October 27, 2015 Do Blacks Want To Be Policed By Whites? Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Do Blacks Want To Be Policed By Whites?

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Different groups tend to have different norms, different evolutionary group strategies, and so when you have diversity, you have conflict.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Ultimately the black community does not want to be policed. We do hear about blacks calling for the police to “do something” about crime, but then they circle the wagons around extremely unsympathetic characters like Mike Brown, Kajieme Powell, Trayvon Martin, etc.

* (You can add OJ Simpson to that list).

Totally agree. Blacks want to opt out of what civilized societies require in terms of keeping the peace. The problem is that white guys (and now girls as well) want to be the hard ass savior/warrior. It is why whites join the armed forces in vast majorities despite the fact that the US government and the people really do not care how they are treated once their service is finished (ever been in a V.A.? talk about medieval….). The same with police. That white guy should have not gone near that girl with a 10 foot pole. But he just couldn’t help himself trying to be the keeper of all that is good. He is one dumb ass and now he is going to pay. Wouldn’t walking out and getting a doughnut have made more sense once he confronted the situation? Hell yes….

MORE COMMENTS:

* But being an ever-shrinking minority won’t stop the scapegoating. With South Africa’s economy hitting the skids, MSM outlets are laying the rhetorical groundwork for some ugly stuff. Whites are now <9% of SA's population and <5% of births (facts not disclosed in either of these articles), but they're STILL messing everything up for the equalists!* Sprinkling migrants around is what Germany is doing these days. Thousands a day pull into the Munich train station. They are fed, watered and loaded on other buses and trains that fan out on five major routes across Germany. They are distributed in small groups to villages, in bigger bunches to town, and in mobs to cities. A perfect testbed for the Chetty/Brooks Plan.Why don’t we see how Germany does with their massive Chetty/Brooks integration and improvement program before we start gathering up all the blacks in Detroit, St. Louis and Chicago and busing them out to the sticks?Somehow I think that the Chetty/Brooks Plan is going to require hundreds of billions of dollars in incentives (read “bribes”) to persuade black folks to move, onesies and twosies, out to the sticks to live with white folks.Every rural town can have its own fully subsidized Negro family, hanging around like cigar store Indians.Why in the world would any white or Negro American listen to any of the foolishness these Indians and Jews come up with? What on earth do they know of us? Let them solve the grotesque problems of their national homelands before they diddle with us. Israel and India (Pakistan?) would be wonderful testbeds.

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The Dhimmi Church of Sweden

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

From Gates of Vienna: As reported here last weekend, a controversy has arisen in Sweden over the inability of candidates for the office archbishop in the Swedish Church to affirm that Jesus Christ presented a truer picture of God than Mohammed.

One of the illustrious clerics who seemed all too willing to blur the distinctions between Christianity and Islam was the front-runner Antje Jackelén, who has since been elected to become the new archbishop. Our Swedish correspondent LN has translated several articles about the controversy, beginning with an overview of the theologian Eva Hamberg, who left the church rather than be a party to the encroachment of “Chrislam”.

Unfortunately, like so many other Scandinavian institutions — political parties, media outlets, and most private charitable organizations — the Swedish church is state-funded. This means that most non-state alternatives are competitively hobbled, and remain largely vestigial. Ms. Hamberg may thus find it hard to obtain a new, paying position in any non-PC Christian church in Sweden.

A translation from Fria Tider:

Theologian: “Swedish Church has no future”
As a Christian, it is wise to leave the increasingly secularized Swedish church, says Eva Hamberg, a former priest and well-known theologian.
Last week the priest and professor Eva Hamberg left the Swedish church, which she believes has been secularized and politicized to an extent that she can not endorse.
The Straw that broke the camel’s back for Hamberg was the hearing before the archbishop election, when only one of the candidates clearly answered yes to the question if Jesus gives a truer picture of God than Muhammad.
That the Liberal candidate Antje Jackelén yesterday was appointed to become Archbishop Anders Wejryd’s successor has not got Hamberg to look optimistic on the future of the Swedish Church.
“When believers begin to leave, it becomes difficult for the church to maintain its legitimacy. I do not think it has got a future,” says Hamberg to Sydsvenskan.
She says that she has received numerous emails from both clergy and laity expressing understanding for her decision to leave the church and they says that they are planning to do the same.
When asked if she is still a Christian responds Hamberg “Oh yes, that’s why I’m leaving.”
Until 1996, all Swedes automatically became members of the Swedish church at birth. Members of the Swedish church annual pay church tax on an average of one percent of their income. Anyone who is a member of the Swedish Church on November 1 has to pay church tax for the following year.
To exit the Swedish Church
It’s very easy to quit the church; you report your withdrawal to your local parish. You can visit, call or write to your church and ask for a form of exit. There is no cost for terminating your membership.
If you regret it, you are welcome to become a member again.

