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Popular Black ASU Professor Whitaker Demoted After Plagiarism

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Luke Ford

Kaila White, Arizona Republic, July 12, 2015:

Popular Arizona State University faculty member Matthew Whitaker has been demoted after the university found “significant issues with the content” of his recent book.

It is the second plagiarism-related incident in four years involving Whitaker, a former full professor who now is an associate professor.

Whitaker, 44, is a well-known speaker and author who focuses on African-American history, civil rights and racial equality. He declined to comment Friday.

In May, he won a $268,800 contract for his consulting company to provide “cultural consciousness training” for the Phoenix Police Department.

Whitaker, an Arizona native, was an ASU Foundation professor of history and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at ASU.

He was demoted June 26 to an associate professor and co-director of the center, according to an e-mail ASU interim University Provost Mark Searle sent to select faculty this week.

Whitaker will also lose at least $20,000 per year as a result of the demotion.

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His salary will be reduced by $10,000, to $153,530, starting with the new academic year this fall, and moving from director to co-director of the center will reduce his stipend from $20,000 to $10,000, according to ASU.

It is unclear whether he also will lose funding from the ASU Foundation.

“After concerns were raised about his book ‘Peace Be Still: Modern Black America from World War II to Barack Obama’ an investigation ensued in keeping with ASU policy. Results of that investigation identified significant issues with the content of the aforementioned book,” Searle wrote in the e-mail.

Searle’s e-mail included a letter from Whitaker in which he admitted to mistakes and apologized to his colleagues.

“My critics have revealed numerous mistakes that I made. It is painful to recognize that I was so careless as to fail to properly paraphrase and cite sources, despite my reverence and respect for the work of others in this field,” Whitaker wrote.

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Whitaker’s book has received criticism since early 2014, when a blogger began comparing the book to websites and other texts. An Inside Higher Ed article verified the comparisons.

Among the comparisons are a passage on affirmative action taken nearly word for word from Infoplease.com, and full, verbatim sentences about the television show “The Jeffersons” from the Archive of American Television website. The archive is cited, but the passages are not in quotation marks.

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He was the subject of a similar incident in 2011, when several ASU faculty members accused him of plagiarism. A university investigation determined that Whitaker had not committed “systematic or substantial” plagiarism, but ASU officials said they were concerned about “occasional carelessness.”

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In 2011, when Whitaker was promoted from associate professor to full professor, 10 ASU faculty members reported concerns about plagiarism to ASU President Michael Crow.

During the subsequent investigation of Whitaker’s work, a committee appointed by the university to examine the matter found paragraphs in a book that had been taken from Wikipedia, and parts of a speech he gave that matched or were similar to several paragraphs in a Washington Post story.

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The Confederate Flag Controversy

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Luke Ford

Paul Gottfried writes: The most interesting aspect of the war against Confederate symbols is not its predictable backing from black activist groups or the leftist media or members of the Rainbow Coalition. Those are the sources of support one would expect to find in this campaign. Far more striking is the overwhelming, effusive help that is coming from elements of what is imagined to be the conservative movement. Whether we look at the Murdoch media, listen to Republican office-holders throughout the South, or read statements prepared for our capitalist CEOs, the message is hardly different from that of black civil rights activists and organizational heads. Not at all surprising is the evidence of the usual Republican game of triangulating, which takes the form of doing anything to win groups on the left while assuming that what there is of a Right will stay with the GOP. Unfortunately, this game has done very well among Southern whites, who continue to vote overwhelmingly for any so-called moderate the party throws at them, whether McCain, W, or Lindsey Graham.

Among neoconservatives, the repugnance for Southern white society and culture has long been evident, and it seems that one encounters escalating effusions of hate from neoconservative celebrities that were it directed against their own ethnicity would evoke understandable outrage. Just the other day the latest neocon candidate for the title “hating Southerners the most” Jeff Jacoby ranted in all the usual venues of conservatism, inc. that the Battle Flag banner “is the emblem of the most poisonous ideologies in our national history.” Jacoby fulminated against “the hatefulness of the proposition” for which Southern soldiers “were prepared to kill or be killed.” One wonders whether authorized “conservative” sources would publish the invective of a Palestinian whose family had been expelled from their land by Israeli soldiers if he offered a similar rant against the Israeli flag. Just wondering!

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Is Fighting Anti-Semitism An ADL Priority?

