslim community, a conference heard this morning.
The conference held by Islamist activist group Hizb ut-Tahrir entitled “Innocent Until Proven Muslim” is taking place at Bankstown in Sydney’s west, attended by about 800 people.
Hizb ut-Tahrir spokesman Uthman Badar told the conference the Australian government “claims to afford freedom, but seeks to impose values and beliefs” on Muslims.
Muslims were expected to not just be gracious about Australian values, but publicly promote them, Mr Badar said.
This imposition of secular western values was reflected in the oath when taking out citizenship, Mr Badar said, with new citizens required to pledge allegiance to Australia “whose democratic beliefs I share”.
“It’s not enough that you obey the law, no, you have to adopt our values,” Mr Badar told the conference.
Similarly, Mr Badar said, schoolchildren were required to sing the national anthem, which he said, “reflects a disputed view of history”.
“If you don’t share those values, why should they be forced to sing it?” Mr Badar said.
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How come Democrats never get smeared by the media for their support from communists and black nationalists and Muslims?
From the SPLC: You can’t blame a politician for the politics of their every supporter. You can’t even blame that pol for failing to denounce every ugly thing his or her enthusiasts might say. But at some point, you have to wonder. Such is the case with Donald Trump.
It’s often difficult to tell exactly what Trump’s positions are, because, outside of immigration, he has offered almost no details about them. But as the first three months of Trump’s unexpectedly super-charged campaign for the GOP nomination for president unfolded, it became clear that he was very much the preferred candidate of virtually the entire white nationalist movement in America.
Trump never asked for that support. But he got it. And when a plethora of media outlets began to report on that fact, Trump’s response was tepid indeed. He didn’t need David Duke’s endorsement, he said of the infamous former Klan leader who he suggested he’d barely heard of; indeed, the billionaire New Yorker known for his boastfulness added in the same breath, he really didn’t need anyone’s.
Whether Trump is consciously dog-whistling to racist extremists or simply following his own star, he has increasingly delighted the racist right, many of whose denizens were initially deeply skeptical of his candidacy. After Trump released his six-page immigration plan — which included calls for deporting some 11 million people, forcing Mexico somehow to pay for a 1,900-mile border wall, and revoking the 14th Amendment’s promise of birthright citizenship — Duke exulted.
“I praise the fact that he’s come out on the immigration issue,” Duke told listeners of his radio show after the mid-August release. “I’m beginning to get the idea that he’s a good salesman. That he’s an entrepreneur and he has a good sense of what people want to hear, what they want to buy. … And I think he realizes that his path to popularity, toward power in the Republican Party, is talking about the immigration issue. And he has really said some incredibly great things recently. So whatever his motivation, I don’t give a damn. I really like the fact that he’s speaking out on this greatest immediate threat to the American people.”
Pressed to renounce Duke’s backing by reporters for Bloomberg Politics, Trump, who earlier said he didn’t need anyone’s endorsement because “everybody likes me,” responded, “Sure I would, if that would make you feel better.”
From the Start
Donald Trump’s appeal to the radical right was there from the start, in the June 16 speech announcing his candidacy. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with [them]. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some I assume are good people.”
White nationalists responded almost immediately. Members of the White Genocide Project, a racist group formed to push the baseless claim that a “genocide” of white people is occurring around the world, started a White House petition calling on President Obama to honor Trump for “opposing white genocide.”
Jared Taylor, one of the nation’s leading white nationalists and founder of the racist journal American Renaissance, praised Trump for his characterization of Mexicans. “Americans, real Americans, have been dreaming of a candidate who says the obvious, that illegal immigrants from Mexico are a low-rent bunch that includes rapists and murders,” Taylor said in a video on his website.
Gregory Hood, an avid white nationalist writer for Richard Spencer’s Radix journal, also chimed in, declaring that “Trump is worth supporting. He is worth supporting because we need a troll. We need someone who can expose the system that rules us as the malevolent and worthless entity it is. We need someone who can break open public debate. We need someone who can expose and heighten the contradictions within the system. And we need someone who can call out the press, the politicians, and the pseudo-intellectuals as the empty shells they are.”
Trump was not the first politician to raise the hopes of American white nationalists. In recent years, racist support developed for then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Ky.), who has been accused of but denied authoring anti-black writings, and then-U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a virulent opponent of immigration. But by far the most of that kind of support seen in recent years went to Pat Buchanan, the white nationalist columnist, former MSNBC commentator, and well-known “culture warrior” who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1992, 1996 and 2000.
Even more extremists fell in line behind Trump after the release of his immigration plan — a plan that is almost indistinguishable from the policy proposals made by John Tanton, a white nationalist who founded the Federation for American Immigration Reform and essentially created the modern nativist movement.
