April 26, 2014 Donald Sterling’s Private Comments To His Mistress Luke Ford No sacred cows.

Donald Sterling’s Private Comments To His Mistress

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes:

Sterling’s aged male ego was crushed by comments from other men, such as the Second Dennis, about how, when he’s not around, his girlfriend is sure seen a lot by herself in the company of famous studs like Matt Kemp. And, you know, Don, people will talk.
So, Sterling tells her to delete from her public Instagram various pictures of herself and some celebrity swordsmen in which he doesn’t appear.
At some point, maybe, she points out that all the guys Sterling is objecting to are black.

I have some thoughts on the news about Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team.

Here are the most incendiary of his comments to his girlfriend according to TMZ:

— “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” (3:30)

— “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.” (5:15)

— “I’m just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” (7:45)

— “…Don’t put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.” (9:13)

* This should not be a news story. If people were honorable, they would not create news about a private conversation. Very few of us have not said things in private that are every bit as ugly as these comments sound.

If you listen to the recording, you hear that they come out of a painful romantic situation, that Sterling is being set up, and that he has nothing against blacks, he wishes everybody well, he just doesn’t want his girlfriend posting photographs of herself posing with blacks and he doesn’t want blacks at his games and he probably doesn’t want blacks living in his apartment buildings.

On July 14, 2010, I blogged:

On his radio show Monday, Dennis Prager says: “Mel Gibson is a troubled man. I have more pity to him than hate. I don’t think he is a danger to the country.
“I think there’s a larger issue than what a man thinks about minorities in his private conversations.
“Privacy. The notion that a man ranting at his girlfriend is now played for the world is very disturbing. The vast majority of human beings in the midst of terrible anger, particular in a relationship, say terrible things. It’s none of my business.
“Americans on the left are keen on the right to privacy when it comes to extinguishing the life of an unborn human but when it comes to the right of privacy of what you say privately in a phone call to your lover, then the left is thrilled to violate the most primal notions of privacy.”
“It’s a terrible thing that these private phone calls were recorded and then placed on the internet.”

* I’m not upset by Donald Sterling’s remarks. I would not be upset if he said the identical things about any other group including Jews, Muslims, Latinos, WASPs, Seventh-Day Adventists, etc. It is normal, perhaps even healthy, to prefer those who are genetically similar to you. If Sterling said we should lynch blacks or Jews or any group, that we should act with criminal malice against any group, then I would be upset with him and would want him punished.

* Whether it rests easy or not with our consciences, blacks (and to a lesser extent, latinos) overwhelmingly live on the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum and so blacks (and to a lesser extent, latinos) will generally be viewed as low on the socio-economic scale until these facts of life change.

* Whether it rests easy or not with our consciences, blacks (and to a lesser extent, latinos) overwhelmingly have higher rates of social dysfunction (including out of wedlock births, crime rates, STD rates, low educational and economic and social achievement) than do whites and asians and hence whites and asians, despite their protests to the contrary, will usually choose to live in areas with few blacks and latinos and will prefer to socialize with few if any blacks and latinos.

* Just because most whites, latinos and asians don’t get caught making these kind of statements in recordings does not mean that they don’t live their lives according to everything Donald Sterling said in this nine minute recording.

* The reality is many, perhaps most, whites, asians and latinos are not going to be thrilled when their girlfriend (who’s trying to pass as white or latin) posts pictures of herself with black guys. Many, perhaps most, whites, asians and latinos feel outgunned by black men and their greatest nightmare for their girl is that she will get raped by black men (who rape white women at a rape more than 1000x time the rate that white men rape black women, which almost never happens).

Yaki emails: “Sterling is Jewish, and contributes to many Jewish causes, including Orthodox institutions like Yeshivah Gedolah. His real name is Tokowitz; Sterling is a name that he made up for himself.”

A successful Jew/schvartze hybrid would totally dominate the planet. It would bring about the final enslavement of the White Race.

Yiidden and shvartzes. A History. Someone should write that book. Yidden love colored folk who can dance, sing, punch, or throw a ball. I think it is because they complete us as we seldom can do any of those things.