A brief excerpt from an interview with the new PC and very Islam-friendly archbishop, from Svenska Dagbladet:

Religious diversity is an asset
Sweden’s new archbishop Antje Jackelén wants to see more cooperation with Muslim, Jewish and other religious organizations. And the Swedish church can expect to continue to lose members, she says in an interview with the Svenska Dagbladet.
“The church continues to lose members. How can it be stopped?”
“Stopped and stopped. It is clear that anyone who leaves the church is a loss to the church community.”

The Islam-critical and anti-PC site Avpixlat presents a different perspective:

New archbishop has “Allahu akhbar” as motto
Islamization of the Church
As feared, the politically correct and religion-relativistic bishop of Lund, Antje Jackelén, was elected new archbishop of the Swedish Church.
In interviews she now says that she in her new ministry will push for more cooperation with Muslim organizations.
This is in line with her personal motto which is a direct translation of the Muslim war cry of “Allahu akhbar”, i.e. “God is greater”, and which is also the title of a book she has published.
It created an uproar when the influential theologian Eva Hamberg announced the other day her renunciation of the priesthood, leaving the Swedish Church after Jackelén and the other candidates for archbishop equated during the hearing that preceded the election the good judgment of the Muslim prophet Muhammad with Jesus.

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WORLD’S FIRST LESBIAN BISHOP CALLS FOR CHURCH TO REMOVE CROSSES, TO INSTALL MUSLIM PRAYER SPACE

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Breitbart: The Bishop of Stockholm has proposed a church in her diocese remove all signs of the cross and put down markings showing the direction to Mecca for the benefit of Muslim worshippers.

Eva Brunne, who was made the world’s first openly lesbian bishop by the church of Sweden in 2009, and has a young son with her wife and fellow lesbian priest Gunilla Linden, made the suggestion to make those of other faiths more welcome.

The church targeted is the Seamen’s mission church in Stockholm’s eastern dockyards. The Bishop held a meeting there this year and challenged the priest to explain what he’d do if a ship’s crew came into port who weren’t Christian but wanted to pray.

Calling Muslim guests to the church “angels“, the Bishop later took to her official blog to explain that removing Christian symbols from the church and preparing the building for Muslim prayer doesn’t make a priest any less a defender of the faith. Rather, to do any less would make one “stingy towards people of other faiths”.

The bishop insisted this wasn’t an issue, after all airports and hospitals already had multi-faith prayer rooms, and converting the dockyard church would only bring it up to speed. Regardless, the announcement has aroused protest.

Father Patrik Pettersson, one of the priests in her diocese and active in the same parish as the Seaman’s mission church has hit back in a blog of his own, complaining there is no way you could equate a consecrated church with a prayer room, remarking “I should have thought a bishop would be able to tell the difference”.

Calling the bishop’s words “theologically unthinking”, he asked what was to be done with crucifixes screwed to the walls, and heavy items such as baptismal fonts.

“Ignoring the rhetorical murmuring”, Pettersson wrote: “The only argument bishop Eva really put forward in support of her view is ‘hospitality’… How do you respond to that? Not much of a basis for discussion, as one colleague put it. The theological, ecclesiological, pastoral and working issues are left untouched”.

The actual priest at the Seaman’s mission was left nonplussed by the comments of the Bishop when contacted by Dagen.se for comment.

As an independent mission the church operates outside of the diocese, and so the bishop has no authority there, a fact reflected by the response of the church director who said the bishop’s words were her business alone.

When asked whether she would be removing the cross from her church, Kiki Wetterberg responded: “I have no problem with Muslim or Hindu sailors coming here and praying. But I believe that we are a Christian church, so we keep the symbols. If I visit a mosque I do not ask them to take down their symbols. It’s my choice to go in there”.

The upper echelons of the Church of Sweden, much like other national churches across Europe, seem to be fully invested in the diversity mission. Back in February, a parish church in multicultural paradise Malmö declared it would be holding a service in solidarity with the local Muslim community as a protest against a march by anti-Islamisation movement PEGIDA in the city.

