If I were a Muslim, I would have ambivalent feelings about Jews. On the one hand, I’d admire them for their strengths (high average IQ, high drive for social and economic success, strong commitment to their group interest, a gift for disguising their group interest in universal moral language, a flexibility with law and lobbying and influence, a genius for telling stories) and accomplishments (high income, educational and professional success, Israel, technology, medicine). On the other hand, I’d probably hate them for creating a Jewish state in my midst in land I regard as holy to my people and for making us Muslims look like savages by contrast to them.
I think would look around at the low average IQ of Muslims and of Arabs (about 85) and I would contrast that with the 105-115 average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews and I would burn to improve the status of my people. There’s no way I could be at peace with the enormous cognitive gap between Muslims and the enemy. I would be attracted to theories that would blame the problems of my people on outsiders. If I were capable of looking at the Muslim problem without emotion and bias, I would favor eugenics. We must insure that high IQ Muslims get everything they need to make more high IQ babies. For too long, “Muslim” has been equated with backwardness and squalor.
If I were a Muslim, I would want the whole world to become Muslim. I would be glad for increased Muslim immigration into the lands of our enemies (the West) and for our high birth rates and for the canny way we keep quiet and nice when we are under 2% of a country’s population but increasingly assert ourselves as our percentage rises above that level. While I might not say so to Western media, I might take pride in the fierce way Muslims protect their group interest by killing those who oppose them. If I were a Muslim, I would probably be glad when I heard the news about four rabbis getting stabbed to death in a shul in Jerusalem. I would regard Jerusalem as belonging to Muslims and I would want to drive the infidels into the sea.
If I were a Muslim, I’d feel shame at the low state of the Muslim world. I’d feel shame that as countries become more Muslim, they never become more free. I’d feel shame at the low level of accomplishment of my fellow Muslims. I’d feel shame at our degradation and lowliness. The shame would be so painful, I would probably seek escape through conspiracy theories blaming Muslim woes on non-Muslims.
If I were a believing Muslim, I would alternately feel sorry for Jews and Christians and rage at them for not accepting the truth of my religion. Any time Jews and Christians did anything that challenged my religion, I would feel angry at them and want to hurt them.
If I were a Muslim, I would look at the United States as largely controlled by Jews. I would look at the presidency and the Congress and the media and the Federal Reserve and the judiciary as largely controlled by Zionists. I would present a smiling face to non-Muslims in my public dealings, but in private I’d probably rage about Jewish influence and Jewish humiliation of the prophet Mohammed.
If I were a Muslim, I’d seek out and memorize ways that my people are superior to all other peoples. I’d memorize the leading arguments for why Islam was more true and more divine than Judaism and Christianity. I’d listen to lectures by imams and replicate their points in my daily conversations. I’d be all about Muslim pride. I would not care much about non-Muslim suffering. I’d probably read many books about how Muslims have suffered at the hands of non-Muslims and it would stoke my hatred of those outside my group who did not respect the prophet.
If I were a Muslim, I would want my country run according to Sharia law. I would want to deny citizenship to non-Muslims. I would not want non-Muslims to dominate important institutions such as the media and finance. If I were a Muslim, I would want Muslims to excel Jews in dominating media and finance and influence peddling around the world.
If I were a Muslim loser, unable to marry or even to find a girlfriend, I’d probably be vulnerable to becoming a terrorist.
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* A certain amount of thuggishness can advance your cause: Islam in Europe; Blacks in America; Scientologists bullying their way into tax exempt status. One needs to consider responding in kind.
* The upside to gay marriage, mentioned earlier in comments on this site, is that if the trait/behavior is genetically transferred, the earlier they get together with each other the less chance they will procreate and thus pass on the gene. Less chance they will ruin the life of some unsuspecting young, if naive, woman. Less chance they will infect naive women with a disease picked up through whatever dating method has replaced bath houses. Less chance the health downsides of their sexual behavior will ripple through the heterosexual population because of introduction to an unsuspecting woman.
The downside is that marriage as an institution is mostly a function of recognizing the need for child rearing to be a two person activity composed of a male and female. Such a recognition is easy if you first recognize that males and females are wildly different creatures bringing different strengths and weaknesses to the table. If society wishes to reject said reality for something more idealistic, what better way to undermine the former consensus than rejecting the different sex structure undergirding child rearing?
This is mostly a battle of religions, the ancient text religions vs. that religion which yet has to be named, messianic idealism.
* 99% of SSM marriage debates is about self-absorbed gays and lesbians who want to demand that they, and their couplings, be viewed equivalently by everyone, if necessary, by calling the police. But actually, most people, however liberal they are, are creeped out by most LGBT’s. Not because they “hate” LGBT’s, but because of Sullivan calls the “ick” factor. That isn’t going to change.
That’s why, when the armed services validated LGBT rights, most of the people interviewed indicated that they weren’t going to come out to their fellow service members anyway. For all that, if religious people are going to allow themselves to be provoked, we will continue to get these headlines.
* The State has a vested interest in damping down male violence over women. Legalize gay marriage and you defacto legalize polygamy, and get a society somewhere between Saudi Arabia and Salt Lake City circa 1857 with the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Which btw is exactly where we are headed. One need only look at the Black community and the defacto soft polygamy there and see that the most violent killers have the most kids and the main driver for violence is the sexual and reproductive rewards for men engaging in otherwise stupid and senseless violence. The State has an OVERWHELMING interest in damping down conditions for male violence, and regulating who can and cannot have sex or get married is one of them. Already it is properly illegal for men to have sex with adolescent girls though doubtless most would do so if it was legal. The same holds true for women, and there is no shortage of Mary Kay LeTourneaus either, said woman back in the news with an interview with Barbara Walters.