Political scientist Robert Weissberg explained “The Relationship Between Blacks and Jews” in a year 2000 talk at the American Renaissance conference:

If you looked around our cultural landscape and tried to find two groups with different values that venerate different things, who worship at different altars, it is hard to find two groups more different than blacks and Jews. Jews are obsessed with education, blacks destroy it. If you’ve gone to school in the inner city, you know that not only do they hate the idea of learning, but they assault their teachers and physically destroy their schools.
When blacks move into a neighborhood, the first people out are Jews. Jews did not invent white flight but we perfected it. As far as intermarriage and social exchange, there’s almost zero. They just don’t mix. Jews are not into crime. The sorts of things that blacks specialize in — muggings, assaults, rapes — are not a Jewish predilection.

How Jews really relate to blacks is something Jews hardly talked about except when they are amongst themselves. When Jews get together in a safe place and talk about blacks, they will use the term “schvartze.” When you go to Leo Rosten’s Joys of Yiddish, he’s very careful in what he says. With “schvartze”, he becomes tight-lipped. “A black person, a negro.” That does not begin to depict what the term means among Jews. There may be a degree of affection, as in, ‘I hear Mrs. Schwartz got a new schvartze.’

It is not necessarily a negative word. It’s not the same thing as nigger. If you inserted the word ‘nigger’ to achieve some lexiconic variety, Jews would be genuinely offended. There can even be a degree of affection in schvartze. As in, ‘Ahh, I heard Mrs. Schwartz got a new schvartze. Oh, how nice.'”

When you use the term ‘schvartze’, it always implies cognitive inferiority. The mental picture of a stupid black embedded in the term schvartze is true even with pro-civil rights [liberal] Jews… Adding the phrase ‘dumb schvartze’ is superflous, reserved only used for the most egregious stupidity. Invisible baggage likewise includes gullibility, emotional excitability, and a weakness for here-and-now conspicuous consumption. Violence, especially inter-personal, alcohol-induced mayhem, is also associated with schvartze. The image that comes to the mind with Jews when you say ‘schvartze’ is simple-minded, impulsive, easily seduced by trinkets. This is extremely close to the traditional Southern image of blacks, almost identical to what many Southerners would privately say about blacks… This is continually reinforced by daily experience, such as in integrated public schools.

We had a procession of cleaning ladies [in New York]. Growing up, I honestly believed that all black people come from a thing called The Agency. We’d hire black cleaning ladies and invariably they’d steal and drink the liquor and my mother would come back and say, ‘I’m calling up The Agency and getting another.’ Very few Jews of my generation had any other contact. We had a procession of handymen and cleaning people come to my house.

It was always believed that any Jew can ultimately out-smart any schvartze except save being confronted by a demented gunman. Despite immense cultural chasms, Jews held themselves as innately capable of finessing blacks thanks to their superior wits, verbal talent, and a mastery of black psychology. The unmatched success of Jewish ghetto merchants and Jewish civil rights leadership positions proclaim this truth. Even today Jews may secretly brag about their success in beguiling blacks in contentious interpersonal relationships. People sometimes ask me, ‘What did you do when they showed up as a demonstration to your office?’ This happened to me one time. A bunch of angry young blacks came to my office… I said, ‘I just relied on the wisdom of my ancestors. I gave them a little rope-a-dope. I moved around. I said this, I said that. Within half an hour, they were fine. I sold one a suit and several new jewelry and they were happy. They got a deal from Mr. Weissberg.’

Where personal manipulation might fail, the storehouse of survival tactics sufficed exceedingly well. Black pathologies were bearable, especially since most black mayhem was self-inflicted. Jews might even profit from these disorders as merchants or nanny state therapists. Threatened Jews can flee deteriorating neighborhoods, enroll their children in private schools, hire security guards, co-opt black leaders financially, or otherwise escape.

Jews see no conflict between righteously defending black criminals as political prisoners and living in fortress-style buildings.

On the one hand, Jews dread blacks physically. When Jews see blacks walking down the street, they feel tremendous fear. Yet they dutifully pay the danegeld (extortion money).

For most Jews, it is the white goyim who pose the most threat. Contrary fact-based argument fall on deaf ears. Like the schvartzes, the Chinese [and Japanese] are never called goyim.

Blacks are incapable of such well-organized horror [as the Holocaust] unless directed by nefarious whites… A full-scale pogrom is beyond their capacity. Can you imagine blacks systemically rounding up thousands of Jews or even keeping tabs on Jewish neighborhoods? Assess enemies by capabilities, not intentions… The schvartze pose minimal risk. They’re too stupid.