The priest responsible told media: “During the protest, the Swedish Church is going to hold a service where we express joy for our city and our Muslim friends.

“There is strong support for diverse cultures in Malmö and it is important that the church is there to support that”.

Malmö is Sweden’s gateway to Europe, and is the main point of ingress to the Nordic nations for the thousands of migrants travelling through Europe from Africa and the East who have decided to make it home.

As a major bottleneck into the region, with a single bridge and ferry route connecting the country to the rest of Europe, the arrival of these migrants has heralded an unprecedented level of criminality in the city, as explained to Breitbart London by a recently retired senior police officer last month. Describing the ‘no-go’ zones that have sprung up around the city and calling for greater border controls to get criminal migration under control, Chief Superintendent Torsten Elofsson said:

“Years ago you could go with two officers, no problem. Now you have to send four officers and two cars – if the fire brigade want to go, they have to take a police escort. They throw stones and try to stop the fireman from putting out fires.

“They sabotage the police cars. You can’t leave them unguarded – when you come back to it you find the windows smashed and the tyres deflated. It isn’t quite a no-go zone, but we have had to develop special routines to go there”.

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Should American College Campuses Permit Criticism Of Israel?

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

I believe all groups, including Jews, benefit from accurate criticism and from the accurate and appropriate placement of stigma.

I welcome debates about Israel and Jews and blacks and Muslims and Christians, on campus and off.

Ex-CIA officer Philip Giraldi (with whom I usually disagree substantially but I nevertheless always feel a benefit from reading him, and I believe he makes some good points below) writes:

On October 23^rd, the op-ed section outdid itself with a piece “Free speech is flunking out on campus” by Catherine Rampell, who described the increasingly sorry state of first amendment rights on politically correct American university campuses. Blacks, LGBTers, women and victims of sexual assault were all identified as constituencies demanding “safe spaces” resulting in curtailment of free speech but somehow Israel and its supporters screaming anti-Semitism at every drop of the hat were left out in spite of the fact that Jews on campus have been both extremely and successfully active in taking political action to pressure universities whenever they claim to feel “threatened.”

…Friends of Israel, as ever, work from the same playbook orchestrated by the large donors who fund them. They claim that anti-Israel protests on campus to include even letters to the editor in college newspapers constitute a “threatening environment” for Jewish students. The argument is based on a fundamental falsehood, which is that criticism of the actions of a foreign government is equivalent to hatred for the dominant religion of that country, that religion is exactly the same as nationality. Applying that notion liberally would mean that criticism of any country where there is de facto or de jure a dominant state religion would be unacceptable speech. If applied liberally countries spanning the globe would be exempt from criticism, to include not only Israel but also Saudi Arabia and Iran.

But this is not about Christian or Muslim sensitivities. It is all about protection against insult for Jews and it relies on a perception of perpetual victimhood, which can be and is produced on demand to stifle any criticism that might be regarded by some as objectionable. Indeed, if calls for violence directed against Jews as a race or religion were occurring pleas for some form of mitigation might have some very slim cogency, but campus protest movements have very carefully and deliberately avoided falling into that trap. And it might also be pointed that on many campuses a considerable proportion of the dissenters are themselves Jews who are appalled by Israeli behavior.

Criticism of Israel does not just include complaining about the policies of that country’s government. It also has inevitably involved the so-called BDS movement, “boycott-divest-and sanction” which aims to make Israel pay an economic and social price for its behavior, similar to the pressure that was once directed against apartheid South Africa. This second narrative has been cleverly woven into the complaints about “harassment,” labeling any campus calls for BDS ipso facto anti-Semitic and “hurtful.” School authorities have generally been accommodating to claims made by Jewish groups that students are feeling “threatened,” obstructing and intimidating critics of Israel and denying tenure to faculty members who are seen as troublemakers. They have looked the other way as organizations like Canary Mission began exposing college students on its website who are reported to be “anti-Freedom, anti-American and anti-Semitic” with the deliberate intention of damaging their future employment prospects.

Between January 2014 and June 2015 there were more than 300 incidents on 65 college campuses in 24 states involving intimidation or prevention of protests against Israel. Students at Northeastern University distributing flyers at dorms were interrogated by campus police and had their group suspended by college authorities. Some were disciplined. And faculty members have also been on the receiving end, with Steven Salaita at the University of Illinois, denied a teaching position after he sent tweets complaining about Israel’s 2014 assault against Gaza which killed more than 500 children.