* Actually, there are no good arguments FOR redefining marriage to cater to the whims of a tiny, deviant minority. Marriage is the basis of civilization and the family. Two men, or two women, cannot produce a family. A homosexual couple does not deserve, therefore, the benefits and status of a real married couple, paid for by taxpayers.
Children in schools should not have to learn about homosexuality as some kind of worthy lifestyle anymore than they would have to consider incest, polygamy or bestiality the same way.
Gay “marriage” didn’t win because it had better arguments; it won because its proponents are rich and influential, and use ruthless and fascist tactics to threaten the opposition. Got it?
* “What I don’t understand then is why gay marriage has never been a legal institution in maybe 3,000 years of human history.”
Mostly because for those 3000 years no arguments were required. Just as no arguments have been necessary to justify why we don’t go out in public naked, or marry our siblings, or swap children with strangers, or why we do recognize private property.
* The Muslims in Europe still are far less wealthy and well connected than other groups. Their power comes from their willingness to kill and otherwise physically attack those who insult their religion.
* Since Muslims (the vast majority anyway) want to impose a violent, 7th Century theocracy with polygamy upon every society where they are more than a tiny minority, anything and everything people who are NOT Muslims do gives offense. One might wonder what the Copts looking for work in Libya did to give offense other than be (native) North African Christians? THEY certainly did not draw any cartoons, and were beheaded anyway.
* There are over a billion Muslims in this world and they control several dozen countries, some of them quite rich. How the hell is criticizing Muslims “punching down”?
Meanwhile, how many countries are controlled by Protestant Christians? Few. By fundamentalist Christians? None.
* From looking at lists of famous satirists down through history, a few common tendencies seem evident:
– They tend to believe they are superior individuals
– They often are, although perhaps not quite as much as they assume
– They aren’t usually particularly nice people (I saw Chekhov’s name on one list of satirists, and it stands out because everybody has nice things to say about him)
– They tend to be relatively privileged by background, although not perhaps as much as they’d like (Al Capp stood out from one list for rising above a difficult childhood, but then who has heard of Al Capp these days?)
I may be generalizing from Waugh too much, but his personality seems to exemplify a lot of the traits of major satirists.
* The best satire, indeed the original satire is, as Gary Trudeau hints, all about attacking politicians and the powerful. It’s all about deflating the pompous, the vain and the conceited – those who really do think that they are ‘better’ than the common man. Indeed, the more pompous the personage, and the more ridiculous the satire, the funnier it is.
A tradition that really started in the pomp of 18th century Georgian England, and the often scatological and nasty colored prints of Gilray, Rowlandson and others.
TheAtlantic: CLACTON-ON-SEA, England—In 1964, as Britain experienced an influx of Asian and African post-colonial immigrants, Conservative Party member Peter Griffiths was controversially elected to parliament, winning on the slogan, “If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour.” It was a virulently racist campaign that shocked the British establishment, leading Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson to brand Griffiths a “leper,” jumpstarting the Birmingham division of the Ku Klux Klan, and evoking ire—and a whistle-stop visit—from Malcolm X.
Comments:
* How is advocating Australia’s system, limiting immigration to the economic needs of the nation “anti-immigrant”? The problem is folks like you want western countries to open themselves up to unlimited immigration from areas that don’t share the same language, culture, and identity. Why is is so important that immigration must be unlimited? It sounds to me that you want to answer white privilege with forcing whites into minority status. That’s racism.
* This reads more like a hit piece though at least some of the articles the author links to do give the context.
“his unabashed dislike of Romanians”
This whole interview was in the obvious context of Romanian criminal gangs (which Met figures show to be overrepresented in crime figures), not Romanian families, a point which Farage was at pains to make except that the interviewer continually tried to browbeat and try to trip Farage up by constant interruption and twisting words until he made a statement that could be lifted out of context. Of course, the interviewer and the media jumped on it. Oh, and if anyone doesn’t know the difference between living next door to a “group of Romanian men” and “a group of German children” (note: *children* – I am not even sure why the interview used children instead of men) then they aren’t playing with a full deck of cards.
“he recently theorized that women who have children are “worth less” to employers”
Again, in context this was by way of explaining gender wage disparity in the City, not by way of condoning or justifying it.
“and suggested that businesses ask women to “sit in a corner” when breastfeeding”
In context again, Farage said he did not personally have a problem with women breastfeeding in public but understood that some people and establishments do and, therefore, suggested one possible compromise that he hoped would be OK with most people (though not something he personally would require).
* This article failed to mention certain “incidents” like Muslims attacking an English solider in broad daylight, then cutting off his head.
Everything isn’t about “economics” and theories of elite London School of economics professors.
Regular people in not so Merry Old England have legitimate concerns about crime, terrorism and also preserving their unique English/British culture.
English people, British people had/have a unique English/British culture that they have every right to preserve.
Steve Sailer: Immigration restrictionism is winning all over the world in sophisticated countries like Norway, Israel, Australia, and, soon, France and Britain. The U.S. is so controlled by billionaires that the it seems foreign, but it will eventually break through here, too.
* There is nothing wrong with wanting controls on immigration – including the ability to choose the right people with skills. This is not racism.
In one lifetime, Britain’s demographics have changed entirely and irrevocably.
I don’t know if that’s good or not, but people shouldn’t be surprised if some British citizens are a bit displeased by this. All the major parties have, in the end, allowed this situation to go on for too long, during which time, individuals who had expressed doubts of allowing so many foreigners into the UK had their opinions dismissed, or in some cases, were accused as racists. In other words, during the last 60 years (and in particular the last 2 decades), the British public were not appropriately consulted in respect of the large number of immigrants entering and settling in Britain.
