April 9, 2015 As Jews Gain In Confidence, They Increasingly Assert Themselves Luke Ford No sacred cows.

As Jews Gain In Confidence, They Increasingly Assert Themselves

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Luke Ford

Chaim Amalek writes: “WHY does the NY Times see fit to provide this platform for antisemitic views, and during Passover no less! When Moshiach comes, no goyella will dare sit next to any one of us. They will leave on their own, even if the plane is leaving the gate.”

From the New York Times:

A growing number of airline passengers, particularly on trips between the United States and Israel, are now sharing stories of conflicts between ultra-Orthodox Jewish men trying to follow their faith and women just hoping to sit down. Several flights from New York to Israel over the last year have been delayed or disrupted over the issue, and with social media spreading outrage and debate, the disputes have spawned a protest initiative, an online petition and a spoof safety video from a Jewish magazine suggesting a full-body safety vest (“Yes, it’s kosher!”) to protect ultra-Orthodox men from women seated next to them on airplanes.

The number of episodes appears to be increasing as ultra-Orthodox communities grow in number and confidence, but also as other passengers, for reasons of comfort as well as politics, push back.

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If Jews don’t prescribe the limits of speech, who will?

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Luke Ford

ADL: “Last month, ADL announced the release of a series of Best Practices designed by a working group of top industry leaders, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter, to address cyber-hate.”

Chaim Amalek writes: “When Moshiach comes, no goy will dare open his mouth without first getting permission from one of us. And he will have to submit his comments on paper for review before we give it. Probably we will have to hire specially trained chinamen to handle this grunt work for us, as we will be too busy learning toyreh to bother with their nonsense.”

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Listen Up Goyim!

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

ADL: On a daily basis—in the lunchroom, at the grocery store, in school hallways and even at home—people hear and sometimes use words and phrases that demean, ridicule or demonstrate ignorance about people from different groups and backgrounds. Regardless of whether the comments are deliberately malicious, said out of ignorance or thought to be a joke, such words not only impact those on the receiving end but also everyone around who hears the words as well.

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Is JSpaceNews A Plagiarism Site?

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

Compare this with this.

Hollywood.com:

JSPACENEWS:

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Different Groups Have Different Interests

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

If you are appealing to a liberal audience, it makes sense to call your opponent an “Orthodox Jew.” Orthodox Jews are not know as liberal-friendly.

It makes sense to me to identify your opponents identity, whether it is WASP, Jewish, gay, Muslim or whatever because that will likely predict how they will vote.

I think Jan Schakowsky is a wimp and she has nothing to apologize for in this instance.

Forward.com: U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois apologized for referring to a one-time political rival as an “Orthodox Jew” in casting him as a threat to liberal interests.
“It was correctly noted that my description of my 2010 opponent in the congressional race irrelevantly noted that in addition to being a Tea Party Republican, he is an Orthodox Jew,” she said in a statement Tuesday, referring to her address Monday to J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group.
“I understand how this was heard, by extension, as an affront to the Orthodox community. I regret that and unequivocally apologize for it,” the Democrat’s statement said.
Schakowsky, who is Jewish, in her speech was describing how J Street’s political backing allowed her to take positions that once were unpopular in the pro-Israel community.
“Some of the courage to take positions that I’ve been able to take are really because of the space that, in a very short time, J Street has opened for members of Congress to expand the political discussion about the state of Israel and our relation toward it,” she said.
“In 2010, I had an election within our community. That is, I ran against a Jewish Orthodox Tea Party Republican who made it very clear that actually, Jan Schakowsky was anti-Israel because of the positions that she took,” Schakowsky said. She thanked J Street because it “came to the rescue” with money and moral support.
Schakowsky in 2010 faced Joel Pollak, a conservative activist, in her suburban Chicago district.
After JTA tweeted a reference to Schakowsky’s comments, the Orthodox Union asked her for a clarification.
“In the context of her remarks and speaking to such an audience, the Congresswoman’s use of the term ‘Orthodox’ was a negative term – as negative for that audience as Tea Party and Republican,” the O.U.’s Washington director, Nathan Diament, said in a statement.
“This morning, upon learning about her remarks, we spoke with Rep. Schakowsky and conveyed how offended we were by the apparent intent of her remarks,” he said. “We appreciate the unequivocal apology issued by Rep. Schakowsky in response to our concerns. We hope such an incident will not occur again.”
Schakowsky in her statement continued to fault Pollak for his campaign, which emphasized what he depicted as her wrongheaded posture on Israel.
“While I believe my opponent’s campaign irresponsibly attempted to divide the Jewish community and 9th District voters by attacking my unblemished record in support of Israel, I do not attribute his actions to the fact that he is Orthodox and regret that my words sounded otherwise,” she said. “I hope those I offended will accept my heartfelt apology.”