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Luke Ford

Jonathan Bronitsky writes: I want the ADL to revisit and clarify its mission. “The nation’s premier civil rights/human relations agency,” asserts that it “fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry”; not just “all forms of bigotry,” but “anti-Semitism” and then “all forms of bigotry.” Yet as murderous anti-Semitism around the globe has surged in recent years, the ADL has dedicated itself more and more to matters of social justice in America (e.g., immigration, women’s reproductive health, economic “privilege”) that are already being pursued by a plethora of lobbying outlets and activist foundations. This wouldn’t be problematic—or rather, duplicitous—per se. But the ADL loudly and incessantly bemoans the fact that Jews are living in an increasingly dangerous world. “Thirty or forty years ago,” I heard over and over again at the National Leadership Summit, “I couldn’t have imagined that Jews would be getting shot dead in the streets of Europe.”

Well, resources are limited. Is combatting anti-Semitism a “priority” for the ADL? If so, then the organization should put its money where its mouth is. Alas, this outcome seems ever more unlikely as it seeks to enforce group conformity and advance political agendas that have nothing to do with defending the Jewish people.

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Illegal Immigrants Appear To Murder At 10x Rate Of US Citizens

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Luke Ford

From American Thinker:

Let’s take homicide as an example. The GAO estimates “criminal aliens” were arrested, convicted and incarcerated for 25,064 homicides. If non-citizens committed them over seven years, the annual rate would be 14.2 per 100,000 non-citizens. If illegal aliens committed them over four years, the annual rate would be 58.0 per 100,000 illegal aliens. Either way you compute, those are high rates.

By comparison, the FBI reports the murder rates for the entire U.S. from 2003 through 2009 varied from 5.0 to 5.8 per 100,000 inhabitants for an average rate of 5.5. To be clear, 5.5 is much lower than either 14.2 or 58.0.

Or look at the total number of homicides in those years. Per the FBI, there were 67,642 murders in the U.S. from 2005 through 2008, and 115,717 from 2003 through 2009. Per the GAO, criminal aliens committed 25,064 of them. That means they committed 22% to 37% of all murders in the U.S., while being only 3.52% to 8.25% of the population.

Conclusion: criminal and illegal aliens commit murder at much higher rates than all inhabitants of the U.S. – at least 3 to 10 times higher.

And I believe these are low-end estimates. For one, murder is almost always handled at the state and local level, not the federal level. So the GAO’s homicide data are skewed toward the state and local data, which cover fewer years (four) and a smaller population (illegals only). The Washington Post states that “Federal prisoners made up 10 percent of the total incarcerated populations in the United States in 2013.”

OK, let’s assume that 90% of the crimes listed by the GAO (other than immigration itself) were committed by SCAAP persons in state and local institutions. That would mean illegal aliens committed 22,558 murders over four years. That is a rate of 5,639 per year, or over 15 per day. (For reference, Rep. Steve King reported a figure of 12 per day. A sheriffs’ association is reported to estimate it at 25 per day. I don’t know how reliable these values are, but they are not totally out of line with the GAO’s data.)

That would give a murder rate for illegal aliens of 52 per 100,000 (5,639 in a population of 10.8 million) – about 10 times that of U.S. citizens.

Here are the numbers of crimes per day committed by illegal aliens in just a few crime categories, based on those GAO numbers and the 90% figure for SCAAP persons over four years.

Kidnappings: 9
Murders: 15
Sex offenses: 43
Burglaries: 71
Assaults: 131
(You may try to compare those numbers to the FBI’s numbers for all crimes, but the categories do not match except for murder/homicide. That is part of what makes this analysis so frustrating, and ripe for cherry-picking by pro-immigrant groups.)

Also, the criminal alien numbers came from those arrested, convicted and incarcerated for these crimes, and reported as such via SCAAP. Yet the FBI numbers include all crimes, solved or not, convictions or not. How many illegal aliens committed murder or other crimes in the U.S. without getting caught and convicted of them?

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CA’s Syphilis Boom

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Luke Ford

Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times, July 13, 2015

Part of a nationwide trend, cases of syphilis among women and newborns increased in the last two years in California and Los Angeles County, state officials said Monday.

The annual number of reported early cases of the sexually transmitted disease among women rose from 248 to 594 from 2012 to 2014.