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If I Found A Good Job, I Wouldn’t Mind Moving Back To Australia

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Luke Ford

I’ll be visiting Brisbane, QLD, from May 27 to June 13.

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Like A Stake Through My Heart

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Luke Ford

I think I post so much because I am still trying to prove to my early caregivers that I am worthy of attention.

Whenever someone raises his hand around me, I cringe because I fear I’m about to get hit. Employers often note I have the personality of a beaten dog. You know how when you adopt a dog who was abused, they are skittish? I’m still like that at age 47.

This section from Daniel Siegel’s book Mindsight is like a stake through my heart (about my first five years in foster care and the shame that has haunted my life since):

Shame is the belief that the self is defective. From the point of view of survival, “I am bad” is a safer perspective than “My parents are unreliable and may abandon me at any time.” It is better for the child to feel defective than to realize that his attachment figures are dangerous, undependable or untrustworthy. The mental mechanism of shame at least preserves for him the illusion of safety and security that is at the core of his sanity.

…Because he hadn’t integrated these reactive states of humiliation and rage into his narrative, he was as helpless in dealing with them as he had been when he was a little boy and his mother entered his room with a grim face and a belt.

The shame-based conviction that we are defective can sabotage us if it remains unconscious. Though it can compel us to succeed, our ancient feelings of being damaged goods are likely to surface at any hint of stress or failure and we may become highly reactive to keep others at a distance. We need to prevent them and ourselves of becoming aware of our shadowy past and hidden truth of our rotten self. The closest others come to our real self, the more vulnerable we feel and the more alarmed we are that the secret truth about our defective nature may be revealed…

He engaged in this conquest-acceptance-repulsion cycle as if his life depended on it. In some ways, his life as a child did depend upon him convincing his parents that he was worthy of their love and attention. This drive to prove the nearly unconvincable remained his familiar place even in adulthood. He’d find the challenging symbol of his mother, his difficult to get girlfriends, and woo them to prove his worth, striving to assuage a feeling of shame of which he was not even aware, but as soon as a woman became affectionate, the game to prove was won and the real danger began. There was nowhere to hide and nothing to do but run or get the woman to leave. The isolation he felt as a child was disastrously recreated as an adult. His alternating states of attraction and repulsion had driven him to a dead end.

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When Will Whites And Blacks Discover Their Common Humanity?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Luke Ford

In late 1991, Dennis Prager launched the Micah Center for Ethical Monotheism. He wrote then:

The purpose of the activist educational center is to have “a place of activity” devoted to his life’s mission of spreading ethical monotheism through every available means. One of its first programs will be “Dinners in Black and White” to combat racism on a grassroots level by allowing otherwise unacquainted blacks and whites to eat in each other’s homes. Other aims are to develop ethics curricula for parochial and private schools; to defend Western culture against the “lies” propagated by multiculturalists; to battle religious extremism – as evinced by Khomeini-like Islamic fundamentalism; and to counter “secular extremism…”

On July 19, 2013, Dennis Prager said: “Years ago, I wanted to start something called ‘Dinners in Black and White’ where people from different races got together and had dinner. One of the reasons that I didn’t go forward with the program was that I was warned by lawyers that if something happened at one of these homes, I, the organizer, would be sued. Law has been a vehicle for the decline of our society. If somebody tripped, if somebody had food poisoning, if somebody got into an argument, I, the organizer, might’ve been sued into bankruptcy.”

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Why Is America The Least Racist Country In Human History?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Luke Ford

Dennis Prager often says that America is the least racist country in human history. Presuming this is so, and it does seem that way to me, why is this true? Is it because the divine touched this country in a way He’s done nowhere else? Perhaps our founding fathers had superior morals and wisdom? Or perhaps it is quirk of our genes and our geography? Or are our values and our ethics simply superior to the rest of humanity?

I was never clear about this until I read the following essay in American Renaissance:

Why are continental Europeans more racially aware and much more resistant to the destruction of their heritage than whites from countries that were founded by the British?

There are many differences between the two groups of nations that influence their views and behavior about race. The most obvious difference is geographic. Because Britain, North America, Australia and New Zealand are geographically isolated, they have not been the victims of conquest by alien invaders, whereas the history of continental Europe is the story of endless conquests, often by savage Asiatic and Middle-Eastern tribes such as the Huns, Mongols, Tatars, Arabs and Turks.