UKIP on the other hand, are a little more serious about this topic. So no-one should be surprised that there are people voting for them.
If you are an actual ill-mannered and ignorant froth-mouthed bigot, you’re probably going to vote BNP, but if you are someone who just wants some more controls on immigration becuase you may think that this has (probably more negative than positive effects) on British society by way of
– competition for housing and jobs
– overuse of public resources
– rapid demographic changes and the inability for some foreign communities to assimilate properly
– immigrants with little or no skills and/or unable to speak English adequately
then you might consider voting for UKIP.
Having said all this, they are still an unelectable party since they have little governing experience and their other policies are a bit weak!!
On another note, I also suspect that a lot of the sceptism of the British public towards immigration in general is due to the bad behaviour of British muslims. It seems that among all the different groups, countries, cultures, and peoples that moved to the UK, the muslims unfortunately appear to be the ones having most trouble assimilating.
I think most people are aware of how this has manifested itself so there’s no need to go through the rather tedious and lenghty list of problems.
* In a world of sovereign independent nation states you can’t simply have free flow of labor across borders. That would be anarchy. Also, there is nothing wrong with ethnic nations like Britain, Norway, or Japan wanting to preserve their ethnic identity.
* At some point highly developed countries are going to decide that they have had enough of being the safety valve for less successful nations. In America, we have a large and growing underclass whose current prospects are dim and getting worse as more low-skill jobs are headed for automation. Admitting hundreds of thousands of low skill/low education (legal or otherwise) each year is just insanely stupid when we could have the pick of the litter from just about any other country. The current mania for amnesty is rank political opportunism without regard to the long-term costs: Democrats get to import future voters who historically have not climbed the economic ladder much once here to replace the whites that are fleeing the party, and GOPers get a pat on the head from corporations that are guaranteed decades of dirt cheap labor for jobs that are not yet replaced by machines.
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“I believe studies by insurance companies show that the slightly aggressive driver to be the safest of all. Asians drive like they are afraid and are always giving others the right of way even when they have it lawfully. This screws up other drivers who expect them to act as everybody else.”
I used to drive for work on and off as a kid/young adult (was employed driving trucks by age 17). Never had an at-fault accident, but I’ve been hit perhaps half a dozen times over the years. Being aggressive and being confident are two different things, although they can seem the same to an untrained observer. Confident drivers are in control, follow the rules because they know them well, and rarely make mistakes. Cautious drivers are usually less familiar with the rules and culture of driving (this is why they are so cautious), so they are more prone to errors. Aggressive drivers are just a-holes.
Asians are unfamiliar with the American driving culture, which is to drive fast and straight. The American walking culture is similar. This doesn’t work in Asia, because it’s too crowded, so people there meander around and flow through each other like water molecules. They drive the same way. I’ve driven in China, and it was an amusing experience. I was already accustomed to walking there and still young enough to be flexible so I got the hang of it very quickly, but a typical American would have fits over it.
* Adjusting for demographics, L.A. traditionally had the best drivers, and people in L.A. drive fast — the 134 Freeway through Burbank averages 80 to 85 mph when not jammed — I guess the point is to be aggressive but not particularly hostile.
* I take “slightly aggressive” to mean a driver who shows a willingness to break procedure and/or the law to solve a traffic problem. I drive daily for hours on Interstates with many 18 wheelers and commuters. If someone in the fast lane is talking on their cell phone, or putting on their makeup, or are just unwilling to exceed the speed limit, they can cause a dangerous backup behind them. You have to be willing to speed, and, for your own sake, to thread the needle on the right handed lanes just to get away from the dangerous congestion. And yes, speeds of 80+ mph are typical.
The real problem on highways are drivers who take it personally, i.e., the guy driving at 5 mph over the speed limit in the fast lane who refuses to drive any faster because it is the Law, or the other driver who tailgates within six feet of the guy in front of him, thinking this will cause them to finally get out of the fast lane. It never works: the guy in front slows down, and then you have some more dangerous congestion.
Two lane blacktops are a special case; you can usually tell when the guy behind you is in a hurry, and if he is, it won’t hurt to pull over and let him pass. But people rarely do that. The result is another long caravan of tail-gaters.
* Reaction times refer to decision-making times, not reflexes. Ideally, the tests can separate decision times from motor skills. The results are generally that decision times provide an indication of general intelligence (‘g’).
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Paleo-Lib: A white family suffers a home invasion and is held at gun point by two black robbers. The three year old girl is traumatized and still fears black males. The response by the judge?
He rips into the family for “racism” in court and on his Facebook page, then lets the armed robber who pled guilty to armed robbery off on PROBATION!
REPORT: Jordan and Tommy Gray’s 3-year-old daughter was watching “SpongeBob” when two armed men broke into their home near Buechel on March 21, 2013, and robbed them at gunpoint.
Two years later, when one of the offenders was about to be sentenced, Jordan wrote in a victim impact statement that her daughter was still “in constant fear of black men.” Both robbers were African-American.
“Whenever we are running errands, if we come across a black male, she holds me tight and begs me to leave,” the mother said. “It has affected her friendships at school and our relationships with African-American friends.”
Tommy Gray also wrote that since the crime, his daughter had been terrified of black males and that probation was not sufficient punishment for Gregory Wallace, 27, who had pleaded guilty to robbery.
“If holding a little girl at gunpoint gets you probation, then our system is flawed,” Gray said.
But when Wallace was brought up for sentencing Feb. 4 in Jefferson Circuit Court, it was the parents, not Wallace, who suffered Judge Olu Stevens’ wrath.
“I am offended. … I am deeply offended that they would be victimized by an individual and express some kind of fear of all black men,” he said.
“This little girl certainly has been victimized, and she can’t help the way she feels,” he said. “My exception is more with her parents and their accepting that kind of mentality and fostering those type of stereotypes.”