Richard Blum, a member of the University of California’s regents, has demanded that students who criticize Israel be suspended for expelled because they are “intolerant,” exhibiting anti-Semitic bigotry. Blum is the multimillionaire husband of California Senator Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein has also hinted that she could have the government look into possible violations occurring at federally funded institutions. The definition of bigotry being promoted by Blum and Feinberg conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism and includes in its purview what are increasingly being referred to as “speech crimes.” The university regents are currently considering new language for their statement of policy against intolerance on campus but are under intense pressure from Jewish organizations that are lobbying them aggressively.

Many of the groups involved in the harassment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators are perhaps not surprisingly not indigenous to the colleges themselves. Stand With Us (SWU) and “Campus Maccabees” are national organizations well-funded by billionaire Sheldon Adelson and SWU has close ties to the Israeli government as does the lawfare center Shurat HaDin, which has filed lawsuits against Muslim and progressive groups on campus. Predictably, Congress and state legislatures have gotten into the act, seeking to pass laws that make it impossible for colleges and universities supported by taxpayer money to fund student groups that call for boycotts. The bills are drafted in terms of rejecting all selective boycotts but they are really all about Israel and everyone knows it. The fact that advocating voluntary boycotts is very much a part of one’s First Amendment rights appears to be irrelevant.

How to deal with it? The brouhaha is impossible to ignore as the advocates for Israel are relentlessly in one’s face even when the argument is being constructed in a restrained fashion and purposely framed so as not to offend Jews. It is consequently necessary to disarticulate being Israeli from being Jewish. Judaism is a religion and Israel is a foreign country. And it is important to recognize that legitimate direct criticism of Jewish groups for their involvement in pressuring universities should not itself be off limits. If the organizations self-identify as Jewish and they are attempting to restrict the discussion on Israel contrary to the First Amendment they become fair game. The First Amendment exists, after all, to permit free and open discussion of all issues and if some Jewish individuals and organizations are mobilizing to deny fundamental American rights on behalf of a foreign nation the rest of us have the responsibility to object forcibly and to make transparent just who is doing what to whom.

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Rabbi: How the Middle East Conflict Is Warping Judaism

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

I think dealing with your own country is excellent for Judaism.

When Judaism did not have a state for nearly 1900 years, the religion turned inward and became obsessed with tiny rituals rather than the practicalities of running a nation-state.

When you have to earn a living, your observance of Judaism is more challenged than when you are supported by welfare. Reality is messy.

Jeremy Kalmanofsky is a rabbi at Ansche Chesed in Manhattan. He writes:

Jews must recognize that there are places in the Palestinian territories that are basically Mississippi in 1963 — places where the powerful may kill the powerless without fear of prosecution. (No one has been arrested yet in the Duma attack, although the authorities say they know who perpetrated it.)
Lest you think I am getting all hysterical and anti-Zionist on you, I assure you I am not. The scope of the problem was aptly described by former Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin in September, in an essay noting that dozens of messianic ultra-nationalists attack Palestinians every day, and that they and their hundreds of supporters have come to “set the tone for mainstream religious Zionism.” And I urge Hebrew readers to consult the searing Tisha B’Av dirge by Dov Halbertal, a Haredi attorney who bewailed the Duma attack among other dark trends, like the 100,000 votes in the last election that were cast for Baruch Marzel, the Kahanist thug who openly advocates expelling Arabs. “How have we reached this stage,” Halbertal wrote, “when religious and Haredi Judaism is becoming more and more violent? And it is not just a marginal fringe, but a large minority.”
I will remain a liberal Zionist until my dying day, even if I am the last one. In my humble view, given the events of the past 150 years, there is no credible alternative to Jews having power and learning to wield it responsibly. I’m just not sure we’re passing that test.
I know very well that the “price tag” perpetrators are not interested in what a liberal rabbi from Manhattan has to say. But since, as the Talmud states, every Jew is responsible for every other Jew, I am not free to ignore them. I remain responsible for the Torah. Jews of spirit and ethics must offer an alternative.
We are told that the Second Temple was destroyed because of sinat hinam, abundant, pointless hatred. Now, the remarkable Jewish society created in our ancestral homeland might likewise be destroyed by hatred — the kind found in the souls of those who hate Arabs and want to burn their homes, and those who hate secular Jews and want to destroy their values and sometimes their bodies (remember the murderous madness at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade).
As the senior Rabbi Kook taught, the only plausible response to abundant hatred is abundant love, ahavat hinam.