Richard Spencer, who heads the white nationalist National Policy Institute and has called for “peaceful ethnic cleansing” to halt the “deconstruction” of white culture, is a former editor at the Buchanan-founded American Conservative. After seeing the plan, Spencer told The New Yorker magazine that Trump reflected “an unconscious vision that white people have — that their grandchildren might be a hated minority in their own country. I think that scares us. They probably aren’t able to articulate it. I think it’s there. I think that, to a great degree, explains the Trump phenomenon. I think he is the one person who can tap into it.”
Jared Taylor, in an American Renaissance piece entitled “Is Trump Our Last Chance?,” put it like this: “Donald Trump’s new position paper on immigration makes it official: He is easily the best presidential candidate on border security and immigration since Pat Buchanan. And we can be sure he is not a bait-and-switch politician who excites supporters with a few sensible ideas and then betrays them. Mr. Trump has single-handedly made immigration the key issue of this election. His heart is in it when he says we need to build a wall, deport illegals, and have an immigration ‘pause’ until every American who wants a job gets one.”
Language, Violence and Elitism
It has become clear over the years that when public figures savage minority communities — calling them rapists and drug dealers, for instance — a climate of fear and bigotry often follows that ultimately leads to hate violence. Trump’s toxic anti-immigrant rhetoric, so prominent in the news today, has consequences.
After the release of Trump’s immigration plan, dozens of threads about the candidate appeared on Stormfront, the world’s largest hate forum, founded and still run by a former Alabama Klan leader. In one, a poster suggested that it would only be plausible to deport about 25% of undocumented immigrants.
“Everyone in favor of shooting the rest … raise your hand,” another replied.
“You have my sword,” chimed in still another, posting that message alongside a photograph of an assault rifle with several clips and a handgun.
It wasn’t only the professional racists who haunt Stormfront who sounded like that. At a major Trump speech in Mobile, Ala., one person could be heard shouting “white power!” Olaf Childress, editor of The First Freedom, was passing out the openly racist tabloid to people in the crowd estimated at up to 30,000. And another Trump fan advocated violence to The New York Times: “Hopefully, he’s going to sit there and say, ‘When I become elected president, what we’re going to do is we’re going to make the border a vacation spot, it’s going to cost you $25 for a permit, and then you get $50 for every confirmed kill.’ That’d be one nice thing.”
In the early morning hours of Aug. 19, that kind of talk came to a head when two white men leaving a Red Sox game in Boston came across a homeless Latino man. They beat the man badly with a metal pipe, then urinated in his face. Following their arrest, one of them reportedly told police, “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.” Asked about his language and the hate attack, Trump limited himself to saying that his followers “are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”
A day later, he condemned the crime a little more directly.
On Sept. 9, Trump took on another minority group — Muslims. Teaming up with a fellow GOP presidential hopeful, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), he joined a rally in Washington, D.C., sponsored in part by the Center for Security Policy, one of the country’s most influential anti-Muslim groups. The rally drew counter-protesters, including activists for undocumented immigrants angered by Trump’s statements. His supporters spit on the counter-protesters and even pulled one girl’s hair.
To Cas Mudde, a Dutch scholar and expert on the radical right who is currently teaching at the University of Georgia, Trump is an elitist nativist who is appealing to far-right elements in America like many others before him.
“Trump himself doesn’t hold a populist radical right ideology, but his political campaign clearly caters to populist radical right attitudes, and his supporter base is almost identical to the core electorate of populist radical right parties in (Western) Europe,” Mudde wrote in an opinion piece published in The Washington Post.
“However, Trump also stands in a long tradition of American nativism, going back to the Know Nothings of the mid 19th century, of American anti-establishment politicians, and of conservatives who claim to be the right ‘CEO’ to make America great again. But, in contrast to the rich history of U.S. populism, Trump is an anti-establishment elitist. He is better than everyone, i.e., both the elite and the people!”
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Blog: Today a group of well-known white supremacists is gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The conference, titled “Become Who We Are: The Identity and Spirit of Our People”, promises lectures by the nation’s leading racists, including men’s rights sympathizer Jack Donovan, former Klan lawyer Sam Dickson, retired California State University, Long Beach professor Kevin MacDonald, and National Policy Institute founder Richard B. Spencer — a man described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a suit-and-tie version of the white supremacists of old, a kind of professional racist in khakis.” On October 24, 2015, two of these speakers, MacDonald and Spencer, appeared on the white supremacist Radix Podcast — a media outlet founded by Spencer.
The pair discussed — what else — Jewish intellectuals and the decline of the white race, a phenomena the duo referred to as “extinction” and “genocide.”