Conquest and oppression in Europe lasted throughout the 20th century. European ethnicities suffered endless turmoil that is forever etched in their collective memories, whereas the last successful invasion of an Anglo-Saxon nation was in 1066.

These different experiences resulted in different attitudes toward alien intruders. While Europeans are instinctively suspicious of foreigners that have brought them so much horror over the centuries, Anglo-Saxons, who did not experience the same fate—but were often conquerors themselves—have not developed that same defensive traits.

Continental Europeans have a profound knowledge of their neighbors, who are often traditional adversaries. Americans, who do not have a similar historical experience, have relatively little knowledge or interest in either Canadians or Mexican re-conquistadors.

Thus, when Americans see millions of Mexicans streaming across the border, the alarm does not go off, as it would for continental Europeans. White Americans see intruders as people who are “like us,” just looking for a better life. The invading Mexicans, on the other hand, see their misguided hosts as people who “stole” the Southwest from their fledgling nation in the 1840s. While Mexicans dream of recapturing the mythical Aztlan, their white hosts see no further than the fact that Mexicans do inexpensive yard work. For most whites that is all that matters.

The European nations that are the most ethnically aware are those that were most savagely conquered most recently, such as the Balkan nations that were victims of the Ottoman Empire, Mediterranean nations that were targeted by Arabs, and, of course, the Eastern Europeans, who were in the path of Asiatic hordes, the German war machine, and the brutal Soviet Union.

There are other differences between Anglo-Saxons and continental Europeans. For example, land is plentiful in sparsely populated North America and Australia. White settlers took over vast tracts of land that they put to good economic use, but to which they had limited emotional attachment. Consequently, Americans respond to the influx of nonwhites into their neighborhoods and communities by moving to the suburbs, exurbs, countryside, or out of state. The territory they are giving up to alien races is not important to whites as long as they are able to find some other place where they can live in peace.

Europeans have a completely different attitude toward their ancestral lands, where families and communities may have lived for centuries. In densely populated parts of Europe, ownership of as little as a few acres of farmland meant the difference between surviving as a family and dying from starvation. Centuries of often bloody battles between indentured peasants and their feudal landlords forged emotional ties between white Europeans and their land. That’s why they have much lower tolerance for alien people who take treasured real estate that generations of their ancestors may have died to protect. Also, because many Americans move often during their lifetimes and live in several different states, this weakens the ties to their family roots.

Americans often do not know the names of their ancestors beyond their grandparents. Families often represent a mix of several European ethnicities, which complicates efforts to maintain family traditions. American family histories are often fuzzy, sugarcoated stories, often involving Ellis Island, and occasionally an elusive Indian princess. Not surprisingly, white Americans often have little interest in maintaining family traditions once their ancestral Irish, Polish, or Italian family ties weaken through assimilation.

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Do Muslims Have The Right To Be Muslims?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Luke Ford

From Dennis Prager’s website description of his radio show today: “Three American doctors at the CURE hospital in Kabul were murdered by an Afghani policeman who was assigned to protect them. It’s very hard for us to understand the evil behind Islamism.”

It’s not hard for me to understand. Many Afghans, perhaps most Afghans, want to keep on being Afghans and they are not interested in assimilating into Western culture. To defend their own culture, they seek to stop people who try to make Afghans less Afghani. It does not seem that complicated to me.

The pure altruistic motives attributed to CURE International don’t make it any less of a threat to the Afghan way of life. When Westerners go to backward countries and help them, it generally just embitters the recipients of help. American doctors curing Afghans makes many perhaps most Afghans feel lousy about themselves. They’d prefer to see their fellow citizens suffer rather than see them relieved of pain by Americans.

Do Afghans have the right to their own culture? Do Muslims have the right to be Muslim? If so, then we shouldn’t be intervening in their affairs. We shouldn’t send them money or doctors or food or medicines unless it is in our interest to stop the Soviets, etc. If you must intervene, send them your prayers and leave it at that.

Dennis: “There are times when you can only answer evil with good. I would like for their income to double as a result.”

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How Airbnb and Lyft Finally Got Americans to Trust Each Other?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Luke Ford

Is the subtext here race? If it is law-abiding citizens using these services, such as typical whites and Asians, the system won’t break down, but what happens if the criminally inclined start using them massively?