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Suzanne Sommers acted as best man at Barry Manilow’s gay wedding

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

Forward.com: The Jewish crooner has reportedly married his longtime manager Gary Keif in a private ceremony. The catch? The pair managed to keep it under wraps for an entire year.
People Magazine reports that the surprise wedding was attended by “20 or 30 guests” who were originally told they were attending a “lunch.” The couple did not actually sign any paperwork, but have been wearing wedding bands to show their commitment. “They have a great relationship,” a very reliable secret source told People. “Garry has always been there for Barry.”

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Musings

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

* We live in an age in which it is wonderful if a man wants to cut his dick off or take it up the tuches, but woe to him if he is a middle aged white man and dares to openly expresses a preference for young white women.

* Biggest lie in the world today: “My dog is a friendly dog.”

Chaim Amalek: Luke, given the tenor of your recent posts, some Yidden are wondering: when you use the word “dog” here, do you mean “Jew?”

* I find haggling excruciating. ‪#‎ConversionNotComplete‬

Chaim Amalek writes: “Yet another reason to doubt your Jewishness. Real Jews like me love to argue and haggle over everything. Our joy often accrues to the benefit of the goy, too. Did you know that wire was invented by two Jews who were fighting over a penny?”

* I think the primary determinant of whether or not you like your religion is how much you like the people there.

* From what I’ve seen, Chinese clients are much more difficult than Japanese and Korean ones. They are less respectful, less cooperative, less law-abiding, less honest.

Chaim Amalek writes: “Curiously, those Japanese who were occupying China during WW 2 were not, generally speaking, perceived as ‘polite.’ Perhaps atomic radiation makes a people more polite to others whom they secretly despise.”

* “It is something that maybe Luke, a convert, does not understand, but if you are Jewish, you grow up with the sense that however privileged, or “white” or safe & cushioned you think you think you are, that can all change in an instant. You may have to grab what you can and leave what you thought was your “home.” This sense of paranoia comes with the ethnic identity, not necessarily with the religion.” (Steven Ben-Off Abrams)

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When The US Military Let In The Below 85 IQ Crowd

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes: The 1980 hostage rescue fiasco in Iran was during the 1976-1980 period when the military had accidentally (?) misnormed its AFQT score minimums and let in a lot of real dullards. Sen. Sam Nunn kept insisting to the Pentagon that old sergeants were writing to him about there had to be something wrong with the test because these new recruits they’re letting join are just not right.

The scoring was fixed in 1980 — that’s why the AFQT was given to the nationally representative NLSY79 panel in 1980, creating the data at the heart of “The Bell Curve” — and Reagan inherited an improving military.

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The Accidental Gawker

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

Gavin McInnes writes: Whenever I see liberals salivating over some black guy I’ve never heard of, my first instinct is always suspicion. Call it “Obama Trauma.” When they described Neil deGrasse Tyson like he was the second coming of Christ, I suspected he might be merely mortal. Turns out, I was right. So, when some obscure South African comedian became heir to the Daily Show throne, I was convinced it was not because he had comedy chops but because he symbolized some kind of Kumbaya version of the world. The woman who hired him basically said as much. She told The Hollywood Reporter, “having someone with a global perspective is important for us.” If you check out his stand up, you will likely end up at this video where he talks about walking down the street as a kid in South Africa and having to avoid his white dad because interracial marriage was illegal. This makes him look like some kind of global Freedom Rider but it’s a lie.

…We soon learned Noah will be fine because he’s protected by a force field of liberal institutions. This makes him immune to all criticism including that of other liberal institutions. There are limits to this force field however. Comedy Central will stand by an anti-Semite if he’s black but the New York Times isn’t going to go near a South Asian who fraternizes with the enemy.

Razib Khan is a scientist with about four million words floating around on the Internet (his estimate). This led to him getting a job at the Times as an Op-Ed columnist but because he has written for this site and VDARE and he once admitted he is open to IQ data, a blogger at Gawker “exposed” him as a racist. Khan lost his job immediately. I published an article on my site entitled, “White Guy Gets Brown Guy Fired For Being Racist” and asked for help tracking down the author JK Trotter. Soon after, Keenan Trotter (as he’s called in real life) emailed me and agreed to meet. These reckless idiots have messed with my life so many times, the visceral anger has been replaced with curiosity. Is this just wanton sabotage of society or do these people actually think they’re doing the right thing? I wanted to meet this specimen purely for scientific reasons.

