Jeremy Lin – Too Asian To Foul?

Steve Sailer writes: Would the reaction from the media be as sympathetic if white fans made up a similar tape of a white basketball player being fouled hard and implied that anti-white racism played a role?

There’s a curious pattern in recent decades in which the best white NBA players, such as John Stockton (Spokane) and Steve Nash (Victoria, British Columbia), developed in nearly all white places, suggesting that in more integrated setting white talent tends to get discouraged early. Perhaps tall white adolescents tend to get mugged on the basketball court? But nobody seems very interested in looking into the reasons behind this pattern …

* So it would seem that the onset of male puberty/full physical maturity might be inversely correlated to IQ: the higher the average IQ of your race/ethnic group, the slower the males of your race/ethnic group develop physically. Or, put another way, the lower your group IQ, the faster nature develops your males.

If true, it would interesting to figure out why that occurs. Is it purely a geographical evolution—e.g. in the Congo they needed you ready ASAP to fight off the local lions, while the IQ, which requires more investment in resources (i.e. longer period of time) could only develop where it was needed?

Or could also diversity force such extremes? That is, if you are faced with a population of people whose IQs are going to be, on average, larger than yours, your puberty accelerates so that you gain dominance early, a psychological advantage that you can hold over the smarter ones later, so they don’t kill you? Or it allows you to kill a high IQer whom you suspect might come after you later once he arranges a perfect plan?

* Chris Mullin may have been the last great white urban player. But his family was a left-over in late 1970s Brooklyn from when the Irish ran the CYO Leagues. Red Lining neighborhoods and white flight to Long Island and other outskirts exploded after he got to College. He was legendary for travelling all over 1970s NYC via subway to play in tough areas. Not many kids did that after him. Getting into Harlem or the Bronx from LI or NJ wasn’t as easy for white suburban kids.

* The race-ist truth is blacks dominate basketball because racial differences are real.

The reality of basketball demography is race-ist.

So, all this stuff about Lin is of secondary importance.

But the narrative overlooks the race-ist results of racial differences — like black domination in basketball — while wondering about possible ‘racist’ attitudes of ball players and referees.

* John Stockton was a leader in assists.

I think even if all the black ball players were nice, many whites would be discouraged from basketball cuz they know they can’t compete.
And even if white players did compete very hard, NBA would still be dominated by blacks.

Occam’s Razor. Blacks are better at sports.

And even the fact that blacks usually beat up and abuse non-blacks in sports proves that blacks are tougher.

What whites must do is just turn off on black-dominated sports. Why celebrate the domination of another race?

* The anti-Duke sentiments in college has something to do with hate-whitey mentality, even though most troubles are caused by black athletes.

* Shades of the 1980s Boston Celtics being “black America’s most hated team.” The fact that they could field a floor of five legitimate white players and beat any black team in the league made the hatred from blacks something to behold. And they beat Philly and Atlanta in big games, two black-dominated metropolises. Larry Bird was almost a curse word to blacks during that time.

* I think it’s even worse today because the NBA, beginning in the mid-80s, dialed back on calling a lot of fouls and illegal actions. This was initially done so the Magic/Bird/Jordan superstars could get away with more, make more highlight reels, and get the league more hype.

But when the Pistons in the late 80s/early 90s started mugging guys on the court, the NBA should’ve reined it in. It didn’t. It allowed the game to get a lot uglier. Now guys regularly travel and no whistle; double dribble with no whistle; hack each other and no whistle (as seen with Lin). As such, it’s become a less skillful sport than, say, 1970s basketball, and more that emphasizes brute athletic ability.

Which is why teams gave up on developing kids through the NCAA and just started drafted 18 year old high school kids whose only skills were being tall and athletic—which made the league so bad they moved the draft age up one year to 19.

And let’s not get started about how, although they just legalized zone defense in the last few years, NBA teams were running zones for the last 25 with very few whistles. That NBA ref who blew the whistle on the league being corrupt is going to be proven more right with time than we will ever know.

* “The NBA is a joke. The stars get together off court and decide who’s going to win. They let Kobe score 60 last night because it was his final game. As we speak Lebron is probably telling Wade it’s Miami’s turn to win the East again.”