The Grays were not in court as Stevens denounced their statements and granted probation to Wallace, whom he said deserved the opportunity to redeem himself.
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* We can’t tell Jewish jokes because “It is funnier to punch up, as the old saying goes.”
The large number of Christians in Indiana and Arkansas who had their religious freedom law overturned by Marc Benioff will be surprised, as will any Protestant with a case before the US Supreme Court.
* As most Jews have become more secular and assimilated, negative stereotypes about Jews have been perpetuated by some Jews as a (bizarre) means of maintaining cultural identity. That may sound crazy, but check out this YouTube campaign from several years ago by a Jewish organization in Philadelphia.
* Jewish jokes are not necessarily offensive or at least they should not be. But joking about emulating an event where millions of people were slaughtered like cattle is offensive and reason enough for Comedy Central to tell this guy to take a walk. The joke was not even close to being funny which only makes it seem that much more offensive.
Consider if a white comedian told a joke about black people dying on slave ships. They would not have hesitated to fire him in less than a minute of reflection. And Those murders happened hundreds of years ago rather than within many living peoples lifetimes.
Joking about Jewish parsimony or Jewish women refusing to perform certain types of sexual favors should be accepted as healthy ribbing. Some of these jokes can be amusing and should not be banned by the politically correct police.
Other white ethnic groups are allowed to take ribbing as well.
I am really bothered by people calling the joke about fat girls as “misogynist.” That screams of politically correct thought police. We’re not allowed to acknowledge that there are some women who are overweight that like to believe they are God’s gift to the Earth? That is a crime against womanhood?
* The tweet in question is: “Almost bumped a Jewish kid crossing the road. He didn’t look b4 crossing but I still would hav felt so bad in my german car!”
That tweet no more “makes light of the Holocaust” than any Black comedian talking about being nervous in the Deep South makes light of slavery. The idea that Germans are predisposed to violence towards Jews, and that Jews are nervous about that (sometimes incorrectly) has been a staple of Western comics since the 1950′s: not least being featured in virtually every Woody Allen and/or Jewish comedy routine I have ever seen. Even classic modern films (e.g., Big Lebowski) make reference to the potential for German-Jewish animus.
I will grant you that only in the past 15 years or so can one see portrayals of Germans in American culture who are not automatically anti-Semites or warmongers, but that says more about prejudicial stereotypes about Germans than Jews or the Holocaust.
* And Jews are really, really weak. Why, did you know that Jews comprise only 17.46 of the 2013 FORBES World’s Billionaire’s List? Even worse, they only comprise 34.75 of the names in the 2012 FORBES 400 richest Americans list.
Elite Jews have been following an anti-European Christian strategy for a long time now. They are comfortable with it. It feels good. It’s got inertia on its side. It’s going to take something really massive for them to change direction now.
* But the Post is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Michelle van Loon is a convert to Christianity, albeit an unusual one. She can hardly claim to speak for anyone but herself, and she is not a dumb Jew who hasn’t clued in to the Muslim menace–she isn’t Jewish. In fact, the real question is: why is it in the interest of billionaires to keep spewing out this multicultural agitation and convoluted drivel?
* “It is funnier to punch up, as the old saying goes, than to punch down,” Page writes. “Deflating the pompous and powerful can be hilarious. Ridiculing the weak is just sad.”
Does this mean that it is no longer acceptable for Jewish comedians to make fun of white Christians who live in trailer parks in Appalachia? Or are white Appalachians considered to be among the pompous and powerful?
* Telling a joke about Jews by anyone other than Jews has always been fraught with danger, and was only successfully performed by masters of comedic delivery (witness Louis C.K. below). Since it’s all about delivery, trying it on Twitter is an incredibly bad idea.
I agree that there we’re witnessing a knee-jerk reaction right now by secular liberal Jews who are choosing to double down on traditional ideas (oh the irony) of everybody everywhere waiting with pitchforks to form pogroms out of some uncontrollable sickness with absolutely no predictability. This is much more palatable than thinking rationally about the consequences of mass immigration.
Back when Louis C.K. was younger and edgier, he walked very close to precipice:
Now he’s much more nuanced, but the genius of his comedy is that he can take a story in so many directions that the listener is amused at the controversial subject, while not being able to pinpoint if he’s poking fun of Jewish media hegemony (Schindler’s List on every channel, all the time), or stoking Jewish feelings of righteousness as the ultimate oppressed group (the “Goodbye Jew” story must be real, so Spielberg reservedly fit it in the movie).
* Can anyone imagine a Gentile getting away with making a biting satire of the social scene in Manhattan’s Upper West Side? Neither can I. The Royal Tenenbaums is as close as it comes and that’s too quirky and defanged to count.
* If I ever had my idea for a cartoon come to fruition, one of the characters would be a Mizrahi immigrant from Israel who absolutely loathes Ashkenazis. For example, he puts on a production of “Merchant of Venice” where the bad guy’s name is changed to Shylockstein and in the end instead of forcibly being converted to Christianity he is forced to change to using the Sephardic right.
Granted, very few people would get the joke, but Big Bang Theory is popular, and I would wager that a lot of the jokes on that fly over the heads of people not interested in science.
* But Trevor Noah is one-quarter Jewish (on his mother’s side — maybe his mother’s mother?) and Lena Dunham’s mother is Jewish, which makes her Jewish according to Jewish custom. And Lena Dunham has said that she identifies as Jewish (or half-Jewish, at least) so her unfunny bit about Jewish boyfriends is probably something she knows from experience. If these are our anti-Semites, Lenny Bruce must have been a Nazi.