I’ve never used either of these services, but if I got a text from somebody in ebonics wanting to rent my home for a few days, I would not be thrilled.

In most of rural Australia when I was growing up, almost everybody was white and people didn’t lock their cars or their homes (unless there were many aboriginees around) because they were safe. In Japan after an earthquake or some other disaster, there’s no looting, but in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, there was massive looting and the same in south-central Los Angeles during the 1965 and the 1991 riots.

Wired magazine says:

The sharing economy has come on so quickly and powerfully that regulators and economists are still grappling to understand its impact. But one consequence is already clear: Many of these companies have us engaging in behaviors that would have seemed unthinkably foolhardy as recently as five years ago. We are hopping into strangers’ cars (Lyft, Sidecar, Uber), welcoming them into our spare rooms (Airbnb), dropping our dogs off at their houses (DogVacay, Rover), and eating food in their dining rooms (Feastly). We are letting them rent our cars (RelayRides, Getaround), our boats (Boatbound), our houses (HomeAway), and our power tools (Zilok). We are entrusting complete strangers with our most valuable possessions, our personal experiences—and our very lives. In the process, we are entering a new era of Internet-enabled intimacy.
This is not just an economic breakthrough. It is a cultural one, enabled by a sophisticated series of mechanisms, algorithms, and finely calibrated systems of rewards and punishments. It’s a radical next step for the person-to-person marketplace pioneered by eBay: a set of digital tools that enable and encourage us to trust our fellow human beings.

In 2012, the British Sunday Times, wrote about the white town of Orania in South Africa:

Building sites are everywhere. Plots of land that went for £1,000 four years ago now change hands for £20,000. There are supermarkets, all manner of other shops, a doctor, dentist, lawyers, architects, two schools and a radio station. Orania has organised many trips to Israel to study Israeli farming techniques—the Israelis too have made the desert bloom. Orania exports jewelry to the whole of South Africa, air-freighted vegetables to British supermarkets and pecan nuts to China. The community is probably the greenest in South Africa: all farming is organic, everything is recycled and alternative energy is used whenever possible. People leave their keys in their cars, live with their doors open and children play, unmonitored, in the street until dark.

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Jared Taylor & The Jews

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Luke Ford

From American Thinker:

On “the Jewish question,” Taylor seems to walk a tightrope.

On the one hand, he has written, “People who are constantly talking about and complaining about Jewish influence remind me of blacks who think that everything that’s ever gone wrong for blacks is because of white racism. I think that blacks need to be responsible for the their successes and failures and whites do as well.” About half the speakers at the first AmRen conference were Jewish, and Jews continue to attend conferences and support the organization. Antisemitic intellectuals like Kevin MacDonald do not write for the site nor are invited to conferences. (There are, incidentally, occasional Black, Asian, and American Indian contributors of articles. These tend to be unusual individuals.)

When David Duke rose from the audience at the 2006 AmRen conference and addressed members and was rebuked by a Jewish participant, physicist Michael Hart, Taylor’s response was regarded as too tepid by Hart’s defenders, while fans of the former Grand Wizard thought he’d come down too hard on their man. The antisemitic right considers him a panderer.

Taylor acknowledges the animosity of a lot of his followers toward Jews: “Racially conscious whites tend to be suspicious of Jews for two reasons. First, Jews have been prominent in the effort to demonize any sense of white identity. Second, Zionist Jews support an ethnostate for Jews — Israel — while they generally promote diversity for America and Europe. This is annoying, but understandable for historical reasons.”

With 1.7 million Arabs, over 20% of the population, Israel is of course hardly an ethnostate. There was good reason these citizens, almost alone in the Middle East, took no part in the “Arab Spring”: they have all the rights of Jewish Israelis except the obligation to serve in the army and have no wish to be governed by the brutal and corrupt “Palestinian” parties. And many more American Jews are leftists rather than Zionists, and a number have been vocal critics of Israel. It is certainly true, though, that Jewish organizations have strongly supported open borders, ignoring the fact that the values of the 21st century’s “huddled masses” don’t bode well for Jews. And organizations like the ADL have led the attack on First Amendment rights.

Is Taylor then a “White Nationalist”?