Yeah that game looked rigged. The Lakers were pathetic throughout this season. It’s too much of a coincidence that during Kobe’s last game, the Lakers were playing like they were as good as The Golden State Warriors. So now they bring their A game?

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The More Cleavage…

Wisdom from the Chateau:

* Something I’ve noticed over the years: the more cleavage a woman publicly flaunts, the less trustworthy she is.

* It’s useful to divide social decline into stages of normalization. As of now US is in stage of normalizing severe mental illness (trannies).

* Is there an open borders billionaire oligarch who DOESN’T live in a compound protected by ten layers of security, walls and empty houses?

* The wages of gay is Zika.

* The fact that shitlibs can’t bear to see pro-Trump chalkenings is proof they fear their worldview is complete BS.

* The sample size is now large enough to definitively conclude pro-Trump women are cute, bubbly & feminine.

* The feminist goal is removing all constraints on female sexuality while maximally restricting male sexuality.

* Stalin and Mao killed tens of millions more people in the name of equality than Hitler killed in the name of inequality.

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Does Obama Represent The High Water Mark Of Black Influence?

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* Obama represents the high water mark of black political influence in America and it’s all downhill from here. Yes, the Democrats will pander in the general and once in office for the coming presidential term (let’s be real, Clinton is going to be president unless she is indicted), but latinos are growing in numbers and economic clout and even the goodwhites that run the party will grow tired of the increasingly strident demands of blacks in the years to come. They’ll toss them a few crumbs but I suspect that the more intelligent black members of the political class realize that they are soon to be the third banana in the party, and are going to make all the noise they can now for programs and appointments knowing that there are no more black presidents on the horizon and probably fewer members of Congress as well.

* It was funny when Obama appeared on “Between Two Ferns” and host Zach Galifianakis asked him how it feels to be America’s last black president.

* As far as African-Americans are concerned, the only thing that Obama has going for him is that he’s black. Most economic indicators (income, wealth gap, net worth) show that African-Americans have lost ground under the Obama administration. The sole exception is unemployment, which is offset by the fact that the black labor participation rate is the lowest ever recorded. In short, Obama has done a poor job of improving the economic situation of black Americans, but fraudsters like Sharpton will still try to gin up the votes for the Democrats. If everything stayed exactly the same as it is now but the occupant of the white was a white conservative Republican, the MSM would be full of pious editorials decrying the administration for its racial insensitivity if not outright racism. Sharpton would be leading marches through the streets calling for more handouts from the racists in washington.

* Just visit your local DMV and you’ll learn what “service with a smile” really means.

There are a few reasons I can think of for black (usually female) bureaucratic surliness:

1. Smiling and being nice reeks of Uncle Tomism and they want to show you that they are no Uncle Toms.

2. They have civil service jobs and are not concerned about being fired so there’s no need to be nice.

3. They hate white people and you are a white person. Note however that they are not particularly nice to people of their own race either.

4. They are unhappy people with unrewarding jobs so they take it out on their customers. See also #2.

* ‘I guess the “once you go black” rule applies to politics as well…’

This is a widely misunderstood bit of folk wisdom, as your comment demonstrates.

In sexual relationships, once you go black you CAN’T go back because White men won’t have you.

In politics, if people make the mistake of putting a black in office, the damage he or she does can be reversed by putting White people in power again (even blacks realize this), so the folk wisdom doesn’t apply.

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Rewriting American Immigration History

Steve Sailer writes:

In reality, a centrist, effective President like Eisenhower presided over a mass deportation of illegal aliens to Mexico with barely any controversy. The 1965 immigration act was sold to Congress explicitly as having minimal impact on diversity. The 1986 amnesty was sold as a one-time deal that would impose harsh employer penalties that would eliminate future illegal immigration. Bill Clinton appointed a black lesbian civil rights leader, Barbara Jordan, to chair an immigration commission, and Jordan reported back that America should crack down hard on illegal immigration and significantly cut legal immigration. The New York Times editorialized strongly against amnesty as recently as 2000 for the same reasons that Donald Trump and Ann Coulter give today: it’s bad for Americans’ wages.

Instead, the long-term impact of the drip-drip-drip of demographic change has been denied and hushed up as nothing to worry about. Only in the last few years when the negative effects have become obvious has the tune been changed to: Americans and Europeans have _always_ favored massive demographic inundation from abroad. That’s who we are.