My dad was one-quarter Norwegian, the rest English and Scots-Irish. Being Norwegian was more meaningful in Wisconsin, so he identified as a Norwegian-American. He used to tell Ole and Lena (not Dunham) jokes and refer to himself deprecatingly as “just a dumb Norwegian” (this despite Norway ranking #1 in Blue-Eyed Privilege). Who knew that, all along, my dad was a raving anti-Norskite?
* In defense of Jewish women, it is my personal experience that they have no aversion to that fairly standard sexual practice most men love more than the grand finale. It masters (mistresses?), however, are Japanese women, especially those from 30 up.
* Jews are White too. And that’s why Dieudonne M’bala M’bala and Trevor Noah are punching down. At the White people they hate the most (high IQ Ashkenazi) but rest assured the rest of us Whites will get it too.
Of course jokes by Noah and M’bala M’bala about high IQ Whites are not funny. As bi-racial or Black African they have the power (no jokes about say, Africans proclivity for Child Sacrifice or eating Pygmies or Albinos). After all, the fact that Africans regularly butcher and eat albinos and pygmies to get “magic powers” ought to be worth some (no pun intended) black/gallows humor. If you want to go dark and edgy, well there it is.
Not to mention the child sacrifice as African business.
Power is all about who you can make jokes about. Jews are irrevocably White and thus jokes can be made endlessly about THEM by Blacks. No jokes can be made about say, Africans regrettable belief in magic, ritual human sacrifice, and cannibalism. Just as it is against the law, literally, to make jokes about the Thai Royal Family in Thailand. Even the British Royal family is the stuff of constant spoof in Britain, tell a joke about Black people and you get arrested. Heck, have a Black Sambo doll in your window and you get arrested. Yes this actually happened.
As Steve noted, Obama is pretty funny. Henpecked, his mother in law lives with him in the White House, his wife is notably shrewish, his daughters are into thug rappers (one of whom is named no kidding “Joey Bada$$ yes with the dollar signs) and Valerie Jarrett is the obvious fantasy Black Mom figure he’s always wanted. Obama is a Harvard Grad who wants to be a legit thug like Jay-Z whom he hangs out with but is hampered by his love of Golf and Mom Jeans. He’s hilarious. But no one dares make fun of him because as a Black man he has all the power.
PS the people who really, really like Hitler are octogenarian White guys like Jean Le Pen (but obviously not his daughter who is purging him) … and Dieudonne M’bala M’bala who are united in their real dislike of Jews and their liking of Hitler.
* Lena Dunham must be a piece of work. She’s about 80 lbs or so overweight, at least, fairly ugly, with an abrasive personality, ugly tats making her even more ugly, and she’s surprised her actual rock star boyfriend is looking elsewhere? So she figures the best way to keep him is … insult him?
Rather than lose that 80 lbs, remove those tats, act more feminine, and get plastic surgery?
This attitude, by fat women who ought to be grateful they have a man at all, is fairly typical. I’ve seen it many times. It does not sadly seem to be confined to any regional, ethnic, or occupational group.
* Is America so devoid of comedic talent that Comedy central had to import yet one more Third Worlder to do the work that Americans just aren’t allowed to do?
* Telling holocaust jokes shouldn’t be illegal, but that doesn’t mean companies should let their brand be associated with that kind of humor.
* * Exactly how oppressed have Jews been in America?
Not oppressed at all. They’ve historically been very privileged.
Back when the New York Stock Exchange was created by the signing of the Buttonwood agreement in 1792, 5 of 24 signatories were Jewish. This was at a time when less than 0.05 percent of Americans were Jewish.
Not only were Jews not excluded from the establishment back in the 1960s (Barry Goldwater was the first Jewish man on a presidential ticket), they weren’t excluded back in the 1700s either.
Here’s a quote from President George Washington:
May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
The reason it seems like anti-semitism was pervasive in the past was because anti-black sentiment was pervasive in the past. So it seems logical to think that if Americans kept blacks out of the establishment, they behaved similarly towards Jews. The reality is that not only were Jews welcomed in, Jews were historically respected (and even mildly feared) by white gentile elites.
When Jews socialized apart from white gentiles and had their own country clubs, that was NOT because white gentiles didn’t want to socialize with Jews. It was because Jews didn’t want to socialize with gentiles. Jews have historically been very clash and often viewed socialization as a path to assimilation and intermarriage, which they feared. Eastern European Jews were historically excluded from fancier German Jewish clubs though. So when you hear stories about Jews being excluded from clubs, it was a question of Eastern Europeans being discriminated against by Germans. Not gentiles against Jews. As Steve Sailer has pointed out, Jews historically were big on eating, but didn’t care much for drinking or gold ,which were two interests of gentiles. So that’s why Eastern Euro Jews wanted to join German Jewish clubs.
As for General Grant’s order to excluded Jewish merchants from the North-South border, that order came because Jewish merchants were helping to evade the blockade of the South. That order was immediately rescinded. When he ran for president after the civil war, Grant apologized profusely to Jews. He even went on to run what many saw as the most pro-Jewish administration in the history of America. So even this incident of “anti-semitism” was actually a common sense policy that was controversial due to mid 1800s political correctness towards Jews.
It’s pretty shameful for Jews to even bring up that incident. You would think they’d feel ashamed that their community was involved in undermining the war effort against the Confederacy, but no. They’re not ashamed. It’s gentiles who are supposed to feel ashamed for trying to win the civil war.
Jews may be one of the least discriminated groups in the history of America. If you read American history, it’s striking how little anti-Jewish discrimination you’d find.
* Jerrod Carmichael does a braver job of joking about sensitive topics (such as rape and domestic abuse) than Louis C.K. does about the Holocaust there, IMO. I’ve mentioned this guy here before, but now his recent HBO standup special is available free on YouTube.