In the same period, cases of congenital syphilis–in which a mother infects her child during pregnancy–surged in the state, with annual cases in newborns rising from 30 to 100…

Most of the congenital cases occurred in Los Angeles County and the Central Valley, according to department officials. Stillbirths caused by syphilis also rose from one case in 2012 to six in 2014.

Thirty-one of the state’s 100 cases of congenital syphilis last year were in Los Angeles County, said Dr. Susie Baldwin, head of the health assessment unit of the county’s Department of Public Health.

Baldwin said that most of those women didn’t have adequate access to medical care. Ten of them were foreign nationals who arrived in the county late in their pregnancies, so little is known about their prenatal care, she said…

In 2013, California’s syphilis rate was already second highest in the nation, after Georgia, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Nationally, there was an 11% increase in primary and secondary cases between 2012 and 2013, with 75% of them reported among gay men, according to the CDC.

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Latinos Are Not Upwardly Mobile

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Luke Ford

Jason Richwine writes: Many people take for granted that today’s low-skill immigrants will be just like the Irish and Italians of Ellis Island lore, coming to the U.S. as menial laborers but rising to the middle class within a few generations. But it is a serious mistake to assume that today’s immigrants will assimilate as quickly as others did in the past. In fact, the data from recent immigration waves tell a pessimistic story about upward mobility.

Let’s focus on immigrants from Latin America, since they form the bulk of less-educated immigrants from the past 50 years and are easier to track across generations. The most straightforward evidence on Hispanic assimilation comes from cross-sectional data sets produced by the Census Bureau. All of these data sets reveal that economic and educational progress for Hispanics stalls after the second generation, leaving a substantial gap between white Americans and Hispanic Americans.

Take education. According to the Current Population Survey, about 37 percent of white adults have a four-year college degree, while just 12 percent of Hispanic immigrants do. In the Hispanic second generation (meaning U.S.-born with immigrant parents), the rate of college graduation goes up to 23 percent, but it is just 18 percent in the Hispanic “third-plus” generation (meaning U.S.-born with two U.S.-born parents). The data on income, poverty, and household welfare receipt show a similar generational pattern.

In addition, the norms of hard work and discipline exhibited by Hispanic immigrants appear to slip in subsequent generations. This is sometimes referred to as “downward assimilation” to the American underclass. For example, just 10 percent of Hispanic immigrant men are out of the labor force, but that number goes up to 21 percent in the third-plus generation. As for crime, Hispanic immigrant men are 27 percent more likely than white men to be listed in the American Community Survey as institutionalized (usually meaning in prison), while U.S-born Hispanic men are fully 157 percent more likely.

How might this picture be too pessimistic? One possibility is that cross-sections are misleading, since each of the generations being compared lives in the same era. Maybe we would see more assimilation if we go back in time to an original immigrant cohort, then follow the actual children and grandchildren of those immigrants.

The good news is that this longitudinal approach does show gains in education for Hispanics between the second and third generations. The bad news is that relative wages remain basically stagnant, just as in the cross-sectional analysis. The further bad news is that even the educational improvement may be a mirage–does it reflect real skill gains relative to whites, or just the general mid-20th century trend for working-class people to stay in school longer?

…If we are serious about improving social mobility in the U.S., then importing millions of low-skill immigrants (of any nationality) with uncertain prospects for advancement cannot be the right policy. No one wants the U.S. to be defined by the gated communities and rigid class lines common in Latin America–especially when the class lines are tinged by skin color–but that is the outcome we risk.

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Whites & Jews

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Luke Ford

A tool I use for figuring out the world is the prism of conflicting group interests. It verges on the impossible for groups such as blacks and whites and Jews and Muslims to have identical interests.

The other day, I was talking to a couple of Jewish friends and proposed: “When the goyim are strong, cohesive and united in their racial or religious or national identity, Jews are comparatively weak and vulnerable in that land.”

Jew 1: “Jews and whites can be weakened by same causes, e.g. increasing presence of North Africans in France. But yeah on other hand Jews are stronger when weak white identity allows for Jewish hegemony in media.”

Jew 2: “When Jews are allowed to pretend to be white, this is where white problems begin in earnest.

“One of the important benefits to restricted housing, vacations, quotas, country clubs was that though mild segregation, it reminded WASPs that Jews are a separate tribe.