Within a few days I was at a lunch spot in Brooklyn with someone who personifies everything that’s wrong with the world. I obviously don’t trust a guy whose job appears to be wrecking other people’s lives so I secretly recorded the conversation and also had some spies sit at nearby tables to covertly document the meeting. We skipped the small chat and got right to what makes this little prick tick. It was immediately obvious he was gay so I asked him if he was bullied as a kid and felt the need to go on a revenge bender. He said he grew up in liberal Milwaukee and had supportive parents so that was out. I asked him why he had Khan fired and he denied such a thing had happened. At least Gawker blogger Sam Biddle had the balls to admit he destroyed the life of that chick who made the AIDS joke about Africa. Trotter’s exposé came out 24 hours before Razib was let go. Trotter’s own post says, “The New York Times has quietly cut ties with Razib Khan… following our post highlighting Khan’s association with right-wing racist publications.” Trotter had a nauseating smile almost the entire conversation that would seem sinister if he wasn’t so doughy. The most I could get him to concede was that his post “may” have lead to Khan’s termination. He asked me why I wasn’t angrier at the Times. “I didn’t want him to get fired” Trotter told me like the whole thing was a big surprise. Then he said something that gave me the creeps. He said, “All I did was publish some interesting information about [Razib].” It sounded so willfully dishonest and devoid of responsibility it bordered on sociopathic. If these bloggers think they’re destroying evil careers in the name of human rights, I get it but if this bull in a china shop keeps saying, “Whoops! Did I do that?” after every broken plate, I don’t know what the hell is going on in the world. He seemed concerned that I was horrified by the way he said, “interesting.” Despite being a professional life vandal, he looked genuinely upset when anything negative was directed his way. When I told him Gawker bloggers never go anywhere and a career in snark is a dead end, he looked genuinely hurt. I suspect this applies to the vast majority of bloggers who dish it out at these sites. If their own lives were subjected to half the scrutiny they devote to their careers, they would be crushed. This is exactly why I want more of them exposed. When we discovered the narrative of the rape victim carrying a mattress around campus was far from reality, we should have included the reporter Vanessa Grigoriadis in the public shaming.

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Black & Hispanic Applicants Passing Teaching Exam At Lower Rates Than Whites & Asians

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the New York Times:

A federal judge is questioning whether a new exam for aspiring teachers in New York is discriminatory against minorities, a case that could derail the state’s efforts to create a more rigorous set of tests for entry into the profession.
Black and Hispanic applicants have been passing one of the exams, intended to measure reading and writing skills, at lower rates than white candidates, prompting concerns of decreased diversity in the teaching ranks.

Steve Sailer writes: So it’s obviously due to some idiosyncratic failure of the test, since no other test in no other state has ever had the same problem.

The important thing is that no one ever learn from any other examples. Noticing general patterns is evil.

You’re especially not allowed to notice the g factor.

Education Realist points out that a reform made by Congress a number of years ago had the inadvertent impact of making it very hard for ed schools to practice affirmative action.

EDUCATION REALIST WRITES: Ed Schools and Affirmative Action

It’s the Test, Zitbrains!

More on Mumford (a credential test cheating ring in which the press refused to notice that everyone involved was black)

The lurker in the teacher quality debate

The last one is over three years old. It was one of the first posts I ever wrote!

Anyway. As I wrote in the first link, this is going to be a problem. Blacks who have the ability to become math and science teachers have the ability to pass the bar exam in a number of states, at least theoretically. And affirmative action also makes it easier for higher IQ blacks to get into competitive fields that pay much better than teaching. So blacks are going to be more likely to be elementary school teachers or highly motivated and smart (and more likely to go into admin, where affirmative action kicks back in).

This is an area where I like to think I’ve had an impact. Stephen Sawchuk, one of the major people in this beat, used to write about the credential test as if its ease was a union scam. I’m pretty sure I’ve convinced him otherwise; all his work in the past three years in the credential area mentions the impact that higher scores would have on minority teachers. As a result of his work (also Goldhaber’s research, which forced everyone to officially notice that teachers aren’t stupid), reformers are always talking about how it’s possible to both raise standards and retain minority teachers. This is impossible, of course, but they never used to mention it at all, just saying that the credential tests were too easy

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