He starts his rape joke at about 50 minutes in. There’s also a bit about abused women, that I think comes later.
* I wonder if this plays into the “market dominant minority” theory that Steve’s written about in the past?
To wit, approximately 95% of all Jewish jokes I’ve ever heard in my life came from Jews. The other (approximately) 5% were essentially backhanded German jokes. Jews are disproportionately represented amongst comedians and comedy writers. A substantial proportion of any Jewish comedian’s routine (or sit-com) involves pointing out the humorous idiosyncrasies of growing up Jewish. Jackie Mason–>Philip Roth–>Gary Chandling–>Jerry Seinfeld–>Larry David–>Judd Apatow–>Jeff Ross/Sarah Silverman–>”The Goldbergs”. Yes, there are dozens of data points before, after and in between.
Perhaps the Jewish minority is attempting to keep dominating that particular comedy market? This closing of ranks may explain why half and quarter Jews like Dunham and Noah have suddenly had their carte blanche, for lack of a better term, revoked.
* “If Jewish people were truly integrated into American culture, those trusty toxic stereotypes would be fading.”
I like these Chomsky-style lies. She does not come out and say, explicitly, that “toxic stereotypes” about Jews are not fading. Her sentence makes no sense without that “fact,” though. It’s a kind of lying by encouraging your audience to adopt a question’s false predicate. Is there a technical name for this particular type of lying? It, and relatives, are the main rhetorical techniques in “Distortions at Fourth Hand” and in the relevant sections of *Political Economy of Human Rights* where Chomsky uses them to deny the Cambodian genocide.
One of the things that makes this technique so fun is the spergsplosions it causes in a certain type of leftoid. They start out by telling you “the Cambodian genocide didn’t happen” or “Americans hold toxic stereotypes about Jews.” Asked for evidence, they produce texts with this kind of lying in them. When you point them to actual evidence that, say, the Cambodian genocide did occur or that “toxic stereotypes” about Jews are rare and rapidly fading in America, they then switch to claiming that Chomsky/Van Loon aren’t liars because they never explicitly said what, five minutes before, they were congratulating the authors for having shown them.
Obviously, the “toxic stereotypes” about Jews have been very rapidly fading from American society. Most Americans don’t even know that the Jews control Hollywood or that they control the pornography industry or that Israel is a major buyer on the human trafficking market or that Jews are the middlemen in much of the international human trafficking market or that the “Russian mafia” is Jewish.
* It’s just a big coincidence that explicit hatred of Christianity and enthusiastic embrace of deviance happened at the exact moment that Jews established control of the cultural institutions of the US.
No, post-Christians are really to blame. Even though post-Christians have been the movers and shakers in the US power elite ever since Thomas Jefferson and his Weird Mason Posse took over the place. Some how, some way, the people to blame have to have “Christian” or “Puritan” in their name.
* Q: Why do Jewish men have to be circumcised?
A: Because a Jewish woman won’t touch anything that’s not at least 20% off.
Not to worry: I’m writing from my Safe Place of privilege as a member of that oppressed minority, American Jews.
* I love it when the weak, oppressed comedian Sacha Baron Cohen ridicules the pompous, powerful peasants of Kazahkstan.
* It is fairly standard for Jewish girls to get a nosejob as a birthday present during their teenage years. It’s often euphemistically referred to as getting surgery for a “deviated septum”.
* A writer you haven’t yet mentioned in connection with this trend, but who’s worth keeping an eye on, is David Auerbach, Slate’s technology columnist, who became an SJW target for pointing out that when journalists responded to Gamergate by unanimously declaring that “gamers must die,” they were pretty much proving the gamers’ point.
He’s an old-fashioned left-wing literary mandarin in the Susan Sontag mold (in addition to writing for Slate, he publishes essays on polysyllabic European modernists in highbrow journals.) Watching him interact with SJWs in his writing and tweets, one gets the sense of a very smart guy becoming increasingly exasperated with nominal allies who are several standard deviations dumber than he is. The kind of nuanced theoretical distinctions you can get away with in an Ivy League seminar might as well be heresy to the lumpenintelligentsia who took a freshman sociology lecture at State U and are baying for blood.
* To really understand Jews you need to spend a couple of summers working at one of their summer camps – when their guard is down. I did that in the early 80s and came away knowing that they hunt as a pack and when their racial interests are at stake then it’s all-out-war.
* And the irony of course, is that Eastern European Jews faced some of their biggest discrimination from other Jews, namely, the German Jews who had been here for much longer and were on their way to near full assimilation. Some of the derogatory terms used toward Jews originated from German Jews, by the way as Thomas Sowell among others have written.
Jews also played a major role on the side of the Confederacy.
Here’s the question that’s seldom ever allowed to be answered. If Jews have had an Antebellum presence (and they have) how exactly did they earn their money in the South prior to the Civil War?
There was only one main way to earn tons of wealth in the pre-Civil War South as the entire economy centered around slavery in one form or another.
It isn’t as if they were getting rich simply because they had opened general store chains across the South during this time.
* As Steve Sailer wrote several times, the US is a big country and some bad things are bound to happen in it. I’m sure there must be cases of black people being killed by white people because racism. What’s amazing is that so often they can’t seem to find even one case, and for one reason or another they keep pressing the few cases where the white defendant turns out to be obviously innocent and acting in self-defense and the black ‘victim’ turns out to have been a habitual criminal.
I have no difficulty believing that finally this one case is one where the black victim really is a victim and the cop really is a (racist?) killer. I think the picture might get different after a while. For example the cop seems to have been extremely stupid if he thought after Ferguson that he could get away with shooting a black guy in the back without reason, and especially planting evidence. Either he’s really that stupid (well, there must be some really stupid people out of hundred-and-whatever million whites in America) or there’s something to the story which we are not told nor shown (but what could it be?), in any event I have no difficulty believing that there might be at least one case where finally the MSM gets at least the ground facts right, namely that it was murder.