But this is a rewrite of history.

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* He who controls the present controls the past. Eastasia has always been at war with Oceania.

* I noticed in the early 90s that economics professors were starting to get more respect & media adulation, remarkable for what had been considered a singularly dull specialty (cf. Rodney Dangerfield or “Bueller? Bueller?”). By the standards of the subject Louis Rukeyser was considered like a really funny cat. But gradually they got younger and more telegenic… It had to do with their contemporaneous perfuming association with Getting Rich of course, and so before long the fad of “economists” (or “economic gurus,” “rock-star economists,” “Freakonomists,” ad nauseam) was inflicted upon us, and you started reading these jerks’ opinions in the paper every day. Didn’t need to be Nobel material. The term was equally valid describing a Congressman or a producer of pump-and-dump infomercials on Saturday morning TV.

The economists were attuned to their patrons’ best interests & grabbed the no-borders/liquidate-everybody scam while it was hot, at a point when unearned academic prestige still lingered around the field. Lately thanks to the post-2008 unpleasantness parts of the public were hipped to it, with many accustomed to view economists as basically whores, spin doctors, etc. But I doubt it’s one of those fake new professions that will die suddenly. As collateral damage they’ve debauched the academic side of it, if social science/academe in general needed any help to achieve broad-based self-humiliation– any modern faculty member not teaching something patently musty like chemical engineering or Latin is automatically suspect or taken for a meretricious fraud dedicated to shillsearch on behalf of jeans/hoodie-wearing globo-tycoons. Reagan had to joke about drunken sailors, whereas today any AM talk host can profitably mine the local university brass for a punch-line. Far off from the old-fashioned beer commercial parody of tweed-jacketed prof w/ pipe; now it’s the exact opposite complaint, I think.

* The change in opinions of the elites of both parties on immigration seems to be the result of their complete surrender to Wall Street interests, with Bill Clinton/Al Gore leading the way on the Democratic side and George H. W. Bush and his son leading the way on the Republican side.

George H. W. Bush, elected during the implementation of the 1986 amnesty, helped to gut many of its enforcement provisions, and George W. Bush and Jack Kemp continued the push. On the Democratic side, Clinton/Gore seem to have come around to the same position by 1996, when they worked hard to increase immigrant naturalization numbers in order so they could vote.

It’s interesting to note that as recently as the 1970s we had a mostly Democratic Texas state legislature that was willing to pass a bill banning children of illegal immigrants from attending public schools, and which was only overturned by a (yet to be Reaganized) U.S. Supreme Court by the margin of one vote. And in 1994, of course, nearly 60% of Californians voted to deny all state benefits to illegal immigrants.

The capture of so many U.S. institutions by the open borders lobby is of only very recent vintage. In part, I suspect it’s due to them losing concern over the socialist consequences of a land full of huddled, diverse masses, and their realization at how effective diversity can be at dividing opposition to plutocratic elites. Black voters are voting overwhelmingly for Hedge Fund Hillary, while Obama has been more than happy to let the perpetrators of the 2008 economic collapse go Scot free (in exchange for being paid, one can safely assume, in board appointments and “speaking fees” after leaving office). Ironically, it only seems to be many of the “rich Republican” voters who have caught on to this Wall Street scam.

Perhaps the biggest reason immigration policy has moved so far to the left over the last 20 years is that Wall Street has perfected the art of legalized bribery.

* “Open Borders has always been a very, very tough sell, so it’s perhaps truer to say that the case for Open Borders has seldom been seriously argued because it was so obviously weak.”

Yes! Then we must ask why now there is such a concerted effort from all directions to stop the one American presidential candidate who at least professes consistently to want to stop the open borders insanity.

The Powers-That-Be are doing everything they can to disinform you and steal the nomination from Donald Trump, that odd, orange man. From where do they get all their power? Why now do they feel so confident as to to openly conspire to prevent American Republicans from selecting a nationalist candidate?

Yes, Open Borders has always been a hard sell, so this now blatent hard selling makes it clear that our elite do not fear any consequences. They are not afraid that we will shut the door on their face, as any good homeowner would do to an unwelcome salesman.