“Orthodox Jews are obsessive about in-group / out-group rules. The most important thing for the frum is to delineate as much as possible who is in-group and who is out-group. Whites may recognize recognize that some forms of consistent segregation are critical to protect their interests. Yes, the Jews will whine. But as we learned, they will whine anyway. Why not let them whine while you retain your nation and culture? It’s better even for the Jews long-term. Hyperinflation and violent revolt hardly suit Jewish interests. If whites can’t find it in their hearts to exclude the Jews for their own interest, they should exclude the Jews for Jewish interests.”

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My Experience, Strength & Hope

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Luke Ford

* I haven’t spent a penny on pornography since 1995.

* For more than four decades, Jews have complained, “Why won’t Palestinians pursue their group interest through non-violent organization?” Now the Palestinians are doing just that effectively through BDS, so what do we now say? That any opposition to Jewish interests is illegitimate?

Chaim Amalek:

Liberal Jews have voiced that complaint. Most other Jews just wanted the Palestinians to go away someplace, like the interior or Saudi Arabia or perhaps the Libyan desert.
When Moshiach comes most Palestinians will discover that they are happiest living in Antarctica on the meat of sea birds.
When Moshiach comes, the only sex Yidden have will be procreative, and we won’t enjoy it as we shall regard it as taking time away from the study of Torah. Torah is our sex.

* I gave a Jew a ride to a 12-step program tonight. When I dropped him off afterward, he shook my hand and said, “That was mighty white of you.”

* A Jewish friend: “It’s not looking too good for the Jews, I’m stuck, but when they come for you, you can say, ‘I was kidding!'”

* A co-worker is not thrilled with our president: “I’m not a religious man, but Revelation says everywhere he walked, he destroyed.”

* “The energy of poverty is attracted to mess. If you want to be wealthy, you have to be clean and orderly.” (daf yomi)

* The Christian Mexican mailman with a Jewish mom came by. “You don’t like me,” he said.
“I like your Jewish side,” I said, “it’s your Gentile side I can’t stand.”

* A shaygetz friend is all up in JSwipe. “I prefer it to Tinder. Tinder is full of whores and hoodrats.” He’d be willing to convert for the right young blonde, so long as it came with a movie studio.

* It’s funny how people who don’t make their bed in the morning tend to be slovenly in important things.

* It’s funny how people with the messiest rooms and filthiest cars are the most mired in debt.

* It’s funny how people who are the most likely to forget about leaving the stove and oven on, and the heating and air conditioning on when they leave the house, are the biggest menace to others and the most hopeless with their own finances.

* It’s funny how they people who are the least likely to return borrowed pens and staplers are the most hopeless with their debt.

* Short of losing its own sovereignty, Iran will get nuclear weapons no matter what the US or Israel does, because it is vital to Iran’s interests to get nuclear weapons.

* I told a friend over breckie, “Australia is like California but without the blacks and Mexicans.”

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Why He Stopped Masturbating More Than 10 Years Ago

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Luke Ford

New York Post: The tide started to turn for me after about 90 days. That’s when I realized I was going entire days without thinking about how I wasn’t masturbating.
I started to notice benefits, like I was being more attentive to my wife. When you’re not masturbating, your wife or significant other is your only chance for an orgasm. So you start to take seduction more seriously. You can’t just go off to your man cave and milk yourself into oblivion.
Not masturbating also helped me stay in the moment. During my heavy masturbation period — i.e., many times throughout my adult life — it didn’t take much for my attention to wander. If you talked to me, I might look like I was listening, but in my head I was thinking, “OK, OK, get to the point, buddy. I have a computer full of sweet JPGs and MPGs waiting for me at home, and they’re not going to jerk off to themselves.”
Once I stopped whacking, that was one less thing taking me out of the moment. I could really be with people and not be distracted by the orgasms I wasn’t having.
When you’re not masturbating, the amount of time you save is amazing, and you get back a lot of mental real estate. It makes you more powerful. Or at least that’s how I felt.
When I meet a person for the first time, it’s tempting to shake their hand and say, “Hi, I haven’t masturbated since Feb. 14, 2005. How long has it been for you? Since this morning?”
It’s not like my sexuality has just disappeared. I’ve had about half a dozen nocturnal emissions (or “wet dreams”) since I began this experiment, and they have always been a pleasant surprise. If your body needs that release and you’re not providing it, nature has a way of taking care of it for you.

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