He rejects the term: “To me, it has an unpleasant whiff of gunpowder. One thinks of Basque nationalists and Kurdish nationalists. But,” he adds, “I entirely agree with the concept of an ethnostate that reflects the heritage and aspirations of a people.” He prefers the French word “identitaire,” but there’s no English equivalent.

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Mea Culpa

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Luke Ford

I screwed up at work, sending out a business letter saying that the client “was eating her friend.” I forgot the word “with.”

Can’t believe how many friends I’ve retained through my bouts of manic in your face postings.

A friend doesn’t buy my contrite spirit and says I’ll be acting like Desmond again in no time.

Today I almost made it two hours without saying anything racist.

A broken and contrite heart you cannot despise.

I had such anxiety last night about reaping the whirlwind of my arrogant ways, I could not fall asleep before 4 am. I went to bed at 10 pm, used my Fisher Wallace, put on my CPAP, listened to Paul Johnson’s Modern Times for an hour (covering Stalin and Hitler), then took off my CPAP, gulped more magnesium, adjusted the open window, put on a Sam Glaser CD, then gave up after an hour and turned on my computer and gulped more magnesium and watched the two-part series on the Great Train Robbery, then I gulped more magnesium and listened to three Dave Barry CDs until finally gulping more magnesium, drifting off, up at 6:30 am, interviewed Byron M. Roth at 8 am.

I was sick all eight days of Pesach (and the two preceding days), feeling better now.

I’m jolly lucky I have inner peace. Think of the state I’d be in if I had an uneasy conscience.

I want to say that Mexicans are awesome car mechanics at a good price but I don’t want to sound racist.

I was such a mentch all morning and now I hear, “You’re back again. You can’t help yourself.”

“When do you want your last day to be?”
Luke: “The day Moshiach comes.”

Luke: “This delicious tea is more than I deserve.”
Friend: “You deserve a lot, you’re just mentally ill.”
Luke: “I should listen to you more often.”
Friend: “At the rate you’re going, you’ll only be able to listen to me on the radio.”

When I first check whether or not what I am about to imbibe has sugar/carbs/caffeine/meat/kosher etc, does that give off a strong masculine vibe that the ladies love? Many of my girlfriends have called me “precious.”

Is it against the law when you put out an ad for an intern and you ask for a picture and whether or not they’re single? Asking for a friend.

“You don’t have to answer the phone. You’re not up to broadcast quality.”

Some people around here won’t introduce me to their mothers because they fear what I might say.

Seeking a gig as a Chief Diversity Officer. I have letters of recommendation upon request!

Which babies have you found provide the most electricity per pound?

Coming to the end (in June) of 2.5 years with my current therapist. What grade would you give her? I was with another therapist, on and off, for ten years. I’ve never been fired by a therapist nor have I ever fired one. Best one was a gay goy. When I get rich, I’m seeking him out again.

When I get a mattress and my Russian bride arrives, I’m going to do great things for the Jewish people.

I fear I’ll never feel truly Jewish until I can become a victim of antisemitism.

I’m like a black rapper hoping someone will shoot me (non-fatally) to give me street cred.

I got fired from every job I ever held from sixth grade through tenth grade, then I was not hired back (Pacific Union College summer camp for kids) but I don’t count that as a firing, and then I got a horrible job evaluation (PUC custodial), and then I managed to quit my next few jobs until inappropriate speech/use of computer got me canned from several temp jobs 1995-1997… How was I to know that when you send a fax at this workplace (a news tip I sent to the LA Time about HIV infections in the entertainment industry due to certain practices), a copy of it is stored and printed out later and everyone would hand it around and snicker.

I prefer to gloss over the several acting schools that kicked me out and other centers of learning got very close to kicking me out.

I’m not very good at doing things I’d prefer not to.

At least I’ve not yet needed to cold-call people to sell them burial plots.

This black guy asked me in front of two hotties to see my full tzitzit. I raised my shirt and showed him. “Just so long as you don’t ask to see my circumcision,” I said. A loud racket ensued.

“That’s not my true self,” I protested. “I don’t know where that came from.”

“That is your true self,” said the young hottie. “That’s the problem.”

Do I strike you as marriage-minded? Future husband/father material? Can you see yourself making Jewish babies with me? Raising them up to Torah, kindness and marriage? Having seders with my family in rural Queensland? Will Seventh-Day Adventists dance at my wedding? Will my father give the dvar Torah? Separate seating?