* The remarkable thing about talk regarding immigration is the sheer vacuity of argument for the position that it is a great good, and that, more bizarrely, opposition to it can be based only on vile motives.

One of our borders notoriously allows people to enter illegally, perhaps by the millions, and is the major avenue whereby illegal drugs — recognized by all to be a great scourge — enter our country. Yet, today, the idea of building a wall to prevent this is held to be so far beyond the pale that proposing it demonstrates one’s unfitness to be President — or indeed any political or prominent private office.

How did we ever get talked into this madness?

* “skilled immigration should continue.”

In your country, not mine.

A) I want those high skilled jobs for *my* kids and grandkids, not some foreigners. We have a ton of kids graduating college–even kids who actually *belong* in college by any standard, not just the new “everyone goes to college” idea–who can’t find jobs. This actually hits some of our smartest kids–our own STEM grads–hard, because those fields are flooded with foreigners.

B) Importing smart but hostile\alienated people is a recipe for disaster. The worse thing in the world is to be *ruled* by people who don’t really feel that the population they rule is “us”, but rather see it as “them”. (That’s a big part of why we’re in this mess.)

This idea that America–or any white nation–is lacking in people with the IQ to be successful is ridiculous. We did nuclear weapons and power, digital computers, jet aircraft, launched the Internet and personal computers and went to the moon with pasty faced white people.

Africa no doubt could use a lot of high skill immigration. But all that’s required in any white (or East Asian) nation is a closed border and culture and incentives for eugenic fertility. Get smart women to have larger families and restrict the stupid, the screwups, the welfare cases to have zero or “one and done”.

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Low-IQ Jews In Israel Out-Breeding Smart Ashkenazi Jews

Martin Kramer writes: There is another demographic reason for “distancing.” In 1948, American and Israeli Jews were landslayt. They or their parents had come out of the same cities, towns, and shtetls of Europe. American Jews looked at Israeli Jews like family, and often they were: almost everyone in Israel had some (allegedly rich) uncle or cousin in America. True, other Jews began to arrive in the 1950s, as refugees from Arab and Muslim lands. But they were mostly out of sight in immigrant refugee camps and development towns. As for the political leaders, most were born in Russia or Poland—from David Ben-Gurion through Golda Meir, Menachem Begin through Yitzḥak Shamir. Levi Eshkol could hardly refrain from slipping into Yiddish in cabinet meetings. They all hailed from what Irving Howe called “the world of our fathers.”

All that has changed. Today, over half of all Israeli Jews identify themselves as being of Sephardi or Mizraḥi descent; less than half, of European or American descent. (Were it not for the immigration from the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the Ashkenazi share would be closer to a third.) Israelis today just don’t look as much like family to American Jews, 90 percent of whom are of Ashkenazi descent.

Because Israeli Jews are drawn from a wider spectrum of cultures, everything else about them is more diverse. Jewish religious practice, despite the formal monopoly of Orthodox, is more varied in Israel than in the United States. Nor are the historical legacies that inform politics limited to the Holocaust, so central to American Jewish identity. The forced Jewish flight from Arab and Muslim lands is just as relevant, and explains much of the present skew of Israeli politics with regard to the Palestinian Arabs.

On top of this, about 70 percent of Israeli Jews are Israeli-born. Israel is no longer primarily a nation of immigrants. The hybrid Hebrew-language culture nourished by native-born Jewish Israelis isn’t easy to pin down in a sentence, but it’s a lot edgier than the dominant culture of the blue-state suburbs where most of American Jewry resides.

One reason is that those suburbs are more peaceful and stable than any environment in the history of humankind since Adam. Israel, in contrast, sits on the crust of the world’s most active geopolitical fault line. It isn’t that American Jews are from Venus and Israeli Jews are from Mars. It’s that they reside on opposite ends of planet Earth, one nearing perpetual peace, the other leaning toward perpetual war.

So an American Jew, disembarked at Ben-Gurion airport for the first time, might have to stretch his or her imagination quite a bit to see Israelis as “my people” and Israel as “my homeland.” For some significant number of American Jews, indeed, this is precisely what makes contemporary Israel so exhilarating. If there is any meaning to ahavat Yisrael, love of the Jewish people, it is solidarity not with Jews who look and think like you, but precisely with those who don’t.

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