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NYT: Ben Carson Puts Spotlight on Seventh-Day Adventists

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

When I converted to Judaism in 1993, my dad reacted by saying, “Well, they [the Jews] are certainly not like the Adventists — out there proselytizing.”

From the New York Times:

The Adventist legacy is rooted in the 19th century and grew out of what was known as the “Great Disappointment.” Most followers consider its initial founder to be William Miller, a Baptist preacher from upstate New York who calculated that Jesus Christ was due to return to earth on Oct. 22, 1844. When the savior failed to show up, the flock was left in a state of despair.

One of Mr. Miller’s followers, Ellen G. White, reconstituted the denomination under the doctrine that Christ had actually relocated to a heavenly sanctuary where he would begin judgment of the world. She was seen as a prophet.

Unlike members of other Christian denominations, Adventists honor the Sabbath on Saturdays instead of Sundays. They tend to be vegetarians and they continue to wait patiently for the Second Coming and the end of the world.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church counts more than 18 million members globally and 1.2 million in North America, but some skeptics see it as a sect out of touch with mainstream Christianity. While the church avoids involvement in politics, Mr. Carson’s emergence as a prominent political figure has presented an opportunity for it to gain credibility.

“We do not endorse any candidates and we do not use our church for political reasons,” Alex Bryant, secretary of the North American division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, said of Mr. Carson’s candidacy. “But we do look at it as an opportunity to tell the world, tell this country about Seventh-day Adventism, our beliefs, and our desire to lift up Jesus Christ.”

A twice-baptized Adventist, Mr. Carson has become one of the church’s biggest stars. In his autobiography, “Gifted Hands,” he recounts his mother’s conversion, which began in the ward of a mental hospital.

It was not until he was 14 that Mr. Carson became truly captured by his faith. Known for having a hot temper back then, the young Mr. Carson let a petty dispute turn into a tantrum that ended with him knifing a friend. The episode could have been deadly had it not been for a fortunately placed belt-buckle that blocked his blade. From that time on, Mr. Carson prayed away his anger.

“My temper will never control me again,” Mr. Carson wrote in his book. “Never again. I’m free.”

Mr. Carson, who declined to be interviewed for this article, attends church regularly and taught Bible school at his Seventh-day Adventist church in Maryland. Now that he is a politician, Mr. Carson speaks often about the role that God has played in his life, but he has tended to discuss his faith differently depending on the venue.

During a 1999 interview with the Religion News Service, Mr. Carson said he was happy to attend other kinds of churches. “I spend just as much time in non-Seventh-day Adventist churches because I’m not convinced that the denomination is the most important thing,” he said. “I think it’s the relationship with God that’s most important.”

More recently, however, Mr. Carson made clear that he would always defend his Adventist beliefs against skeptics.

“I’m proud of the fact that I believe what God has said, and I’ve said many times that I’ll defend it before anyone,” Mr. Carson told the Adventist Report in 2013. “If they want to criticize the fact that I believe in a literal six-day creation, let’s have at it because I will poke all kinds of holes in what they believe.”

For theological reasons, Adventism has faced tensions with the Catholic and Baptist churches over the years. Last spring, Mr. Carson was invited to speak at a Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference in Ohio, but faced opposition because of his beliefs and eventually backed out.

“Dr. Carson is a Seventh-Day Adventist,” a group of pastors from the Baptist organization B21 wrote in protest of his visit. “Their official theology denies the doctrine of hell in favor of annihilation,” they wrote, “and believes that those who worship on Sunday will bear the ‘mark of the beast.’ ”

The church has also had a strongly anti-Catholic strain, and when Mr. Carson decided to attend Pope Francis’ visit to Congress last month, Adventist message boards lit up with questions about his presence with the pontiff. Some questioned him referring to the pope as the “Holy Leader” and wondered, “How do such words come from the mouth of a Seventh-day Adventist?”

On the other hand, some Adventists have been disappointed in a perceived lack of tolerance regarding Islam from Mr. Carson, who said recently that he did not think a Muslim should be able to be president. His fierce opposition to the Affordable Care Act, which he has compared to slavery, has also rankled some in the community who say that the law is in keeping with the religion’s focus on promoting health.