I’ve never had a boss who liked me cracking a lot of jokes on the job, no matter how many he liked to make.

I try to greet everyone with a friendly countenance. I walk up and down Pico Blvd on Shabbos and say with a smile “Gut shabbos” to every yid and half the time, people don’t respond to me, and I always feel bad when this happens. Am I overly sensitive?

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The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature by Byron M. Roth

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Luke Ford

Steve Sailer writes:

I’ve written about immigration roughly every couple of weeks for eleven years now. So I’m constantly confronted by the fear that, after a half million or so words, there can’t possibly be anything left to say. But the subject of who and how many populate a country is so far-reaching—so fundamentally tied to innumerable questions—that in fact inspiration is unfailing.
That immigration is the most intellectually stimulating of all political topics is demonstrated by Byron M. Roth’s ambitious new book, The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature. Roth, a professor of psychology emeritus at Dowling College in New York, has written a sober, yet sobering summa on immigration.

F. Roger Devlin writes:

The seismic shift now transforming the demographics of Europe and the United States is likely to leave a more permanent mark on our civilization than even the two world wars of the last century. The survivors of those conflicts returned to a life that was poorer than before, but otherwise much the same. This is never the case when one ethnic group displaces another. Barring wide-spread violence, the effects of large-scale immigration are irreversible. Byron Roth is therefore right to note in The Perils of Diversity that our current pattern of immigration is therefore “of world historical significance that will affect future generations for centuries to come.”
Mr. Roth, who is professor emeritus of psychology at Dowling College on Long Island, offers us a cornucopia of information and argument about the threat immigration poses to our civilization. Three chapters summarize the relevant racial science, three longer chapters recount the history of immigration to America and Europe, and the conclusion predicts the consequences of current trends. Though long and ambitious, The Perils of Diversity reads easily, and rewards the reader with a thorough grasp of the crisis we face.

I call Dr. Roth Wednesday morning.

Luke: “What led you to write this book?”

Byron: “I wasn’t that much interested in immigration as my belief that contrary to most social scientists who believe that society shapes human beings, I’ve long believed that societies reflect the human beings living in them. Societies have to accommodate the strengths and weaknesses of their human populations. I developed that idea. I started writing about it ten years ago. Immigration was becoming an important issue. America was changing dramatically.”

“If you believe that the nature of a people determines the nature of society, if you change the people, you are going to change society.”

“I started teaching [Psychology] in 1967. I came out of graduate school wrapped up in behavioristic thinking and a little bit of Freudian thinking, but shortly after I began teaching, it’s hard to say things that sound foolish, I soon realized that none of these theories that were popular held any water.”

According to About.com:

Behaviorism can perhaps be best summed up by the following quote from the famous psychologist John B. Watson:
“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select — doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.”
–John Watson, Behaviorism, 1930

Byron: “I was very influenced by two books that came out in the mid ’70s — Sociobiology by E.O. Wilson and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. I started using them in my classes. The more I studied them, the more I became convinced that they were correct. And I’m even more convinced now.”

Luke: “What percentage of your peers held similar views?”

Byron: “It depends on what you mean by ‘peers.’ If you mean social psychologists, maybe 5%. If you define peers by people who share similar interests in literature, I’d say probably half, but it’s growing, particularly in anthropology and sociology. People are recognizing the value of the evolutionary approaches… The discovery of specific genes that have specific effects on intelligence and law-abidingness, it’s becoming harder to deny that genetics plays a major role in individual behavior, and if you have culture-wide genetic patterns, they are bound to influence the culture. If you have a society in which a lot of people are more prone to criminality than other societies, you are going to have to have a different society. A place like Europe, say France, or England, which had a low crime rate, the bobbies didn’t even carry guns until about 20 years ago, they are going to have different problems when they import people who have a greater proportion of people who have a greater propensity to criminal behavior. It takes a while for a society to adjust. I don’t think they’ve adjusted yet in places like France. They haven’t made the understanding they have to change policing techniques and educational processes. In the United States, we still haven’t quite known how to deal with the fact that you have two different populations, blacks and whites, who come to school with different talents and different abilities and their propensities to misbehave. You spend billions of dollars trying to change the gap and the government can’t do it. We have an Attorney General who thinks it is a scandal that black kids get reprimanded more than white kids.”

Luke: “Is the Attorney General similarly troubled by the higher proportion of whites who are disciplinary problems compared to Orientals?”