Spencer asked MacDonald, author of the anti-Semitic tome Culture of Critique (a favorite of pickup artist Roosh Valizadeh), what he thought of Jewish influence on anthropology. Spencer said he believed there were other factors at work, such as “the white population” having “abdicat[ed] its authority.” MacDonald, in turn, agreed about the “white race” letting its guard down, but said it was “far, far more the Jews” who “strongly identified as Jews” who were to blame for the “fall of Anglo-America.” If it weren’t for them, he reasoned, whites would still be able to discuss racial supremacy and racial differences without fear of retaliation or ridicule.
Spencer: Do you, do you think Jewish influence was a decisive factor, um, just, just in the sense of what…that you were mentioning there? It, it wasn’t just one movement. There, there seemed to be a, a whole host of different things. There’s Frankfurt School’s kinda post-Marxism. Uh, Stephen Jay Gould was a kind of, you know, sunny-side-up public intellectual who would talk about baseball and jazz music and all this kind of Americana and things like that. Uh, but he, but he also identified to some degree with socialism. Um, or, or do you think there were, there were other factors, because obviously, you know, it, it wasn’t just, uh, you know, uh, a matter of antagonism by, by Jews. There was…the other factor was that the, you know, the white population seemed to abdicate its authority.
MacDonald: Yes it certainly did. And, and, um, the, the, uh, most important book on this, I think, is, is Eric Kaufmann’s book on the, the Rise and Fall of Anglo-America. Now in that book he attributes the fall of Anglo-America to a sort of combination of Jews and WASPs sort of agreeing that cosmopolitanism was the way to go. And I, I have an extended argument with him about that, I, I think that it was far, far more the Jews who were strongly identified as Jews. Um…if you look at, at the people around Partisan Review, if you look at Stephen Jay Gould, if you look at the Frankfurt School, [Franz] Boas, all these people, very strongly identified as Jews and [were] very clear that they didn’t want the idea that, that, uh, there was this…Any, any possibility, any even discussion of, of racial superiority by, by Europeans.
Um, but that was, you know, it went far beyond racial superiority. Any kind of racial identity and even the existence of race as a concept. Um, and emphasizing cosmopolitanism and, and, you know, immigration from all peoples as a sort of moral imperative, you know, that, that went beyond the interests of the United States. The interests of the United States were not important. Th-this is explicitly stated not only by Jewish organizations but by Jewish intellectuals like Sidney Hook, uh, the Partisan Review crowd, all, all, all on page with that.
This was in the 1940s. Um, so, it’s been a full-court press and, and my view is that there certainly were WASPs that went along with this. Uh, one good example is, um, John Dewey, um, the educator, uh, who is very much on the left — but he’s also very promoted by, by Jewish interests. In other words, these people made alliances with, with willing non-Jews, as they always have, and they still do. We see this all the time.
The pair delve into what they believe to be the most pressing issue of the day: the possibility of white “extinction.” Spencer asked MacDonald what the prospects would be for such an event, and MacDonald’s reply was predictably gloomy. Folks don’t want to think about “white genocide” because they believe it to be “absurd.” Although he believes white males are “doing pretty well” in the U.S. — an understatement if I’ve ever heard one — he believes that white America’s Achilles heel is our policy of “admitting millions and millions of non-whites” into this and other predominantly white countries. “And if your group is not reproducing” and is “giving up territory to people who are reproducing” the result is that your group will become “a smaller and smaller percentage of that population”, he warned.
Spencer: What are the prospects for an extinction of a race? Um, and a race that continues to contract, or a race that just continues to degenerate? Um, what, what are…Let’s go there —
MacDonald: Yeah.
Spencer: — to these kind of dark subjects.
MacDonald: It’s a dark place. And, and um, when you mention…you talk about white genocide and so on, to most people they just [sic] eyes glaze over and they, they don’t wanna think about it, they think it’s an absurd thing. Uh, I mean I was in Washington, D.C. recently, went to the House of Representatives, you look out there, all these white males with power. You know, in a way we’re doing pretty well. But, but at the same time we’re admitting millions and millions of non-whites into these countries. They have higher birthrates. Well, what’s the, what’s the big story of evolution? It’s differential fertility! It’s the whole story! It’s the whole name of the game!
And, and, and you have to think about what’s it gonna be like, not in fifty years but in a thousand years. You know, ’cause evolution is been [sic] goin’ on for eons, you know? You know, the, the uh, extinction of the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago. We can’t even comprehend that in our brains.
But you have to think about the very long term future. And if your group is not, is not reproducing and it’s giving up territory to people who are reproducing, well, you’re gonna become a smaller and smaller percentage of that population. Your political power’s gonna go down, um, and ultimately I, I, I’m very concerned about victimization. I mean, I, if you’re a biologist, an evolutionist, you look at the world, ethnic conflicts are the norm throughout human history. You know, Germans and Poles can’t get along, how’re blacks and whites gonna get along in America? Asians and Mexicans…You know, there’s gonna be conflict. There already is conflict. And we’re gonna be victimized as we be…as we lose political power, and it’s gonna be more and more obvious.
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