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Is David Brooks Converting To Christianity”

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

From CJR: Brooks reveals little of his personal life, either in columns, books, or interviews. He threads Christian theology through his recent work, yet won’t say whether he has converted to anything (though he’ll say vaguely that he’s integrating with a new religious community). He is divorced from his wife of 27 years, Sarah, but doesn’t explain what role that break up, or the reasons for it, played in his moral awakening.

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Steve Sailer: White House Denounces FBI for Doubting the Narratives

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: That’s what happened in the 1960s. Liberals like the Warren Court and the Lindsay Administration in NYC took control of the criminal justice Narrative, blacks acted out, and the police retreated to the donut shop.

Here’s a three word lesson that social theorists should keep in mind: Cops Like Donuts…

It’s a big country and there always something spectacularly screwed up going on. The rise of random video unfiltered by the Narrative has caused a chain reaction of attempts to re-impose Narrative on what you are seeing with your lying eyes.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* World Star Hip Hop and sites like LiveLeak have destroyed the narrative.

Some folks don’t realize that yet.

Those sites get picked up by sites like the Daily Mail.

It may get even more interesting with apps like periscope. Like twitter, but livefeed video.

* Today in Sweden the jewish-owned, jewish-led Dagens Nyheter reports that according to Nato’s Stratcom in Riga, xenophobia and “hate of foreigners” is actively being fueled by “foreign powers.” The fellows of Stratcom in Riga have discovered a pattern in online “hate campaigns” where the infowarriors are said to exploit societies’ “instinctive fear of the foreign.” Mikael Tofvesson, a Swedish colleague to Stratcom’s boss Janis Sarts confirms the picture: “It is hard to point out specific nations, but there are actors communicating about this, that we can see. Xenophobia and that kind of fear can be raised and fueled by foreign powers. We see that tendency also, Tofvesson says.”

It is hard to not “flip the script” and interpret the piece as follows: NATO is playing an active role in pushing for a multicultural Europe, while these efforts are actively being resisted by a certain eastern force. The second half of the article contains some details about ties between the Swedish Resistance Movement and the Russian Imperialist Movement (great name!). Daniel Poohl of the far-left organization Expo is interviewed. The members of Expo fancy themselves as being nazihunters. In practice they mostly work to track down, harass and dox Sweden Democrats, and anyone else daring to question the current “cultural” policies.

* The Bonnier family is still so jewish that one isn’t supposed to joke about their jewishness. In 2010, a Swedish cartoonist whose material is published by Dagens Nyheter got in trouble for having in a strip – in obvious satire – referred to the “jews at Bonnier” as the causes of the cartoon character’s failed love life. (“I am beginning to think that the jews at Bonnier are at fault for all girls falling in love with me being mean, because this increases my productivity and thus [Bonnier’s] income.”). The comic strip that made fun of conspiracy theorists and antisemities of the kind that are occasionally found among the commenters here was pulled because of “antisemitism.” To be fair to the owners, nothing suggests that it was pressure from them that lead to the pull decision.

The current editor-in-chief at Dagens Nyheter, Peter Wolodarski, has explicitly said that they are focusing on “agenda-setting journalism.” I’ll let the readers guess to the major themes of the “agenda” that he is speaking about. When the editor-in-chief says that they are going to push the Narrative, and then pushes that Narrative as it has never been pushed before in Swedish media, there is little room left for guesswork.

* It’s impossible to police any society where there’s a large number of people willing to taunt and goad the police when they’re going about their business. This was OK before everybody had a camera. Back then, if people obstructed police for the sole purpose of provoking them, the officers could respond with force, and get the benefit of the doubt if their behaviour was called into question later. Nowadays payouts for perceived misconduct on the part of law enforcement officers only provide an incentive for people to push them over the edge.

* The police should continue to stand down, withdraw, and / or respond as slowly as possible when called for help. They should do this until they get their communities to agree that they will not tolerate this kind of demonization of the police force. Until then, the whiney, complaining, high maintenance, premodanna citizenry should largely be left to fend for themselves. Let’s see how well that works out in areas where there are strict gun control laws.

* Part of the problem is that there has been a culture of brutality and impunity among police for generations.

The Megaphone’s incident du semaine right now is a prime example. While the “victim” is extremely difficult to sympathize with (how did she think disobeying her teacher and a cop’s lawful commands would end for her?), one need not give a hoot about her to think that the cop used way more force than was necessary. Then he arrested another girl in the class just for speaking up. He clearly should be charged with a felony and never allowed to work in law enforcement again.