Byron: “No. When I started studying this stuff, I did cross-country comparisons and the same disparities which exist in the United States, the same rankings in misbehavior and school performance are worldwide. Chinese kids do better in school. Europeans do almost as well, a little more troublesome. Intermediate groups such as Hispanics in the United States, Arabs, South-East Asians, West Asians, don’t do as well. Generally, the females in all these groups that tend to under-perform do better in schools until graduate school. Girls tend to be more well-behaved than boys and accommodate better to institutional settings.”

Luke: “I wonder if Judaism is also a product of the people who created it?”

Byron: “Interesting. I don’t understand the appeal of Orthodox Judaism. The Orthodox Jews are every bit as bright as the secular Jews.”

“Both of my daughters married non-Jews.”

Luke: “Paul Gottfried says the impact of Jews on American culture has been overwhelmingly negative.”

Byron: “On balance, I agree. I don’t like to agree. I’ve read Kevin MacDonald. He’s a creative scholar… I agree with his idea that Jewish culture tends to be an adversarial culture [towards the non-Jewish majority]. I find it unfortunate. I don’t like to say that to my Jewish friends.”

“I was raised in a secular home. Most of my friends were Jewish. At an early age, I began to be annoyed with extreme conformism among my friends. As a reaction, I began to be rebellious and contrary in my thinking and that has influenced my scholarship. Almost always, I take the contrarian view. In most cases, I’ve been correct, especially when it comes to things like genetic affects on human nature and abilities.”

Luke: “It seems that all the major Jewish organizations support immigration amnesty.”

Byron: “Yes. And I am appalled by that. It’s contrary to what most people in the West want. Elite opinion runs contrary to that, and Jews have an important influence on elite opinion. Considering that the largest group of non-European immigrants to Europe are Muslims, many of whom detest Jews and Israel, and make life uncomfortable for Jews in places like Amsterdam, Paris, etc. So not only are the Jewish organizations running counter to popular opinion in their own countries, they are running counter to the interests of their own constituents. That the average Jew doesn’t rebel against it just reinforces my idea that Jews tend to be conformist… Most of the Jews I know go along with that and are very uncomfortable going against the party line.”

“Whenever you have third-world people moving into first-world countries, you have similar problems.”

Luke: “I found Robert Putnam’s research interesting, that [racial] diversity is inversely proportionate to social capital.”

Byron: “I was appalled that he sat on that finding for ten years.”

“The one thing I learned as a young student was that if you do research and it comes contrary to what you expect, you have an obligation more than normal to let your readers know. His results came out different and he sat on it for ten years and he sat on it to try to find a way around it.”

“I have friends in France who looked at my book and were complimentary about the scholarship but they were appalled by my conclusions. They were Jewish, but they reflect [elite opinion]. If they are in elite circles, they have identical attitudes to American liberals. If you talk to the average Frenchman, they’re disgusted about what is going on, just like the average America, but just like the average American, they have no influence. The average citizen of a Western democracy has no influence and no place to turn to find a voice. Good and bad, Jews are influential in elite opinion, even though the number of Jews in places like France are minuscule and yet they have a powerful influence.”

Luke: “How do you explain the comfort perhaps most Jews have with Israel being an ethno-state?”

Byron: “I don’t think most Jews recognize that but because when you bring that up, they look at me with bewilderment. It’s a Jewish state. How could it not be? It’s perfectly legitimate for Jews to want their state to be Jewish and to be ethnically homogeneous but the thought that Europeans might want to have their own ethnic homogeneous mix appalls them as racist, ethnocentric, xenophobic. I’ve never been able to elicit from the Jews I’ve known that there is some inconsistency there. They don’t get it.

“Right now, [Israel] is in the process of exporting huge number of Africans [illegally in Israel back to Africa] and you raise the point that if we made it more difficult for [illegal] hispanic immigrants to work here if we enforced the e-verify program and got serious about border security, many [illegal] hispanics would self-emigrate and move back, ohmigod, if you say that, how can you be so cruel and horrible? Then you point out that the Israelis are sending back Africans by the planeload, it doesn’t register.”

“There is tremendous social pressure against whites expressing any ethnic or racial solidarity, which is unfortunate. As Jared Taylor likes to point out, why not? Every other group looks out for the self-interest, why not whites?”

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