* If you slug a cop or try to combat them they’ll kill you. That’s the rules of the game. They just say the standard ‘in fear for their life’ line, used over and over again. Cops are more robotic these days; in the old days they would just beat you up. Why I don’t know, perhaps it’s the militarization of everything, the hiring process picking a colder personality, violent video games influencing the attitudes of youth, who can tell. Cops will go ballistic when provoked and it doesn’t take much.
* The Confederate flag’s original design was changed due to fear of offending Jews.
Benjamin P. Judah was the Confederate Secretary of State.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin
Lehman Brothers was founded by Southern Jews and was actively involved in the slave trade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers
* I am a little puzzled that the distinction isn’t made at the outset between
1. anti-Semitic Jewish jokes of the kind which would not have been invented by Jews;
2. Great jokes invented by Jews which have Jewish characters in them and Jewish themed or flavoured behaviour as in the marvellous one I heard privately from a non-Jewish comedian rewarding me for one almost as good which has a Talmudic scholar in a train from Odessa to Moscow when a difficult-to-acquire permit was needed for a Jew to make the journey wondering about the young man who has just got in at a station near a Jewish district. He thinks and thinks in words the joke relates but the first speech is:
Young Man: Would you mind if I opened the window?
Talmudic Scholar: Not at all, Dr. Kovacs.
YM (astonished): How did you know my name?
TS; Oh it was obvious!
and, perhaps
3. Jews’ Jewish jokes which make fun of some Jewish stereotypes which may include those which Jews don’t necessarily think fair to Jews but know that other people tend to apply. Told by a gentile these would, unless very clever, come across as anti-Semitic.
An example and illustration of the stereotypes of Jewish meanness with money/avarice etc being used by Jews comes to mind as a memory of my (gentile) daughter on the phone with a Jewish school friend who wanted her to come to some event which would require her to get some money from me. I hear “I think Dad will say it’s too expensive” followed by giggling. I asked her what the giggle was about.
“Oh Sarah said to tell you not to be so Jewish”. I was wondering if it could be two way. The answer I guess is that it can be if friendship or trust is strong. But I would still imagine myself being careful, as in “You really do have trouble with meeting the Jewish stereotype don’t you Sam” as another bottle of vintage champagne was opened after the tennis game. Or maybe “We are going to have to rely on your Jewish genes if we’re to make any money out of this fund raiser!” (To put that in context I raised a laugh at a gentile friend’s birthday party when I recalled earlier days when he could be relied on to spend as little as possible on food to make sure our organisation’s fundraising event made a profit).
So Steve, what about turning your pen, not only to the distinctions and nuance but also to the trouble gentiles can sense when about to tell great, category 2. Jewish jokes to Jews?
Is it that the Jews to whom one is speaking, not being close buddies, may be struck by their own srereotype of gentiles telling Jewish jokes? Are they anticipating a category 1 or 3 version? Or are they saying to themselves that they are about to hear from this otherwise pleasant civilised-seeming person something which shows that he really doesn’t get it (perhaps e.g. that a Jew wouldn’t see the joke in the way he does or wouldn’t tell it in the same circumstances)?
And how does all this differ from other ethnic jokes. BTW Steve, to which country/ethnicity do you attach the classic one with the punchline “And all because I **** one lousy goat!”?
* While channel-surfing recently, I came across Woody Allen’s “Hannah and her Sisters”. In that movie, Allen tries to convert to Catholocism, and they showed him coming home and taking a bunch of items out of a bag: a bible, a picture of Jesus, some rosary beads, a jar of mayonaise and a loaf of wonderbread. The implied snide jab at gentiles is pretty obvious, although why catholocism should be equated with bland food is unclear to me. France and Italy are (or at least were) catholic countries, and their cuisines have a well-deserved reputation for greatness. And when I think of appetizing food, a kosher deli is not the first place that comes to mind (gefiltefish, anyone?).
As usual, the media will pretend that American culture is on a par with what could be found in Der Sturmer and Der Voelkische Beobachter, and that it is simply rife with crude anti-semitic slurs, while casually retailing anti-gentile propaganda.
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* Luke: “How was your weekend?”
Mexican Friend: “I went to a wedding.”
Luke: “Did you have mariachi singers?”
Mexican: “It was a white wedding.”
Luke: “Boring! A bunch of cold aloof people, right?”
* A friend says: “I saw you with a Siddur this morning. Dovening is like making a collect call to your dad.”
* Video: Most of us want other people to love us to fill the deep ache we have because we don’t like ourselves.
* Video: “For less mature people, so much effort goes into seeking love and approval that there is little energy left for self-determined goal-directed activity.”
* “Love is a choice to give, not a dream fantasy to be fulfilled. Spouses are not ATM love machines.”
* Be what you want to receive.
* Be a universalist by all means, but be a Jew/German/Australian/nationalist etc first.
* I notice racial thinking comes naturally to Persians. They love me! They love me in the way you love a cute dog that’s not your responsibility. Plus their women like to show off cleavage. Curves and Torah would make a mighty combination at keeping yidden on the derech. Curves and Torah beat beards and brachos.
* “In America, soccer is the sport favored by lesbians, socialists, and various dusky foreigners who refuse to assimilate themselves to our dying culture. I want to see the bachurim of the gedolei Yisraeli gather in a stadium to see who can memorize the most pages of gemara (the talmud). The winner wins a stipend to learn more torah. Torah is our sport.” (Chaim Amalek)
* My Uncle Val would always tell us, “Keep your mouth shut and your bowels open.” A commie, he never followed his own advice and kept getting fired and falling out with people. So unlike myself.