There is no easy solution. Ultimately the black community does not want to be policed. We do hear about blacks calling for the police to “do something” about crime, but then they circle the wagons around extremely unsympathetic characters like Mike Brown, Kajieme Powell, Trayvon Martin, etc. So obviously there will always be tension between blacks and cops.

But we are long overdue to end police brutality and corruption. I don’t think the Obama regime is trying to achieve this in a productive way, but all Americans should be able to agree that cops should be held to a very high professional standard.

* I thought it was revealing that in the video, the black male teens who observed the cop and the girl were completely indifferent. They had probably seen her acting out for the past half hour and thought she might deserve something like what she was getting. If she was innocent, they would have been outraged.

* The FBI is investigating the South Carolina negress flipping incident, which is something to celebrate because it must mean they’ve solved all the real crimes.

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Should Donald Trump Embrace Economist Raj Chetty?

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Obama, Cameron and Merkel have failed and yet they cannot see it. They have turned the Middle East and soon Europe into a giant disaster zone, left the West up to its eyeballs in debt and with dysfunctional cities, and yet they pat themselves on the back and congratulate themselves for being “sensible” and “measured”. They claim to be great businessmen and yet depend for their wealth on the ability to borrow at 0%. I wish I could.

Trump for America.

Orban/Le Pen for Europe.

Farage for the UK.

But still we vote for these people, because we was to be thought “sensible” and “responsible”. Sensible needs to be added to the list of words that mean the opposite of what they’re supposed to mean like “vibrant” and “nuanced”. “Calm down” also means: “the problem is so enormous that I am going to bury my head in the sand and pretend it away”.

* The orgasmic delight the MSM pundits have been enjoying in reporting that ghetto kids moved to middle class areas do slightly better than those who stay in ghettos seems to never be accompanied by what happens to the middle class kids who have to go to school with them. There seems to be an unstated, unproved assumption that as long as the area stays majority middle class, the underclass minority does no harm.

I have no data, but have seen first hand what a few underclass kids can do to a middle class school district.

First off, if an area becomes 10% underclass, the impact on the local school is far greater. The underclass families are younger and bigger, and none go to private school. This alone means that a 10% underclass local population is more like a 20% underclass public school. But what further happens is that members of the local resident’s extended family start showing up in the local schools. Sometimes this is to get out of a bad school, but quite often it is because the kid was expelled from their local school so they re-register in Auntie’s suburban district using her address. This effect then increases the underclass percentage to 25%. At that point you have a more than doubled special education population, declining parent involvement, and families with kids moving away or switching to private schools, creating a death spiral where the schools get worse and worse.

The end result is that in the space of 20 years you can have 50% of the white population, but 80% of the white population with school age children, abandon a suburb, in the process losing what may be their entire life savings in the form of home equity.

* 99.44% impure?

Remember the name of the soap.

* What happens when we run out of majority to lift up and pull the minority along?

* “Improving “entire neighborhoods” is far too modest an ambition. We need to improve entire cities, states, nations,”

You know, about starting with not undermining the current American nation?

Seriously, the Chetty/Brooks/Clinton idea is that we can sprinkle the tiny number of minorities all around the vast white majority … but there isn’t a vast white majority anymore. The only way the Chetty/Brooks/Clinton idea begins to be at all plausible numerically is if you combine it with shutting the immigration gates.

* It is amusing how the left insists that white people are evil but at the same time possess magical abilities to uplift minorities just by being in the same space. I wonder if some SJW children’s book author has written a story about some mythical monster along these lines.

Anyway, at the end of the day the fact is that although they cannot say so in a forthright manner – or perhaps don’t even realize what their true beliefs are – most of the gentry liberals believe in the benefits of the values of upper middle class white America, demonstrated by their own behavior and advocacy for minorities living near people like them to lift them up (but always near some other white people, not their own enclaves of course).

* Isn’t Chetty’s plan to turn white counties brown with the effluent spewed out by the geysers of inner-city, hyper-fertile ethnics just a ruse? A Trojan horse the real purpose of which is to turn red counties blue or somehow dilute the voting power of blue counties? Somewhere down the line it will turn out that the alleged intention of humane intervention was just a cover story for back-handed gerrymandering. Even Chetty will realize that he had been used.

* So according to Brooks the “sensible” thing is not to mention immigration or trade. He’s either ignorant or a PC chicken (aka hypocrite).