* Agriculture and mining only account for 2% of California’s economy but use 80% of our water. That’s nuts.
* Where were you when you heard that Richie Benaud had moved on to the great wicket in sky? All out for 84, bat under his arm, walked up to the Pearly Gates.
* Chaim Amalek writes: “When Moshiach comes, droves of goyim will foolishly try to ‘convert’ to Judaism, thinking it as easy as sneaking over America’s border with Mexico with only a Republican Bush standing guard. But they will soon discover that conversion is more like sneaking past Israel’s fence with Sinai looking like an African.”
* When somebody hurts my feelings, it usually takes me 24 hours to get over it. I rarely hold on to my burn much longer than that.
* “Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason alone do we have to suffer now. We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any country for that matter; we will always remain Jews, but we want to, too.” (Anne Frank)
* “Jews exhibit an all-too common human failing: They actually do not want to understand their past — or at least those aspects of their past that have to do with the hatred directed at them, since understanding may threaten other elements of their complex and often contradictory identities.” (Esau’s Tears)
* My twin goals for America are simple, pure and true: To establish America as a unified people’s community and to assure living space for the future needs of the American people.
* “A fifty year old man is like a fifty year old homosexual in this respect. Neither one is hot to have sex with a fifty year old woman, and the reason in each case is basic biology. It is just how we are, gay or straight. And just as a progressive woman (or man) would never think to criticize a 50 year old gay man for not being hot for 50 year old women, so too should she not criticize 50 year old straight men for not being hot for 50 year old women. I know, there are always exceptions, but this is how life is for the vast majority of us. And I should think that such a convergence would be a cause of cheer for champions of gay rights.” (Chaim Amalek)
* Conversations become more shallow the more people in them. They get watered down to the lowest common denominator.
* I take these magnesium supplements at night to help me sleep and if I go over a gram, they detonate eight hours later like a nuclear explosion. Be safe out there folks.
The point of view underlying many of my blog posts is that different groups have different interests. These interests frequently clash, resulting in conflict and killing. For instance, Nazis wanted one type of Germany and this conflicted with what Jews wanted for Germany. Nazis wanted Europe to be a certain way and this conflicted with what Jews and non-Nazis wanted. These conflicts resulted in the deaths of millions of people.
Now, for some of my Jewish acquaintances, this type of analysis means I’m pro Nazi. Trying to understand the point of view of people who are often hostile to Jews equates with anti-Semitism. Interesting.
For some Jews, the Holocaust is central to their Jewish identity. Therefore, the Holocaust is their religion and as such it must not be rationally investigated, certainly not be non-Jews or anyone lacking the proper love of Israel or anyone lacking the proper victimology (that Jews are only oppressed, never the oppressers).
I believe in objective Good and Evil. I believe in God. I believe God gave the Torah to Israel and that He chose the Jews to be His Chosen People. I don’t find these faith statements always useful, however, in understanding the world around me and its history. I find the paradigm of conflicting group interests more useful much of the time.
I also like to put myself in the shoes of other groups. I like to imagine how I would view the world if I were black, Mexican, Muslim, communist, Nazi, etc. I am interested in the many varieties of nationalism (always accompanied by victimologies) and how they conflict. I view different peoples as having, on average, different gifts. I’m a follower of Reggie White.
CBSSPORTS: MADISON, Wis. — Most people invited to speak to the Wisconsin Legislature give five minutes of pleasantries, get a few moments of applause and go home.
Lawmakers weren’t expecting the earful Reggie White had in store for them Wednesday.
They thought the Green Bay Packers star and ordained minister came to talk about his community work and a recent trip to Israel.
White did, but his nearly hour-long speech also included remarks on homosexuality, race and slavery that turned the Assembly’s applause to stunned silence.
White said the United States has gotten away from God, in part by allowing homosexuality to “run rampant.”
HOMOSEXUALITY IS a sin, and the plight of gays and lesbians should not be compared to that of blacks, White told lawmakers.
“Homosexuality is a decision, it’s not a race,” White said. “People from all different ethnic backgrounds live in this lifestyle. But people from all different ethnic backgrounds also are liars and cheaters and malicious and back-stabbing.”
White said he has thought about why God created different races. Each race has certain gifts, he said.
Blacks are gifted at worship and celebration, White said.
“If you go to a black church, you see people jumping up and down because they really get into it,” he said.
Whites are good at organization, White said.
“You guys do a good job of building businesses and things of that nature, and you know how to tap into money,” he said.
“Hispanics were gifted in family structure, and you can see a Hispanic person, and they can put 20, 30 people in one home.”
THE JAPANESE AND other Asians are inventive, and “can turn a television into a watch,” White said. Indians are gifted in spirituality, he said.
“When you put all of that together, guess what it makes: It forms a complete image of God,” White said.
Blog post: Finally! A way to battle all those nameless, faceless hatemongers of the Internet . . . Finally, people are having to face some real consequences for their hateful and harmful behavior. This is the moment of comeuppance, and boy, is it satisfying. . . .
So now, now we have doxxing in the name of Social Justice and truth.
But we still have doxxing in the name of control and terror. . . .
It wasn’t long before the inevitable happened to Racists Getting Fired; an innocent person was doxxed. Brianna Rivera found herself on the receiving end of threats and harassment after an ex-boyfriend impersonated her online with posts that made her look like a racist. A few minutes of investigation showed it was fake, but the Internet doesn’t self-correct: People ride the wave of fury and then move on to the next target. By the time a retraction was posted, she had already faced investigations by both her employer and the university she was attending. Even now, people are still sending her hateful messages for her nonexistent bigotry.
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