Interestingly political correctness on the left means that any suggestion to moderate mass low-skilled immigration is taboo while on the right any suggestion to moderate trade with low-wage Goliaths like China is also taboo. The bottom line is whether liberal or conservative, all who occupy the commanding heights of our culture care more about the good opinion of their friends and colleagues than they do about truth or the welfare of the American people. You can’t be respectable and honest (or well-informed) at the same time. A disease of our time and a threat to the future of our civilization. We need a bull in the china shop.

* In my experience, it is the Chinese folks who are the first to recognize that a school’s demographics are changing for the worse.

When they pick up Ming from band practice, and see all the black kids hanging around waiting for a ride, fighting and scuffling and hitting on girls, they go right home and call their Chinese real estate agent.

Then they buy a new home, and rent the old one out to a black family.

* I assume Brooks lives in a decent neighborhood. So how about Raj Chetty, Obama & Brooks import a couple of thousand of homeboys, baby mommas, and their progeny, to that neighborhood. And send the kids to whatever school Brooks’s kids (or nephews or whatever) go to. We must all do our part, no?

* Professor Chetty has just relocated from Harvard to Stanford, which is located in the small community of Stanford, California. Census data indicate that Stanford is about 86% white or Asian, 9% Hispanic and 5% black. The adjacent larger city of Palo Alto is 91% white or Asian, 6% Hispanic and 2% black. Stanford has a per capita income of about $32,000 and, for Palo Alto, $73,000 (California mean – about $30,000). However, Oakland, not too far away, is about 35% white, 17% Asian, 25% Hispanic and 28% black. Per capita income is about $32,000. So perhaps Chetty would like to consider living in one of the poorer minority sections of Oakland (and send his kids to the local public schools) – think about how much he could help the residents, and it’s only a 35 mile drive to Stanford, not bad by California standards; and I’m sure he’d get lots of support from the Stanfard professors to help relocate minorities from Oakland to the Stanford-Palo Alto area – you know, to one of the nice leafy neighborhoods where the faculty live.

* Troublemaking girl in a school classroom not complying with police. Oh, the cop is on leave and being investigated for being physical with the non-compliant girl. And the school is criticizing the cop. Does the school believe this should be handled non-physically by talking her into leaving and complying? Then why call the cops? Why not have the school counsellors and school psychologists, who are in abundant supply, handle her. What white person in his or her right mind would go into the education field today, despite the high pay for little work?

* The challenge of saving Western Civilization will include upgrading the quality of White Supremacists.

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Will Seventh-Day Adventist Questions Fail Donald Trump?

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

Stereotypes are usually true. For instance, about Seventh-Day Adventists, the two main stereotypes are that they are very nice healing people and that they are a bunch of apocalyptic wackos.

From my experience growing up as the son of an Adventist theologian on various Adventist college campuses, these stereotypes are true.

One of the things I hated about growing up as an Adventist was how irrelevant we seemed.

So now I am loving it that my former church is in the news. Ben Carson is an Adventist and Ted Cruz’s wife is an Adventist.

Adventists tend to be apolitical and heavenly minded.

From USA Today: DES MOINES — Iowa Republicans say Donald Trump’s sneak attack on Ben Carson’s religion won’t work.

“It will fail miserably,” said Mike Demastus, a pastor at Fort Des Moines Church of Christ. “For Donald Trump, as a name-only Presbyterian, to be criticizing somebody else for their faith statements is laughable. This is a guy who can’t even quote a Bible scripture to someone.”

Several influential Christian conservative leaders in Iowa, even those who publicly back GOP candidates other than Carson, came to the defense of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Monday.

Trump touched off the controversy when he said at a campaign rally in Florida on Saturday: “I love Iowa. And, look, I don’t have to say it, I’m Presbyterian. … Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about.”

Trump didn’t name Carson, then he denied in an interview on ABC’s This Week on Sunday that he was trying to plant seeds of doubt about his chief rival, who’s now the front-runner in Iowa, polls show. But Republican caucusgoers say they got the message.

“He cast questions about Carson,” said Andrea VanBeek, a 63-year-old Orange City Republican who intends to caucus for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. “In some ways, he’s pretty smart in the way he says things without saying them, you know.”

The Des Moines Register, in an article published Saturday about the 100 days until the Iowa caucuses, had noted that some conservatives have argued Seventh-day Adventists aren’t Christians.

Trump’s support in Iowa has plunged, although he remains securely in second place, according to a Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll and three other recent Iowa surveys.

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